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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5774241 | Converging beam holographic decklit CHMSL A holographic stoplight system that includes a stoplight hologram (21, 21') supported adjacent the inside surface of a rear window (211) of a vehicle, and a light source (29, 31) for providing a converging beam that is vertically converging and predominan... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5083204 | Signal processor for an imaging sensor system A signal processor for use with an imaging sensor system that provides enhanced video imagery. The signal processor may be coupled to a FLIR system, for example, which comprises a plurality of detectors that are scanned across an image scene and reference... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4665009 | Method of developing radiation sensitive negative resists The invention is directed to a method for obtaining a developer solvent for radiation-sensitive negative resists which are used in lithographic processes for the production of electronic microchips. The negative resist polymer is applied to the surface of the ... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4631569 | Means and method of reducing the number of masks utilized in fabricating complex multi-level integrated circuits A plurality of integrated circuit wafers each having a plurality of cells disposed in a rectilinear array with the yield distribution of usable cells varying from wafer to wafer but in which there is a common yield distribution of at least Y usable cells ... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4597261 | Thermally actuated rocket motor safety system A thermally actuated rocket motor safety system has a fire temperature pyrotechnic sensor which ignites a gas generator (30) which drives piston (38) to the left. Firing pin (40) strikes the primer in transfer booster assembly (42). The transfer booster a... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4593250 | Operational amplifier compensation technique for biquadratic notch active filters An active biquadratic notch filter having first integrating circuitry for providing a first integration signal and further having second integrating circuitry responsive to the first integration signal for providing a filter output. The first integrating ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4585934 | Self-calibration technique for charge-coupled device imagers A self-calibration technique which provides detector responsivity normalization for a charge-coupled device, hereinafter referred to as CCD, area imager. The CCD area imager is designed such that the detectors can be electrically decoupled from CCD multip... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4584428 | Solar energy converter employing a fluorescent wavelength shifter Disclosed herein is a solar converter structure and fabrication process therefor which includes a composite zinc selenide fluorescent wavelength shifter (FWS) prepared with anti-reflective (AR) coatings on both major surfaces thereof. One of these AR coat... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583055 | Spatial power combiner The spatial power combiner disclosed here is used to efficiently combine the power sources, which incorporate two-terminal negative resistance devices, in a coherent manner such that a high power output with a stable and definite frequency and phase is ob... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4580790 | Sintered polytetrafluoroethylene composite material and seal assembly A composition of matter adapted for use as a sealing material and in fabricating bushings, rider rings and structural support pads. The composition is sintered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) having uniformly dispersed therein from 5 to 50 volume percent o... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4581185 | Non-woven sheet by in-situ fiberization A polymeric fibrous sheet is provided in the form of a composite of an open matrix of coarse fibers extending throughout the sheet and integrated with co-crystallized, fine fibers spanning the open spaces within the matrix. This non-woven sheet is formed ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4578252 | Method for preparing ultra-pure zirconium and hafnium tetrafluorides A method for preparing ultra-pure metal tetrafluorides in which 3d such as Fe impurities are separated from impure material by a combined vaporization-electrolytic separation procedure. Sublimation and distillation methods are disclosed in combination wit... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4577196 | Missile mounted waveguide antenna A generally rectangular waveguide antenna has two narrow side walls connected to two broad walls. One of the broad walls takes the form of a conventional rectangular ridged wall. The other broad wall is curved with the arc of the curve extending substanti... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4575693 | High current pulse modulator with wave shaping capability A pulse modulator including a pulse forming network comprising a multiple section ladder network of series inductors and shunt capacitors. The series inductors are flat, spiral inductors etched on microstrip. The pulse forming network is charged negativel... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4574197 | Dual field of view sensor A dual field of view sensor, particularly adapted for use as a forward-looking infrared night vision detector, includes a single detector (24) for receiving a light signal and developing an output electrical signal therefrom. A rotating polygon scanner (1... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4571704 | Nonvolatile latch A bistable latch circuit is disclosed which can be electrically programmed to be stable in only one of its two states so that this same state is always set when power is applied to the circuit. The circuit can be electrically reprogrammed at will to selec... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4569124 | Method for forming thin conducting lines by ion implantation and preferential etching A thin conducting line such as a gate pattern is defined on a semiconductor chip (10) by applying a narrow ion beam, suitably a focused-ion-beam (16) having a submicrometer thickness from a source (18) onto a thin layer (14) of an inorganic material such ... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4568940 | Dual-mode radar receiver Apparatus is disclosed which processes sum and difference signals generated from received radar signals to provide target angle information in terms of amplitude or phase. The system includes an IF section and an RF section which processes the sum and dif... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4567119 | Nickel-hydrogen bipolar battery A nickel-hydrogen bipolar battery comprises a plurality of unit cells organized in assemblies wherein the assemblies are stacked and positioned within a hydrogen space. Each unit cell includes a porous hydrogen electrode loaded on its lower surface with a... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4563258 | Method and apparatus for separating isotopes using electrophoresis in a discharge A gaseous mixture containing elementary particles (atoms or molecules) of first and second isotopes is exposed to laser radiation at a predetermined frequency to excite elementary particles of the first isotope without substantially exciting elementary pa... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4563587 | Focused ion beam microfabrication column Focused ion beam microfabrication column (10) produces an ion beam from ion source (12), focuses the beam by objective lens (24) onto the plane of electrode (36). ExB filter (44) separates out the ion species at a low energy portion of the beam. The beam ... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4560878 | Electron and ion beam-shaping apparatus Electron or ion beam shaping apparatus has first aperture (28) and second aperture (30) through which the beam (20) is focused by first lens (24). Double deflection apparatus of either electromagnetic or electrostatic character is small and can be positio... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4560974 | Real-time ordinal-value filter utilizing reference-function comparison Operating at real-time data rates, the disclosed hardware network generates a signal which closely approximates the Mth-largest of a set of R input data signals. The operational basis of this network is a comparison (121-127) between the input data (101-1... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4559272 | Heat curable polyglycidyl aromatic amine encapsulants A highly fluid, solventless heat curable resin is formulated from an admixture comprising a polyglycidyl aromatic amine, a polycarboxylic acid anhydride curing agent, and a curing accelerator. The heat curable formulation exhibits low viscosity and is use... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4556798 | Focused ion beam column Two lens focused ion beam column (10) has an accelerating lens (20) which carries a potential to focus an image of the liquid metal ion source (14) on the mass analyzer slit (26) with a magnification of about unity. Munro lens (36) accelerates the beam of... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4556794 | Secondary ion collection and transport system for ion microprobe A secondary ion collection and transport system, for use with an ion microprobe, which is very compact and occupies only a small working distance, thereby enabling the primary ion beam to have a short focal length and high resolution. Ions sputtered from ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4553082 | Transformerless drive circuit for field-effect transistors A transformerless drive circuit for operation of a switch mode regulator includes a turn-on circuit and a turn-off circuit coupled to a control terminal of the switch, respectively, for inducing a state of conduction in the switch and for terminating the ... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4553064 | Dual-mode electron gun with improved shadow grid arrangement A dual-mode electron gun for a traveling-wave tube is disclosed which selectively generates an electron beam of two different cross-sectional areas. The electron gun includes radially inner and annular control grids as well as a shadow grid disposed betwe... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4552454 | System and method for detecting a plurality of targets A test system (10) for a laser rangefinder (12, 14) having signal transmission and reception paths comprises a thick lens collimator (20) which receives energy (18) from a transmitter (12) for input through an optical fiber (32). The fiber has a partial r... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4550036 | Electroless silver plating process and system An improved electroless silver plating process in which the plating rate and plating texture are controlled by regulating the oxygen content of the active electroless silver plating solution. An active electroless silver plating solution is continually re... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4549664 | Kitting parts carousel system Kitting parts carousel system (10) as a plurality of carousels (12, 14) each having parts bins (50) therein. Each of the carousels is made of static safe injection moldable synthetic polymer composition material with the bins having a sloping bottom to se... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4549211 | Four-quadrant gate-sizing technique A four-quadrant frame of reference, established with respect to a sensed target image, effectively converts the image into a composite target regardable as the union of four, quadrant-based target-segments. Four subgates, each established within a differe... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4547395 | Process for the photochemical vapor deposition of hetero-linked polymers A low temperature photochemical vapor deposition process for the deposition of a layer of a chosen polymer on the surface of a substrate. The polymer comprises repeating hydrocarbon units linked through oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur atoms and is formed by r... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4545878 | Method and apparatus for separating isotopes using electrophoresis in a discharge A gaseous mixture containing elementary particles (atoms or molecules) of first and second isotopes is exposed to laser radiation at a predetermined frequency to excite elementary particles of the first isotope without substantially exciting elementary pa... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4545646 | Process for forming a graded index optical material and structures formed thereby A process for depositing on the surface of a substrate a layer of a chosen material having continuous gradations in refractive index in a predetermined periodic pattern. The substrate is exposed to two vapor phase reactants which react upon radiation-indu... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4544237 | High efficiency optical tank for two-color liquid crystal light valve image projection with color selective prepolarization The invention provides a two-channel liquid crystal light valve image projection system with prepolarization using an oil coupled optical arrangement. A prepolarizing beam splitter is mounted the container in optical alignment with a first surface for spl... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543271 | Silicon oxynitride material and photochemical process for forming same An improved silicon oxynitride material which is homogeneously chemically bonded and contains minimal free amorphous silicon has improved electrical insulating properties, hardness, scratch resistance, and adhesion. This material is formed on the surface ... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4543642 | Data Exchange Subsystem for use in a modular array processor A Data Exchange Subsystem comprising a data bus for transferring data signals, a load for normally maintaining a logical one signal on the data bus, a number of data receivers operatively connected to the data bus for sensing the logic state of the data s... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4542257 | Solar cell array panel and method of manufacture An integral lightweight solar cell panel containing a plurality of interconnected solar cells bonded to a fiber-reinforced polyimide film made from an isoimide-containing precursor. The solar cells can be placed on the reinforced polyimide film while the ... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4541048 | Modular programmable signal processor A signal processing system that has an improved modular architecture so that a selected number of arithmetic element (AE) units may be utilized with a single arithmetic element controller (AEC) unit to provide a system that can be readily expanded or decr... | 09/10/1985 |
