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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
James M. Schaff, Jamestown, ND (US);
Steven L. Ball, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/500 ;
Abstract
An emergency passive radar locating device for use by missing persons or craft to enhance their survivability in a search and rescue operation. The emergency passive radar locating device comprises an array of eight radar corner reflectors. Each corner reflector of the emergency passive radar locating device has three radar signal reflective surfaces which are mutually perpendicular. When fully inflated the emergency passive radar locating device is spherical in shape with three mutually perpendicular toroidal flotation rings.