Ronald T Miles

US Patent:

54370582, Jul 25, 1995

Filed:

May 28, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/068816

Inventors:

Francis Grosz - Chalmette LA
Ronald Miles - Slidell LA
Clifford R. Holland - Picayune MS
Sean Griffin - New Orleans LA

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

H04B 500
G01R 3304
G08C 1902

US Classification:

455 41

Abstract:

The wireless shipboard data coupler allows transmission of data through steel ship bulkheads and submarine pressure hulls without the need for special wiring penetrations. Shipboard sensing data with a 1. 0 MHz current is injected into the steel plating adjacent to a ships bulkhead, or onto the pressure hull at any penetration providing an electrical path or discontinuity to the opposing side of the bulkhead or pressure hull through the use of copper-plated, threaded electrodes. The injected current flows as a surface, or "skin effect" current between the electrodes and in an indirect, spread, pattern wrapping around the edge of the penetration. This produces a pattern of surface currents on the opposite side of the ships bulkhead or submarine pressure hull. As the injected current is modulated, the data is received on the other side of the bulkhead or pressure hull using coupling loops to sensing the electrical field generated by the surface currents.

US Patent:

41843681, Jan 22, 1980

Filed:

Oct 16, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/951423

Inventors:

Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Frosch
John F. Holmes - Bay St. Louis MS
Ronald T. Miles - Slidell LA

International Classification:

G01C 1300

US Classification:

73170A

Abstract:

An oceanic wave measurement system wherein wave height is sensed by a barometer mounted on a buoy. The distance between the trough and crest of a wave is monitored by sequentially detecting positive and negative peaks of the output of the barometer and by combining (adding) each set of two successive half cycle peaks. The timing of this measurement is achieved by detecting the period of a half cycle of wave motion.