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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8134310 | Advanced low voltage lighting system Disclosed is a lighting system supporting multiple independently controlled zones utilizing a plurality of semiconductor switches coupled to a plurality of transformers to produce a non-sinusoidal power output and controlled by a digital controller that receives fee... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8118693 | Practice bat A practice bat including a free sliding region provides a means for training batters to improve swing quality. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8113025 | Technique and process for controlling material properties during impact consolidation of powders Impact consolidated powders form deposits that are densified by substantially simultaneous shot peening of the impact consolidated powder. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8021164 | Method for teaching Aspects of the present invention include one or more of capturing educational presentations by presenters using instructional aids, making productions of these presentations available over an Internet connection to consumers of educational services, aiding selection... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7805476 | Extended Haar transform A shared lossless Haar transform and an appended Haar transform are combined to form a lossless extended Haar transform in a pipeline architecture for providing fast lossless compressed data that is reversible. The extended Haar transform also provide intrinsic deco... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7791797 | Peripheral filtering lens A filter or lens for a star tracking telescope includes a clear center portion and an attenuating peripheral portion where the peripheral portion attenuation of off-axis images is nonidentical through any radial line extending from a center of the filter or lens to ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7786716 | Nanosatellite solar cell regulator A solar cell regulator in a nanosatellite includes a pulse width modulated DC-DC boost converter and a peak power tracking controller for converting solar cell power to bus power for charging of system batteries and powering loads while the controller controls the p... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7775062 | Modular cooling system A modular cooling system includes a positive displacement compressor and a microchannel heat exchanger for cooling a heat generating device such as a semiconductor. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7770810 | Track device The track system of the present invention provides dolly track whose joints are substantially seamless, providing a substantially smooth riding surface over the entire length of joined sections of track. The ferrule design of the invention provides ridged piece to p... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7741795 | Synchronous reluctance machine controller The present invention provides an electro-mechanical energy exchange system with a variable speed synchronous reluctance motor-generator having an all-metal rotor. A bi-directional AC-to-DC electric power converter interconnects the motor-generator with a DC bus. Fi... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7720299 | Compressed data multiple description transmission and resolution conversion system A system provides lossless split and merge processes of integer discrete cosine transform (DCT) transformed data such that the discrete cosine transform of one data block may be split into two half length DCT odd and even blocks for merging, with split and merge pro... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7719761 | Peripheral filtering star tracker telescope A filter or lens for a star-tracking telescope includes a clear center portion and an attenuating peripheral portion. The peripheral portion attenuates off-axis images through any radial line extending from a center of the filter or lens to a circumference edge of t... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7710346 | Heptagonal antenna array system An antenna system includes a heptagonal antenna array having one center antenna element and seven circumferentially surrounding antenna elements offering improved near and far sidelobe rejection, which is well suited for mechanically-gimbaled and time delayed electr... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7709729 | Thin film solar cell inflatable ultraviolet rigidizable deployment hinge A flexible inflatable hinge includes curable resin for rigidly positioning panels of solar cells about the hinge in which wrap around contacts and flex circuits are disposed for routing power from the solar cells to the power bus further used for grounding the hinge... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7680221 | Ultratight navigation observation lock detector An observation lock detector receives I and Q correlations and measurement residuals and transforms the I and Q quadrature correlation outputs based upon computed code phase and carrier phase into transformed I and Q quadrature signals communicated to conventional o... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7640283 | Shared Haar wavelet transform A front-end shared Haar transform is particularly adapted for cascade connection to an appended transform for providing lossless transform of an input data set, the appended transforms selected from the group consisting of an appended discrete cosine type-II (DCT-II... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7633172 | Three plus three phase flywheel power supply A flywheel power supply includes a motor-generator having a polyphase stator. ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7583759 | Baseband time-domain communications method A communications system reduces downconverter inaccuracies in time-domain measurements or samples of received microwave communications I and Q complex signals by converting received signal to baseband taking measurements or samples of the I and Q waveforms at differ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7566831 | Coaxial cable connector with internal pressure seal A coaxial cable connection includes male and female parts and utilizes one or more of a pressure seal and a spring lock. In some embodiments a non-metallic gasket suitable for forming a pressure seal is included and in some embodiments a spring having a suitable mod... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7489100 | Feedforward controller for synchronous reluctance machines The present invention provides an electro-mechanical energy exchange system with a variable speed synchronous reluctance motor-generator having an all-metal rotor. A bi-directional AC-to-DC electric power converter interconnects the motor-generator with a DC bus. Fi... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7465257 | Cyber sports exercise system The present invention provides an exercise system including an exercise device and an interactive game environment. An enclosure receives an exercise device and the exercise device receives a theme element. Sensors, transducers, and a man-machine interface are inter... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7297078 | Ball sports training aid A ball sports training aid includes a shaft and a slidably engaged replica sports ball assembly with an integral damper that is actuated when a player swings the shaft. Integral swing diagnostics means indicate correct batting, pitching and throwing techniques. ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7187087 | Flywheel system with synchronous reluctance and permanent magnet generators A flywheel system incorporates a variable speed synchronous reluctance motor-generator and a variable speed permanent magnet generator for providing backup power. Rotating elements are supported by electromagnetic bearings and electric power provided by the backup g... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7172746 | Temperature moderated claus process Disclosed is a method for treating a feed gas stream rich in hydrogen sulfide by partially combusting the feed gas stream rich in hydrogen sulfide with an oxygen-enriched gas in a Claus reaction furnace to produce to a combustion reaction product stream containing s... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170255 | Feedforward controller for synchronous reluctance machines The present invention provides an electro-mechanical energy exchange system with a variable speed synchronous reluctance motor-generator having an all-metal rotor. A bi-directional AC-to-DC electric power converter interconnects the motor-generator with a DC bus. Fi... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7109622 | Flywheel system with synchronous reluctance and permanent magnet generators The present invention provides a flywheel system with a variable speed synchronous reluctance motor-generator and a variable speed permanent magnet generator for providing backup power. The flywheel system incorporates rotating elements supported by electromagnetic ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7078876 | Feedforward controller for synchronous reluctance machines The present invention provides an electromechanical energy exchange system with a variable speed synchronous reluctance motor-generator having an all-metal rotor. A bi-directional AC-to-DC electric power converter interconnects the motor-generator with a DC bus. Fir... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7074759 | Treatment of case-ready food products with immobilized lactoferrin (Im-LF) and the products so produced Disclosed is a method for reducing the microbial contamination in products, such as case-ready meat products, including ready-to-eat meat products, subject to microbial contamination, including contamination by E. coli and Listeria monocytogenes. The f... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6979362 | Apparatus and process for the treatment, delivery and recycle of process fluids used in dense phase carbon dioxide applications The present invention relates generally to providing an apparatus for on-site CO2 process fluids management. A standardized and universal platform is described which provides CO2 process fluids at various capacities, purity levels, pressures, t... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978734 | Electric fish barrier for water intakes at varying depths An electric fish barrier for deterring fish from entering a water intake in a reservoir or along a waterway has a set of conductive members at a first voltage potential and a second set of conductive members at a second voltage potential. The conductive members are ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6936663 | Powder coating compositions containing POSS compounds Disclosed is a powder coating composition containing a powder coating resin and a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (“POSS”) compound. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6907946 | Brake system for a tracked vehicle A direct braking of a drive shaft for a tracked vehicle that moves on rotating track(s). A disc brake is connected to the same drive shaft that has sprocket(s) for engaging the track(s). Upon activation by a vehicle driver, opposing pistons engage the disc to retard... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6552440 | Automatic turbogenerator restarting method and system A method and system to automatically restart a permanent magnet turbogenerator/motor when a fatal fault is detected. The automatic restart logic includes time constraints and limitations on the number of iterations, and is useful regardless of whether the... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6522030 | Multiple power generator connection method and system A method and system for connecting a plurality of power generators, each having an electrical power converter output and adjustable output voltage magnitude and frequency, with at least one digital communications bus to provide synchronization and load sh... | 02/18/2003 |
