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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174756 | Rhomb beam splitter in optical communication Rhomb beam splitters are used to implement various optical demodulators, in particular PSK and DPSK demodulators. The parallel beam-splitting and reflective surfaces of the rhomb structure produce reflection and transmission beams that exit the beam splitter paralle... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8151546 | Horse boot connected to glued-on liner A horse boot includes the combination of an inner liner (10 and 10′) and an outer shell (12). The liner is adapted to wrap around the front and lateral surfaces of the hoof of the horse, while the shell includes an upper (16) designed t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151545 | Horse boot with cupped sole A horse boot has a sole that includes a dome portion designed to conform to the frog and sole of a horse's hoof when no pressure is exerted on it. The dome provides a support surface for the frog and hoof sole when the boot is off the ground and it resiliently defor... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8111450 | Rhomb beam splitter in optical communication Rhomb beam splitters are used to implement various optical demodulators, in particular PSK and DPSK demodulators. The parallel beam-splitting and reflective surfaces of the rhomb structure produce reflection and transmission beams that exit the beam splitter paralle... | 02/07/2012 |
| D652178 | Horse-boot upper | 01/10/2012 |
| 8072610 | Polarization mirau interference microscope The conventional two plates with beamsplitter of the Mirau interferometer are replaced with two achromatic λ/4 retarders. The upper surface of the second retarder is coated with a 50 percent reflecting film, so that it also functions as a beamsplitter. The objectiv... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070455 | Scotch-yoke mechanism for redundant actuation applications A primary scotch yoke and a secondary scotch yoke are coupled in opposing arrangement and rigidly attached to a linearly reciprocating element. Each scotch yoke includes a rotary actuator with a cam follower and a yoke attached to the reciprocating element. Each yok... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8021422 | Actuating mechanism for pneumatically-driven artificial heart A pneumatic pump comprises two coaxial cylindrical pumping chambers, each enclosing a piston connected to the other through a partition by a tube, thereby forming a monolithic piston assembly that is driven axially by a common electrical actuator providing reciproca... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8004750 | Multiple-FSR DPSK demodulator A switchable free-spectral-range mode selector is used to change the free spectral range of a free-space delay-line interferometer. The mode selector consists of a rotatable device with at least one transparent plate selected to produce the desired change in the fre... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004749 | Pseudo common-path DPSK demodulator A rhomb beam splitter, rather than a conventional cube, is used in combination with a mirror reflecting both the reflected and transmitted beams to obtain a delay-line interferometer demodulator with a substantially common path. This significantly reduces the sensit... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7961316 | Optical spectrum analyzer with continuously rotating tunable filter An optical spectrum analyzer is implemented with a detector combined with a tunable filter mounted on a stage capable of 360-degree rotation at a constant velocity. Because of the constant rate of angular change, different portions of the input spectrum are detected... | 06/14/2011 |
| D639657 | Bottle stopper | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956630 | Real-time effective-wavelength error correction for HDVSI An error correction for effective-wavelength variations is implemented by adjusting the filter parameters of the quadrature demodulation algorithm of a high definition vertical scanning process using a phase step that accounts for phase-step changes associated with ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7924505 | Free-space hitlessly switchable optical interleaver A reflective surface and a beamsplitting surface are optically coupled to a mirror and to phase optics arranged in interleaver configuration so as to either reflect all light to a single output in an all-pass mode of operation, or to split the incoming beam and prod... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7898672 | Real-time scanner-nonlinearity error correction for HDVSI An error correction for scanner position is implemented by adjusting the filter parameters of the quadrature demodulation module of an HDVSI algorithm using a reference signal from an independent position measurement device (PMD). The step size generated by the PMD ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885448 | Diagnostic scanning microscope for information-enriched qualitative histopathology A microscope array with staggered rows of magnifying imaging systems is used to scan a biological tissue sample in a single linear pass to produce an image and corresponding optical-density data. A conventional computerized algorithm is used to identify, isolate and... | 02/08/2011 |
| D630841 | Sport belt | 01/18/2011 |
| 7864433 | Free-space optical hybrid An exemplary optical hybrid includes a 50/50 un-polarized beam splitter, a folding prism, a beam shifter, a spacer and a phase shifter such that from an input S-beam (signal) and an L-beam (reference), four outputs, S+L, S−L, S+jL and S−jL, are produced. The pha... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864430 | Modified Michelson delay line interferometer In an optical etalon with a fixed FSR determined by the cavity length, the time delay is adjusted by an etalon surface coating. The proper cavity length is chosen to achieve a desired FSR, and the coating is independently selected to obtain a desired time delay.... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864380 | Slide-borne imaging instructions In a scanning microscope, slides are fed automatically from a magazine to the imaging system. Each slide is labeled in some fashion with information for selecting the appropriate modality of operation of the scanner for that slide and the modality is implemented aut... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864379 | Multi-spectral whole-slide scanner An array microscope scans a slide in rapid sequence at different wavelengths to record multiple spectral images of the sample. Full spatial resolution of the image sensor is realized at each color because pixels are not shared between spectral bands. The object and ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864369 | Large-area imaging by concatenation with array microscope An imaging apparatus consists of multiple miniaturized microscopes arranged into an array capable of simultaneously imaging respective portions of an object. A continuous linear translation approach is followed to scan the object and generate multiple image swaths o... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864327 | In-phase/in-quadrature demodulator for spectral information of interference signal Sinusoidal in-phase and in-quadrature signals at a given spatial frequency are combined with the irradiance signals generating a correlogram of interest and integrated over the length of the correlogram data-acquisition scan. The integration outputs are then used to... | 01/04/2011 |
| D630012 | Sport belt | 01/04/2011 |
| D629977 | Horse-boot upper | 12/28/2010 |
| 7808715 | Michelson-interferometer-based delay-line interferometers An interferometer includes a means for splitting, at a splitting location, an input light beam into a first beam and a second beam; and means for recombining, at a recombination location, the first beam and the second beam. The interferometer is designed such that t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808652 | Interferometric measurement of DLC layer on magnetic head An explicit relationship is developed between the ratio of average interferometric modulation produced by diamond-like carbon (DLC)-coated magnetic-head surfaces and the thickness of the DLC layer. Accordingly, the thickness of the DLC layer is calculated in various... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7807232 | Inline passivation of vacuum-deposited aluminum on web substrate In a continuous in-vacuum process for the manufacture of a film metallized with aluminum, the aluminum layer is exposed to a passivating agent, inline, immediately after deposition and prior to rewinding of the film onto a take-up roller. Passivation is carried out ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7781034 | Composite modular barrier structures and packages A composite multi-layer barrier is produced by first vapor depositing a barrier under vacuum over a substrate and then depositing an additional barrier at atmospheric pressure in a preferably thermoplastic layer. The resulting multi-layer barrier is used to coat an ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777895 | Linear-carrier phase-mask interferometer A phase-difference sensor measures the spatially resolved difference in phase between orthogonally polarized reference and test wavefronts. The sensor is constructed as a linear-carrier phase-mask aligned to and imaged on a linear-carrier detector array. Each adjace... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7755841 | Liquid-lens variable-control optics in array microscope A liquid lens includes a segmented electrode that allows the simultaneous application of different potentials across the lens's meniscus to obtain a predetermined aberration correction condition and to adjust focal length as necessary to conform to the topography of... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7754106 | Conductive flakes manufactured by combined sputtering and vapor deposition A release agent is flash evaporated and deposited onto a support substrate under conventional vapor-deposition conditions and a conductive metal oxide, such as ITO, is subsequently sputtered or deposited by reactive electron beam onto the resulting release layer in ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7675628 | Synchronous frequency-shift mechanism in Fizeau interferometer An optical device for characterizing a test surface combines a Fizeau interferometer with a polarization frequency-shifting element. Two substantially collinear, orthogonally polarized beams having respective frequencies differing by a predetermined frequency shift ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7654685 | Variable-wavelength illumination system for interferometry An illumination system for an interferometer combines a white-light source and a green source with a reflective green dichroic filter. When the green source alone is energized for PSI measurements, the output of the illumination system is green only. When a white-li... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7612891 | Measurement of thin films using fourier amplitude Thin-film thickness and refractive index are measured using the Fourier amplitude of a broadband interferometric spectrum. Due to the smooth nature of the Fourier amplitude as a function of wavelength, as compared to the fast varying Fourier phase conventionally use... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610894 | Self-compensating cylinder system in a process cycle The efficiency of a multi-cylinder engine is optimized by coupling the volume change in each cylinder to a common coordinate under conditions such that, at each point in the engine's cycle, the energy necessary to produce a differential volume change is reduced subs... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7580135 | Chromatic compensation in Fizeau interferometer The focus of the collimating lens in the optical train of a Fizeau interferometer is adjusted to change the power of the test beam illuminating the transmission sphere. As a result, the rays can be made sufficiently perpendicular to the reference surface to eliminat... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7578115 | Slip-on horse boot with replaceable pastern gaiter A horse boot (10) includes a shell (12) for a hoof and a gaiter (22) for the pastern. The shell has a sole (14), an upper (16), a tongue (18), and an elastic strap (60) for tightening the upper and the tongue around t... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7573641 | Free-space optical hybrid An exemplary optical hybrid includes a 50/50 un-polarized beam splitter, a folding prism, a beam shifter, a spacer and a phase shifter such that from an input S-beam (signal) and an L-beam (reference), four outputs, S+L, S−L, S+jL, S−jL, are produced. The phase ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7557019 | Electromagnetic treatment in atmospheric-plasma coating process A plasma is produced in a treatment space (58) by diffusing a plasma gas at atmospheric pressure and subjecting it to an electric field created by two metallic electrodes (54,56) separated by a dielectric material (64), and a precursor material ... | 07/07/2009 |
