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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5596332 | Aircraft location and identification system An aircraft location and identification system, including a first position determining portion located aboard a transmitting aircraft for determining a first set of present positional and tracking information is described relative to said transmitting air... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5550434 | Boost-mode energization and modulation circuit for an arc lamp Electrical activation of an arc lamp is accomplished by a plurality of circuits, each of which has a boost topology including a capacitor and a charging circuit for charging the capacitor by a series of current pulses. One of the circuits is an igniter ci... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5402720 | Booster-missile self-aligning adapter A self-aligning adapter used for attaching a booster to a missile includes a hollow tapered receptacle positioned on the missile. A tapered member sized and shaped to fit into and mate with the receptacle is positioned on the booster. The tapered member f... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5366180 | High-lift device for aircraft High lift producing apparatus for an aircraft includes a pair of foreplanes, one for each side of the aircraft, each foreplane extending between a root end at the fuselage and a distant tip end. Wings are mounted on the fuselage aft of the foreplanes and,... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5352764 | Stepwise linear magnetic polymers and methods for preparation thereof A stepwise linear polymer composition having intense magnetic properties and a method for preparation of same. A phthalimide compound and an aromatic dialiphatic acid are reacted in the presence of an acetate of monovalent metal at elevated temperatures t... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5347680 | Spring retracting caster A retracting caster assembly is provided with a frame, a lever, a spring, a roller, and a manual retracting bolt. The lever is pivotally connected to the frame. The roller is connected to a first end of the lever. A spring loading member connects the spri... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5340915 | Crosslinked magnetic polymers and methods for preparation thereof A crosslinked polymer composition having intense magnetic properties and a method for preparation of same. A phthalimide compound and an aromatic dialiphatic acid are reacted in the presence of an acetate of a monovalent metal at elevated temperatures to ... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5341236 | Nonlinear optical wavelength converters with feedback An optical frequency conversion apparatus includes at least one resonator (10) having an optical path defined by a plurality of mirrors (M1, M2). A nonlinear conversion medium (10a) is disposed within the optical path of the resonator, the nonlinear conve... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5336748 | Epoxy and amino trialkoxysilane reaction products Silane polymer coating compositions which have excellent bonding properties for metallic surfaces and which make such surfaces highly resistant to corrosion. The compositions are formed by anhydrously reacting an epoxy trialkoxy silane with a primary amin... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5328540 | Mechanized lay up assembly line for composite structures A mechanized lay up assembly line for composite structures has a tool delivery station having a plurality of rollers on its surface for moving tools across the surface. Adjacent to the tool delivery station is a work station. The work station includes a w... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5326206 | Method for compensating for bolt hole misalignment and bolt assemblies therefor Method and assembly for producing shear-resistant attachment between a prefabricated top plate having a plurality of preformed bolt passage holes and a support member having a corresponding plurality of bolt-receiving holes which may be slightly out of al... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5326140 | Submerged cam actuated rotary latch for front access panels A submerged panel latch having an eccentric cam rotatable in the plane of the panel near the panel outer surface and accessible to the user, a latch rotor engaged by the cam and rotatable in a plane perpendicular to that of the cam, inward facing strikers... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5325106 | Analog driver for scrollable spatial light modulator A scrollable spatial light modulator--or SLM--provides non-destructively transfer and display of an analog signal, which may include multiple levels of gray scale information, for high speed analog optical processing. Each pixel in the scrollable SLM cons... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5325174 | Integrated optic gyro with one Bragg transducer A laser gyroscope is provided that utilizes a single frequency shifter, in the form of a Bragg cell, to adjust the frequencies of counter-rotating optical signals in a thin film waveguide to achieve resonance along the optical path encountered by each of ... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5322243 | Separately banking maneuvering aerodynamic control surfaces, system and method A maneuvering system for a flight vehicle rotates a lifting aerodynamic surface of the flight vehicle about an axis parallel with a direction of flight of the vehicle in a rotational direction corresponding to the desired change of flight direction to whi... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5309218 | Gas ring laser gyroscopes In a gas ring laser gyroscope characterized by a gain medium for producing at least one monochromatic narrow electromagnetic beam reflected to form a loop about the gain medium, the improvement wherein bypass channels are provided, displaced from the beam... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5307365 | Cavity pumped, solid state lasers A highly efficient pumping configuration for a solid state laser uses a diode bar pumping source producing optical energy coherent along an axis normal to the plane of the diode junctions. Pump energy is nearly collimated by a cylindrical optical fiber an... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5292475 | Tooling and process for variability reduction of composite structures Variability between composite structures can be reduced by utilizing forming and curing tooling that includes a cure tool and a preform tool. The cure tool has a curing surface. The curing surface defines the shape of a cured composite structure. The pref... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5281305 | Method for the production of optical waveguides employing trench and fill techniques A method is described for producing stacked optical waveguides in a silicon dioxide substrate and includes the steps of: etching a first trench in the substrate; filling the first trench with a glassy optical transmission media; depositing a layer of sili... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5269904 | Single tank de-oxidation and anodization process The invention is a single-bath electrolytic de-oxidation and anodization process in which a workpiece surface such as an aluminum surface is electrolytically de-oxidized and then anodized to form an adhesive oxide layer in the same electrolytic chemical b... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5270428 | Corrosion-resistant silane polymer coating compositions Silane polymer coating compositions which have excellent bonding properties for metallic surfaces and which make such surfaces highly resistant to corrosion. The compositions are formed by anhydrously reacting an epoxy trialkoxy silane with a primary amin... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5268062 | Method and apparatus for carbon coating and boron-doped carbon coating a porous refractory substrate A gravity assisted open system for coating porous refractory substrates with a highly uniform layer of graphite or other material. Pyrolytic dissociation of downwardly flowing precursor gases in an inert atmosphere, countercurrent to an upward direction o... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5206285 | Aqueous coating of silane precursor from epoxy and amino trialkoxysilanes Process for producing novel water-base coating compositions and for applying such compositions to metal surfaces to render them corrosion-resistant, comprising reacting an epoxy trialkoxy silane with a primary aminotrialkoxy silane in a molar ratio provid... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5206499 | Strapdown stellar sensor and holographic multiple field of view telescope therefor A star tracker for generating positional information for a vehicle includes a holographic telescope (150) having one or more fields of view for imaging stellar objects. The telescope includes a plurality of radiation detectors (100) and an input aperture ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5204042 | Method of making composite laminate parts combining resin transfer molding and a trapped expansion member In a process for forming composite laminate parts from reinforcing fibers and resin, a mold is selected which has a mold cavity having a part definition surface therein and a resin passageway leading to the cavity. An expansion member capable of expanding... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5173443 | Method of manufacture of optically transparent electrically conductive semiconductor windows Methods are disclosed for making semiconductor windows which are transparent to light in the infrared range which have good electrical conductivity and are formed of a substrate material (11) having a semiconductor coating (14) having a dopant included th... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5171994 | Infrared staring imaging array Monolithic InSb array devices are described for staring infrared imaging systems operating in the 3-5 μm spectral region. These devices are fabricated with only 4 mask levels compared to 5 mask levels for prior devices and have higher output dynamic rang... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5165977 | Long shelf life bismaleimide structural adhesive An adhesive patch for a composite structure, an adhesive for that patch and a method for forming the adhesive patch for the composite structure are described. The adhesive includes three uncured components of a bismaleimide polymeric mixture. Two of these... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5156358 | Aircraft outboard control An outboard control surface for an aircraft. The control surface is operably connected to wing side edges of the aircraft and includes a forward flap and a rearward flap with at least one of the flaps being movable into and out of alignment with the plane... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5153771 | Coherent light modulation and detector A acousto-optic Fabry-Perot optical modulator (10) has a crystalline body (12) having a first partially reflective electrode (14) for receiving radiation, including laser radiation having a wavelength or wavelengths of interest, and a second, oppositely d... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5152856 | Cure/bonding method for sandwiched plastic structure In a process for making a bonded article having a rigid foam core and a cured fiber-impregnated resin composite skin external of the foam core, a skin of a curable fiber-impregnated resin composite material is overlayed onto a shaped rigid foam core forme... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5132835 | Continuous-time optical neural network process An all-optical, continuous-time, recurrent neural network is disclosed which is capable of executing a broad class of energy-minimizing neural net algorithms. The network is a resonator which contains a saturable, two-beam amplifier; two volume holograms;... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5131834 | Silicone gel isostatic pressurizing bag and method of use and manufacture An isostatic pressurizing bag for consolidating a composite part has an outer flexible elastomer having a fixed resilient outside surface. The outer elastomer surrounds a closed chamber. A thermally expandable inner elastomer is located in the closed cham... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5131970 | Block-bonded process for producing thermoplastic resin impregnated fiber honeycomb core Ultra strong lightweight core material capable of sustained operation at unusually high temperatures for composite structure of the type used in aircraft parts such as wings, fairings and stabilizers is produced from preimpregnated thermoplastic fiberclot... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5130259 | Infrared staring imaging array and method of manufacture Monolithic InSb array devices are described for staring infrared imaging systems operating in the 3-5 μm spectral region. These devices are fabricated with only 4 mask levels compared to 5 mask levels for prior devices and have higher output dynamic rang... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5128192 | Braided preform process for thermoplastic honeycomb cores For producing ultra strong lightweight core material for composite structure such as aircraft wings, fairings and stabilizers, preimpregnated thermoplastic fiber yarn is processed according to this invention into blocks of ducted core material having a ba... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5108532 | Method and apparatus for shaping, forming, consolidating and co-consolidating thermoplastic or thermosetting composite products A method of shaping, forming, consolidating and co-consolidating a workpiece of layers of thermoplastic or thermosetting composite material into a final composite product. The associated apparatus includes upper and lower sheets of Kapton, Upilex or equiv... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5099434 | Continuous-time optical neural network An all-optical, continuous-time, recurrent neural network is disclosed which is capable of executing a broad class of energy-minimizing neural net algorithms. The network is a resonator which contains a saturable, two-beam amplifier; two volume holograms;... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5098024 | Spray end effector A spray end effector for spray painting internal cavities of complex shapes comprising a first elongated arm having an inboard end with attachment means for coupling to a robot and also having an outboard end; a second elongated arm having an inboard end ... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5093280 | Refractory metal ohmic contacts and method A process for forming refractory metal ohmic contacts comprises masking a group III-V semiconductor substrate and opening windows thereon. Metal ions are implanted through the window to a sufficient concentration to connect to electronic features in the s... | 03/03/1992 |
