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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6573124 | Preparation of passivated chip-on-board electronic devices A chip-on-board electronic device includes an electronic device die affixed to a printed circuit board, and electrically interconnected thereto by wirebonds. The electronic device is protected by coating it with a layer of silicon oxynitride and, optional... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6483242 | Traveling wave tube system with output waveguide-coupler termination A traveling wave tube is coupled to an output waveguide by an output coupler. The output coupler includes a single integral hollow termination body having an inner surface and an outer surface. The slow-wave propagation structure of the traveling wave tub... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6482521 | Structure with blended polymer conformal coating of controlled electrical resistivity A conformally coated structure includes a component of an electronic assembly, such as a microelectronic device, a part of a package, or an electrically conductive trace, and a conformal coating applied to a surface of the structure. The conformal coating... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6483396 | Microwave system with redundant processing devices and passive switching A redundant microwave system operable to process a microwave signal propagating in a microwave cavity includes a microwave cavity and two microwave processing devices. Each microwave processing device has a transmissive impedance when it is on and a refle... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6467152 | Method of fabricating a microwave microstrip/waveguide transition structure A microwave microstrip/waveguide transition structure includes a substrate, an elongated microstrip layer residing on a surface of the substrate, and an elongated integral hollow waveguide on the surface of the substrate. The microstrip layer and a side o... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6465733 | Electronic package structure utilizing aluminum nitride/aluminum composite material A packaged electronic structure includes an electronic device, and a package to which the electronic device is affixed. At least a portion of the package is made of a composite material of aluminum nitride dispersed in aluminum. The composite material is ... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6440782 | Radiation-hard silicon cryo-CMOS process suitable for charge-coupled devices, and a device made according to this process A silicon-based radiation-hard cryo-CMOS CCD process suitable for fabrication of devices (100) with sub-micron feature sizes. A re-oxidized nitride/oxide (RONO) layer (49") is preserved in the CCD area (32) while plasma etching is used to define polysilic... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6323575 | High-efficiency rotating coil torque motor A torque motor includes an annular, cylindrically symmetric, stationary inner support ring having an outer surface, and a plurality of inner permanent magnets affixed to the outer surface of the inner support ring. The torque motor further includes an ann... | 11/27/2001 |
| 5987160 | Method and apparatus for inspecting a photoresist material by inducing and detecting fluorescence of the photoresist material A method and apparatus for inspecting a substrate having a surface on which a photoresist material has been deposited. The apparatus preferably includes a device for transporting substrates through an illumination beam such that the edges of the substrate... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5943386 | High-speed synchronous counter circuitry Digital counter register stages are constructed as two-to-one mux registers, each employing a multiplexer stage having first, second, and third inputs and an output connected to the switching signal input of a D-type flip-flop, whose Q output comprises a ... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5916703 | Energy storage cell with hydrogen vent A nickel-hydrogen energy storage cell includes a hermetic pressure vessel having a wall made of a nickel-base alloy, and a hollow tube made at least in part of palladium and joined to the wall of the pressure vessel such that an interior of the hollow tub... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5913889 | Fast response Joule-Thomson cryostat A cryostat (10') with a heat exchanger (13'); a valve (25') for controlling the flow of fluid through said heat exchanger (13'); and a snap disk (30') for actuating the valve (25'). In a specific embodiment, the snap disk (30') is constructed of at least ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5903005 | Aspherical elements for infrared imaging system In a thermal imaging unit (12) including optics (16,18) for detecting a target scene (14), a detector array (26) responsive to target scene energy and a scanner (23) for scanning target scene energy from the target (14) onto the detector array (26), an im... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5885906 | Low PIM reflector material A mesh material for a spacecraft antenna reflector is disclosed. The mesh material has a base material made from a dielectric fabric. A conductive material, such as nickel, is applied to the dielectric mesh. The type and thickness of the conductive materi... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5856811 | Visual display and helmet assembly A visual display and helmet assembly is configured to function in the presence of a harsh environment, e.g., high wind, vibration and shock and strong ambient light. The visual display preferably includes a transmissive liquid-crystal display to reduce th... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5854601 | Methods for estimating the number of emitters and their parameters A method for estimating the number of emitters of intermittent or periodic pulsed energy waveforms received at a sensor location and the parameters of the intermittent or periodic energy waveforms, including: accumulating over a selected period of time ou... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5841384 | Non-linear digital-to-analog converter and related high precision current sources A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for generating a high-precision analog output signal corresponding to a non-linear function, such as a sine function, of a digital input quantity, without the need for large numbers of precision current generators. Bina... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5841218 | Laser head having a conductively cooled flashlamp A conductively cooled flashlamp (30) for use solid state lasers. The flashlamp (30) has an elongated heat sink (31) with a reflective center channel (32), and a flashlamp tube (12) disposed in the channel (32) that extends beyond the ends of the channel (... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5838816 | Pattern recognition system providing automated techniques for training classifiers for non stationary elements An improved pattern recognition system. The invention operates on a plurality of feature vectors from a single class of data samples. The inventive system estimates a pruning radius for the feature vectors in the single class of data samples and generates... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5836165 | Adaptive feedforward vibration control system and method An adaptive feedforward vibration control system reduces vibrations at fundamental and harmonic frequencies of matched reciprocating pistons, such as back-to-back compressor pistons in Stirling cycle cryocooler, by driving the pistons with correction sign... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5834971 | RF amplifier including traveling wave tube with sequential stages Multiple gain stages are provided in a single traveling wave tube amplifier (TWTA). Each gain stage comprises an interaction circuit, an associated RF input, and an associated RF output. The gain stages are separated by a drift length that is selected to ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5828078 | Electrostatic discharge protection using high temperature superconductors The present invention presents an electrostatic discharge and power surge protected circuit board (10) and method for providing an electrostatic discharge and power surge protected circuit board. The protected circuit board (10) includes temperature sensi... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5828698 | Data flow management method for CDPD demodulator operating without CDPD clock An efficient and power-saving method of converting serial in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) symbols at the IS-54 standard symbol rate, to time-aligned IQ pairs at the CDPD standard symbol rate. A FIFO buffer stores the serial in-phase (I) and quadratu... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5826831 | Satellite co-location methods A geostationary orbital box is divided by radially-oriented planes to form orbital sub-boxes. A thruster system facilitates station keeping satellites in each of these orbital sub-boxes. The thruster system includes thruster pairs that are positioned on a... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5828419 | Method and apparatus for generating television program guides utilizing icons An apparatus for generating an on-screen television program guide. The apparatus generates a program guide including program source information and program event information for a plurality of program sources. The apparatus also generates and displays ico... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5828338 | Thyratron switched beam steering array A beam steering array that comprises a high voltage source for providing high voltage pulses and a plurality of high voltage switches coupled between the high voltage source and a plurality of microwave sources. Each of the microwave sources are coupled t... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5820079 | Mechanism for mounting and actuating a momentum wheel with high vibration isolation An apparatus for mounting a momentum wheel assembly (10) to a spacecraft (54). The momentum wheel assembly (10) includes a momentum wheel which has a primary spin axis coinciding with the primary spin axis of the spacecraft and spins in a direction opposi... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5816540 | Optimal solar tracking system A spacecraft traveling in a volume of space receiving radiation from the sun and encountering an undesired force. The spacecraft has a solar panel movably attached to said spacecraft. The spacecraft further includes a solar panel controller which controls... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5812935 | Cellular system employing base station transmit diversity according to transmission quality level A cellular system has base stations in which diversity transmission is controllably employed to improve voice communications as needed. Normal signal transmission is employed in each voice channel unless it is detected that quality has dropped to a point ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5809463 | Method of detecting double talk in an echo canceller A method of detecting double talk in an echo canceller is provided. The method includes determining far end, near end and echo signal cancelled power, determining the presence of near end, maybe near end and far end speech, and controlling an echo suppres... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5801751 | Distribution of satellite television programs to passengers in an aircraft when it is out of range of the satellites Systems that distribute live television programs to passengers of an aircraft by way of satellites of a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) system when the aircraft is in range of the satellites and distributes time-delayed television programs when the aircr... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5796488 | Optical target alignment and technique The invention resides in a method of measuring position and angle comprising the steps of providing a tooling telescope, a transparent target surface and an alignment target having a light reflecting face confronting the telescope. The light reflecting fa... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5794892 | Critical nutation dampling on spinning bodies via momentum wheels or similar devices A method and system of damping nutation of a spacecraft (20) having a desired spin axis along a first principal inertia axis utilizes a momentum source (28) oriented along a second principal inertia axis perpendicular to the first principal inertia axis. ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5796771 | Miniature self-pumped monolithically integrated solid state laser The present invention is an integrated, diode laser-pumped, solid state lr which can be fabricated entirely with semiconductor fabrication techniques. The laser includes a substrate, a semiconductor light source grown over the substrate to provide pump l... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5796504 | Fiber-optic telemetry system and method for large arrays of sensors A telemetry system for receiving data from large arrays of sensors, in which the sensors are located in an unprotected environment, is implemented using fiber optic components. Laser sources, located in a protected environment, transmit light through the ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5790601 | Low cost very small aperture satellite terminal A remote ground terminal transmitter for transmitting a modulated data signal having a constant envelope amplitude. The remote ground terminal transmitter comprises a source of data signals, a modulator for providing a carrier signal, receiving a data sig... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5790566 | Method and device for depuncturing data A circuit and method for depuncturing data in the receiver circuitry of a digital communications system. The depuncturing circuit includes a multiplexer circuit that receives a punctured stream of data and a delayed version of the punctured stream of data... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5790722 | High power optical fiber amplifier/laser system A high power Er-doped fiber amplifier/laser system includes a cladding-pumped fiber grating laser that emits an output beam at a wavelength that falls within an absorption band of erbium. The fiber grating laser output beam is used as the pumping source f... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5784905 | Liquid carbon dioxide cleaning system employing a static dissipating fluid An improved liquid carbon dioxide dry cleaning system containing an improved dry cleaning fluid. The dry cleaning fluid contains an antistatic agent for dissipating static charge on members or garments generated by friction during cleaning thereof. The co... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5786739 | Integrated evanescent mode filter with adjustable attenuator A waveguide evanescent mode filter is integrated with a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) by forming both the MMIC circuitry and the waveguide filter on a single substrate that forms a common ground plane for both elements. The waveguide has ... | 07/28/1998 |
