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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5596405 | Method of and apparatus for the continuous emissions monitoring of toxic airborne metals A portable apparatus for continuous real-time measurement of airborne met, comprising an isokinetic sampler, a sample line, a sampling interface device, a pump, and an inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). A method for measur... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5587488 | Bis-sulfonium salts of amino substituted bis(halomethyl) benzene Novel bis-sulfonium salts of amino substituted bis(halomethyl)benzene are disclosed. The sulfonium salts are prepared by reaction of an amino substituted bis(halo methyl)benzene with an aliphatic sulfide. These sulfonium salts can be made into polymer hav... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5585522 | Amino substituted bishalomethyl benzene compounds Novel amino substituted bishalomethyl benzene compounds, which are precurs to phenylene polymers are disclosed having non-linear optical properties, and which can be converted to electrically conductive polymers. Such polymers are produced by reacting a ... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5516388 | Sol-gel bonding Preexisting elements are bonded by placing a sol-gel solution between juxtapositioned surfaces of the elements and sintering a gel formed from the solution at a temperature, which does not damage the elements, to form a sol-gel derived bonding material. T... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5466537 | Intermetallic thermal sensor An intermetallic thermal sensor comprised of a hermetically sealed housing containing alternating layers of electronegative and active metals or their alloys in intimate contact. The layers may be wafer or washer-shaped. If washer-shaped, the holes in the... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5454048 | Apparatus for multiplexed imaging using optically-generated Kronecker products A new type of fully-multiplexed imaging device is described for use at wavelengths where efficient focal plane array detectors are unavailable. It shares some properties in common with the familiar technique of cycle-redundancy (i.e. Hadamard transform) i... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5419024 | Method of producing a controlled fragmentation warhead case An improved method of producing a controlled fragmentation warhead case by mbedding an expanded metal liner on the interior surface of a casing for a warhead or other ordnance device. The process of embedding an expanded metal liner into the casing during ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5369485 | Fiber optic accelerometer with centrally supported flexural disk An accelerometer or seismometer has an elastic disk bearing a mass distributed peripherally around the disk. The disk is supported for flexure and for isolation from mounting strain by a stob centrally through the disk. The accelerometer or seismometer ha... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5361703 | Inert thermally activated burster A burster for rupturing a casing containing an active explosive or propelt material of an ordnance device to prevent cook-off has an inert and thermally expansible material in an enclosure defined by a wall fixed to the casing so that thermal expansion o... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5350953 | Digitally weighted neuron for artificial neural network A neuron for an artificial neural network provides digital weighting of input signals at a common portion of the neuron rather than at each synapse. The neuron is adapted for use of differential signals, and the weighting may be provided by field effect t... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5317929 | Fiber optic flexural disk accelerometer An accelerometer or seismometer has a pair of flat spirals of optical fiber and has one or more elastic disks bearing a mass and supported for flexure. Each spiral is fixedly attached to a corresponding disk side so that disk flexure lengthens a spiral on... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5270705 | Telemetry data word selector and processor A telemetry word selector and processor device having several digital-to-analog converters (DAC's) receives successive data words each accompanied by a tag word identifying a parameter set in the data word. The device has a tag memory storing, for each po... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5249526 | Safe and arm device A safe and arm device has a cylindrical body from which a plurality of exsive leads diverge from a rotor movable through an arming angle to electrically and mechanically arm a plurality of detonators and has a rotary solenoid with a shaft oscillating a p... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5235339 | Radar target discrimination systems using artificial neural network topology A system for distinguishing between a target and clutter analyzes frequency components of returned wave energy by one or more networks each having inputs receiving successive samples of the returned energy and having outputs individually connected to the ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5233354 | Radar target discrimination by spectrum analysis A method for distinguishing between a target and clutter analyzes frequency components of returned wave energy to detect target energy characterized by being present in a narrow range of frequencies, by increasing in the range over time, or by remaining s... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5212340 | Safe and arm device using liquid explosive A safe and arm device, which has an explosive train interrupted by a void establish a safe condition, has the void filled with a liquid explosive to establish an armed condition. The void may be in a manometer-like device in which the liquid explosive is... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5169676 | Control of crystallite size in diamond film chemical vapor deposition In depositing an adhering, continuous, polycrystalline diamond film of optical or semiconductor quality on a substrate, as by forming on the substrate a layer of a refractory nitride interlayer and depositing diamond on the interlayer without mechanical t... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5153370 | Safe and arm device with variable arming delay by liquid explosive A safe and arm device, which has an explosive train interrupted by a void establish a safe condition, has the void filled with a liquid explosive to establish an armed condition. The void may be in a manometer-like device in which the liquid explosive is... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5153369 | Safe and arm device with expansible element in liquid explosive A safe and arm device, which has an explosive train interrupted by a void establish a safe condition, has the void filled with a liquid explosive to establish an armed condition. The void may be in a device in which the liquid explosive is motivated by f... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5150450 | Method and circuits for neuron perturbation in artificial neural network memory modification An artificial neural network has a plurality of output circuits individually perturbable for memory modification or learning by the network. The network has a plurality of synapses individually connecting each of a plurality of inputs to each output circu... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5103496 | Artificial neural network system for memory modification An artificial neural network, which has a plurality of neurons each receiving a plurality of inputs whose effect is determined by adjust able weights at synapses individually connecting the inputs to the neuron to provide a sum signal to a sigmoidal funct... | 04/07/1992 |
