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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4959772 | System for monitoring and capturing bus data in a computer A system for troubleshooting or debugging the various modules of a digital computer which are connected to the ports of a common system bus. A control unit transmits serial function and data codes to a serial bus link gate array whose parallel outputs are... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4953079 | Cache memory address modifier for dynamic alteration of cache block fetch sequence A cache memory includes an address modification circuit for operation during a cache block fetch sequence. The address modification circuit is connected to a polling circuit which receives a first word address from other portions of the cache memory conne... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4950195 | Cartridge fuse terminal adapter An adapter for cartridge fuses having ferrule type terminals which allows installing the fuses in larger size fuse holders. The adapter includes a solid body having a fuse clip engaging portion at one end and a fuse engaging portion at the other end. The ... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4913782 | Microporous elemental silver article and method An article and a method of forming an article comprising microporous elemental silver is disclosed wherein a porous conductive substrate is filled with a homogeneous mixture of Ag2 O and microporous elemental silver produced by the electrochemi... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4913781 | Microporous elemental silver and method A method of preparing microporous elemental silver is disclosed wherein a reducible silver compound is electrochemically reduced to form elemental silver. This method serves to introduce microporosity to the silver crystals. Microporous elemental silver c... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4909761 | In-line breakaway fuse holder A holder for an electric fuse has a first receiving body which has an internally threaded nut assembled thereto in a manner allowing relative rotation between them. The assembly of the nut to the body allows separation of the nut from the body when a pred... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4910490 | End terminal seal for an electric fuse An electric fuse of the type which has a tubular fuse casing and a solid fuse end terminal telescopically received within the fuse casing is provided with an annular seal which is contained within an annular groove formed in the outer lateral wall of the ... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4906963 | Externally mounted blown fuse indicator A spring loaded blown fuse indicator is provided that is adapted to be mounted directly on the side of an electric fuse in parallel with the fuse current path. The indicator provides an indicating pin that extends perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4897321 | Controlled electrochemical power generation A system and a method of controlled electrochemical power generation are disclosed. The system includes an electrochemical cell comprising an alkali metal anode, a cathode initially spaced about 10-25 mils from the anode to define a flow channel, an elect... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4877976 | Cascade FET logic circuits A group III-V digital logic circuit which includes either at least two enhancement type metal semiconductor field effect transistors and one load element or two first type field effect transistors having a first threshold voltage and two second type field... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4863808 | Copper-chromium-polyimide composite A carrier for use in flexible circuits and tape-automated-bonding includes a layer of vacuum deposited metallic chromium between the copper and polyimide. The chromium is vacuum deposited on the polyimide, affords resistance to undercutting from gold and ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4851310 | Microporous elemental silver article and method A method of forming an article comprising microporous elemental silver is disclosed wherein a porous conductive substrate is impregnated with molten silver nitrate. The silver nitrate in the pores of the substrate is then crystallized. Subsequently, the s... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4834481 | In-line single-mode fiber optic multiplexer/demultiplexer A single mode fiber optic multiplexer/demultiplexer has first and second optical fibers, each having an input and an output end. The first and second optical fibers are single mode fibers each having a core of a predetermined diameter and a cladding about... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4809081 | Method and apparatus for decompressing encoded data A fast and flexible data decompressor decodes data, such as that encoded by CCITT Group 4 facsimile machines, to produce display data. In the decompressor, a microprocessor controlled by microcode evaluates variable length codes each representing a series... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4803464 | Analog display circuit including a wideband amplifier circuit for a high resolution raster display system A high resolution raster display includes a central processor for providing image data, a digital image processing circuit for converting the image data to display signals, and an analog display circuit for converting the display signals to drive signals ... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4799751 | Detection device using fiber optic techniques A deflection detection device for monitoring deflection of a diaphragm having a radius r has a first plurality of optical fibers having fiber ends concentrically disposed about the center of the diaphragm at a radius r1 where r1 is l... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4798438 | Method of making a single-mode evanescent-wave coupler having reduced wavelength dependence A method of making a single-mode evanescent-wave coupler having reduced wavelength dependence includes the steps of (a) providing first and second single-mode optical fibers having substantially identical propagation constants; (b) heating the first optic... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4789798 | ECL to GaaS logic conversion circuit with positive feedback A gallium arsenide device converts an ECL voltage signal to a gallium arsenide voltage signal. The device has a pair of depletion transistors for transforming the ECL voltage signal and a predetermined reference voltage into corresponding signal and refer... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4782317 | Low voltage rejection fuse having an insulating insert A current limiting cartridge fuse having a portion of restricted diameter in one end cap, which serves as a rejection feature, is provided with an insulating insert which cooperates with the fuse casing and the one end cap to allow an active portion of a ... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4772085 | Multimode fiber optic coupler and method for making A multimode fiber optic coupler includes a first multimode optical fiber having a core and cladding surrounding the core and having a first longitudinal segment in which the cladding has been substantially removed exposing the core and in which a portion ... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4769083 | Method for removing excess solder from printed circuit boards A method for removing excess solder from a printed circuit board is practiced by mixing a quantity of ceramic beads with an oil to form a fluidized bed mixture. The fluidized bed mixture is heated to a temperature above the melting point of a solder on th... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4762758 | Interelectrode separator system for electrochemical cells A separator system for electrochemical cells whereby a reactive metal anode and active porous cathode are isolated from one another while the uniformity and turbulence of the electrolyte flow therebetween is increased. The separator system includes a rigi... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4756979 | Power generation systems and methods A power generation system utilizing an electrochemical cell comprising a consumable metal anode, a cathode spaced from the anode to define an electrochemical reaction zone therebetween and an electrolyte comprising an aqueous solution of the hydroxide of ... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4752815 | Method of fabricating a Schottky barrier field effect transistor A method of fabricating a Schottky barrier MOSFET wherein a polysilicon gate chip is disposed adjacent the drain and source regions of a single crystal silicon substrate surface, and a metal is deposited on the top surface of the gate chip and the drain a... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4751405 | Externally programmable, process and temperature insensitive threshold receiver circuit A threshold receiver circuit consists of a reference subcircuit and one or more signal input subcircuits. The reference subcircuit derives a mirror voltage by regulating a reference current flowing through an external reference resistor. The mirror voltag... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4751690 | Fiber optic interferometric hydrophone A fiber optic interferometric hydrophone is based on the change in optic path length of optic fibers bonded to both sides of a bending beam which acts as an acoustically sensitive diaphragm. The bending beam is segmented into an even number of segments, acoust... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4746898 | Bi-phase decoder A decoder for recovering data signals and clock signals from an encoded data stream includes: a delay circuit responsive to an encoded data stream for producing a delayed data stream, the delayed data stream being delayed a predetermined period of time fr... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4743828 | Electric drive system An electric drive system uses a multiphase alternating current motor and inverter to convert power from a battery source to provide propulsion. The phase sets defined by the motor stator winding are excited by a corresponding plurality of inverters. Time ... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4744078 | Multiple path multiplexed host to network data communication system A data transfer controller allows data to be transferred from a network bus to a system bus in a host computer. The controller has a network bus interface for communicating with the network bus and a system bus interface for communicating with the system ... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4740887 | Method and system for improving the operational reliability of electronic systems formed of subsystems which perform different functions A method and system for improving the reliability of an electronic system formed of subsystems which perform different functions. The electronic system is analyzed to determine which of the subsystems is most likely to cause a system failure and these sub... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4734342 | Terminal means for electrochemical cells A terminal pattern is disclosed for an assembly of reactive metal electrochemical cells which includes a plurality of bipolar electrodes arranged in stacked, spaced relationship and connected in series between a pair of spaced conductive end plates. The t... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4730238 | Double sided mounting module for surface mount integrated circuits A multiple layer connection system for compactly connecting a plurality of surface mount integrated circuit packages to a printed circuit board is disclosed. A plurality of staggered metal legs is respectively inserted into a plurality of slots formed alo... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4726232 | Temperature coefficient compensated pressure transducer A pressure transducer, which includes a silicon diaphragm with ion-implanted resistors in Wheatstone Bridge configuration and in insulating layer covering the diaphragm, is provided with temperature compensation for differences in thermal expansion coeffi... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4727234 | Laser-based system for the total repair of photomasks An apparatus for repairing both clear and opaque defects in a photomask having a metal film pattern on a glass plate in which a visible laser light source is pulsed at selected frequencies to direct an optically focused laser beam into a gas sealed cell c... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4725115 | Multi-mode, optical fiber laser coupler An apparatus for efficiently coupling laser light to multi-mode fiber uses a solid state laser focussed by a spherical microlens onto a partially reflecting mirror. The mirror is formed by polishing the ends of two fibers at 45 degrees and assembling them... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4714662 | Power module assembly of electrochemical cells A power module of the type including a plurality of power cells arranged in a longitudinal stacked relation. Each power cell includes a frame, a gas-consuming cathode supported at one end of the frame and a consumable anode supported intermediate the ends... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4714901 | Temperature compensated complementary metal-insulator-semiconductor oscillator A temperature compensated complementary metal-insulator-semiconductor oscillator receives a temperature independent reference voltage from an external source. The temperature independent reference voltage is attenuated and summed with a threshold voltage ... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4712061 | Small propagation delay measurement for digital logic A circuit for measuring small propagation delays associated with a digital logic circuit has first and second signal paths. The first signal path in the digital logic circuit has at least a first predetermined number of devices and has an input and an out... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4704194 | Electrode formation A system and a method useful in the formation of electrodes for use in electrochemical cells are disclosed. The system includes a pair of conductive metallic terminal electrodes spaced apart from one another and disposed in an aqueous electrolyte. The ter... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4698899 | Field effect transistor This disclosure depicts a novel semiconductor device and the method of making it. A novel field effect transistor (FET) has a channel region which is heavily doped under the gate and between the gate and the source of the FET. The channel region between t... | 10/13/1987 |
