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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4371882 | Process for preparing isolated junctions in thin-film semiconductors A controlled environment process for making diode arrays by depositing the sublimate of a semiconductor material through an aperture of a mask placed nearby a substrate and then subjecting part of the sublimate to ion implantation. The aperture causes dif... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4371232 | Graded gap semiconductor optical device A variable temperature method for the preparation of single and multiple taxial layers of single-phase (e.g., face-centered cubic), ternary lead chalcogenide alloys (e.g., lead cadmium sulfide [Pb1-w Cdw ]a [S]1-a | 02/01/1983 |
| 4301418 | Magnetoresistive power amplifier A process and a small, sensitive, low noise, high gain, power amplifier used in the process, for exploiting the anisotropic magnetoresistance effect in a ferromagnetic thin-film. The magnetization of the thin-film is biased to lie along the hard axis. The... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4269121 | Semi-active optical fuzing Device for causing projectiles to detonate at the optimum point along their ndividual trajectories when fired at nearly any type of target. Detonation at this point will result in the greatest damage to the intended target.... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4231053 | High electrical frequency infrared detector A thin-film single-crystal infrared detector exhibiting an increased freqcy of response. A closed transverse junction, formed by diffusing a central electrode of an impurity rich metal into a lead-salt film epitaxially grown on an insulating substrate, p... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4231107 | Serriform strip crosstie memory A magnetic crosstie memory using a plurality of Permalloy thin-film strips of uniform thicknesses having parallel denticulated margins etched to align with the oblong axis of the strip. Each pair of opposite denticles defines a distinct memory cell. Magne... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4227948 | Growth technique for preparing graded gap semiconductors and devices A variable temperature method for the preparation of single and multiple taxial layers of single-phase (e.g., face-centered cubic), ternary lead chalcogenide alloys (e.g., lead cadmium sulfide, [Pb1-w Cdw ]a [S]1-a | 10/14/1980 |
| 4224520 | Room temperature two color infrared detector An amorphous film (44) of a photoresponsive semi-conducting material such germanium-telluride deposited upon a thick silicon dioxide layer (40) formed on a silicon chip substrate (38). The silicon chip (38) underlying the central region of the amorphous ... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4207796 | Ordnance induction firing system An apparatus for igniting a squib attached to the base of an ordnance round hrough a two part inductive type of device having one part that is attached to the base of the ordnance round and axially insertable into a second part which is mounted at the bott... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4199819 | Field determined cross-tie memory propagation circuit A symmetric narrow-wide electrical conductor for propagating binary information represented by Bloch line - crosstie pairs along a serriform crosstie thin magnetic film strip. Another conductor is made with alternate segments disposed upon opposite surfac... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4192012 | Crosstie memory bit stretcher detector A magnetoresistance detector linearly stretching single bits of binary inmation such as those represented by Bloch line - crosstie pairs, along the major dimension of a thin magnetic film strip such as a serriform crosstie memory. The detector circuit is... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4170013 | Stripline patch antenna A conformal antenna having a microstrip patch centered below a slot in a undplane and covered by a dielectric window and coupled to a stripline feed.... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4162124 | Passive optical rangefinder-sextant A passive opto-electric rangefinder with remotely controllable index mirr independently rotatable about normal axes, each axis perpendicular to the line-of-sight.... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4161702 | Distributed feedback filter and laser A distributed feedback optical device using a single crystal boule prepared with periodic spatial striations of ternary Pb1-x Snx Te and Yb impurity atoms forming a layered array of planar p-n junctions normal to the axis of light em... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4158368 | Magnetostrictive transducer Improved magnetostrictive materials are combined in a novel arrangement to provide a transducer of the electromechanical type particularly suited for the precise control of fluid flow. An embodiment according to this invention comprises a valve assembly h... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4157926 | Method of fabricating a high electrical frequency infrared detector by vacuum deposition A thin-film single-crystal infrared detector exhibiting an increased frequency of response. A closed transverse junction, formed by diffusing a central electrode of an impurity rich metal into a lead-salt film epitaxially grown on an insulating substrate,... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4154631 | Equilibrium growth technique for preparing PbSx Se1-x epilayers A high temperature method for the preparation of single and multiple epitaxial layers of single-phase lead sulfide-selenide, [Pb]a [Sx Se1-x ]1-a wherein x varies between one and zero, inclusive, and a=0.500&#b1... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4155065 | Optic scattering acoustic transducer An omnidirectional hydrophone using particles suspended in a liquid acoustically coupled to a conducting environment for detecting acoustic waves by providing scattering of internally generated electromagnetic radiation from particles driven by the acoust... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4126732 | Surface passivation of IV-VI semiconductors with As2 S3 The process of coating epitaxial films of lead chalcogenide materials with s2 S3 to insulate the films from the effects of oxygen upon exposure to air.... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4114189 | Digital signal synthesis system A process and an apparatus using an inverse discrete Fourier transform for ynthesis of complex waveforms that have one or more sinusoidal components of arbitrary frequency, amplitude and phase. The component sinusoids are formed in segments of a predetermi... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4100609 | Magnetoresistance detector for crosstie memories A detector for non-destructive sensing of binary information at a selected location along a domain wall of a thin magnetic film strip. Voltages are applied across a set of contacts arranged along the margin of the strip and the value of the voltage measur... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4063243 | Conformal radar antenna A conformal electronically scanned antenna array system utilizing an inve Butler matrix in combination with directive antenna elements. The system provides a simple and inexpensive device for scanning an elemental array without the problems of output fre... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4062058 | Next address subprocessor A subprocessor and a method for a digital computer processing a special cs of programs wherein determination of the next processing program instruction address occurs simultaneously with execution of a preceding set of processing program instructions wit... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4054871 | Electromagnetic intrusion sensor An electromagnetic intrusion sensor for detecting the presence of moving ects within a specified detection range by sensing the interaction between the moving objects and an electromagnetic field generated by the sensor.... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4025848 | Waveform comparing phasemeter An electrical circuit for measuring the phase difference between a pair of nput signals by uniformly limiting selected properties of the waveforms describing the input signals and modulating an output signal in dependence upon the duration of contrariety b... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4023118 | Superheterojunction laser A superheterojunction (SHJ) laser constructed from periodic structural semiconductor materials. The SHJ laser has approximately a thousand junctions which are planar and layered to provide gain in the plane of the layers. In addition, the device allows be... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4021813 | Geometrically derived beam circular antenna array An isotropic antenna array formed by a plurality of adjoining stripline eents each having a two bit diode switched parallel feed path. Phase matching wavefronts emitted by groups of successively switched, adjacent antenna elements causes the antenna arra... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4009960 | Passive optical rangefinder The present invention provides within a ship, a passive electro-optic dev for providing a measurement of the range, together with a positively identifiable image of an approaching ship or object day or night on a CRT, with the range displayed digitally o... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3985446 | Remote controlled, CRT digital display, LLLTV camera-sextant A device to provide a ship's navigator with information day and night, as to the altitude of celestial bodies on a CRT display with digital display of the altitude and time on the CRT and/or LED read-out.... | 10/12/1976 |
