AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, LLC (USA)
Inventeur(s)
Manberg, Charles
Ridenour, Richard
Abrégé
There are provided systems and methods for enhancing wake turbulence situational awareness in the cockpit of an aircraft. In one aspect, transmissions from a lead aircraft are received and stored by a trailing aircraft to allow the trailing aircraft to create a history of the lead aircraft's position for the purposes of, among other things, determining the relative positioning of the lead and the trailing aircraft (or trailing aircraft's) flight paths and relative altitudes. From this determination, better situational information can be displayed to the flight crew to aid in wake turbulence avoidance.
G08G 5/02 - Aides pour l'atterrissage automatique, c. à d. systèmes dans lesquels les données des vols d'avions arrivant sont traitées de façon à fournir les données d'atterrissage
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SCANNING META-MATERIAL ANTENNA AND METHOD OF SCANNING WITH A META-MATERIAL ANTENNA
AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLC (USA)
Inventeur(s)
Stayton, Gregory T.
Abrégé
Various antennas and systems of antennas can benefit from meta-material construction. For example, avionics antennas including weather antennas may benefit from being constructed of meta-materials. A method includes electronically scanning, by an antenna of an aircraft, an environment of the aircraft. The electronically scanning includes transmitting or receiving an electrical frequency over the antenna. The antenna includes a negative index of refraction meta-material. The electronically scanning also includes applying an electric field to control a dielectric constant of the antenna.
H01Q 3/44 - Dispositifs pour changer ou faire varier l'orientation ou la forme du diagramme de directivité des ondes rayonnées par une antenne ou un système d'antenne faisant varier les caractéristiques électriques ou magnétiques des dispositifs de réflexion, de réfraction ou de diffraction associés à l'élément rayonnant
G01S 7/00 - DÉTERMINATION DE LA DIRECTION PAR RADIO; RADIO-NAVIGATION; DÉTERMINATION DE LA DISTANCE OU DE LA VITESSE EN UTILISANT DES ONDES RADIO; LOCALISATION OU DÉTECTION DE LA PRÉSENCE EN UTILISANT LA RÉFLEXION OU LA RERADIATION D'ONDES RADIO; DISPOSITIONS ANALOGUES UTILISANT D'AUTRES ONDES - Détails des systèmes correspondant aux groupes , ,
G01S 7/03 - DÉTERMINATION DE LA DIRECTION PAR RADIO; RADIO-NAVIGATION; DÉTERMINATION DE LA DISTANCE OU DE LA VITESSE EN UTILISANT DES ONDES RADIO; LOCALISATION OU DÉTECTION DE LA PRÉSENCE EN UTILISANT LA RÉFLEXION OU LA RERADIATION D'ONDES RADIO; DISPOSITIONS ANALOGUES UTILISANT D'AUTRES ONDES - Détails des systèmes correspondant aux groupes , , de systèmes selon le groupe - Détails de sous-ensembles HF spécialement adaptés à ceux-ci, p.ex. communs à l'émetteur et au récepteur
G01S 13/42 - Mesure simultanée de la distance et d'autres coordonnées
G01S 13/95 - Radar ou systèmes analogues, spécialement adaptés pour des applications spécifiques pour la météorologie
H01Q 1/28 - Adaptation pour l'utilisation dans ou sur les avions, les missiles, les satellites ou les ballons
H01Q 15/00 - Dispositifs pour la réflexion, la réfraction, la diffraction ou la polarisation des ondes rayonnées par une antenne, p.ex. dispositifs quasi optiques
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MULTI-LINK TRANSPONDER FOR AIRCRAFT AND METHOD OF PROVIDING MULTI-LINK TRANSPONDER CAPABILITY TO AN AIRCRAFT HAVING AN EXISTING TRANSPONDER
AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, LLC (USA)
Inventeur(s)
Getson, Blake R.
Watson, Gary S.
Carlson, Lee R.
Abrégé
A transponder system that is adapted to be positioned in an aircraft includes a transponder that is adapted to transmit information pertaining to the aircraft in which the transponder is positioned includes at least one receiver that is adapted to receive information including information pertaining to another aircraft. The receiver(s) is adapted to receive different types of data on multiple different frequencies. A display, which may be integral with the system housing or remotely mounted, is adapted to display (i) information received by said receiver and/or (ii) information to guide user input selection of information transmitted by said transponder. The housing houses the transponder, the receiver and, in one embodiment, the display. The existing transponder in the aircraft can be removed thereby leaving an opening in the aircraft and the transponder installed in the opening.
AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLC (USA)
Inventeur(s)
Stayton, Gregory T.
Abrégé
Embodiments of the present invention disclose systems and methods for providing an ATC Overlay data link. Through embodiments of the present invention, existing ATC (or other) modulated signals using existing standard frequencies may be utilized to transmit (e.g., from an aircraft transponder) additional information in a manner that does not render the transmitted signal unrecognizable by legacy ATC equipment. Legacy equipment will be able to demodulate and decode information that was encoded in the transmitted signal in accordance with preexisting standard modulation formats, and updated equipment can also extract the additional information that was overlaid on transmitted signals.
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