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| 4393505 | Gas discharge laser having a buffer gas of neon The output power and efficiency of a gas discharge laser is substantially improved by the substitution of neon (Ne) for helium (He) as a buffer in the lasing medium. One embodiment of the invention is a pulsed excimer laser having a lasing gas comprising ... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4234883 | Noise adaptive correlator Time-correlation apparatus for collecting correlation data when the noise level is low and inhibiting the collection of correlation data when the noise level is high without losing valid correlation data which has already been obtained. An incoming signal... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4225792 | Detector circuit A detector circuit for detecting the loss or reduction of dc power to a dc load and for detecting a low battery voltage condition of a standby battery employed to power the load upon loss or reduction of dc power supplied to the load. The dc voltages for ... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4224602 | Signalling device A small, portable lightweight, water-resistant, manually-operated signalling device. The signalling device includes a signalling assembly fully enclosed within a pair of hermetically sealed housings. The signalling assembly includes a signalling circuit a... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4224478 | Data transmission circuit for establishing a bidirectional data path in a telephone system A data transmission circuit for use in a telephone system. The telephone system includes a telephone line connected with tip and ring terminals and a subscriber telephone coupled across the tip and ring terminals. The on/hook condition of the telephone is... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4222024 | Thermistor assembly The thermistor assembly comprises a thermistor disc disposed within a closed ceramic container which has a support arm fastened thereto.... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4220872 | DC power supply circuit A dc power supply circuit for supplying simultaneously dc voltages to a dc load and to a standby battery employed to power the load upon a loss of dc power to the load. The load is adapted to draw varying amounts of current. The dc power supply circuit in acco... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4220825 | Telephone status monitor circit A telephone status monitor circuit for determining the on/hook and off/hook conditions of a telephone connected across standard tip and ring terminals of a telephone system. The telephone status monitor circuit includes a charging circuit, in the form of ... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4219870 | Front loading projection unit An improved projection unit which permits removal of the unit's lamp from the front, concave portion of the unit's reflector. A first retention member is used to maintain the lamp in pre-established alignment within the reflector and a second retention me... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4215980 | Percussively-ignitable flashlamp assembly and selective firing mechanism therefor An improved flashlamp assembly which utilizes a plurality of percussively-ignitable flashlamps disposed on an elongated support member. Firing of the flashlamps is accomplished using a spring-loaded ratchet, a movable carriage, and a striking mechanism, e... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4214895 | Method for producing cobalt metal powder Fine particle size cobalt metal powder is prepared by treating an aqueous solution of a soluble cobaltic ammine halide with a sufficient amount of a soluble metallic hydroxide to form a cobalt containing precipitate. The precipitate is separated from the ... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4213170 | Reflector lamp with lens having light-modifying coating An electric lamp comprises a curved reflector having a double ended tungsten-halogen lamp disposed therein. A lens is fastened to the front of the reflector by means of a metal retaining ring. The lens has a light-modifying coating on its inner surface.... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4210844 | Cathode ray tube arc suppressor coating Arc suppressor coating structures with enhanced limiting characteristics for color cathode ray tubes are achieved by employment of a high electrical resistance coating (30) having, in a specific area, an extremely high resistance (i.e., insulator) coating... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4204834 | Leadless electric flash lamp A flash lamp which is electrically activated using capacitive coupling between a pair of conductors located externally of the lamp's glass envelope and a respective pair of conductors located within the envelope. A quantity of primer material, also locate... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4204139 | Integral fluorescent lamp-ballast unit An integral fluorescent lamp-ballast unit comprises a fluorescent lamp fastened to an end cap at one end and a housing at the other end. An elongated support member extends between the end cap and the housing, is fastened to both, and serves as a backing ... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4201601 | Copper brazing alloy foils containing germanium Alloys of the type Cux Gey wherein x is from about 60 to about 95 atomic percent and y is from about 5 to about 40 atomic percent are made ductile by the presence of appreciable amounts of an amorphous phase and a metastable, microcr... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4201438 | Spring contact for arc discharge tube base An arc tube has a metal end cap at its end, electrically connected to an electrode in the arc tube. The end cap has a bowed spring contact fastened thereto which is the support means and the electrical connection means for the arc tube when it is inserted... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4201540 | Percussively ignited photoflash lamp and method of making same A percussively-ignited photoflash lamp having an hermetically-sealed glass envelope containing no glass-to-metal seals therein. Ignition of the lamp is achieved by applying a percussive force (e.g. striking) to an external surface of the envelope which re... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4201719 | Precious metal nitrogenous organo reaction products A composition consisting essentially of reaction products of an ammonium salt of an aliphatic acid and a gold complex of a reactive nitrogen-containing organic compounds is soluble in organic solvents and can be used for various purposes including decorat... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4200901 | Multilamp photoflash unit with electrostatic protection A photoflash lamp array comprising a plurality of high-voltage type flashlamps mounted on a printed circuit board containing circuitry for sequentially igniting the flashlamps in response to successive high-voltage firing pulses applied thereto. Each of t... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4200604 | Method for forming a sealed outer ring for ceramic regenerator In the formation of cylindrically shaped heat regenerators from ceramic honeycomb structures for use in gas turbine engines, a gas-impervious seal of the peripheral honeycomb cells and a high strength outer ring are formed simultaneously in an apparatus w... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199617 | Coated phosphors and articles employing same The disposition of an array of color phosphor dots on a color cathode ray tube faceplate by conventional photo deposition techniques is facilitated by first coating the individual phosphor particles with polyvinyl alcohol modified with an amino acid such ... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4199480 | Electrically conductive boat for vacuum evaporation of metals An electrically conductive boat for the vacuum evaporation of metals comprises a refractory composition consisting essentially of a conductor of titanium diboride and/or zirconium diboride, a coconductor of silicon carbide and an insulator of boron nitrid... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4199710 | Ballast circuit for high intensity discharge (HID) lamps An electronic ballast circuit includes a directly driven high frequency inverter circuit with a series resonant output circuit coupled to a load circuit having a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp and to a drive circuit dependent upon current flow in the... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4199735 | Optical compensation for thermal lensing in conductively cooled laser rod Thermal lensing effects in a conductively cooled optically pumped laser rod are compensated by limiting the width of thermal contact between the rod surface and its supporting heat sink to an arc width of 70° to 80° and utilizing a simple cylindrical la... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4198199 | Lamp with protective coating and method of applying same A photoflash lamp having a glass envelope with a clear protective exterior coating comprising a photopolymer. In applying the coating, the lamp is dipped in a liquid photopolymer and then cure-hardened by a short period of irradiation with a source of ult... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4197333 | Method of applying protective coating on lamp envelope A method of applying a protective light-transmitting coating on the exterior surface of the glass envelope of a lamp, the method comprising: holding the lamp with its longitudinal axis disposed horizontally and rotating the lamp about its longitudinal axi... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4196957 | Circuit board connector An electrical connector comprises an insulating body having an external surface with an area on the surface provided for abutting a printed wiring board. A plurality of contacts are internal the insulating body with at least a few of the contacts extendin... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4197152 | Attaching self-supporting emissive film to cathode support In one aspect of the invention a process for affixing a self-supporting film of emissive materials in a binder to a cathode support member to provide a cathode for a cathode ray tube includes the steps of depositing at least one drop of a liquid mixture c... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4197153 | Attaching self-supporting emissive film to cathode support In one aspect of the invention a process for affixing a self-supporting film of emissive materials in a binder to a cathode support member to provide a cathode for a cathode ray tube includes the steps of depositing at least one drop of a liquid mixture c... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4195264 | Noise detection circuit Digital noise detection circuit for detecting the presence of noise in digital diphase data and for producing an alarm signal in response to the detection of such noise. The digital diphase data is applied to circuitry from which a clock signal is extract... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4195278 | High voltage terminal structure and flyback transformer A high voltage terminal with a television receiver flyback transformer and other high voltage circuit components enclosed in a resin-filled, non-conductive container, the terminal comprised of a conducting tab partially surrounded by a plastic casing posi... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4195251 | High intensity discharge lamp having safety device with pyrophoric material A high intensity arc discharge lamp has an arc tube the emission of which includes some harmful UV radiation. An outer envelope surrounds the arc tube and substantially blocks the harmful UV radiation. The lamp includes means to render the arc tube inoper... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4191662 | Y2 O3 :Eu phosphor having increased brightness Y2 O3 :Eu red-emitting phosphor exhibits up to about 8 percent brightness increase upon cathode ray excitation and about 3 percent brightness increase upon UV excitation by the addition of about 250 parts per million of Mg(as MgO).... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4191947 | Intrusion alarm system An intrusion alarm system and method is provided which includes one or more sound pulse transmitters that are triggered upon the opening of an entryway, such as a door or window, to produce a high-intensity sound pulse having a decibel level above a prede... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4191577 | Brazing slurry A composition for a brazing slurry which will form solid connections below 1600° C. The composition comprises, by weight, about 21% to 22% fine particle tungsten; about 7% to 8% calcium oxide; about 5% to 6% silicon dioxide; about 5% to 6% titanium dioxi... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4190790 | Isolator circuit for use with frequency sensitive switching circuit An isolator circuit for use with a switching circuit for energizing a ballasted load in response to a control signal of preselected frequency superimposed on AC power circuits which supply the load. In the switching circuit, a triac is gated to conduct th... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4190413 | Photoflash lamp A high-voltage type photoflash lamp having an ignition structure including an improved primer material with enhanced breakdown voltage characteristics for the reliable ignition of filamentary combustible material distributed within the oxygen-filled envel... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189657 | Method of making sealed beam lamp A tungsten-halogen lamp capsule is disposed within a curved reflector, the lead-in support wires for the capsule protruding through the rear portion of the reflector. After a front lens is sealed to the reflector, the lamp is energized and the beam patter... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4189298 | Multilamp photoflash unit having conductive adhesive connection A photoflash unit comprising a plurality of high-voltage type flashlamps mounted on a printed circuit board containing circuitry for sequentially igniting the flashlamps in response to successive high-voltage firing pulses applied thereto. One lead-in wir... | 02/19/1980 |
