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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 1979
Filed:
May. 17, 1977
Wladimir Koreicho, Chilly-Mazarin, FR;
Pierre M Lamelot, Ville D'Avray, FR;
Societe Anonyme de Telecommunications, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A system for transmitting alignment data from the turret of an aircraft carrier to aircrafts stationed on the flight deck, comprising optical transmitters with modulable beams placed on the turret, means for modulating the transmitter beam from the data, an optical detector placed on each aircraft and means for demodulating the output signal of the detector, wherein each transmitter comprises a plurality of infrared electroluminescent diodes and means for changing the beam from the diodes into a beam which is substantially horizontal with an angle of site of a few degrees, the transmitters being arranged in such a manner that the adjacent transmitter beams overlap to a large extent and the optical detector is omnidirectional in the horizontal plane.