Patent · US Expired

Free-gyro optical seeker

US4210804A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 22, 1978
Grant dateJul 1, 1980
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Expiry dateAug 22, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF42B15/01
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A "free-gyro" configuration of an optical seeker is shown to consist of a focusing and reticle arrangement rotatable about a point on an axis and an optical detector array translatable along a path parallel to such axis to maintain the center of such detector array on the image plane of the focusing and reticle means.

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