Radar object detector using non-linearities

• US 4,053,891 A
• Filed: 05/24/1967
• Issued: 10/11/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/1967
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lockheed Electronics Co., Inc., (Martin Marietta Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lockheed Electronics Co., Inc., (Martin Marietta Corporation)
• Inventors: Opitz, Charles L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hubler, Malcolm F.
• Application Number:
  US04/642,657
• Time in Patent Office: 3,793 Days
• Field of Search: 343/5, 343/6.5, 343/6.5 SS, 343/6.8, 343/5 SA
• US Class Current: 342/193
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/414 Discriminating targets with respect to background clutter

Abstract

A radar object locator having a transmitter radiating carrier energy in at least one band of frequencies and a receiver tuned to a frequency different from that radiated by the transmitter whereby only a frequency band of carrier energy produced by the electrical non-linearity characteristics of particular objects is detected by the receiver.

Claims

1. A radar device for remotely detecting compound metal

objects comprising, oscillator means for generating electromagnetic energy in at least one band of frequencies, antenna means for transmitting said energy in a beam toward said compound metal object, and receiver means tuned to a predetermined functionally related frequency band different from the first mentioned band of frequencies for detecting only that which is produced by the electrical non-linearity characteristics of the object.

2. A device as defined in claim 1 including means coupled

between said oscillator means and said antenna means for suppressing frequencies in said predetermined frequency band, and filter means coupled to said receiver means passing only frequencies within said predetermined frequency band.

3. A device as defined in claim 1 including filter means

coupled to said receiver means and passing only frequencies with said predetermined frequency band.

4. A device as defined in claim 1 wherein the receiver means is tuned to the third harmonic of the transmitted energy.

5. A device as defined in claim 1 wherein the oscillator means

includes a pair of signal generators for producing electromagnetic energy at two frequencies displaced one from the other, synchronizer means maintaining a controlled phase relationship between the two frequencies, and filter means associated with said receiver means for passing only a cross product frequency of the two frequencies displaced one from the other.