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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7437843 | Banner mounting system Apparatus for mounting a banner from a support member at a display height above ground level includes upper and lower banner mounting arms that are capable of receiving and mounting a banner with the assistance of an operator located at ground level. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7408886 | Method for providing mobile phone user with accurate capability indicator A software program in a mobile phone periodically checks the current network connection parameters and compares them to the minimum data throughput requirements of all applications loaded on the mobile phone. If the current parameters fall short of the required para... | 08/05/2008 |
| 6952406 | Method and apparatus for reporting total call quality Method and Apparatus for Reporting Total Call Quality. The present invention provides the capability to report the quality of an entire call to an operator. In one embodiment, the invention works by receiving message associated with the call, the messages including ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6757643 | Fabrication and design of structural members A method of designing a building frame by a computer includes the building frame having a number of structural members of which at least some are intersecting structural members. On the computer is stored a predetermined plan of the layout and orientation of the str... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6667814 | Automatic up image printing A method, for use with an advanced function printer, for automatically printing a source document in a print copy format having the largest acceptable print page image size on the fewest number of print copy pages.... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6646566 | Enhanced visual and audible signaling for sensed alarm condition A sensor alarm which provides an alarm notification of a dangerous condition within a monitored space, further provides notice of its current state condition, from among several states, with distinct message comprising a combination of encoded audible and... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6526044 | Real-time analysis through capture buffer with real-time historical data correlation A knowledge based system uses a protocol analyzer which acquires real time statistical data on network signal traffic in a monitoring session and reports a session performance history as a real time composite of measured statistics and analysis-derived st... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6363384 | Expert system process flow An expert network analysis system includes multiple phases which offer a user the ability, at the user's option, to establish pretest conditions through a prompted interview which focuses the performance conditions to be analyzed and which allows the expe... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6240735 | Rotary damper assembly A rotary damper assembly for controlling the flow of a fluid includes inner and outer hollow cylinders, each having one or more side wall apertures, the inner cylinder being nested within the outer cylinder in a manner to permit relative axial rotation of... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6137082 | Multiple piece propeller deicing system brush block housings A brush block assembly, for providing stationary mounting of electrically conductive brushes in contact registration with associated slip rings of a rotating interface, comprises a main housing adapted for mounting in proximity to the rotating interface a... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6069341 | Brush block housing for propeller deicing system The brush block housing for providing stationary mounting of graphite composition brushes in contact registration with the rotating interface slip rings of an aircraft propeller deicing system, is formed from a thermoplastic molding compound comprising an... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6012676 | Integrated fire and flight control system with automatic engine torque limiting An integrated fire and flight control (IFFC) system senses the actual engine torque of a rotary wing aircraft in successive real time intervals and compares the sensed interval values with one or more reference maximum torque limits for each of one or mor... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5629765 | Wavefront measuring system with integral geometric reference (IGR) A geometric sensor includes a Monolithic Lenslet Module (MLM) subaperture array having a plurality of microlenses, each of which have an opaque center formed concentric with the microlens optical axis, at the location of the lens chief ray, to produce an ... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5491642 | CCD based particle image direction and zero velocity resolver A PIV system provides a bias velocity component to each flow field speckle pattern recorded on a video array by rastering each corresponding recorded electrical image pattern by a select number of raster lines in the time interval prior to recording a suc... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5421517 | High pressure waterjet nozzle A rotating and translating waterjet nozzle uniformly strips the surface coatings from objects within the nozzle's swath through an array of orifices, each office having a sized hole diameter and a surface location on the nozzle which, collectively with th... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5104091 | Spring assisted ball valve A center flow ball valve assembly includes a pre-loaded spring positioned in line with the valve fluid inlet port for seating the ball in the valve orifice, the spring configured in stepped diameter coil sctions including a smaller diameter ball mounting ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 4984861 | Low-loss proton exchanged waveguides for active integrated optic devices and method of making same A single polarization active IO device includes a crystalline material substrate having an IO circuit array comprising an optical waveguide array disposed on a major surface of the substrate by a two step proton exchange (TSPE) process, and including an e... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4953935 | Integrated optic star coupler An optical power star coupler includes a LiNbO3 or LiTaO3 substrate having a major surface for receiving a circuit array of one or more surface for splitters disposed thereon by a two step proton exchange (TSPE) process, in a geometr... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4934825 | Propeller phase control apparatus Propeller phase control apparatus for use on multi-engine aircraft having, for each engine, an electronic engine control (EEC) for providing an EEC command speed and phase (S/P) signal to control propeller phase and shaft speed, and a speed and phase cont... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4893242 | Vehicle brake test system A brake test method measures the brake force per axle of a vehicle by having an operator linearly depress the vehicle brake pedal while the axle's left and right wheels positioned on torque motor driven, constant speed rollers. The roller drive torque mag... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4875168 | Engine speed control apparatus Apparatus for synchronizing the spool speed between engines of a multi-engine aircraft having, for each engine, an electronic engine control (EEC) with a speed rating logic portion having an engine speed algorithm for calculating an EEC command speed sign... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4811287 | EEPROM mounting device Apparatus (82) for providing write protection for EEPROMs (10) intended as a replacement for installed ROM devices, includes write protection circuitry (54) mounted on one surface (88) of a circuit board (84), the other surface (86) receiving the EEPROM, ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4770521 | Cooled mirror substrate isolator A cooled laser mirror (10) with mirror surface (12), forced-convective cooling heat exchanger (14), and substrate (18), includes a monolithic substrate isolator (50) of porous isotropic material having transpiration flow paths (74) therethrough for provid... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4758791 | Universal secondary high voltage sensor A universal sensor includes a dielectric substrate, a curved surface capacitive plate mounted to the substrate and responsive to the electromagnetic field (EMF) of an integral coil ignition system, and a rotatable lever arm mounted to the substrate and ha... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4756229 | Digital motor feedback for a position actuator A linear actuator (42) includes a housing (44), and a linearly displaceable piston (46) having a shaft (48) with a gradated position scale (60) and a gradated direction scale (62) disposed by ion implantation on a casing (50) of the shaft, in axial alignm... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4753820 | Variable pitch IC bond pad arrangement The bond pads (22) for a ceramic package (10) are deposited on the pre-fired ceramic with the bond pad widths (47) increasing as a function of the distance (49) of each pad from the center of package mass (40), whereby bond pads at the extremity (36) of t... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4750800 | Low stress mounting of integrated optic chips An integrated optic IO device chip with anisotropic thermal expansion properties is packaged in a material enclosure by first bonding the chip to a substrate having anisotropic thermal expansion properties substantially equivalent to those of the IO devic... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4714815 | Dual laser beam brazing of fine wires The sensor wires (16, 18) of an angular rate sensor (ARS) on sensor plug assembly (12) are mounted to their respective mounting posts (20-23) using dual laser beams (30, 32) spaced on opposite sides of the wire (16) so as to melt the post surface without ... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4711700 | Method for densifying leadframe conductor spacing A leadframe assembly comprises a plurality of bifurcated leads, each characterized by an inner lead end region adapted for connection to the die bond pads and an outer lead end region adapted for connection to external circuitry.... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4707791 | On-board motor vehicle timing measurement system Engine timing measurement apparatus receives the engine gear tooth signal, sensed combustion, and a crankshaft index (CI) of top dead center (TDC). The apparatus includes a whole tooth interval counter for providing a whole number count of each complete t... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4688183 | Fire and security system with multi detector-occupancy-temperature-smoke (MDOTS) sensors A fire and security system includes a hierarchical architecture with a central control processor monitoring each of a plurality of multi detector-occupancy-temperature-smoke (MDOTS) sensors mounted in each of the monitored spaces of the building, the MDOT... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4682292 | Fault tolerant flight data recorder Signal units of information stored in electronic memory are arranged in frames which are separated in memory by configurable end of data pointers, each frame stored with a first configuration pointer indicating a present frame, the storing of each present... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4678991 | Inductive displacement transducer with unipolar output A unipolar signal indication of core position is provided in an inductive displacement transducer, such as an LVDT, as the sum magnitude of the transducer's applied primary winding voltage signal and the transducer's induced secondary winding voltages.... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4676104 | Surface skimming bulk acoustic wave accelerometer An accelerometer includes a cantilevered pieozelectric beam mounted to a surface inside a fluid filled chassis with a proof mass attached to the beam's free end. Surface skimming bulk wave delay lines are mounted on opposing major surfaces of the beam and... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4654640 | Digital PBX integrated workstation security system A theft alarm system for use in combination with a digital signal PBX telephone system, includes a plurality of electronic tethers connected to individual pieces of protected equipment. Removal of the tether is automatically detected by a local security m... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4646241 | Solid-state flight data recording system Flight parameter data is real time sampled in successive sample frames and temporarily stored in memory for one or more sample frame intervals, the stored sample values are examined to detect extremes in parameter values with time, periodic ones of the te... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4641517 | Control system actuator position synthesis for failure detection Redundant sensed position feedback signal samples of an actuator which are provided in each sample period, a synthesized feedback position signal value provided from an actuator algorithm model. The sensed samples are rejected for use in the sample period... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4639885 | EMI suppression for electronic engine control frequency signal inputs Periodic digital signal samples of redundant sensed engine RPM signals are rejected for limit exceedance of known performance values, the nonrejected digital signal samples are each compared with a synthesized RPM equivalent signal to further reject any s... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4638430 | EAROM and EEPROM data storage management Recurring data sample values of a common parameter are stored in nonvolatile memory at different addresses so as to limit the maximum number of entries at any one location to less than that which results in loss of storage ability.... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4633473 | Fault tolerant communications interface A communications interface exchanges serial bit signals between sources differentially, over redundant, two conductor, primary and secondary channels. The primary channel provides the communications link during normal operation, and is monitored to ensure... | 12/30/1986 |
