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Patent No. 6637447

Beerbrella

A small umbrella which may be removably attached to a beverage container in order to shade the beverage container from the direct rays of the sun.

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Assignee: Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corp


Location: OakRidge, TN
No. of patents: 7

NumberTitleIssue Date
6455844Single-atom detection of isotopes
A method for performing accelerator mass spectrometry, includes producing a beam of positive ions having different multiple charges from a multicharged ion source; selecting positive ions having a charge state of from +2 to +4 to define a portion of the b...
09/24/2002
6107008Ionizing radiation post-curing of objects produced by stereolithography and other methods
An object comprised of a curable material and formed by stereolithography or another three-dimensional prototyping method, in which the object has undergone initial curing, is subjected to post-curing by ionizing radiation, such as an electron beam having...
08/22/2000
6036324Catadioptric zoom scattering collector
A back scattering collector, comprising: a first spherical reflective surface; a second spherical reflective surface having an annular form defining a central aperture; a refractive element, the first and second reflective surfaces and the refractive elem...
03/14/2000
5972847Method for making high-critical-current-density YBa2 Cu3 O7 superconducting layers on metallic substrates
A method is disclosed for fabricating YBa2 Cu3 O7 superconductor layers with the capability of carrying large superconducting currents on a metallic tape (substrate) supplied with a biaxially textured oxide buffer layer. T...
10/26/1999
5968877High Tc YBCO superconductor deposited on biaxially textured Ni substrate
A superconducting article includes a biaxially-textured Ni substrate, and epitaxial buffer layers of Pd (optional), CeO2 and YSZ, and a top layer of in-plane aligned, c-axis oriented YBCO having a critical current density (Jc) in the...
10/19/1999
5929579Soft-commutated direct current motor
A method and circuit is disclosed for soft-commutation of a direct current (DC) motor. An attenuation circuit is connected through auxiliary brushes A, A', B and B' to the commutator (16) to drain circuit from successive armature coils (15) before the mai...
07/27/1999
5729821Concentration of perrhenate and pertechnetate solutions
A method of preparing a concentrated solution of a carrier-free radioisotope which includes the steps of: a. providing a generator column loaded with a composition containing a parent radioisotope; b. eluting the generator column with an eluent solution which ...
03/17/1998
 
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