US3788748A - Indicating the passing of a projectile through an area in space - Google Patents

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US3788748A
US3788748A US00219366A US3788748DA US3788748A US 3788748 A US3788748 A US 3788748A US 00219366 A US00219366 A US 00219366A US 3788748D A US3788748D A US 3788748DA US 3788748 A US3788748 A US 3788748A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F41J—TARGETS; TARGET RANGES; BULLET CATCHERS
    • F41J5/00—Target indicating systems; Target-hit or score detecting systems
    • F41J5/02—Photo-electric hit-detector systems
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  • This invention relates to indicating the passing of a projectile through an area in space.
  • the invention has particular application in determin ing accuracy of aim of bullets, cannon shells, missiles and the like at a target and has particular application in air-to-air and air-to-ground gunnery.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a method of, and apparatus for, indicating the passing of a projectile through a target area in space which can be applied to gunnery generally and specifically, but not exclusively, to air-to-air and air-to-ground gunnery.
  • the present invention provides a method of indicating the passing of a gunnery projectile through an area in space comprising inciding the whole ofsaid area with a projected light beam and detecting a reflection of said beam off a gunnery projectile passing through said area resulting from incidence of said beam thereon thereby determining that said projectile passed through said area.
  • gunnery projectile as used herein is intended to include all projectiles fired or projected from military or civilian firing or projecting equipment such as guns, pistols, rifles, rocket launchers, and missle launchers. and wherein the projectiles have a relatively high velocity as compared to projectiles such as stones thrown or fired by slingshots or arrows fired by bows or like type weapons.
  • This invention also provides gunnery apparatus for use in gunnery comprising a light beam projector adapted to incide the whole of an area in space with a projected light beam produced by said projector and a detector adapted to detect a reflection of said beam off a gunnery projectile passing through said area resulting from incidence of said beam thereon thereby to determine that said projectile passed through said area.
  • This invention further provides a method of indicating the passing of a gunnery projectile through one of a number of areas in space comprising scanning said areas with one or more projected light beams such that one of said one or more beams will incide on a projectile passing through one of said areas and detecting a reflection of said one of said one or more beams off said projectile resulting from such incidence and determining from which of said areas said reflection originated thereby determining that said projectile passed through said one of said areas from which said reflec tion originated.
  • This invention further provides gunnery apparatus for indicating the passing of a projectile through one of a number of areas in space comprising scanning means adapted to scan said areas with one or more projected light beams such that one of said one or more beams will incide on a projectile passing through one of said areas, and a detector adapted to detect a reflection of said one of said one or more beams off said projectile resulting from such incidence and to determine from which otsaid areas said reflection originated thereby to determine that said projectile passed through the one of said areas from which said reflection originated.
  • a lens comprising a slab of light transmitting material having two substantially straight edges which converge and having a part, adjacent the apex defined by said edges, adapted to diverge light entering the lens thereat and wherein said edges are reflective to light within the slab whereby, when in use, said lens is adapted to produce a fan shaped beam of angle equal to the angle included by said edges.
  • a reflector comprising a body. a number of reflecting surfaces on a surface of the body around a central axis thereof, said reflecting surfaces being disposed so that when a beam of light is directed at one of the surfaces and the body is rotated about the central axis, the beam oflight will be reflected successively by each reflector surface to scan an area in space, the rcflecting surfaces being so shaped and arranged so that at the instant of completion of scan from one reflecting surface the beam is caused to again start scanning the area in space.
  • FIG. I is a schematic representation of an optical part of an apparatus in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a different version of the optical part of the apparatus shown in FIG. I.
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a lens used in the apparatus shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a reflector used in the apparatus shown in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 5 is an end view of the reflector shown in FIG. 4.
  • FIG. 6 is a representation of an area incided with light by the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • FIGS. 7, 8 and 9 are block circuit diagrams of appa ratus forming an electronic part of the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a cross sectional view of a bird and drogue in which bird the apparatus shown in FIG. I and 2 may be fitted and towed behind an aeroplane.
  • the optical part of the apparatus has a continuous wave helium-neon laser 1.
  • a beam 2 generated by the laser 1 is directed onto an inclined quartz mirror 3 which has a mirror coating on the second surface, relative to beam 2, such that between approximately of beam 2 is transmitted therethrough to be beam 4.
  • Beam 4 is passed into a lens 5.
  • the lens 5 is shaped as a segment of a circle cut from a sheet of perspex (see FIG. 3) and beam 4 is directed to bisect the angle of the segment and passes centraliy thereinto at a circular cut-out portion 6. Cutout portion 6 causes beam 4 to project as beam 8 which can for convenience be called the incident beam" which is of substantially rectangular cross section as shown by dotted line without substantial transverse divergence.
  • the lens 5 comprises a generally triangular slab of light transmitting material having two substantially straight edges which converge, and having a part in the form of a part cylindrical notch 6 adjacent to apex defined by the converging edges, which is adapted to diverge light entering the lens at the apex.
  • the two straight edges of the lens not being the edge opposite the apex at which light is to enter the lens, are reflective to light within the lens. For example, the edges may be mirrored.
  • Such a lens is adapted to produce a fan shaped beam of light having an angle which is equal to the angle included by the edges of the slab adjacent the apex at which light is to enter the slab.
  • a projectile such as a bullet or cannon shell should pass through beam 8 it will be incided by beam 8. Since the projectile cannot be a perfect black body, a portion of the beam will be reflected thereby, and a portion of that reflection, conveniently known as the reflected beam, will return to lens 5 where it will be collected and directed at mirror 3 as beam 9. Beam 9 will be reflected by mirror 3 which is first surface coated, with respect thereto, as beam 10. The coating of mirror 3 is such that beam 10 will be approximately 50 percent of beam 9. Beam 10 passes through an optical band pass filter 12 which prevents light of frequency substantially different to that of laser 1 from passing so as to reduce errors which may arise from stray light such as sunlight.
  • Beam l0 emerges as beam 13 which then passes through lens 14 which focuses beam 13 onto the centre of PIN diode 15.
  • PIN diode 15 thus emits an electrical signal represented as 17.
  • Signal 17 will be hereinafter referred to as the reflected signal.
  • the optical part ofthe apparatus described with respect to FIG. 1 provides an indication of a projectile passing through beam 8 and can be used, as to be described later, to give an indication of accuracy of shooting at a target.
  • lens 5 is shaped primarily for projecting beam 4 as beam 8 and not for receiving the reflected beam off a projectile and causing that beam to be beam 9 a fun
  • ther lens shaped primarily for receiving the reflected beam may be provided and placed at a suitable location adjacent lens 5 to receive a reflected beam when it reflects along an axis to one side of the axis of projecting beam 8.
  • FIG. 2 shows a different ver sion of an optical part of the apparatus
  • a helium-neon laser 21 which generates a continuous wave laser beam 22.
  • the beam 22 generated by the laser is directed onto an inclined quartz mirror 23 first surface coated, relative to beam 22, which has a mirror coating such that between I and 5 percent of the beam 22 is reflected thereby to be beam 24 and between 95 percent and 99 percent of the beam 2 passes therethrough to be beam 26.
  • Beam 26 is directed onto an inclined quartz mirror 27 second surface coated, relative to beam 26, and approximately 50 percent of beam 26 passes therethrough to be beam 28.
  • Beam 28 then passes to a faceted reflector 29 and is reflected thereby to be beam 31.
  • the reflector 29 comprises a rectangular body 32 which is rotated about a face centred axis on shaft 33 by motor 34. Also fixed to the shaft is a disc 36. On the body 32, see FIGS. 4 and 5, are four planar mirror surfaces. The mirrors are disposed at relative to one another on the sides of the body 32.
  • said axis is at right angles to beam 28 but for convenience of depiction is shown in line therewith in FIG. 2.
  • Beam 31 as a result of rotation of the body 32 scans an area, hereinafter called "the scanned area.”
  • the scanned area has the shape shown in FIG. 6.
  • the beam 31 has an elongated section 37 as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 6.
  • the shape of the scanned area is as shown in FIG. 6 and the reflector causes beam 31 to be of elongated section 37 as aforesaid and outwardly diverging as shown and scanning a segment.
  • a lower limit as far as operation of the apparatus is concerned is arbitrarily set and an upper limit as far as operation of the apparatus is concerned is arbitrarily set in an electronic part of the invention.
  • the depth ofthe beam to a projectile at the lower limit of scan is conveniently 27 inches for one particular embodiment, although it will be understood that the lower limit may be considerably greater in particular applications, for example, air to air targets.
  • the angular velocity of the body 32 and the width of the beam 31 are chosen so that a projectile such as a bullet passing through the scanned area will be incided by beam 31.
  • the speed of rotation of the body 32 is desirably not less than WOO/0.564 X 4) 443 Revs/sec 26580 RPM. In practise we have found it best for these dimensions to be in excess of that required so as to be applicable to a wide range of projectile velocities.
  • Beam 31 is conveniently called the incident beam. Since the projectile cannot be a perfect black body, perfect 3] will be reflected thereby and a portion of the reflection will travel back along the path of beam 31 at the instant of incidence. That portion will be known as beam 38 and it is convenient to refer to it as the reflected beam" and it will be realised that the beam 38 will have the nature of a pulse and not be continuous.
  • Beam 38 is reflected by the mirrors on body 32 and will travel along the path of beam 28, except that it will travel in the opposite direction, as beam 19.
  • Beam 19 meets mirror 27 which. to beam 39 is first surface coated, and approximately 50 percent reflected thereby as beam 41.
  • Beam 41 then passes to optical band pass filter 42 which prevents light of frequency substantially different to that of the laser from passing so as to reduce errors which may arise from stray light such as sunlight.
  • Beam 24 is passed to inclined mirror 47 and is substantially entirely reflected thereby to be beam 48.
  • Beam 48 passes through lens system 49 and emerges as beam 51.
  • the disc 36 has a large number of optical holes of apertures adjacent its periphery with their centres at the same radial distance from the centre of rotation of the disc.
  • the holes are arranged in four groups and the groups are angularly disposed relative to one another in the same manner as the four mirrors on body 32 are angularly disposed relative to one another.
  • Each group corresponds to one of the four mirrors so that whilst one mirror is reflecting beam 38 the group corresponding to that mirror is disposed so that beam 51 is passing through the holes in that group to emerge from the disc as pulse beams 52.
  • Pulse beams 52 pass to PIN diode 53 and cause the diode 53 to emit a pulsed electric signal which is represented as 54. That signal will be hereinafter called the reference pulse signal.”
  • the apparatus In use the apparatus is set up so that the scanned area will be generally along the sides of a target or other convenient objects to aim at.
  • the invention has particular application in air-to-air and airto-ground gunnery and in which case the scanned area will be in front ofa towed drogue as shown in FIG. 10, or in front of or behind a ground target.
  • a bird 60 is connected at one end by a tow line 61 to an aircraft and connected at the other end by a tow line 62 to a drogue 63.
  • the optical part of the invention is shown as a block 64 and is arranged such that the incident beam produced by it is in a vertical plane adjacent drogue 63.
  • the lens 5 thereof is arranged so that the incident beam thereof is as shown by lines 6667.
  • the mirror surfaces can be arranged to cause the angle of scan of the beam to be as shown by lines 66-67 but preferably they are arranged to cause the scan to be as shown between lines 68-69 and with a minimum and maximum ranges as shown with respect to the drogue 63.
  • the drogue 60 can be hauled in to the aircraft or the tow line 61 can be released from the aircraft and a parachute in the bird 60 made operable as a consequence of releasing towline 61 so that the bird can be safely landed.
  • the optical part of the apparatus can be mounted in the aircraft instead of in the bird for air-to-air gunnery but because the drogue is towed a considerable distance behind the aircraft so as to avoid the towing aircraft from being hit by projectiles and for economy of laser constructions and efficiency ofoperation of the apparatus we prefer the optical part of the apparatus to be as close as possible to the target so the magnitude of reflection of the laser beam will be as large as possible.
  • the optical part of the apparatus is arranged to produce the incident beam in front of the target as is shown in FIG. 6.
  • the reflected signal is a pulsed signal the number of projectiles passing through the scanned area is determined merely by counting the pulses. By this means a crude estimation of aim accuracy is obtainable.
  • the reflected signal will have a magnitude related to the magnitude of the reflected beam and, since the magnitude of the reflected beam is related to the distance ofthe projectile on which the incident beam incided, it is possible, by rejecting signals of below or above predetermined magnitudes, to put an upper limit and a lower limit on the range at which projectiles will be detected. These ranges are shown in FIGS. 6 and 10. It will be realised that this provides a better estimation of aim accuracy. Further increase in quality of estimation can be obtained by determining the relation of the magnitude ofthe reflected signal to range of projectiles but it will be realised that such a relation is likely to vary substantially dependent on whether the reflected signal is obtained from relatively large or relatively small calibre projectiles.
  • the circuit used for obtaining signals corresponding to a projectile passing within a certain range of the ori gin of the incident beam is shown in FIG. 7 and includes a PIN diode (previously referred to by number as 15 and 44).
  • PIN diode previously referred to by number as 15 and 44.
  • I00 When a reflected light beam off a projectile strikes PIN diode a signal is generated which is now indicated by I00.
  • the signal I00 is fed to a band pass filter B.P.F. arranged with circuit constants to only allow a signal falling within a predetermined range of frequencies to pass.
  • the signal passed from the band pass filter is shown generally as 102.
  • the signal 102 is amplified by a radio frequency amplifier RF. and clamped by a level set and detected between preset levels to generate an output shape shown generally as 103.
  • the signal I03 is used to trigger an oscillator to generate a signal, shown generally as 104 of known duration and amplitude.
  • the signal 104 can be fed directly into a store.
  • This is shown basically in FIG. 8 except that ad ditional circuitry outlined with dotted lines is shown. The additional circuitry will be explained later.
  • the STORE On the receiver REC receiving a command signal or after a fixed small time delay after the first detected hit in a burst the STORE is made operative to feed information stored therein in binary code on signals from CLOCK concerning hits to a transmitter TRANS which in turn transmits the information to be received by an aircraft firing at the drogue or ground target.
  • the transmitter TRANS operates at a frequency such that the usual NAV/COMM equipment in the aeroplane can receive the information.
  • FIG. 9 except that further additional circuitry is shown.
  • a decoder DECODE which decodes the information received and feeds it to a display unit DIS- PLAY which has a series of digital reading display tubes for giving an indication of the number of projectiles which passed through the incident beam and hence the number of target hits.
  • the receiver REC in the circuitry shown in FIG. 8 is made operative on receipt of a command signal from the transmitter in the NAV/COMM equipment of the aircraft which is shooting at the target.
  • the command signal can be initiated by the pilot or gunner in the aircraft.
  • the transmission of hit data may be made automatic after a small time delay seconds).
  • the signal 104 is preferably fed to three electronic gates, AND 1, AND 2 and AND 3, (see FIG. 8) which gates are individually openable for a period corresponding to a number of selected reference pulse signals.
  • the selected reference pulse signals are obtained by providing suitable dividing means for dividing the pulse signals generated by the number of apertures in the disc 36 into groups of signals and using those signals to operate further circuit means to generate a signal to open a gate for the duration of each group of sig nals.
  • the disc 36 has l,l99 equally spaced circumferential apertures and one larger circumferential aper ture, totalling 1.200 apertures. The larger aperture is aligned to correspond to the start of scan of the beam across the scanned area by one of the mirrors.
  • the three gates may correspond to Left of target," Hit target, and Right of target” respectively.
  • the hit information from the gates is fed into the STORE and transmitted as described for the optical construction shown in FIG. 1.
  • the hit information transmitted by TRANS is re ceived by the NAV/COMM equipment shown in FIG. 9 and fed into a STORE from the STORE the information is fed to a decode which decodes the information which is in binary form into a suitable form for operating a display unit.
  • the decoded information is fed to a display unit DISPLAY where it can be read by an observer.
  • the circuitry used for registering a hit re sulting from a projectile passing through the incident beam may be arranged to operate when a projectile leaves the scanned area, by providing a blanking signal to a reflected signal which occurs for, say every three scans of light beam.
  • the disc In order to reduce the diameter of disc 36 having re gard to the problems involved in producing a required number of apertures at the periphery thereof as the disc becomes smaller and smaller in diameter the disc can be provided with magnetic signals of differing fre quency and having a relation to the number of apertures which would otherwise be used.
  • a tape recording replay head can be arranged to read the recorded sig nals as the disc 36 rotates so that signal 54 can be generated and used as previously described.
  • tl'tc reflected signal can be used to inhibit the next count until after a set time.
  • light beam has been used and this is to be understood to include light which is visible and light which is not visible.
  • the term light beam is to include light which is in the IR. spectrum and light which is in the UV. spectrum.
  • a method of indicating the passing of a gunnery projectile through an area in space comprising inciding the whole of said area with a projected light beam which passes through a lens element so as to provide a fan shaped beam which at least partially defines said area in space, and detecting a reflection of said beam offa projectile passing through said area resulting from incidence of said beam thereon thereby determining that said projectile passed through said area, said reflected beam passing through said lens element prior to said detection.
  • a method as claimed in claim I wherein said beam is ofa length in the direction of intended movement of a gunnery projectile insufficient to incide the whole of said area and is scanned such that said beam incides the whole of said area and such that said beam will incide a projectile passing through said area.
  • Gunnery apparatus for indicating the passing of a gunnery projectile travelling at a relatively high speed originating from a weapon comprising a light beam projector adapted to incide the whole of an area in space with a projected light beam produced by said projector, a lens element in the path of said projected beam to produce a fan shaped beam at least partially defining said area in space, and a detector adapted to detect a reflection of said beam off said gunnery projectile travelling at a high speed through said area, whereby said reflection results from incidence of said beam thereon thereby to determine that said projectile passed through said area, and said reflected beam passes through said lens element to said detector.
  • Gunnery apparatus as claimed in claim 8 wherein said projector is such that said beam is ofa size, in use, such as to incide the whole of said area and is stationary.
  • Gunnery apparatus as claimed in claim 9 wherein said projector is such that said beam is ofa size and of a length in the direction of intended movement of a gunnery projectile insufficient to incide the whole of said area, and further comprising scanning means adapted to scan said beam such that said beam incides the whole of said area and such that said beam will incide a gunnery projectile passing through said area.
  • the gunnery apparatus of claim 10 further including a reflective surface mounted for movement whereby to scan said area with a light beam reflected therefrom such as to incide a gunnery projectile pass ing through said area.
  • the gunnery apparatus of claim 11 further including means adapted, in use, to produce an indicia of the angle said beam makes with respect to a reference line at any one time,
  • Gunnery apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further including means adapted to relate said reflection to the angular position of said beam at the time of detecting said reflection by said detection whereby to provide information on the angular position of said projectile.
  • Gunnery apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further including means adapted to disregard reflection of said beam off a gunnery projectile above and below predetermined magnitudes whereby to define boundaries of said area.
  • a method of indicating the passing of a gunnery projectile through one of a number of areas in space comprising scanning said areas with a projected light beam such that said beam will incide on said projectile passing through one of said areas, and detecting a reflection of said beam off said projectile and determining from which of said areas said reflection originated thereby determining that said projectile passed through said one of said areas from which said reflection originated.
  • a method as claimed in claim 16 wherein an electrical signal is generated when said reflection is detected and wherein an electrical reference signal is generated representative of the one of said areas being scanned by said beam at any one time and wherein the first mentioned electrical signal is related with the electrical reference signal to provide an indication of which of said areas the projectile passed through.
  • Gunnery apparatus for indicating the passing of a projectile travelling at a relatively high speed originating from a weapon and indicating the passing of a projectile through one of a number of areas in space, comprising scanning means adapted to scan said areas with a projected light beam such that said beam wiil incide on a projectile travelling at high speed through one of said areas, and a detector adapted to detect a reflection of said beam off said projectile resulting from such incidence and to determine from which of said areas said reflection orignated thereby to determine that said projectile passed through the one ofsaid areas from which said reflection originated.
  • Gunnery apparatus as claimed in claim 20 further including means adapted to produce an electrical signal consequent on detection of said reflection, means adapted to produce an electrical reference sigrial representative of the one of said areas being scanned by said beam at any one time and including means adapted to relate the first mentioned signal to the electrical reference signal to provide an indication of which of said areas said projectile passed through.
  • Gunnery apparatus as claimed in claim 21, further including a number of electronic gates selectively operable by the electrical reference signal whereby each of said gates represents one of said areas and is open when said beam is scannning the respective one of said areas and wherein circuitry is provided adapted to feed the first mentioned electrical signal to said gates whereby passage of the first mentioned electrical signal through one of said gates indicates which of said areas said projectile passed through.
  • a lens comprising a slab of light transmitting material having two substantially straight edges which converge and having a part, adjacent the apex defined by said edges, adapted to diverge light entering the lens thereat and wherein said edges are reflective to light within the slab whereby, in use, said lens is adapted to produce a fan-shaped beam of angle equal to the angle included by said edges.
  • a lens comprising a generally triangular slab of light transmitting material having a part adjacent one of apexes thereof adapted to diverge light entering the lens thereat and wherein the edges of the lens other than the edge opposite said part are reflective to light within the slab whereby, in use, said lens is adapted to produce a fan-shaped beam having an angle equal to the angle included by the edges adjacent said part.
  • Apparatus for indicating the presence of a gunnery projectile travelling at a relatively high speed originating from a weapon in an area in space comprising a light beam projector for projecting a continuous beam of light, a lens element in the path of said continuous projected beam, said lens element having a concavity in the end thereof receiving said projected beam, said concavity serving to convert said continuous beam into an incident beam having a width proportional to said concavity, thereby to define said area in space, a reflector for receiving a reflected beam off a projectile in said area resulting from incidence of said projected beam thereon, and a detector adapted to detect said reflected beam thereby to determine the presence of said projectile.
  • Apparatus for indicating the presence of a gunnery projectile in an area in space comprising light beam projector, said projector including a reflector element for reflecting a beam of light so as to incide the whole of said area in space with a projected light beam produced by said projector, said reflector element being movably mounted and further including a lens element in the path of the projected light beam and positioned between said beam projector and said reflector element, said lens element having a concavity in the end thereof receiving said projected beam, said concavity serving to convert said continuous beam into an incicent beam having a width proportional to said concavity, said incident beam being reflected by said movable reflector element to scan the whole of said area in space, and a detector adapted to detect a reflection of said beam offa projectile in said area resulting from incidence of said beam thereon, the energy reflected by the projectile being directed to said detector by said reflector element thereby to determine the presence of said projectile.
  • said reflector element comprises a four-sided member having planar reflecting surfaces at each side, means for mounting said reflector element on an axis perpendicular to the axis of said lens element, and means for rotating said reflector element at a sufficiently high speed so as to substantially continuously incide said area in space so as to detect the presence of a projectile travelling at a predeterminedly known speed.
  • Gunnery apparatus for indicating the passing of a projectile travelling at a relatively high speed originating from a weapon, comprising means for projecting a light beam, scanning means adapted to scan a defined area in space with said projected light beam such that said beam will incide on a projectile travelling at such high speed passing through said area, and a detector adapted to detect a reflection of said beam off said projectile resulting from such incidence and to determine that said projectile passed through said area.

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