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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6783835 | Elastomeric damping sheets A bulk modulus elastomeric element is employed in the present invention. The material from which the invention is fabricated is formed as a sheet, which has a plurality of channels that run through, or partially through it. The holes in the sheet are angled such tha... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6637735 | Double triad elastomer mount A shock isolator for a housing in an offset compressive axis with the shock isolator including either an elastomer triad or a hollow elastomer tetrahedron with each having support surfaces thereon that are laterally offset from each other to prevent direc... | 10/28/2003 |
| 5923285 | Low bandwidth digital radar video distribution system A system for the distribution of digitized radar video over a digital network is presented. The digital network is located at the low data rate point in the radar scan conversion process resulting in low network bandwidth with no loss of video fidelity. T... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5923533 | Multiple tile scaleable cooling system for semiconductor components A fluid-cooling system for the edge-cooling of semiconductor tiles that are arranged into rows and columns and are mounted on one or more panels is constructed with a coolant supply and return pipe and individual coolant supply and return lines for each o... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5892605 | Optical crossbar using guided spatial division multiplexing Optical transmission is accomplished with a set of transmitter arrays that are each constructed to transmit spatially separated optical data streams that are determined by the positions of each transmitter of said transmitter array and a set of receiver a... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5874918 | Doppler triangulation transmitter location system In a system for locating the position of a transmitter, a platform containing an antenna is moved through a measurement path. The frequency received by the antenna is measured at measurement points distributed along a measurement path. The frequency is me... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5870056 | Air-to-air passive location system A system is disclosed for estimating the position and velocity of a moving transmitter making use of both Doppler frequency measurements and LBI phase measurements. The frequency measurements and the LBI phase measurements are made from a platform moving ... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5860504 | Transfer buffer and inserter and method Apparatus and method are provided for providing multiple loading sites or entry sites for a single conveyor belt. This apparatus and method is particularly adapted to handling of pieces of flat mail. For each such loading site, another conveyor belt feeds... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5826028 | Initialization of switching networks for use with a scalable coherent interface The Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is intended for fast, high throughput, point-to-point, unidirectional links. It is to serve high-performance multiprocessor systems. A number of key el... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5799015 | Recirculation routes in switching networks used with scalable coherent interfaces The Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is intended for fast, high throughput, point-to-point, unidirectional links to high-performance multiprocessor systems. A system is provided for routin... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5796744 | Multi-node interconnect topology with nodes containing SCI link controllers and gigabit transceivers A multi-node Scalable Coherent Interface ring for the transmission of packets between nodes, each of which contains an SCI link controller to which a B-link controller that contains a timer is coupled and a gigabit transceiver to which a G-link controller... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5793309 | Short range electromagnetic proximity detection A very low-cost, short-range electromagnetic transceiver uses a low frequency oscillator signal as a means of charging a step recovery diode (SRD) which converts the stored charge into a very short impulse to enable very high energy efficiency frequency m... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5790524 | Detection of lost packets in switching networks used with scalable coherent interfaces The Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is intended for fast, high throughput, unidirectional links to high-performance multiprocessor systems. Key elements of the protocol for SCI include: (... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5787081 | Allocation of node transmissions in switching networks used with scalable coherent interfaces The Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is intended for fast, high throughput, point-to-point, unidirectional links to high-performance multiprocessor systems. Key elements of the protocol fo... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5787082 | Identification of new and stale packets in switching networks used with scalable coherent interfaces The Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is intended for fast, high throughput, unidirectional links to high performance microprocessor systems. Key elements of the protocol for SCI include: (... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5748852 | Fuzzy-logic classification system Objects of unknown identity are identified through comparison with incompletely specified models in incompletely specified databases of a computer-based system. These incomplete models and databases are described by specifying suspected ambiguities in bot... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5661817 | Single charge-coupled-device camera for detection and differentiation of desired objects from undesired objects A conventional color charge-coupled-device (CCD) camera without a near infrared blocking filter is used to detect desired vegetation from undesired vegetation and other background. This detection technique relies on the fact that near-infrared (NIR) wavel... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5621460 | Optical differentiation between plants and background utilizing a single CCD camera An optical system for detecting vegetation with the use of a single image sensor, such as a charge coupled device (CCD) camera is provided by optical elements which project separate red and near infrared (NIR) images onto the CCD camera. The camera then c... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5610920 | Coupling of voice and computer resources over networks Radio and workstation nodes are operated together in a network which may be either a LAN or a WAN network. The audio is sampled from up to 16 voice sources (radios or intercoms) at a 125 micro second rate and converted into a 16-bit representation by the ... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5606821 | Smart weed recognition/classification system A smart weed recognition and identification system comprises a chlorophyll sensor for detecting green vegetation and memory map means for storing images which contain different forms of green vegetation. The memory maps stored in memory are processed to e... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5606504 | Crop swath-width measurement using acoustic transducers A combine or harvesting machine has a header on its front end which is moved into a crop swath when harvesting the crop. The swath width of the crop in front of the header is measured with two acoustic range sensors that are mounted on opposite ends of th... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5592174 | GPS multi-path signal reception A pair of GPS receivers A and B which are constructed in the form of the receiver antenna combinations with receivers/antenna combinations which have been associated as ground-planes that extend beyond them. They are arranged such that the lower surface o... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5583505 | Radar pulse detection and classification system A radar pulse detection and classification system receives times-of-arrival of pulses from simultaneous emitters over a wide range of pulse repetition frequencies (PRF's). The pulses are deinterleaved into bands of pulse repetition intervals (PRI's) so th... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5566134 | Digital computer algorithm for processing sonar signals An algorithm for detecting and tracking dynamically-related sets of unstable passive sonar signals is disclosed. The algorithm detects, enhances, tracks and displays both stable and unstable passive sonar signals, while organizing them into dynamically-re... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5563550 | Recovery of data from amplitude modulated signals with self-coherent demodulation A demodulation system extracts data from an input amplitude modulated signal electromagnetic wave with a signal multiplying means that has two input terminals both of which are coupled to receive the input amplitude modulated signal. An output terminal of... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5555464 | Red/near-infrared filtering for CCD cameras A CCD camera is adapted for detecting red and near-infrared wavelengths by employing filters that are constructed to allow for the passage of only red light in certain areas and near-infrared light in other areas of the filter. The areas are designed to m... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5554992 | Radar scan converter for producing an aggregate radial scan pattern that is a function of hyperbolically-based resolution boundaries A radar scan conversion from radar data in polar coordinates to radar data in rectangular coordinates is employed to supply (x,y) coordinate data to a display, which has variable azimuthal pixel resolution that increases from the center of the display to ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5530450 | Radar scan converter for PPI rectangular and PPI offset rectangular modes A process provides radar scan conversion from radar amplitude data in polar coordinates to rectangular coordinates by a digital computer which receives (r,θ) coordinate amplitude data from a radar receiver and which supplies (x,y) coordinate amplitude wh... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5521514 | Broken tine detector for agricultural machines A broken tine detector for agricultural machines is provided for machines such as balers and forage harvesters. The tines form a first plate of a capacitor which rotates about the axis of a reel. The second plate of the capacitor may be provided by a back... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5519401 | Programmed radar coordinate scan conversion A pseudo-code representation and a C language representation of a scan converter system whereby radar amplitude data specified in polar coordinates may be displayed on a computer monitor display controlled by rectangular coordinates is provided. The inven... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5509486 | Method of steering an agricultural vehicle The invention described herein uses the periodicity of the relative height of the surface of a crop or soil surface that is measured over a large area to control the position of a farm vehicle as it passes between rows of crops. The range and angle of ret... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5461229 | On-the-go optical spectroscopy soil analyzer An on-the-go probe for determining the presence of chemical residue in a soil using Transient Infrared Spectroscopy by pulling a soil implement through the soil with the soil implement having a heating or cooling source for temporarily creating a temperat... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5432305 | Penetrometer acoustic soil sensor A acoustic-penetrometer probe and method for determining the presence of materials in a region proximate the penetrometer probe through measurement of reflected acoustic waves, with the probe having a driving head on one end to permit forcing the driving ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 4984371 | Chain saw log gauge for obtaining firewood logs of uniform length A log gauge for a chain saw is provided which enables an operator to repeatedly cut approximately equal lengths of firewood logs with only a minimal amount of effort being required to visually measure the logs. This accomplished by a mirror that is affixe... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4838637 | Integrated solid state non-volatile fiber optic switchboard A fiber-optic switchboard is developed consisting of a plurality of n input fibers, n input lenses, n light deflecting elements, n relay lenses, a multifaceted reflector, m output lenses, and m output fibers. Each input lens causes an image of the end of ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4833468 | Layered network A Layered Network system may provide varying cost from order NlogN low-cost networds, to completely-routing, fully-Layered networks with cots of order Nlog 3 N. Layered networks are composed of switches and point-to-point connections between th... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4827269 | Apparatus to maintain arbitrary polarization stabilization of an antenna An apparatus for maintaining an arbitrary orientation of the polarization of an antenna, such as an airborne microwave antenna, by using antenna pointing information and platform (aircraft) attitude information to position the input/feed signal.... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4825347 | Pulse width modulation control circuit A pulse width modulation control circuit utilizes a retriggerable monostable multivibrator as a high speed comparator which compares a reference waveform with a control signal level to effect variable termination of modulated output pulses. The control ci... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4825438 | Bus error detection employing parity verification A bus error detection system is used to detect binary bus error signals. The bus lines include an odd parity line and an even parity line. A clock means provides at least two clock signal phases. An activatable driver drives both of the odd and the even p... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4820196 | Sealing of contact openings for conformally coated connectors for printed circuit board assemblies A connector having a housing with a number of cavities that receive connector pins is conformally coated. A thixotropic, curable material is used to seal-off the cavities at the end where the contact tails for the connector pins emerge from the housing. T... | 04/11/1989 |
