Furuno Electric Company Limited

Tadashi Ozaki

Takumi Fujikawa

Koji Yano

Hidetoshi Tanigaki

Tetsuya Takashima

Kiyotaka Furuno

Makoto Tanaka

Kouji Yano

Yoshihisa Fukuda

Radio waves from the point f2 of the horn 7 are reflected in the diagonal direction at the sub reflector 3 for transmitting and receiving the radio waves and then further reflected at the main reflector 5 so that a fan-shaped beam narrow in the lateral direction is designed to direct in the horizontal direction, and the main reflector 5, the sub reflector 3, and the horn 7 are built into an antenna proper which is designed to be rotatable around the vertial axis 8 passing the point f2 with the rotating means 23, 24, 25 so that the structure is simplified and manufacturing costs are reduced. In order to simplify the structure of the power feeder for the antenna proper, the radar antenna comprises three sections; namely, the antenna proper 1, the cover 30, and the container 28, the container 30 rotatably supporting the antenna 1 and having a waveguide 26 to be connected to the rotating means 24, 25 for rotating the antenna proper 1 and the horn 7, the container 28 being designed to house a circuit board 36, to which a transmitting pulse oscillator 31 and a frequency converter 33 to be connected to the waveguide 26 are mounted and a modulation circuit 37 of the transmitting pulse oscillator 31 and an intermediate frequency conversion circuit 38 of the frequency converter 33 are provided.

Radar antenna

A fish school detecting method or apparatus radiates radio search signals with their carrier frequency in the S-band frequency range, successively in different azimuthal directions through a wide angular range, receives echo signals, and displays the echo signals on the screen of an indicator in such a manner that the echo signal reflected by a bird is clearly distinguished from the other objects, thereby locating the bird and detecting a fish school under the bird.

Fish school detecting method or apparatus

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Kobe, Japan

Tadashi Ozaki