REMOTE MONITORING AND WEAPON CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 3,711,638 A
• Filed: 02/02/1971
• Issued: 01/16/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John Glen Davies
• Original Assignee: John Glen Davies
• Inventors: Davies, John Glen
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin, Robert L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Orsing, Jr., Joseph A.
• Application Number:
  US05/111,827
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• Field of Search: 178/DIG.38,6.8
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/14 Indirect aiming means
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 3/165 using a TV-monitor
• CPC Class Codes: F41G 5/00 Elevating or traversing control systems for guns means for inhibiting firing in a specified direction F41A17/08; gun mountings permitting traversing or elevating movement, e.g. gun carriages, F41A27/00; computers G06

Abstract

A weapon is adjustably positioned and synchronized for movement with a television camera by servo motors controlled from a remote control station. A closed circuit, monitoring receiver at the control station enables an operator to vary the position of the camera and weapon in order to track a target as well as to trigger the weapon.

Claims

1. In combination with an adjustably positioned device adapted to be optically aligned with a target, a remote control system comprising a television camera, a target monitoring receiver, closed circuit means interconnecting the camera and the receiver, means movably mounting the camera and the adjustably positioned device for synchronized movement, motor means operatively connected to the movable mounting means for imparting movement to the camera and the adjustably positioned device, manually operated control means mounted adjacent the receiver and connected to the motor means for tracking the target, triggering means mounted adjacent the receiver and connected to the adjustably positioned device for operation thereof when the target is optically aligned with the camera as viewed on the receiver, means connected to the closed circuit means for preventing operation of the triggering means except when the target monitoring receiver is operating, recording means connected to the camera, and means for rendering the recording means operative simultaneously with the triggering means.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein the adjustably positioned device is a weapon.

3. The combination of claim 2 wherein the camera and the adjustable positioned device are mounted in fixed relation to each other on the movable mounting means and said motor means includes a pair of servo motors respectively displacing the mounting means in horizontal and vertical directions and a power source located adjacent to the camera for energization of the servo motors under control of signals generated by the control means adjacent the receiver.

4. The combination of claim 1 wherein the camera and the adjustable positioned device are mounted in fixed relation to each other on the movable mounting means and said motor means includes a pair of servo motors respectively displacing the mounting means in horizontal and vertical directions and a power source located adjacent to the camera for energization of the servo motors under control of signals generated by the control means adjacent the receiver.