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Paddle Wheel Plane

An aircraft having vertical takeoff and landing capability provided with at least first and second laterally extending paddle wheels rotatable on a central axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft fuselage and between its nose and tail.

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Assignee: Spectra, Inc.


Location: Keene, NH
No. of patents: 8

NumberTitleIssue Date
6450627Simplified ink jet head
In the embodiments of the simplified ink jet head described in the specification, a carbon body is formed with ink passages, such as internal passages extending through a carbon plate, pressure chambers on one side of a carbon plate, flowthrough passages ...
09/17/2002
6293638Bar code printing on cartons with hot melt ink
In the method and apparatus for printing bar codes on cartons disclosed in the specification, cartons on which bar codes are to be printed are conveyed in succession in either direction past a heater which heats a selected portion of the carton surface an...
09/25/2001
5757400High resolution matrix ink jet arrangement
In the particular embodiments of the invention described in the specification, an ink jet system has a plurality of modular ink jet arrays arranged to produce high resolution images on a substrate. In one embodiment, the ink jet arrays are formed in an in...
05/26/1998
5755909Electroding of ceramic piezoelectric transducers
In the embodiments described in the specification, electrodes are bonded to the surface of a ceramic piezoelectric layer by supporting electrodes having a reduced dimension on a flexible dielectric film and placing the dielectric film under tension to exp...
05/26/1998
5757391High-frequency drop-on-demand ink jet system
In the high-frequency drop-on-demand ink jet system described in the specification, a variable impedance characteristic of an ink jet orifice is utilized to provide maximum drop ejection rates exceeding the maximum rates possible with constant orifice imp...
05/26/1998
5724082Filter arrangement for ink jet head
In the embodiments described in the specification, an ink jet head has an orifice filter disposed between a pressure chamber and an orifice to trap contaminant particles having a size likely to block the orifice, while permitting smaller particles to pass...
03/03/1998
5694156Ink jet head with ink usage sensor
In the representative embodiments disclosed in the specification, an ink jet system includes a carriage for driving an ink jet head having a reservoir containing ink in a reciprocating motion and a counter for counting ink drops ejected through orifices i...
12/02/1997
5605659Method for poling a ceramic piezoelectric plate
In the embodiments described in the specification, a ceramic piezoelectric plate is polarized by compressing the plate between electrode plates with intervening slightly conductive rubber sheets or by applying electric charge from a corona discharge devic...
02/25/1997
 
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