Battery powered police radar warning receiver
US5049884A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 10, 1990 |
| Grant date | Sep 17, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 10, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S7/022
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In a police radar warning receiver with a self-contained battery source of supply, battery life may be prolonged by duty cycling the RF front end circuitry of the receiver and, especially, the swept oscillator thereof at a duty cycle rate not greater than 25% with the circuitry being energized not more than once every approximately one-half second.
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