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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5861856 | Airborne radar A radar for an aircraft (1) comprises end-plates (4a, 4b) mounted at the tip's of two pairs of aircraft wings (2a, 2b, 3a, 3b). Each end-plate carries a sideways-looking phased array (6) whose beam is unobstructed by aircraft structure. The array can be m... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5697578 | Navigational system and method A navigational system for determining the relative position of two objects, which comprises projector means for projecting an information field to be at least partially incident on both said objects, receiver means associated with at least one of said obj... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5583508 | Methods and systems of attitude determination The attitude of a body 12 is determined, or refined, by illuminating it with a direct beam and one or more indirect beams which are reflected from a scattering surface SS, all of the beams being radiated from the same or adjacent sources. The directions o... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5540094 | Scale factor compensation for piezo-electric rate sensors A method of and apparatus for scale factor compensation for piezo-electric rate sensors maintains the magnitude of vibration at a primary pick-off point substantially constant to enable one of the variables of a vibrating structure--the piezo-electric cha... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5499782 | Lightning shield A lightning shield comprising a fiber reinforced plastics laminate (13, 14), a fixed leading edge structure (12) and an aircraft wing (1) comprising said laminate shield are provided. The laminate shield comprises a series of laminae (21, 22) of fibre rei... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5468963 | Surveillance system A missile approach warning surveillance system adapted to operate in the ultra-violet ozone absorption waveband.... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5469549 | Computer system having multiple asynchronous processors interconnected by shared memories and providing fully asynchronous communication therebetween A multi-processing computer system has multiple computing units. Each of the computing units includes a processor linked to a private memory via a private data bus, and each computing unit is linked to every other computing unit by a respective separate i... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5394241 | Multiple axis ring laser gyroscope with longitudinal excitation A ring laser gyroscope in which RF excitation is used to cause gas discharge as opposed to DC excitation which is used in conventional ring laser gyroscopes. External surfaces of the body of the ring laser gyroscope are metallized to form electrodes and a... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5386951 | Spin rate variation of spinning bodies A projectile, which spins in flight about a spin axis, including a source of pressure fluid, efflux outlet means in flow connection with said source, the efflux outlet means comprising at least two nozzle members symmetrically spaced about the spin axis, ... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5363767 | Stand-off weapons A guided missile for air to ground deployment having a modular construction which can be readily configured to suit varying deployment roles. The missile comprises a common central fuselage 1, 2, 3 carrying a fuel tank and mounting points for an engine, w... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5362347 | Fusion bonded thermoplastic leading edge for aircraft aerodynamic surfaces An aircraft wing, a fusion bonded thermoplastic fixed leading edge structure for aircraft aerodynamic surfaces and a method of manufacture are provided. The fixed leading edge structure comprises a leading edge skin (28), one or more aerodynamic profile d... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5330093 | Manufacture of articles by diffusion bonding and superplastic forming Described herein is a method of manufacturing components having "warren girder" or "X" core structures, i.e. those having internal support walls extending between their outer surfaces, from superplastically formable and diffusion bondable materials having... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5318213 | Explosive bonding A process is disclosed of explosive bonding two or more components together by forming the components into a stack, placing the stack into an envelope made of a deformable material, sealing the envelope except for an evacuation port, evacuating the interi... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5314142 | Wing root aerofoil for forward swept wings A swept forward wing for aircraft comprising an inner wing portion and an outer wing portion in which the upper surface curvature of the inner wing portion is designed to create three dimensional flow thereover to manipulate the sweep of the isobars and p... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5311193 | Digital chirp generator A digital chirp generator for generating linear frequency modulated signals, comprises a plurality of frequency/phase accumulators pipelined together. Each frequency/phase accumulator includes a frequency accumulator driving phase accumulator. In the pipe... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5304021 | Screw threaded locking bolt assembly Locking bolt assembly comprises a bush (9) fixed in use with respect to a structure to which a bolt of the assembly is to be engaged and a socket (1) carried on the bush (9) and provided with locking means (6) for preventing rotation of the socket (1) on ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5293329 | Apparatus for and method of digital signal processing Apparatus for and a method of digital signal processing utilises a technique known as sub-band decomposition and reconstruction. A plurality of input channels are provided each of which is mixed with a vernier frequency correction. In a multiplexer implem... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5287118 | Layer frequency selective surface assembly and method of modulating the power or frequency characteristics thereof The power or frequency characteristics of a layered frequency selective surface assembly (1) having a dielectric substrate layer (2) and, superimposed therewith at a spacing (X) therefrom, at least one layer (3) of electrically conductive elements (4) dis... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5287033 | Vibrating surface gyroscopes A vibrating surface gyroscope includes a piezoelectric resonator 10 of material arranged to have a plurality of poles 12, 14 of opposite sense or polarity disposed around the sensing axis. The resultant bi-directional (forward and reverse) poling establis... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5285273 | Tracking system An automatic target tracking system comprising video means, target tracking means, correlation means and aimpoint location means which predicts the subsequent position of a target after each viewing by the video means and then correlates this with the act... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5282338 | Sealing structure A seal (5) suitable for sealing a door (3) to an aircraft fuselage (1) and which also acts as a rain channel when the door (3) is open. In one embodiment the seal (5) is of unitary construction and made from high tear strength silicone rubber. It comprise... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5277460 | Split section body joint with wedge ring A device and method of manufacturing a jointing together cylindrical bodies, in which one of the bodies is composed of two semi-cylindrical shells. Each body is provided with a flanged end which are locked against one another by a threaded clamping ring h... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5275361 | Venting a space to relieve pressure generated by an explosion An arrangement for venting a destructive internal pressure generated by an explosion within an enclosure, such as aircraft fuselage. The arrangement includes a pressure venting device for venting an exterior boundary, fuselage skin, of the enclosure; and ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5271222 | Jet propulsion powerplants A flow diverter arrangement for an aircraft comprises a first duct 17 for receiving propulsion fluid from the powerplant 11 and delivering it to a first location 18, a second duct 19 merging with the first duct 17 at a communication aperture 23 and adapte... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5269620 | Secondary securing arrangement for spigot mounted components A secondary securing member is provided (19,28,29,30) for securing a first component (11) to a second component (13) when primary securing member (17) is inadvertently removed. The first component (11) includes an outwardly extending spigot (12) slidably ... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5266963 | Integrated antenna/mixer for the microwave and millimetric wavebands A microwave/millimetric receiver of the kind in which a dielectric lens focusses incoming radiation on to an integrated antenna/mixer supported by a dielectric substrate. In one embodiment the antenna/mixer comprises a slot antenna and diode means coupled... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5253108 | Helmet-mounted display An optical arrangement for a helmet-mounted display for providing binocular presentation to a pilot from a single display source or for superimposing the images from two display sources on his helmet-mounted display. In one embodiment a single display sou... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5247732 | Cable handling and preparation apparatus Cable handling and preparation apparatus comprising a cable source (12), cable stripping and crimping means (14), length determining means, robotic control means (13), cable guidance (43) and marking (11) means and cable conveying means (16). The arrangem... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5245884 | Ball screw mechanism A ball-screw includes a shaft 1 having two separate helical grooves 3,4 of the same pitch and spaced by half that pitch. The nut 2 includes two corresponding grooves and return bores 5 to define two endless recirculating paths for balls disposed between t... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5239363 | Ring laser gyroscope dither signal remover Dither applied to ring laser gyroscopes in order to counteract lock-in results in an unwanted signal that appears in the gyroscopes output. The invention is a way of reducing the unwanted signal due to dither. The proposed solution comprises decoding the ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5228642 | Canopy or panel actuation system An aircraft canopy ejection system includes a releasable coupling 22 in the load path between an opening/closing jack 19 and the canopy. The coupling 22 is released immediately before emergency jettison of the canopy.... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5226321 | Vibrating planar gyro A vibrating planar ring or hoop-like structure is disclosed. The structure is suspended in space by a suitable support mount for detecting turning rate, linear acceleration and angular acceleration. Turning rate is sensed by detecting vibrations coupled b... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5225885 | Apparatus for determining the attitude of a celestial body orbiting spacecraft or satellite relative to the celestial body The apparatus includes a solid state, two-dimensional, array (4) of elements or pixels fixedly attachable to the spacecraft or satellite (2) so that the array boresight (5) is aligned with the nominal Celestial Body pointing axis of the spacecraft or sate... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5222653 | Manufacture of aircraft track-cans and the like In conventional track-can manufacture they are formed from symmetrical halves made (for example, by drop hammering) split along the longitudinal axis of the finished component. The conventional welding process required to complete the track-cans is then c... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5218867 | Single axis attitude sensor This invention relates to a single axis solid state attitude sensor in which, the spatial orientation of a resonant rode on a resonant body is maintained in alignment with the inertial angle K8 of the resonant body.... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5216799 | Carbon fibre composite wing manufacture A method of constructing a carbon fiber composite wing in which upper and lower skins are bonded to a pre-assembled rib 15 and spar 16 framework, thus obviating the need for metal fasteners and hence cutting down assembly time. In one embodiment a novel c... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5211901 | Progressive moulding of composite materials A method of progressively molding and curing/homogenising a composite material component assembly including a skin panel and a series of spaced structurally reinforcing members therefor. The method includes the steps of placing a composite material layer ... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5210519 | Digital data transmission A method and apparatus for transmitting data over a power line (2) and having particular application for flight control networks. The method enables bi-directional transmission of data over either DC or AC power lines. Transformers (T3, T4... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5206280 | Laser markable white pigment composition A laser markable white pigment composition includes a first pigment which is markable by ultraviolet laser, a second pigment, which is nonabsorbing in the ultraviolet region of the optical spectrum and which has a white appearance in the visible region of... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5205516 | Canopy or cover assemblies and pivot arrangements An assembly for hinging a canopy to a fuselage includes a hinge with a floating hinge axis which accommodates differential thermal expansion of the canopy and the fuselage.... | 04/27/1993 |
