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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5182791 | Probe for transmitting light through a fluid The present device is a light transmission probe which is designed to transmit light through a fluid, which is held by a tank or in a pipe or the like. By analyzing the change in amplitude and/or frequency of the light transmitted, certain parameters of t... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5121903 | Quenching arrangement for a furnace The present arrangement provides for having the plenum divided into at least two sections. One section dumps quench gas from a first direction into the hot zone chamber during a first period and the other section dumps quench gas into the hot zone from an... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5007189 | Seal for art display frames of wood The present device, in a preferred embodiment, is a flexible plastic strip which is formed to be substantially in the shape of the letter L. The flexible plastic strip is shaped so that it can sit on the rabbet of a frame which displays art, such as a pic... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4982055 | Sealed electrical feedthrough device The feedthrough device includes first and second half housing members, each of which has an internal chamber. The feedthrough device further includes a removable header member that fits within the chambers of the first and second half housing members when... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4968314 | Surgical apparatus Surgical apparatus which includes a waveguide, for example an optical fibre, through which laser energy is applied to tissues for such purposes as ablation of atheroma, destruction of calculi and lithotripsy. The optical fiber is provided with an end-piec... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4950872 | Control circuit for a source of heat The present system includes a bridge circuit (with four legs) with one leg including a heating element. The mid-points of the bridge circuit are connected to a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) which is further connected to the control element of a monos... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4859981 | Electrical resistor device The present device is an electrical resistor component which includes a cylindrical substrate of non-electrical conducting material. A meandering path (strongly resembling a plurality of hairpins laid end to end) of electrical conducting (but at the same ... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4860306 | Hot zone employing graphite heating elements The present arrangement includes a plurality of graphite support assemblies which serve to hold graphite heating elements of a graphite hot zone to be used with a vacuum furnace. Each of the support assemblies is designed to employ graphite bolts. Laminat... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4856022 | Graphite hot zone assembly The present arrangement includes a plurality of graphite support assemblies which serve to hold graphite heating elements of a graphite hot zone to be used with a vacuum furnace. The support assembly used with the power terminal end of the heating element... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4850863 | Sealed insulating wall for a furnace The present device comprises an enclosing structure for a vacuum furnace hot zone. The enclosing structure, in a preferred embodiment, includes an outside wall (usually fabricated from stainless steel), and inside wall (usually fabricated from laminated g... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4845342 | Circuit for providing electrical energy to a heatable means The present device includes a bridge circuit with a first intermediate terminal and a second intermediate terminal and with one leg of the bridge circuit being a heating element. Connected across the power lines of the bridge circuit is a main bidirection... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4834330 | Anti-reflection overlay member arrangement The present arrangement includes a plurality of support members each having a slot therein and wherein each slot is substantially equal to the thickness of a viewing member (an overlay piece). The viewing member is formed to not reflect light, that is to ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4813554 | Reversible, adjustable, stackable loading grid assembly The present loading grid assembly includes a plurality of support bars which are held together by assembly support rods which lie orthogonal thereto. The assembly support rods are terminated in end blocks which have grooves formed therein and which are fo... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4808291 | Apparatus for coating compact disks The present apparatus includes a rotating table which is loaded with removable carriers, each of which holds a substrate to be coated. The carriers are advanced to a loading position and are pushed from the table thereat into a hollow cylinder. Each carri... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4802737 | Anti-relfection overlay device The present device is an overlay member, such as a glass piece, which permits a viewer to see, for instance a work of art, without being distracted by reflected images emanating from the overlay or glass surface. The present overlay has a base member havi... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4802865 | Cable connector arrangement to accommodate an angular cable layout The present arrangement includes a central housing member which has a hollow chamber therein and which has at least two apertures passing from the outside wall into the internal hollow chamber. The apertures are disposed, or positioned, so that their axes... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4781617 | Cable connector arrangement to accommodate multiple cable sizes The present arrangement includes a support member which is formed to: (1) have tines extending from one end; and (2) have a threaded section lying adjacent to the beginning of the tines. In addition the present arrangement in the preferred embodiment incl... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4765068 | Hot zone arrangement for a vacuum furnace The present arrangement is a hot zone structure for a vacuum furnace which includes an endlessly shaped outside wall (e.g. shaped substantially into a circle) preferably made of stainless steel. Disposed next to the inside surface of the outside wall is a... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4760584 | Hearth support arrangement The present arrangement includes a plurality of hearth support members. In the preferred embodiment each hearth support member is located to pass through the wall of a vacuum furnace housing and on into the hot zone thereof. Each hearth support member inc... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4735675 | Heating device for sealing material to effect different bond strengths The present invention is used to heat seal seams, and the like, of item holding means such as plastic bags holding loose fill product like beans, hard candy, pretzels, potato chips, etc. The heating station of the present invention has at least two indepe... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4733631 | Apparatus for coating substrate devices The present apparatus has a movable table with apertures therein. In each aperture there is loaded a carrier device and each carrier holds a substrate to be coated. The carriers are advanced in a step-like fashion to a loading position under a vertical ho... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4720913 | Mechanism for joining tape leaders The present system for joining tape leaders is comprised of an elongated member which has a finger like protrusion and a cam protrusion both of which are disposed close to one end thereof. The elongated member has an elongated slot at one end which fits o... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4716340 | Pre-ionization aided sputter gun In the present device the lower section is an external plasma gun which acts as a source of ionized gas. The upper section of the device is a magnetron which has a plasma chamber and which includes both a source of magnetic flux as well as the apparatus n... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4710283 | Cold cathode ion beam source The present device comprises, in a preferred embodiment, a permanent magnet assembly which is formed to closely resemble a doughnut with the inside surface defining an aperture having first and second ends. Said inside surface is formed concave to substan... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4695351 | Method for producing magnetic heads The present technique involves the procedure of depositing magnetic material onto a substrate while subjecting the magnetic material, as it is deposited onto the substrate, to a magnetic bias field whose Oersted value is sufficient to substantially satura... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4691199 | Cursor position controller The present system includes an optical reflective sensor, which is hand held and moved over a color density scaled grid, such as a gray scale grid, to produce analog signals which, when processed, become the basis for the direction of movement of a screen... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4689765 | Groups of tag signals for data store in multi-plane set of buffers Address circuitry generates groups of tag signals, and each group is associated with a data word in a data processing device. A portion of the tag signals defines an addressable location in a storage device and another portion of the tag signals defines a... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4688482 | Ink transfer arrangement The present device comprises a plurality of doctor blades, each of which, in a preferred embodiment, has a width of a key zone. Each of the blades is disposed to be moved between the fountain roller of a printing press and the receiver roller of a roller ... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4670855 | Interchangeable interface circuit structure The present structure is an interchangeable interface circuit card which per se includes: circuitry which is responsive to being addressed in accordance with its physical location; circuitry to generate signals which identify the circuit being addressed a... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4669025 | Semiconductor junction temperature emulator The present device includes a resistor network wherein the values of the resistors are chosen such that the heat generated by current passing through the resistors will be substantially equal to heat generated at a semiconductor junction which is to be co... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4667307 | Circuit for selecting and locking in operation function circuitry The present invention is circuitry which is employed with a data terminal which data terminal in turn is part of a system including a main data processor. The present circuitry includes a microprocessor which is connected to the main data processor and to... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4662049 | Mechanism for joining tape leaders The present system is comprised of an elongated member which has a finger like protrusion and a cam protrusion both of which are disposed close to one end thereof. The elongated member has an elongated slot at one end which fits over a stud and is further... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4656546 | Vertical magnetic recording arrangement The present device provides a downstream magnetic shield which is integrally formed with a write pole section having a tip to make up a magnetic recording head. The shield and the write pole tip are located with small gap therebetween, so that magnetic fl... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4652795 | External plasma gun The present device comprises, in a preferred embodiment, a permanent magnet assembly which is formed to closely resemble a doughnut with the inside surface defining an aperture having first and second ends. Said inside surface is formed concave to substan... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4641482 | Heat station for a heat sealing system The present invention includes at least one low mass flexible heat transfer member to which there is secured a plurality of electrical resistance paths, for each area of the material to be sealed during an excursion through the heat station. The electrica... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4639891 | Signals path control circuitry for a data terminal The present invention is related to clearing a communication path and in the alternative blocking said communication path between a data terminal and a main data processor, when it appears, from said terminal end, that the data path into the main computer... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4631611 | Read/write head positioner arrangement The present invention employs, in a preferred embodiment, a pair of pulleys, one of which is fixed and the other of which is movable and each of which has substantially the same diameter. The pulleys each have an axial aperture which holds a bearing arran... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4625203 | Arrangement for providing data signals for a data display system The present invention includes a microprocessor which acts to generate groups of its signals from its read only memory (ROM) thereby forming character representations of groups of coded signals, such as ASCII coded signals, coming from a main data process... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4621877 | Securing cabinet walls The present arrangement enables first and second section, or first second and third sections, of a housing device to be secured together without the necessity of a plurality of screws, or winged nuts, or clamps, or the like. In a preferred embodiment two ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4621323 | Message transmission circuitry The present invention provides parity error detection circuitry to effect an automatic second transmission of the data information signals in the event that a first transmission of said data information signals is determined to have a parity error. The in... | 11/04/1986 |
