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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5545379 | Corona discharge system with insulated wire A rugged, flexible unit for generating a corona discharge includes a conductive central wire, flexible dielectric material, and a flexible conductive layer surrounding said dielectric material. The dielectric material may be advantageously formed of PTFE.... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5545380 | Corona discharge system with conduit structure A flow-through type ozone generating system has a fluid conduit and a source of alternating current for generating a corona discharge. An insulated wire may be used as an electrode within the conduit. PTFE is advantageously used as a dielectric material.... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5377104 | Passive seismic imaging for real time management and verification of hydraulic fracturing and of geologic containment of hazardous wastes injected into hydraulic fractures Using geologic hydraulic fracturing methods and subterranean waste injection and disposal processes well known in the petroleum production industry, hazardous wastes are pulverized, mixed to create a slurry, and injected into a subsurface hydraulic fractu... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5317919 | A precision capacitor sensor A precision, low cost, capacitor sensor comprised of two parallel plates, with an air dielectric, with preferably both substrates comprised of vitreous materials and electrically conductive coating, but with at least one of the substrates and coating bein... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5303992 | Extendable and retractable ground-engaging projections for tracked vehicle An armored tracked vehicle is provided with traction-increasing grousers and a remotely controllable system for extending and retracting the grousers. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the grousers are extended by a hydraulic system formed of a ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5301538 | Process and apparatus for distributed wide range leak detection, location and alarm for pollutants Duel sensor detector tube systems are installed along the path length of a pipeline, storage tanks, or other fuel system to be monitored for leaks. One sensor detector tube system is constantly evacuated and passed through a sensor detector to test for pr... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5288461 | Fluid treatment system Contaminants in an aqueous stream are oxidized with minimal use of an added oxidant by diffusing the oxidant through a fixed porous element followed by cyclical photolytic treatment of the stream with at least two different wavelengths of light. The porou... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5283050 | Fluid handling apparatus An integrated reactor is capable of mixing, reacting, and/or sparging two or more fluids. The reactor is preferably formed of a porous element and a housing formed of at least two inlets and an outlet. A catalyst may be incorporated into the porous elemen... | 02/01/1994 |
| 4923276 | Tapered optical fiber telescope, tracking system apparatus and method incorporating tapered optical fiber telescopes An optical fiber telescope is disclosed as including an optical train having a plurality of tapered optical fibers arranged in a plurality of cascading stages. A collecting stage provides the aperture for the telescope and has an output for transmitting l... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4887397 | Fast, erectable, easily transportable structures A collapsible structural member including a plurality of segmental sections and devices for connecting adjacent segmental sections is disclosed. Each segmental section has a rigid, elongate body portion which terminates in end portions. The connecting dev... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4729737 | Airborne laser/electronic warfare training system A system for training aircrews, particularly aircrews of relatively slow-moving aircraft such as helicopters in laser/electronic warfare countermeasure tactics and the use of laser/electronic warfare countermeasure equipment is provided. The system is ope... | 03/08/1988 |
