Patent ID: 7913606
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: F42C

Abstract:
1. An inductive transfer system configured to transfer power and data including guidance data, targeting information and flight information to one or more of a plurality of guided projectiles mounted in launch tubes on a helicopter, comprising: a projectile launcher body; a launcher winding mounted on the projectile launcher body; an operations mechanism for modulating and transmitting current electrically connected to the launcher winding; and at least one guided projectile located within the projectile launcher body, said guided projectile comprising: at least one projectile winding magnetically coupled to the launcher winding; and a control mechanism for receiving data from the operations mechanism electrically coupled to the projectile winding, wherein the projectile launcher body comprises a tube launcher having a 1760 connection, and wherein the data is transferred from a 1760 bus of the helicopter coupled to the 1760 connection through the launcher winding and the projectile winding to the control mechanism to provide a lock-on-before-launch data transfer.