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7874886 |
Communication float
A communication float for an oceanographic instrument, such as a profiler, comprising an elongated buoyant float, connected at one to the instrument by means of a neutrally buoyant communication...
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7855934 |
Vertical line hydrophone array
A hydrophone deployment system including a hydrophone assembly, a container for enclosing the hydrophone assembly body in a coiled configuration, means for ejecting the hydrophone assembly from the...
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7697374 |
Water inflatable volumetric hydrophone array
A hydrophone array includes an inflatable shaped housing enclosing an interior space and formable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, a framework of compliant material...
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7390233 |
Station keeping maneuverable articulating autonomous regenerative tactical (SMAART) buoy
An articulating sonobuoy is provided. The articulating sonobuoy comprises a plurality of section, and a plurality of joints connecting each of the plurality of section to adjacent sections, wherein...
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7226328 |
Extendable spar buoy sea-based communication system
An extendable spar buoy sea-based communication system includes a spar buoy having a retracted configuration deployable from an underwater vessel and an extended configuration after deployment, and...
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6961657 |
Submarine launched expendable radio navigation buoy system
A submarine launched expendable radio navigation system (SSXRN) buoy method and apparatus. According to one embodiment, a method for determining a submarine geographic position using a SSXRN buoy...
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6775203 |
Seismic seabed cable with sensor units
A preferred seismic survey system includes a cable having a sensor unit. The sensor unit includes sensors for detecting acoustical energy (e.g., shear and/or pressure waves) and is disposed in a...
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6687186 |
Sonobuoy deployment method
A method of deploying sonobouys includes providing an airborne aircraft having a computer and a plurality of sonobouys; making a contact with a submarine; determining a position of the submarine, a...
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6667934 |
Digital sonar transducer
A sonar system, and a digital sonar transducer for use with the inventive system, in which transmitter and receiver circuitry are remote to the sonar display unit. In a preferred embodiment the...
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6597631 |
Compact expandable platform using material memory for sensor deployment
An expandable platform for deploying sensors in a medium includes a housing and a structural member disposed inside the housing. A releasable restraint is connected to the structural member....
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6577556 |
Free-floating altitude stabilized system
A free-floating altitude stabilized system is provided. Independently energizable wire coils are linearly aligned with one another in a vertical direction on a buoyant body. An induced magnetic...
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6498767 |
Cruise missile deployed sonar buoy
A sonar buoy adapted to be deployed by a cruise missile. This sonar buoy includes a flotation device for keeping a portion of the buoy afloat, a hydrophone, a transmitter for communicating contact...
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6400645 |
Sonobuoy apparatus
Sonobuoy apparatus which fits into an A sized canister for use in the water environment. The apparatus includes an array of telescopic arms connected by hinges to a housing which contains receiver...
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6380889 |
Reconnaissance sonde
A reconnaissance sonde to be dropped and erected in an area for wirelessly transmitting data to a data processing apparatus. The sonde includes a housing having top and bottom portions; a parachute...
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6134183 |
Under-ice surveillance buoy
An air-launched sonobuoy, particularly useful for under-ice surveillance, rries a descent-retardation parachute whose lanyards activate a surface float during descent. Upon impact into an ice...
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6097668 |
Component deployment means for ice penetrating acoustics communication relay system
In an air-delivered, ice-penetrating, acoustic communications package, me are provided to ensure that subsurface electronic components are safely deployed under the ice layer. The package comprises...
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RE36643 |
Buoyed sensor array communications system
A buoyed sensor array communications system comprises multiple sensor syss electrically connected to a signal transmission line which are positioned at predetermined locations along the signal...
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6026056 |
Method and apparatus for reducing the effect of rough sea surface conditions on marine seismic sources
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5973994 |
Surface launched sonobuoy
A sonobuoy device for tracking and targeting submarines. The sonobuoy dev comprises a sonobuoy having aft and forward sections interconnected with each other, fin means mounted on the aft section...
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5963506 |
Low flow noise sonobuoy suspension system
A low flow noise sonobuoy suspension system having a surface float, a sussion cable having a compliant portion, a bridle, a hydrophone, a mechanical cable, a terminal weight, and a drogue. The...
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5951346 |
Air-delivered position marking device and method
An air-deliverable global positioning system (GPS) position marking device nd method involves the operations of providing an air-deliverable GPS position marking device, launching the device into...
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5577942 |
Station keeping buoy system
The present invention relates to a buoy system capable of maintaining a b in a fixed position on the ocean or another body of water without the use of an anchoring device. The buoy system includes...
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5555518 |
Depth sensing expendable oceanographic probes
An expendable oceanographic probe includes a body having a weighted nose section and an after body having a tail for stabilization. A spool of wire is paid out through the tail of the after body...
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5432750 |
Vertical array deployment device
A deployment system is disclosed for deploying a vertical, sub-surface bud, underwater acoustic sensor array in the ocean which includes a mechanical load transfer and cable separation mechanism...
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5418757 |
Long life battery operated acoustic underwater buoy release system
A battery operated system 20 responds to coded acoustic signals 15 for releasing a buoyed housing from an underwater anchor 21 to carry a retrieval line attached to a retrievable underwater object...
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5398214 |
Pressure responsive clasp
An underwater acoustic surveillance system for obtaining data related to nd sources of interest in a large geographic area over long periods. A number of acoustic sensors are dropped from an...
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5319376 |
Arctic submarine buoy and application methods
An improved ice penetrating arctic buoy for release from a submarine submerged under a layer of ice includes a Global Positioning System navigational processor receiver and/or a Emergency Position...
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5283767 |
Autonomous oceanographic profiler
There is disclosed a portable free drifting oceanographic instrument package for cyclically collecting oceanic and/or fresh water environmental data over a range of depths. The instrument includes,...
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5224074 |
Sonobuoy for forming virtual vertical sensing arrays
A sonobuoy for forming a plurality of virtual vertical arrays, the sonobuoy aving means for receiving and expelling water to cause said sonobuoy automatically to descend and rise in a water...
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5197036 |
Sonar array mounting for sonobuoy
A sonobuoy comprises a sonar array mounted on arms 2 that are pivotally connected to a central support 3 and housed by an outer housing 1. Upon entry of the sonobuoy into water a float 8 is...
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5184328 |
Underwater release mechanism
An underwater acoustic release system includes a buoyed member with an attached line that is released from a preselected underwater location using an acoustic signal that activates a heating...
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5097451 |
Radial damper disk
A motion dampening device is described that is efficiently and conveniently ackaged with sonobuoy components to reduce the effects of vertical motion caused by surface waves or internal buoyant...
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5088067 |
Water-activated sonobuoy system
A water-activated sonobuoy system is provided to release a plurality of sle, water-activated sound sources into a water environment. In the preferred embodiment, a plurality of water-impenetrable...
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5056065 |
System for deploying horizontal line array
A sonobuoy system and method for deploying an array of transducers in a substantially horizontal line at a desired depth below the surface of a body of water. The trailing end of the array is...
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5022013 |
Underwater release apparatus, underwater release system and method
An improved underwater release apparatus, underwater release system and method of controlled release of an underwater object employing the underwater release apparatus. The underwater release...
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5020032 |
Sonobuoy suspension system
A sonobuoy suspension system is disclosed wherein a spring motor having a substantially constant output torque is mounted within an upper sonobouy unit secured to a buoyant flotation member. Formed...
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5014248 |
Air-deliverable, ice-penetrating sonobuoy
An air-deliverable, ice-penetrating sonobuoy vehicle has three-parts--a ptrator, instrument compartment, and antenna sphere. The parts are connected by frangible couplings which allow separation of...
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5007285 |
Low cost drifter
A low-cost floating drifter adapted to accurately follow near-surface ocean currents and transmit periodically to monitoring satellites data and position-determining information. Global tracking of...
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5007029 |
Undersea relocation apparatus & method
The present invention relates to a undersea relocation system and more particularly relates to an apparatus for relocating underwater objects by means of a retrievable line carrying buoyant spool...
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5003514 |
Deep ocean recoverable acoustic sensor vehicle
A deep ocean recoverable, tethered acoustic sensor system launchable from aircraft or ship. Upon water entry, the system separates into an upper flotation module containing a receiver/transmitter,...
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4999816 |
Hydrophone deployment system for a sonobuoy
A sonobuoy is disclosed which has a linear array of hydrophones horizonta depolyable at sea by a metal hydride jet thruster. The thruster is powered by releasing hydrogen gas from iron-titanium...
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4962488 |
Technique for surface to surface communications using high frequency radio with low probability of intercept signaling
A high frequency (HF) communications buoy that employs HF surface wave, and sky wave, communication and spread spectrum modulation to suppress multipath fading and to decrease the undesired...
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4924445 |
Sonobuoy cable pack
A sonobuoy comprising: a sonobuoy body; a main cable having a proximal end secured to the body and a distal end; a spool on which the cable is wound from the distal end toward the proximal end; and...
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4901288 |
Compact cylindrical sonobuoy
A small sonobuoy for dropping without a parachute and quickly deploying hydrophones is cylindrical and adapted to float with its axis parallel to the water. The hydrophone cable is wrapped around...
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RE33014 |
Cable deployment unit
In a system for deploying an immersible unit by a cable from a floating platform, the cable deploys freely from a cable deployment unit until a comparator unit, which provides for variable depth...
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4853900 |
Stabilized suspension for immersible apparatus
Motion of an instrument suspension cable assembly is attenuated in a liquid aving flow fields and surface swells. Strumming which causes vibratory motion is precluded by enclosing the cable...
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4839873 |
Subsea acoustic relocation system
A subsea acoustic relocation system provides an apparatus that includes in one embodiment an anchor, and in another embodiment a weighted frame having in part a casing which has an inner bore with...
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4794575 |
Submarine launched sea-state buoy (SLSSB)
A self-contained, expendable sea-state measuring device which deeply submed submarines can launch in order to determine sea surface conditions prior to a missle launch. The device comprises a...
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4777627 |
Extendible sonobuoy apparatus
A sonobuoy has several components slidably mounted in an elongated tube. The components are longitudinally stacked one above the other at the lower end of the tube when the sonobuoy is in a...
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4751685 |
Current feedback driver and method
A cable driver and method for an underwater telemetry transmitter puts a signal on a single insulated wire forming part of a cable pack in which the wire is coiled and which is connected to a...
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