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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:
Jun. 09, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth M Lakin, Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Assignee:
Northrop Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73614 ;
Abstract
An ultrasonic phased array imaging system having a received signal encoding and correlating system. Pulse echoes picked up by each of the plurality of transducers are passed by a timed gate signal only during a predetermined time interval when a return signal from a focal point is expected to arrive. The return signal is also encoded by a chirp waveform. All gated chirp signals are fed to a dispersive transversal filter where their sum occurs simultaneously.