Swept range gate radar system for detection of nearby objects
First Claim
1. A transmitter range swept ultra-wideband radar system adapted for sensing a nearby target comprising:
- a signal transmitter driven by a continuously variable time delay circuit; and
a receiver driven by a fixed time delay circuit and located for receiving the signals transmitted by the transmitter after being reflected from the nearby target;
wherein a pulse time of the transmitter is variable and a gate time of the receiver is fixed.
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Abstract
A cost-effective ultra-wideband radar system capable of locating nearby buried objects such as reinforcing steel rods, pipes, and other objects buried in concrete, soil, behind walls, or in the air. A sequence of ultra-wideband radar pulses are emitted without a carrier and the system detects deflected pulse energy caused by the transmitted pulse whenever encountering a change in the medium i.e. an air to metal change or concrete to metal change. This reflected energy is detected and visually displayed. The range gate delay is continuously varied, thus changing the distance from the unit to where the reflected energy would be potentially detected from the target. By continuously sweeping the "depth" of the scan, the operator need only move the unit in two dimensions across the surface to detect objects buried or hidden at varying depths interior to or behind the surface. The range gate system includes a multipoint background subtraction, corrected gain with distance, linear range gate time correction and a dielectric constant correction for a calibrated distance display.
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15 Claims
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1. A transmitter range swept ultra-wideband radar system adapted for sensing a nearby target comprising:
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a signal transmitter driven by a continuously variable time delay circuit; and a receiver driven by a fixed time delay circuit and located for receiving the signals transmitted by the transmitter after being reflected from the nearby target; wherein a pulse time of the transmitter is variable and a gate time of the receiver is fixed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A range swept ultra-wideband radar system adapted for sensing a nearby target, comprising:
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a signal transmitter; a receiver located for receiving the signals emitted by the transmitter after being reflected from the target; a variable delay for sweeping a selected one of the emitted and received signals; means for stepping the variable delay in predetermined increments; means for determining at each increment a received amount of a random, reflected energy background signal which is clutter not from the target; means for storing the determined amount of the background signal for each increment; and means for subsequently correcting a received signal at a particular variable delay by the stored amount.
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15. A range swept ultra-wideband radar system adapted for sensing a nearby target comprising:
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a signal transmitter driven by a continuously variable delay circuit; a receiver located for receiving the signals transmitted by the transmitter after being reflected from the nearby target; means for stepping the variable delay in predetermined increments; means for determining at each increment a received amount of a random, reflected energy background signal which is clutter not from the target; means for storing the determined amount of the background signal for each increment; and means for subsequently correcting a received signal at a particular variable delay by the stored amount.
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