Patent · US Expired

Target seeking head for a missile

US4339097A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

Hans Kordulla · Singen, DE
Hans H. Gerlach · Owingen, DE
Dirk Jansen · Überlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 22, 1980
Grant date	Jul 13, 1982
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 22, 2000

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01C19/20
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A target seeking head mounted in the dome of a missile comprises a gyro rotor including a mid-portion forming a convex calotte-shaped peripheral surface. The convex calotte-shaped peripheral surface is surrounded substantially concentrically by a concave calotte-shaped bearing surface stationary with respect to the missile. A small gap is formed between the two surfaces and pressurized gas is introduced into the gap to form a gas bearing centering the gyro in the center of curvature of the convex calotte-shaped peripheral surface thereof. A target seeking scanning device comprises an annular parabolic mirror formed at the mid-portion of the gyro and a plane mirror imaging a field of view located in infinity in the plane of a detector mounted stationary with respect to the missile.

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