Atlas Elektronik GmbH Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140331910 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HAULING IN AN UNMANNED SUBMERSIBLE - The invention relates to a device and a method for recovering an unmanned underwater vehicle. In order to ensure a safe recovery of an unmanned seconder underwater vehicle | 11-13-2014 |
20140165898 | Unmanned Underwater Vehicle and Method for Localizing and Examining An Object Arranged At The Bottom Of A Body Of Water and System Having the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle - The invention relates to an unmanned underwater vehicle for localizing and examining an object, for example a pipeline, arranged at the bottom of a body of water. For this purpose, the underwater vehicle has object localization means and object examination means. The underwater vehicle has a sonar device with 3D underground sonar for collecting measurement data. The object localization means are designed for three-dimensional acoustic localization of local sections of the object which are arranged both above and below the surface of the bottom of the body of water by means of these measurement data while the underwater vehicle is simultaneously moving away over these local sections for the purpose of examining local sections of the object by means of the object examination means. As a result, the invention allows a pipeline to be simultaneously surveyed and inspected as it is traversed once. The invention also relates to a system having the underwater vehicle and also to a method for localizing and examining the object. | 06-19-2014 |
20140116312 | System And Method For Recovering A Submarine Vehicle - The invention relates to a system and a method for recovering a submarine vehicle. The submarine vehicle is pulled by a rope and hauled by means of the rope and a recovery ramp from the body of water on board a ship or onto land. The system comprises the recovery ramp and a wave equalization ramp. The wave compensation ramp can be rotated relative to the recovery ramp about a swivel axis S and is supported by a floating body. The watercraft is picked up by means of the recovery ramp. The wave compensation ramp is hauled together with the picked-up submarine vehicle by means of the recovery ramp. The invention permits the recovery of a submarine vehicle, even in moderate or heavy seas, with less risk of damage to the submarine vehicle. | 05-01-2014 |
20140107862 | Device And Method For Operating An Unmanned Underwater Vehicle And Underwater Vehicle Having The Device - The invention relates to a device and a method for operating an unmanned underwater vehicle, wherein the underwater vehicle has determining means which determine a usability indicator. A use recommendation for the use of the underwater vehicle in a future mission can be derived or is derived from this usability indicator. The determination of the usability indicator takes place as a function of at least one operating parameter of the underwater vehicle. A decision aid relating to the suitability of the underwater vehicle for a respective purpose of use can be made available for an underwater vehicle, which can be used for different purposes by means of the invention. In addition, the invention relates to an underwater vehicle which has at least the determining means and/or storage means for storing a usability indicator which is determined by means of the device according to the invention. | 04-17-2014 |
20130299489 | Sea Container that Can be Closed on All Sides - The invention relates to a sea container that can be closed on all sides, comprising a base frame, which has four corner posts, a top-side frame, and a bottom-side frame construction, wherein the corner posts are rigidly connected to the top-side frame and to the bottom-side frame construction. The bottom-side frame construction has a bearing frame, wherein installations in the container are fastened to the bearing frame and the bearing frame has tie-down means for tying down and for absorbing forces acting horizontally. Thus the invention makes it possible to accommodate installations such as a deploying device for a trailling antenna in a sea container even though traditional sea containers are unsuitable therefor. | 11-14-2013 |
20130286785 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING THE DIRECTION-FINDING ACCURACY OF A RECEIVER ARRANGEMENT - A method for increasing a bearing accuracy of a receiver assembly includes providing a receiver assembly which receives sound waves to determine reception signals. The reception signals determine direction signals of a reception direction. Frequency lines of a frequency of a frequency range comprising an amplitude value are attributed to a reception direction based the direction signals. A directional function is formed for each frequency. Each directional function is transformed into a spectral range to obtain a first spectral function comprising first spectral function arguments. The first spectral function are filled with other spectral function arguments between middle spectral function arguments of the first spectral function arguments to obtain filled first spectral arguments. The other spectral function arguments have a respective value of zero or a range of zero. Each of the filled first spectral functions are transformed back from the spectral range to an interpolated first directional function. | 10-31-2013 |
20130263725 | Weapon Clearance Device For Clearing Weapons Under Water, Such As Underwater Mines, Combined Weapon Clearance Device Comprising Unmanned Underwater Vehicle and Such a Weapon Clearance Device As Well As a Method Therefor - The disclosure provides a weapon clearance device for clearing weapons by detonating the weapon, a combined weapon clearance device comprising the weapon clearance device and an unmanned underwater vehicle, and a method associated therewith for clearing weapons. The weapon clearance device comprises a retaining device for fixing the weapon clearance device to the weapon or in the surrounding area of the weapon. The weapon clearance device is a driveless attachment for the unmanned underwater vehicle comprising a means for the releasable connection to the unmanned underwater vehicle. The mass of the weapon clearance device under water is invariably less or greater than the mass of the water displaced by the weapon clearance device under water. The weapon clearance device is thus not neutral in terms of buoyancy, which provides advantages when clearing sunk ground mines as well as floating mines by approaching the mine from above and/or from below. | 10-10-2013 |
20130239869 | UNDERWATER VEHICLE FOR UNCOVERING SUBMERGED OBJECTS AND UNDERWATER SYSTEM WITH AN UNDERWATER VEHICLE OF THIS TYPE - An underwater vehicle configured to be remote-controllable and maneuverable includes a device which is configured to uncover a submerged object. The device comprises a working nozzle configured to conduct a water flow and a counter pressure nozzle configured to counteract the working nozzle. | 09-19-2013 |
20130229174 | Proximity Sensor and Method For Determining The Proximity To An Electrically Conductive Body - The invention relates to a proximity sensor and a method for determining the proximity to an electrically conductive body. By means of a transmitting arrangement, to this end an alternating magnetic field is transmitted at a selected frequency an alternating magnetic field registered by a receiving arrangement. Moreover, frequencies of the registered alternating magnetic field, which are outside a predefined frequency band comprising the selected frequency and have an amplitude value above a predefined threshold value, are detected by means of a detection means. In a control logic, by means of a blocking circuit, frequencies of a predefined frequency band comprising the detected frequency or a plurality of predefined frequency bands comprising in each case one of the detected frequencies, are defined as blocked frequencies. Moreover, a frequency following the respective selected frequency and different from the selected frequency and the blocked frequencies, denoted hereinafter as the following frequency of the respectively selected frequency, is defined in a selection controller. By means of a time control of the control logic, the following frequency of a selected frequency is continuously selected as a newly selected frequency for a new time window following immediately after or chronologically spaced apart from the selected time window. | 09-05-2013 |
20130160692 | Salvaging Device and Salvaging Method for Salvaging Condensed Matter Located on the Water Surface of a Waterway - The invention relates to a salvaging device and a salvaging method for salvaging condensed matter, such as an underwater vehicle, located on the water surface of a waterway. The salvaging device is an unmanned watercraft and comprises a boat hull with a manoeuvring means and with a carrier device as well as a salvaging receptacle fastened to the boat hull. The watercraft is manoeuvred in a self-driven manner on the water surface and collects the condensed material into the salvaging receptacle where the collected matter is stored. A crane of a supply ship then lifts the salvaging device and stored condensed matter out of the waterway. The invention permits the salvaging of the condensed matter, e.g., an underwater vehicle, with a reduced risk of damage to the condensed matter, as well as with a reduced risk to personnel who do not need to enter the water for this purpose. | 06-27-2013 |
20130157531 | Protective Housing For A Propeller Of A Submarine Vehicle, Connection System With A Connecting Cable And The Use of Such Protective Housing For Incorporating A Connecting Cable - The invention relates to a protective housing for a propeller of a submarine vehicle. The invention also relates to a connection system for a propeller-driven submarine vehicle with a submarine cable and such a protective housing. The invention further relates to the use of a protective housing for a propeller of a submarine vehicle for receiving a strain relief connection for a connecting cable. The invention enables low-cost communication between a propeller-driven submarine vehicle and a support platform by means of a connecting cable which is hydrodynamically streamlined and ensures strain-relief for the connecting cable. The connecting cable is fixed to the periphery of the protective housing, outside the working space of the propeller located on a propeller axis, and a strain-relief cable-holding fixture is arranged for a connecting cable on the submarine vehicle. | 06-20-2013 |
20130125741 | WEAPON CLEARANCE APPLIANCE FOR CLEARING WEAPONS, SUCH AS UNDERWATER MINES, UNDER WATER, UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLE HAVING A WEAPON CLEARANCE APPLIANCE OF THIS KIND, AND METHOD FOR THIS PURPOSE - The invention relates to a weapon clearance appliance for clearing weapons, such as underwater mines or munitions which have been sunk in waterways, under water by detonation of the weapon. In this case, the weapon clearance appliance is provided with means for detachable connection to an unmanned underwater vehicle, so that the underwater vehicle is a safe distance away when the weapon is detonated. In order to allow the use of conventional small underwater vehicles, the volume of the weapon clearance appliance is chosen such that the buoyancy force which acts on the weapon clearance appliance under water compensates for the force of gravity acting on the weapon clearance appliance. Therefore, the weapon clearance appliance has neutral buoyancy, as a result of which, after the weapon clearance appliance has been released from the underwater vehicle, there is no need to retrim the underwater vehicle. There is therefore no need for trimming devices on the underwater vehicle. The invention also relates to an underwater vehicle having a weapon clearance appliance of this kind, and to a method for clearing weapons using a weapon clearance appliance of this kind. | 05-23-2013 |
20120269036 | Method and Device for Measuring a Profile of the Ground - A method for measuring a profile of the ground involves using a transmitting arrangement, which is attached to a watercraft, for the directed emission of sound signals into an underwater area and a receiving arrangement having at least two transducers for receiving sound waves reflected by the profile of the ground. | 10-25-2012 |
20120230642 | Method for Manufacturing an Optical Fiber Spool with Self-Supporting Coil of an Optical Fiber and Optical Fiber Spool - A method for manufacturing an optical fiber spool includes winding a coil of an optical fibers up in the form of a cross-winding such that several layers of the optical fiber are formed that lie on top of one another. The optical fiber has a surface that respectively features contact areas between adjacent layers. Elevations are produced on the surface to create intermediate spaces between the elevations. The elevations are distributed so that in the region of one of the respective contact areas, at least one of the elevations of one of the adjacent layers of the respective contact area engages into at least one of the intermediate spaces of the other adjacent layer to of the same contact area. An optical fiber spool with a self-supporting coil of an optical fiber can be produced. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230152 | Method and Device for Measuring a Contour of the Ground - A method for measuring a contour of the ground by means of a transmitting arrangement for the directed emission of sound signals and by means of a receiving arrangement including at least two transducers for receiving the sound signals reflected from the contour of the ground. Sound signals are emitted consecutively using a plurality of N soundings from predetermined positions P | 09-13-2012 |
20120218865 | Towed Array Sonar System and Method for Carrying out a Sonar Mission with such a Towed Array Sonar System - A towed array sonar system | 08-30-2012 |
20120213036 | Electroacoustic Transducer, in Particular Transmitting Transducer - An electroacoustic transducer, in particular a transmitting transducer for sonar systems, is disclosed, comprising two end caps that are arranged at a fixed distance from each other, multiple bars which are braced between the two end caps and the ends of which are attached to the end caps next to each other in the peripheral direction, and an elastic shell that externally encloses the bars. In order to significantly reduce the weight of the transducer and simplify production, composite modules are attached to the bars so as to excite vibrations. Each composite module has electrode structures that include spaced-apart electrodes and are arranged on at least two film layers made of insulating material, and spaced-apart piezoceramic fibers which are arranged between the film layers and are contacted by the electrodes on opposite longitudinal sides. | 08-23-2012 |
20120167814 | Coupling Head, Coupling Device with Coupling Head, Rendezvous Head Couplable Thereto, Rendezvous Device with Rendezvous Head and Underwater Vehicle Therewith, Coupling System, Coupling Method and Deployment Method for an Underwater Vehicle - A coupling head | 07-05-2012 |
20120118217 | UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING SUCH VEHICLE - An unmanned underwater vehicle and a method for recovering an unmanned underwater vehicle. The unmanned underwater vehicle ( | 05-17-2012 |
20120103245 | Method for Detecting Anomalies on a Submarine Object - A method for detecting anomalies on a submarine object, in particular in the submarine region on a hull of a moored warcraft, which method carries out very reliable sensing of the submarine object by way of an unmanned small submarine vehicle that is equipped with simple sensor equipment, such as an acoustic sensor for measuring distances and a barometric cell for determining depth, and which method obtains a profile of the submarine object by navigating the small submarine vehicle with a constant transversal distance to the submarine object, in which profile an anomaly present on the submarine object becomes is apparent from the profile line. | 05-03-2012 |
20120076232 | Coder and Decoder, Coding Method and Decoding Method, and System Comprising a Coder and a Decoder | 03-29-2012 |
20120067951 | Management and Weapon Operation System for Support to Military Management Processes - A management and weapon operation system for support to military management processes, which has interfaces to at least one sensor and at least one effector. The system can be controlled via a graphic control interface 2 that can be displayed on at least one display device for mutual communication between a user and the system. For simple configuration of the system and for reuse of individual applications, the graphic control interface 2 is broken down into individual fragments 8. These are integrated in a desktop manager 4, which carries out the process control for the management and weapon operation system. The fragments 8 have a standard desktop interface 10 for integration. The fragments 8 furthermore have a user interface 12 for communication via an intermediate application 22 with the sensors and/or effectors. The invention also relates to a method for configuration of a management and weapon operation system. | 03-22-2012 |
20120056779 | Method and Apparatus for Determination of a Doppler Frequency Shift Resulting from the Doppler Effect - A method and apparatus for determination of a Doppler frequency shift | 03-08-2012 |
20120055390 | UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLE - The invention relates to an unmanned underwater vehicle ( | 03-08-2012 |
20120002508 | UNDERWATER ANTENNA - A submarine antenna, in particular for assembly on the hull of a submarine, comprising a number of adjacently arranged electroacoustic converters each with a number of hydrophones arranged one below the other and a reflector arranged behind the converters in the direction of incidence of the sound. According to the invention, hull noise decoupling of the converter can be achieved at the connection to the reflector wherein the hydrophones arranged one beneath the other of each converter are moulded into a converter bar by an acoustically transparent moulded mass and the converter bars are provided with sprung retainer elements at the bar ends which are held by retainer devices made on the reflector. | 01-05-2012 |
20110310703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PASSIVE DETERMINATION OF TARGET DATA - A method and apparatus for passive determination of target data (R, K, V) associated with a target from measured and estimated bearing angles. The measured bearing angles ( | 12-22-2011 |
20110114006 | UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLE AND DEVICE FOR CONNECTION OF AN OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE CABLE TO AN UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLE - Unmanned underwater vehicles ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110103190 | Method and Apparatus for Passive Determination of Target Parameters - A method and an apparatus for passive determination of target parameters by directionally selective reception of sound waves emitted or transmitted from a target, by an arrangement ( | 05-05-2011 |
20100329083 | SUBMARINE ANTENNA - The invention relates to a submarine antenna to be attached to the hull of a submarine, said antenna comprising a planar converter arrangement ( | 12-30-2010 |
20100315904 | DIRECTION-FINDING METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR DETECTION AND TRACKING OF SUCCESSIVE BEARING ANGLES - A direction-finding method and apparatus for detection and tracking of successive bearing angles of sound-emitting targets, wherein intensity plots of successive clock cycles in a waterfall plot show bearing traces of successive bearing angles, and preferred bearing traces are marked by a tracker. In order to automate the setting and deletion of trackers, starting from trace state vectors, which are determined at the time t=k−1, are each associated with one bearing trace and each have a bearing angle as well as its time derivative, which is referred to as the bearing rate, and possibly an intensity and its time derivative, which is referred to as the intensity rate, and trace errors associated with the trace state vectors for the time t=k, predicted state vectors are predicted together with predicted estimation errors. Bearing traces are displayed as a function of a trace quality | 12-16-2010 |
20100271907 | Electroacoustic Underwater Antenna - In the case of an electroacoustic underwater antenna, which has a reflector ( | 10-28-2010 |
20100106349 | METHOD FOR NAVIGATING AN UNDERSEA VEHICLE - In a method for navigating an undersea vehicle ( | 04-29-2010 |
20100034246 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE TIME-SERIAL TRANSMISSION OF RECEPTION SIGNALS OF ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS - A method for the time-serial transmission of received signals of electroacoustic transducers ( | 02-11-2010 |
20090207695 | Method for Production of an Antenna Section for an Underwater Antenna - The invention relates to a method for production of an antenna section comprising a hydrophone ( | 08-20-2009 |
20090190442 | Electroacoustic Underwater Antenna - An electroacoustic underwater antenna, particularly a lateral antenna which can be fixed to the outer hull of an underwater craft, comprising a series of hydrophones ( | 07-30-2009 |
20090174288 | Electroacoustic Transducer - An electroacoustic transducer, particularly for underwater use, having a ceramic body ( | 07-09-2009 |
20090007633 | Measuring Device for Measuring the Oxygen Fraction in Respiratory Air - A measuring device for measuring the oxygen fraction in respiratory air, especially in aircraft, has an oxygen sensor to which an electrical, analog, sinusoidal input signal with a fixed base frequency is fed and which emits an electrical, analog output signal containing a useful signal component with a double-base frequency and at least one interference signal component with a base frequency, in addition to an evaluation circuit for determining a measured value as a measure of the oxygen fraction, the output signal being fed to the circuit. To improve measuring accuracy, while simultaneously reducing fluctuations in the measured values, the output signal and a sinusoidal reference signal with a base frequency are fed to an adder located between the oxygen sensor and evaluation circuit, the reference signal phase and amplitude being set such that the interference signal component is largely compensated for in the output signal of the adder. | 01-08-2009 |
20080257140 | Method for Detecting and Neutralizing Submarine Objects - In a method for detection and neutralization of underwater objects which are present in a sea region, in particular mines, a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image of the seabed is created by means of an unmanned first underwater vehicle during a reconnaissance mission in a sea region section by means of optical and/or acoustic sensors, and this image is evaluated for the presence of underwater objects, after completion of the reconnaissance mission. At least one underwater object which is present is marked in the image, and the image which has been provided with the object marking is stored in an unmanned second underwater vehicle, which is equipped with the same sensors and additionally with a neutralization unit. During a neutralization mission by the second underwater vehicle in the same sea region section, image elements of the seabed are created continuously by means of the sensors and are compared with the stored image of the seabed. The second underwater vehicle is guided to the marked underwater object on the basis of the comparison data, and activates the neutralization unit there. | 10-23-2008 |