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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:
Sep. 17, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
James L Jaeger, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael A Biggs, Mason, OH (US);
Assignee:
Cincinnati Microwave, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ; H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342 20 ; 455228 ; 455226 ;
Abstract
In a police radar warning receiver with a self-contained battery source of supply, battery life may be prolonged by duty cycling the RF front end circuitry of the receiver and, especially, the swept oscillator thereof at a duty cycle rate not greater than 25% with the circuitry being energized not more than once every approximately one-half second.