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Ballistic resistant body covering

A ballistic resistant body covering for protecting the torso, groin and neck area from ballistic missiles.

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Attorney: Fernandez; Antonio M.


Number of patents: 29
Last date: February 23, 1999

NumberTitleIssue Date
5873517Step-shaped tab for locking together overlapping panels of cardboard devices
Devices cut from cardboard, and preferably corrugated cardboard, are provided with a step-shaped tab at the end of one panel, preferably with only two steps, and a cutout in the end of another overlapped panel with a cutout corresponding to the shape and ...
02/23/1999
5474300Training golf club for putting
A putter is disclosed for use in training a golfer in a style of putting in which a crossrod at the upper end of the club shaft is provided with a sleeve supported at each end by ball bearings on a reduced diameter portion thereof extending from the shaft...
12/12/1995
5442534Isolated multiple output Cuk converter with primary input voltage regulation feedback loop decoupled from secondary load regulation loops
A novel isolated, capacitive idling, Cuk switching-mode converter features two separate nonisolated feedback loops, one on the primary side to regulate against input voltage changes and the other on the secondary side to regulate against load current chan...
08/15/1995
5416387Single stage, high power factor, gas discharge lamp ballast
A gas discharge lamp ballast provides near unity power factor simultaneously with high-frequency lamp ballasting in a single switching power conversion stage resulting in efficiency improvements, reduction in size and weight and reduced component count an...
05/16/1995
5398694Animal biocalorimeter and waste management system
A biocalorimeter and waste management system is provided for making metabolic heat release measurements of animals or humans in a calorimeter (enclosure) using ambient air as a low velocity source of ventilating air through the enclosure. A shroud forces ...
03/21/1995
5372346Cushioned swivel hook for stringed instruments
A wall-mounted hook for hanging a string instrument from a neck proximate a head having pegs for tuning strings comprising a wall-mounting plate having a protruding base, a yoke having a shaft and two prongs extending from said shaft, said prongs being sp...
12/13/1994
5329480Nonvolatile random access memory
A nonvolatile magnetic random access memory can be achieved by an array of magnet-Hall effect (M-H) elements. The storage function is realized with a rectangular thin-film ferromagnetic material having an in-plane, uniaxial anisotropy and inplane bipolar ...
07/12/1994
5322043Spiral spin charge or sheathing system
Apparatus for imparting a spiral spin on a fluid in zone 2 surrounding a columnar substance in zone 1 which may be a metal electrode or a fluid, such as gas for welding. The spirally spinning fluid may be an inert gas for sheathing zone 1 down to the weld...
06/21/1994
5260800Apparatus and method for high-speed video tape duplication from master disk
A laser video disk master is operated at 2× speed for duplicating video information to be recorded in VHS format. Two last disk video players are modified to operate in synchronism in order to multiplex from one to the other in duplicating video programs...
11/09/1993
5257389Imer-product array processor for retrieval of stored images represented by bipolar binary (+1,-1) pixels using partial input trinary pixels represented by (+1,-1)
An inner-product array processor is provided with thresholding of the inner product during each iteration to make more significant the inner product employed in estimating a vector to be used as the input vector for the next iteration. While stored vector...
10/26/1993
5196852Analog-to-digital converter using parallel ƊΣ modulators
An approach is presented for relaxing the oversampling requirements in a ƊΣ modulator based analog-to-digital converter through parallel ƊΣ modulation channels with decimation filtering and modulation by sequences ur (n) and vr (...
03/23/1993
5185122Gamma ray flux measurement system
Gamma radiation leaving the surface of a radioactive materials storage vessel is measured and monitored using a plurality of gamma ray absorbing calorimeters. The gamma ray energy absorbed is converted into heat and such heat is measured or indicated for ...
02/09/1993
5162029Apparatus for teaching downhill skiing on a simulated ski slope
A ski-deck adapted to be easily knocked down for storage or transport is provided by having telescoping side frames that secure rollers on bearings for a looped carpet over a ski deck and adjustable fitting on vertical support rails secured to horizontal ...
11/10/1992
5145311Cylindrical tank lift with four wheels for mobility and stability
A lift for raising and lowering large cylindrical tanks, which when filled with a fluid such as liquid nitrogen are very heavy, is provided with a base consisting of two parallel beams, each with a wheel at each end and a cross beam closer to one pair of ...
09/08/1992
5143161Right angle positive feed tapper
A positive feed spindle with automatic retraction for driving a thread cutting tool is provided by using a fixed feed nut threaded on the spindle. A motor drives the spindle through a gear train that includes a first coupling gear with upper side teeth fo...
09/01/1992
5140278Phase-locked loop FM demodulator
A conventional phase-locked loop is improved by replacing its phase detector with one comprising a linear ramp generator and a sample-and-hold circuit, thus eliminating the need for a lowpass loop filter, although the output of the sample-and-hold circuit...
08/18/1992
5041780Integrable current sensors
A current conductor is provided with opposing notches to produce a restricted section and with magnetic flux sensors on opposite sides of the restricted current section. The flux sensors are connected to differential amplification circuitry. The restricte...
08/20/1991
5032044Light weight stowable front wheel seats for hauling large semistacked highway trucks in railroad cars of extraordinary height
A railroad car having a flat bed at the lowest possible level and a roof and side panels supported by stanchions at an extraordinary height is provided with cantilevered wheel seats for support of the front wheels of semistacked trucks with each truck bac...
07/16/1991
5023833Feed forward neural network for unary associative memory
Feed forward neural network models for associative content addressable memory utilize a first level matrix of resistor connections to store words and compare addressing cues with the stored words represented by connections of unit resistive value, and a w...
06/11/1991
5022800Rapid advance feed drill with idle mode
A positive feed drill having a spindle drive gear train and a spindle feed gear train coupled to the drive gear train is provided with means for uncoupling the feed coupling gear from the drive coupling gear, and locking the feed coupling gear when the sp...
06/11/1991
5008833Parallel optoelectronic neural network processors
Several embodiments of neural processors implemented on a VLSI circuit chip are disclosed, all of which are capable of entering a matrix T into an array of photosensitive devices which may be charge coupled or charge injection devices (CCD or CID). Using ...
04/16/1991
5005063CCD imaging sensor with flashed backside metal film
A backside illuminated CCD imaging sensor for reading out image charges from wells of the array of pixels is significantly improved for blue, UV, far UV and low energy x-ray wavelengths (1-5000Å) by so overthinning the backside as to place the depletion ...
04/02/1991
5004531Treatment of concentrated industrial wastewaters originating from oil shale and the like by electrolysis polyurethane foam interaction
Highly concentrated and toxic petroleum-based and synthetic fuels wastewaters such as oil shale retort water are treated in a unit treatment process by electrolysis in a reactor containing oleophilic, ionized, open-celled polyurethane foams and subjected ...
04/02/1991
4994107Aerosol reactor production of uniform submicron powders
A method of producing submicron nonagglomerated particles in a single stage reactor includes introducing a reactant or mixture of reactants at one end while varying the temperature along the reactor to initiate reactions at a low rate. As homogeneously sm...
02/19/1991
4969192Vector adaptive predictive coder for speech and audio
A real-time vector adaptive predictive coder which approximates each vector of K speech samples by using each of M fixed vectors in a first codebook to excite a time-varying synthesis filter and picking the vector that minimizes distortion. Predictive ana...
11/06/1990
4969021Porous floating gate vertical mosfet device with programmable analog memory
An electrically programmable, erasable, read-only memory is comprised of an array of vertical porous floating gate MOSFET structures in a layer of a-Si with parallel X and parallel Y conductors on opposite sides of the a-Si layer functioning as source and...
11/06/1990
4963952Multipinned phase charge-coupled device
A back illuminated, buried channel, multiphase charge-coupled device for imaging has a photosensitive volume bounded by silicon dioxide layers on both the front and back. The dark noise generated by these interfaces with the photosensitive volume is reduc...
10/16/1990
4963030Distributed-block vector quantization coder
Blocks of an image or voice input signal are decimated by a selected factor d, (e.g., d=2) and distributed through a plurality (d2) of ordered channels for vector quantization coding using a codebook in which vectors are ordered, such as by the...
10/16/1990
4934777Cascaded recirculating transmission line without bending loss limitations
A single-mode optical fiber delay line for filtering at high frequencies utilizes an nth order cascaded recirculating configuration comprised of n+1 couplers. Each coupler has two input fibers and two output fibers. One of the output fibers of each couple...
06/19/1990
 
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