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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:
Feb. 04, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1973
Applicant:
Inventors:
John A Smith, Bedford, MA (US);
Ronald R Sinclair, Moultonboro, NH (US);
Assignee:
Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244-315 ;
Abstract
Guidance is provided for a spinning projectile by measuring the magnitude of the angle between the spinning projectile and a target. This information is processed in conjunction with a body rate sensor to deduce the angular rate of the line of sight between projectile and the target. A means is provided for reducing the line of sight angular rate to zero, thus ensuring that the projectile will intercept the target.