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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5462260 | Device for inserting a lance into a pressurized container, in particular a blast furnace A device is presented for inserting, from a support structure a lance axially through a side opening in a pressurized container, in particular a blast furnace. This device comprises a support bench on which a support carriage can slide. A front elastic su... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5462433 | Device for blowing preheated air into a shaft furnace The present invention relates to a device for blowing preheated air into a shaft furnace, comprising several separate tubular elements, wherein an outer shielding made of steel and an inner lining made of cast refractory concrete are connected in pairs by... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5461755 | Lightweight handle Disclosed is a light weight handle assembly adapted to transport a heavy duty container which may contain sensitive electronic components. The handle assembly of the present invention generally comprises a stationary bracket which mounts to a container wa... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5461923 | Acoustic transducer, transducerized fastener and method of manufacture An improved acoustic transducer, transducerized fastener and method of manufacture are presented wherein a piezoelectric crystal and a contact/retaining button assembly are permanently attached to a fastener. The contact/retaining button assembly has an i... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5460545 | Patch connector The field terminable patch connector of the present invention comprises three separable upper and lower body or housing portions, two of which have a detent structure which permits the three housing portions to be assembled and locked together into a rigi... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5459643 | Electrically enhanced wiring block with break test capability An electrically enhanced wiring block with break test capability employs a printed circuit board which includes integrally defined transmission lines and capacitive elements designed to improve impedance characteristics and electrical balance between inte... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5459634 | Area array interconnect device and method of manufacture thereof An area array interconnect device (such as of the TAB type) has a plurality of input/output (I/O) leads for connection to an electronic device such as an IC. The interconnect device also has arrays of lead lines in areas remote from the I/O leads, e.g., c... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5458682 | Glass container coating apparatus with staggered rows of coating rollers Apparatus is presented for applying a coating of liquid material to a glass container and curing the coating to enhance the strength of the glass container. The apparatus includes an array of rollers in staggered alignment for coating the bottom of the co... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5458503 | Snap locking mounting scheme for securing wire connectors A snap locking mounting scheme for securing wire connectors is presented. In accordance with the connector mounting scheme, a wire termination assembly is removably secured in a mounting base by a snap locking mechanism. The wire termination assembly incl... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5456106 | Modular measurement while drilling sensor assembly A modular measurement while drilling sensor assembly is presented. A typical cross-over assembly for mating with a measurement while drilling (MWD) tool is connected to a typical positive displacement mud motor (e.g., a Moineau motor). A modular sensor as... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5457606 | Hermetically sealed PC card unit including a header secured to a connector An improved PC Card element, particularly a flash card unit, is presented in which the unit is hermetically sealed. The unit has a metallic frame, a metallic header with glass or ceramic encapsulated through pins, and opposed outer metallic covers, all of... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5457639 | Imaging lidar system for shallow and coastal water An imaging lidar system for underwater applications is presented which is well suited for imaging and detecting underwater targets suspended above and on the bottom in shallow and coastal water. The present invention provides the capability for rapid and ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5457537 | Optical-electrical measuring method for determining cross-sectional dimensions An optical-electrical measuring method for determining cross-sectional dimensions particularly of elongate articles with reference to at least one straight line, which is applied to the periphery of the cross-section and contacts the cross-section at, at ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5455516 | Meter and method for in situ measurement of the electromagnetic properties of various process materials using cutoff frequency characterization and analysis The present invention provides an apparatus and method for the measurement of, for example, the moisture in a material or, more generally, for the measurement of any material parameter which may be inferred by measuring the electromagnetic properties of t... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5455087 | Coating composition for glass containers Coated glass containers having a surface cured composition which is the reaction product of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monoene, a polyene and a curing initiator. The coating is bonded to the exterior or interior surface of a glass container to... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5454430 | Scoophead/diverter assembly for completing lateral wellbores A novel scoophead/diverter assembly is presented which is installed at the juncture between a primary wellbore and a lateral branch and which allows the production tubing of each to be oriented and anchored. This scoophead/diverter assembly further provid... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5450936 | Device for distributing powdery materials A device for distributing powdery materials comprises a suspension sleeve which extends a rotary cage axially upwards through a plate. A running ring is fixed using a first collar to a suspension sleeve and using a second collar to an annular flange suppo... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5451034 | Device for the injection of pulverized coal into a blast furnace crucible A method and device is provided for the combined injection of pulverized coal and a gaseous oxidant into a crucible of a shaft furnace, especially a blast furnace, through a hot-air blast tuyere. In the region of the nozzle end of the tuyere in the crucib... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5448920 | Device for inductively measuring the state of a stream of electrically conductive liquid A device is disclosed for inductively measuring the flow rate and/or the height of a liquid stream in a flow channel having a wall with isolated sections and mutually opposite electrodes for detecting a measurement voltage, as well as a magnetic field gen... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5450125 | Spectrally dispersive imaging lidar system An imaging UV/visible fluorosensing and Raman lidar system comprises an optical sensor for simultaneously measuring temporally, spatially and spectrally resolved laser backscatter from on the land, on or beneath the surface of bodies of water and in the a... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5447006 | Method for patching single ply roof A low cost relatively simple method is presented for patching single ply roof membrane derived from chlorosulfonated polyethylene by using a procedure involving N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone or NMP chemical liquid activator with proper steps therebetween and sub... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5445549 | Water sporting equipment The equipment includes a device for floating on the surface of a body of water and for supporting at least one user, and footwear worn by the user for propelling the device through the water. The device for floating includes at least two spaced, parallel,... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5444598 | Capacitor exploding foil initiator device A capacitor exploding foil initiator device having a capacitor connected in parallel to a bleed resistor. The capacitor and resistor are connected across an exploding foil initiator by an over-voltage gap switch. When a voltage of the capacitor reaches a ... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5442294 | Conductivity method and apparatus for measuring strata resistivity adjacent a borehole The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring current resulting from a magnetic field source (i.e., a transmitter) positioned on a drill collar. A plurality of current detectors are carried on the surface of the drill collar in an ... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5440805 | Method of manufacturing a multilayer circuit In accordance with the present invention, a circuit assembly is manufactured in an additive process using at least one layer of a fluoropolymer composite material and a conductive material. The conductive layers are plated, and the fluoropolymer composite... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5442358 | Imaging lidar transmitter downlink for command guidance of underwater vehicle An underwater maneuverable vehicle is presented which carries an explosive charge and can be used for immediate removal or destruction of various menaces to navigation and other underwater hazards. The battery powered vehicle is air dropped from a platfor... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5439051 | Lateral connector receptacle A novel lateral connector receptacle or LCR is provided which functions to (1) provide means for running a lower completion into a well; (2) provide means for orienting a retrievable whipstock assembly and/or scoophead diverter; and (3) provides means for... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5436554 | Computer controlled cable tester A device for determining interconnections between terminal positions at opposite ends of cable includes a test circuit, connectors for connecting the test circuit to the terminal positions of the cable and a connector for interfacing the test circuit with... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5435752 | Electrically balanced connector assembly An electrically balanced connector assembly is presented. The assembly comprises a printed circuit board including integrally defined capacitive elements defined by plated through slots which are designed to compensate for reactive imbalance of electrical... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5435392 | Liner tie-back sleeve A scoophead/diverter assembly functions to orient and anchor multiple tubing strings at the Y-juncture in an oil or gas well with multiple lateral wellbores. An important advantage of this arrangement is to provide communication to multiple reservoirs or ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5435029 | Cable preparation tool A low cost wire stripping tool is presented which comprises a section to remove a portion of the outer insulation jacket covering two, three or four pairs of a new telephonic cable and a second section of the wire stripping tool which is capable of straig... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5436791 | Perforating gun using an electrical safe arm device and a capacitor exploding foil initiator device A perforating gun using an electrical safe arm device and a capacitor exploding foil initiator device. The capacitor exploding foil initiator device having a capacitor connected in parallel to a bleed resistor which are connected across an exploding foil ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5433456 | Spring energized convoluted surface seal A metal seal is provided which comprises an annular metal jacket or housing having a convoluted cross-section. The convoluted metal jacket includes at least two convolutions, each of which retains a spring (preferably a coiled helical spring) for reinforc... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5428530 | Airborne reactive threat simulator A novel airborne reactive threat simulator is presented. The simulator comprises an aircraft flight and carrier qualified podded external store and a cockpit mounted system control box. The pod is capable of supersonic flight envelopes and houses a sophis... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5427177 | Multi-lateral selective re-entry tool In a wellbore having at least one lateral or branch wellbore extending therefrom, a selective re-entry tool is presented for running on a completion string to enable an operator to select the branch desired so as to enter such desired branch with a coil t... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5425724 | Aortic perfusion cannula An aortic cannula is presented which comprises two tubes. One of the tubes is for blood perfusion and the other for monitoring arterial pressure. The tubes are outwardly joined yet have distinct lumens at the insertion end of the cannula. The device provi... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5422782 | Multiple resonant frequency decoupling capacitor A multiple resonant frequency decoupling capacitor is presented. The decoupling capacitor comprises a plurality of capacitive elements, each having a different resonant frequency to define a frequency bandwidth for noise supression. One of the capacitive ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5422398 | Compatibilizer for polymer blends and the polymer blends derived therefrom A compatibilizer for polymer blends is presented. The compatibilizer comprises a sulfonated polystyrene and may be used to prepare miscible blends of the sulfonated polystyrene with two or more polymers having polar groups, e.g., polyamides, polyethers, p... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5419669 | Installation for lining an internal wall of an enclosure with brickwork An automated installation for lining a wall of an enclosure with brickwork is presented. This installation comprises a brick laying robot, a depalletizing module, a lifting module, a supply module and a centering ring module. At the level of the centering... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5416284 | Speaker enclosures Molded enclosures for audio speakers and the like comprising a molded base and a releasably-attachable molded cover wherein said cover may also be attached to the rear of said base for stabilizing said enclosure and supporting an outwardly-extending stabi... | 05/16/1995 |
