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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7255483 | Thrust rollers A thrust roller bearing system comprising an inner rotating member, an outer rotating member and multiple rollers coupling the inner rotating member with outer rotating member. The inner and outer rotating members include thrust lips to enable the rollers to act as ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248342 | Three-dimension imaging lidar This invention is directed to a 3-dimensional imaging lidar, which utilizes modest power kHz rate lasers, array detectors, photon-counting multi-channel timing receivers, and dual wedge optical scanners with transmitter point-ahead correction to provide contiguous h... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7008605 | Method for manufacturing high quality carbon nanotubes A non-catalytic process for the production of carbon nanotubes includes supplying an electric current to a carbon anode and a carbon cathode which have been securely positioned in the open atmosphere with a gap between them. The electric current creates an electric ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6990436 | Computing frequency by using generalized zero-crossing applied to intrinsic mode functions This invention presents a method for computing Instantaneous Frequency by applying Empirical Mode Decomposition to a signal and using Generalized Zero-Crossing (GZC) and Extrema Sifting. The GZC approach is the most direct, local, and also the most accurate in the m... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6901353 | Computing Instantaneous Frequency by normalizing Hilbert Transform This invention presents Normalized Amplitude Hilbert Transform (NAHT) and Normalized Hilbert Transform(NHT), both of which are new methods for computing Instantaneous Frequency. This method is designed specifically to circumvent the limitation set by the Bedorsian a... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6895115 | Method for implementation of recursive hierarchical segmentation on parallel computers A method, computer readable storage, and apparatus for implementing a recursive hierarchical segmentation algorithm on a parallel computing platform. The method includes setting a bottom level of recursion that defines where a recursive division of an image into sec... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6862558 | Empirical mode decomposition for analyzing acoustical signals The present invention discloses a computer implemented signal analysis method through the Hilbert-Huang Transformation (HHT) for analyzing acoustical signals, which are assumed to be nonlinear and nonstationary. The Empirical Decomposition Method (EMD) and the Hilbe... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6847354 | Three dimensional interactive display A three-dimensional (3-D) interactive display and method of forming the same, includes a transparent capaciflector (TC) camera formed on a transparent shield layer on the screen surface. A first dielectric layer is formed on the shield layer. A first wire layer is f... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6782124 | Three dimensional empirical mode decomposition analysis apparatus, method and article manufacture An apparatus and method of analysis for three-dimensional (3D) physical phenomena. The physical phenomena may include any varying 3D phenomena such as time varying polar ice flows. A repesentation of the 3D phenomena is passed through a Hilbert transform to convert ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6740224 | Method of manufacturing carbon nanotubes A process for manufacturing carbon nanotubes, including a step of inducing electrical current through a carbon anode and a carbon cathode under conditions effective to produce the carbon nanotubes, wherein the carbon cathode is larger than the carbon anode. Preferab... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6648522 | Fiber optic connector polishing fixture assembly A fiber optic connector polishing fixture assembly for supporting a terminus of a fiber optic cable before a polishing surface. The assembly comprises: a fiber optic polishing fixture adapted to support the terminus before the polishing surface; a fixture... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6640949 | 1-way bearing A one-way bearing is provided having sprags and rolling bearings both disposed between an inner and an outer race. The sprags may comprise three-dimensional sprags for preventing rotation in a non-preferential direction. The rolling bearings may comprise ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6631325 | Computer implemented empirical mode decomposition method apparatus, and article of manufacture utilizing curvature extrema A computer implemented physical signal analysis method is includes two essential steps and the associated presentation techniques of the results. All the steps exist only in a computer: there are no analytic expressions resulting from the method. The firs... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6626792 | Gear bearings A gear bearing having a first gear and a second gear, each having a plurality of teeth. Each gear operates on two non-parallel surfaces of the opposing gear teeth to perform both gear and bearing functions simultaneously. The gears are moving at substanti... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6479808 | Method and systems for collecting data from multiple fields of view Systems and methods for processing light from multiple fields (48, 54, 55) of view without excessive machinery for scanning optical elements. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, multiple holographic optical elements (41, 42, 43, 44, 45), integrat... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6287404 | Adhesive bubble removal method and apparatus for fiber optic applications An assembly for supporting a fiber optic termination or connector in a centrifuge and comprising a cylindrical body member having a top portion adapted to receive the ferrule body portion of a fiber optic termination or connector and a bottom portion for ... | 09/11/2001 |
| 5967267 | Roller unlocking sprags A roller type sprag member consisting of three main elements, an outer roller half section, an inner roller half section, and an assembly-location pin. The sprag locks using roller locking techniques in a manner well known in the case of a three-dimension... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5868226 | Screw-released roller brake A screw-released roller brake including an input drive assembly, an output drive assembly, a plurality of locking sprags, a mechanical tripper nut for unlocking the sprags, and a casing therefor. The sprags consist of three dimensional (3-D) sprag members... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5836701 | Mechanical spin bearings A spin bearing assembly including, a pair of mutually opposing complementary bearing support members having mutually spaced apart bearing support surfaces which may be, for example, bearing races and a set of spin bearings located therebetween. Each spin ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5751109 | Segmented cold cathode display panel The present invention is a video display device that utilizes the novel concept of generating an electronically controlled pattern of electron emission at the output of a segmented photocathode. This pattern of electron emission is amplified via a channel... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5725049 | Capillary pumped loop body heat exchanger A capillary pumped loop for transferring heat from one body part to another body part, the capillary pumped loop comprising a capillary evaporator for vaporizing a liquid refrigerant by absorbing heat from a warm body part, a condenser for turning a vapor... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5723923 | Apparatus for providing torque and for storing momentum energy A torque reaction/momentum wheel device for attitude control of a body, such as a spacecraft, having a motor driven flywheel with the flywheel at one end of a shaft and cantilevered with respect to at least two bearings which support the shaft which is co... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5556502 | Optical fiber cable chemical stripping fixture An elongated fixture handle member is connected to a fixture body member with both members having interconnecting longitudinal central axial bores for the passage of an optical cable therethrough. The axial bore of the fixture body member, however, termin... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5540630 | Twist planet drive A planetary gear system includes a sun gear coupled to an annular ring gear through a plurality of twist-planet gears, a speeder gear, and a ground structure having an internal ring gear. Each planet gear includes a solid gear having a first half portion ... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5521609 | Magnetic antenna using metallic glass A lightweight search-coil antenna or sensor assembly for detecting magnetic fields and including a multi-turn electromagnetic induction coil wound on a spool type coil form through which is inserted an elongated coil loading member comprised of metallic g... | 05/28/1996 |
