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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4846902 | Solid diffusion source of GD oxide/P205 compound and method of making silicon wafer A doping composition having a high rate of P2 O5 evolution as indicated by a thick deposited glassy film of about 1500-2000 angstroms at a doping temperature of only 900° C. for one hour, the composition comprising a gadolinium oxid... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4832725 | Glass feeder tube-stirrer assembly The refractory tube controlling the flow of glass from a glass feeder bowl is combined with a rotary stirring device used to control surface cord into one unit, herein called a "Tubex"; thereby eliminating one of the two rotary drive mechanisms and also e... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4820932 | Method of and apparatus for electrooptical inspection of articles A system for line scan processing video signals from a linear array of photoelectric cells so that the signals for individual cells and individual scan sweep are selectively utilized according to sweep number and cell numbers. A signal window is defined f... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4800175 | Phosphorous planar dopant source for low temperature applications A boron-containing heterocyclic compound prepared by reacting a primary amine of ammonia with an alkylene oxide or epoxide and then reacting concurrently or subsequently this reaction intermediate with a boric acid. This boron-containing heterocyclic comp... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4794308 | Multiple gaseous discharge display/memory panel having improved operating life There is disclosed a multiple gaseous discharge display/memory panel having an electrical memory and capable of producing a visual display, the panel being characterized by an ionizable gaseous medium in a gas chamber formed by a pair of opposed dielectri... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4767125 | Expansion chuck A chuck for grasping the internal cylindrical surface of a glass tube. An elongate tubular support structure with two sets of circumferentially spaced fingers or inserts that move radially outward under the influence of axial movement of a centrally posit... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4764681 | Method of and apparatus for electrooptical inspection of articles An electrooptical system in which workpieces are illuminated from a generally uniform source of light and are line scanned for light intensity deviations characteristic of defects. Pulse trains from photoelectric detectors of a line array have pulse magni... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4764015 | Method and apparatus for non-contact spatial measurement An electro-optical gauging system for measuring the flatness of an edge of a workpiece which may be closed upon itself and of non-circular form by mounting the piece centered on a flat circular table having radial slots and an open center. A line source o... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4763787 | Package assembly A package assembly includes a pallet, an outer shell supported on the pallet, and a plurality of inner cells disposed within the outer shell. A plurality of package elements are utilized to separate and support a stack of video glass funnel parts within e... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4760671 | Method of and apparatus for automatically grinding cathode ray tube faceplates A workpiece manipulating apparatus for faceplate panels of cathode ray tubes includes a conveyor for carrying panels along two groups of grinder stations in a pattern coordinated with carriage mounted loaders which move along the conveyor. The conveyor in... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4760270 | Method of and apparatus for comparing data signals in an electrooptical inspection system A system of detecting abrupt optical deviations in an object such as defects in a TV tube faceplate employing a line scan camera operated at a fixed scan frequency to feed analog video signals to a log amplifier the output of which is high-pass filtered t... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4731560 | Multiple gaseous discharge display/memory panel having improved operating life There is disclosed a multiple gaseous discharge display/memory panel having an electrical memory and capable of producing a visual display, the panel being characterized by an ionizable gaseous medium in a gas chamber formed by a pair of opposed dielectri... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4723976 | Method and apparatus for pressing glass cathode ray tube faceplates A method and apparatus for pressing glass TV tube faceplates employing a microprocessor controlled ram and plunger operated with open loop position based speed control at relatively high rates of motion when the plunger is not in critical contact with the... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4723093 | Gas discharge device There is disclosed a gas discharge panel, especially of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,499,167 or 3,559,190, operated with an ionizable gaseous medium of neon and at least one minority rare gas component selected from argon, krypton, and xenon. In ... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4696909 | Platinum corrosion reducing premelted oxide compositions for lead containing solder glasses Platinum corrosion reducing amounts of a premelted oxide mixture that is PbO and B2 O3, or PbO and SiO2, or PbO, SiO2 and B2 O3 are added to raw batch ingredients for a lead-containing sold... | 09/29/1987 |
