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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2021
United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Jason G. Zeibel, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
William Paul Blase, Alexandria, VA (US);
John K. Delaney, Bethesda, MD (US);
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A cold-tunnel system is disclosed for recovery of thermal emissivity of extended targets. The cold-tunnel system is comprised of an infrared camera having a thermal imaging lens; an aperture plate having a hole aligned with the thermal imaging lens; four cold-wall panels assembled in a box pattern as a cold-tunnel assembly to form a cold tunnel; an air-blowing desiccator affixed to each cold-wall panel; an external liquid chiller to chill a reservoir of working fluid; a target under test; and an extended source blackbody reference disposed directly behind the target under test.