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US 6,633,251 B1Granted
Electric signalling system
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorWilliam K. Huggett
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InventorWilliam K. Huggett
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A system is provided, for use in “cross-eye” ECM systems, and in other application, by means of which two radio-frequency signals having a specific temporal relationship can be amplified in the same amplifier, and without significantly affecting their temporal relationship. One signal is stored in a first delay line and the second is stored in a second delay line of larger capacity. The first signal upon emerging from the first delay line is sent to the second delay line behind the second signal. Upon emerging from the second delay line, after the first signal has completely entered the second delay line, the second signal is amplified in an amplification device and sent to the first delay line. It thus emerges from the first delay line at the same time as the first signal emerges from the amplifier, or the two emerge from the first delay line and the amplifier, in their original temporal relationship.
A system for amplifying two radio frequency signals having a specific temporal relationship without significantly altering said relationship, which comprises a first delay means, means for delivering said first signal to said first delay means, a second delay means having a delay capacity greater than said first delay means, means for delivering said second signal to said second delay means, means for delivering said first signal from said first delay means to said second delay means, after said second signal has completely entered said second delay means, signal amplification means connected to the output from said second delay means, and switching means for connecting the output from said amplification a means to said first delay means, while said second signal is emerging from said amplification means, and for disconnecting the output from said amplification means from said first delay means before said first signal emerges from said amplification means, whereby said amplified second signal may be recovered from said first delay means and said amplified first signal may be recovered from said amplification means in the same temporal relationship in which they were received.
A method of amplifying two radio frequency signals having a specific temporal relationship without significantly altering said relationship, said method comprising storing a first one of said signals in a first delay line, storing a second of said signals in a second delay line, transmitting said first signal to said second delay line after said second signal has completely entered said second delay line, maintaining said second signal in said second delay line until said first signal has completely entered said second delay line, amplifying said second signal upon its emergence from said second delay line, and conveying said amplified second signal to said first delay line, amplifying said first signal after its emergence from said second delay line, and removing said second signal from said first delay line.
An electronic counter measure system which comprises first antenna means, second antenna means, first delay means, means connecting said first antenna means to said first delay means, second delay means, means for alternately connecting said second delay means to said second antenna means and to said first delay means, signal amplification means, means connecting said second delay means to said amplification means, means for alternately connecting the output of said amplification means to said first delay means and to said second antenna means, and means for phase shifting signals received in one of said antenna means, whereby a signal received in one of said antenna means can be changed in phase, amplified is said signal amplification means and transmitted and a signal received in the other of said antenna means can be amplified in the same signal amplification means, and transmitted, without substantial change in the temporal relationship of said signals.
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