US 12,442,947 B2
Vehicle mounted metal and mine detector
Mehmed Akif Paksoy, Kocaeli (TR); Nihat Kavakli, Kocaeli (TR); Ahmet Akgöz, Kocaeli (TR); Eyüp Çuǧalir, Kocaeli (TR); Ersin Özkan, Kocaeli (TR); and Hakki Nazli, Kocaeli (TR)
Assigned to TUBITAK, Ankara (TR)
Appl. No. 17/639,174
Filed by TUBITAK, Ankara (TR)
PCT Filed Aug. 31, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/058095
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/038537, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019/13129 (TR), filed on Aug. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0350045 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G01V 3/15 (2006.01); F41H 11/136 (2011.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01)
CPC G01V 3/15 (2013.01) [F41H 11/136 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle mounted metal and mine detector comprisings
a manned or unmanned ground vehicle (8),
a lower arm (2) and an upper arm (3) that are connected to a lower shell (7) of the vehicle with rotating links by means of rear arms (10),
fore arms (9) that are fastened directly on a search head (1) or to ribs (13) placed on the search head, and that enable the search head (1) to be connected to the lower arm (2) and to the upper arm (3) with quick-connect rotating connection components,
a linear actuator (5) that is connected to either one of the lower arm (2) or the upper arm (3) and to the lower shell (7) of the vehicle,
a lever arm (4) that is connected by means of rotating links to the lower shell (7) of the vehicle, to the linear actuator (5), and to the lower arm (2) or the upper arm (3) which is connected to the linear actuator (5) wherein
an edge between the connection points (A, D), at which the lower arm (2) is mounted to the search head (1) and the lower -2-hell (7) of the vehicle, and an edge between the connection points (B, C), at which the upper arm (3) is mounted to the search head (1) and the lower -2-hell (7) of the vehicle, are parallel to each other and equal in length,
a distance (|AB|) between the points (A, B) at which the lower arm (2) and the upper arm (3) are connected to the search head (1) by means of the fore arms (9) is equal to a distance (|CD|) between the points (C, D) at which the lower arm and the upper shell connected to the lower shell (7) of the vehicle by means of the rear arms (10),
the search head (1) comprising at least one metal detector transmitter and receiver coil (12) operating according to the principle of electromagnetic induction, and at least one ground penetrating radar transmitter and receiver antenna (11) placed inside the coil (12),
the lower arm (2) or the upper arm (3), to which the linear actuator (5) and the lever arm (4) are connected with the rotating links, is elongated from the connection point (C or D), at which the lower arm or the upper arm is mounted to the lower shell (7) of the vehicle, to be inserted inside the vehicle (8) through an opening in front of the lower shell (7).