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Hydroacoustic sonar equipment

US4949318A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 1, 1989
Grant dateAug 14, 1990
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 1, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S7/529
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a hydroacoustic sonar system in which received signals are processed without extensive filtering thereby to conserve higher fourier components of the received signals and so conserve useful information of targets. This is achieved by using a wideband detector module to effect demodulation of the received signals, and so eliminating the usual intermediate frequency stage. The module comprises a wideband input amplifier, a wideband full wave detector and an active low pass filter having a cut off frequency of at least 50 kHz.

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