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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1992

Filed:

Nov. 27, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:

David W Joynson, Hertfordshire, GB;

Ian J White, Hertfordshire, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ; H03B / ; H03L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342199 ; 342201 ; 331-5 ; 331 22 ; 331 47 ;
Abstract

A radar transmitter chain employing injection locked oscillator, e.g., a magnetron, as an output stage. Problems arise with maintaining the injection locking bandwidth centered on the radar source transmit frequency. This alignment is maintained by allowing the magnetron (38) free running frequency to drift, along with its injection locking bandwidth and then to force the radar source frequency (30) to follow the magnetron frequency. A phase difference measurement (44) between the injection signal (35) and the magnetron output signal (37) provides the control for a feedback loop (60) which may control a tunable VCO (48) or selection from a bank of fixed frequency oscillators (78).


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