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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4905934 | Universal-type gust alleviation system for aircraft The gust alleviation system was designed to be an add-on to any existing g-command flight control system. The system assumes that there already exists, a stability augmentation system which will hold the aircraft's attitude. This system minimizes the inte... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4739810 | Convoluted cone wheel A non-pneumatic convoluted cone wheel having a hub section and a resilient section that has a ground-engaging rim at its peripheral outer edge portion to which a tire tread can be provided for the ground engaging rim including an internal element to vary ... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4705087 | Convoluted cone wheel A non-pneumatic convoluted cone wheel having a hub section and a resilient section that has a ground-engaging rim at its peripheral outer edge portion to which a tire tread can be provided for the ground engaging rim including an internal element to vary ... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4699466 | Optical RF filtering system An optical notching filter in which a band of radio frequencies such as the RF input of a radio receiver is an input signal. The input signal modulates a laser beam and the modulated beam is optically Fourier transformed. A programmable optical notching f... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4690563 | Hole centration gage An apparatus for measuring the relative positions of hole patterns is disclosed wherein two or more fiber optic bundles disposed within first and second holes and connected to one or more sources of light and light sensitive, position sensing devices prov... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4685512 | Capillary-pumped heat transfer panel and system A thermal management system using heat pipe principles and incorporating capillary-pumped equipment mounting panels such that a heat transport loop without moving parts is provided. The panels can function to either absorb heat or to reject heat and can i... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4611837 | Tubular element coupling means A readily assembled and disassembled coupling designed to sustain both axial and torsional loads. The coupling has two tubular elements that are held together by a locking ring inserted from outside the coupling after the connection is made. The end of th... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4602679 | Capillary-pumped heat transfer panel and system A thermal management system using heat pipe principles and incorporating capillary-pumped equipment mounting panels such that a heat transport loop without moving parts is provided. The panels can function to either absorb heat or to reject heat and can i... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4601053 | Automatic TV ranging system A range-finding system comprising the hardwired video processing of two side-by-side TV stereo images of a scene to provide automatic, rapid, quantitative ranging to noncooperative objects. A single TV camera with appropriate optics to provide stereo inpu... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4582108 | Tire inflation/deflation system An automatic tire inflation-pressure regulating system for wheeled vehicles with pneumatic tires. The system has a system control assembly in the vehicle operator's compartment, control signal transmitter assemblies on the vehicle body in close proximity ... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4543761 | Joining techniques for large structures A construction technique is disclosed for facilitating the rapid assembly of large structures at remote sites, both terrestrial and extra terrestrial, comprising joining modular sub-assemblies embodied as triangular trusses in a limited number of standard... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4540029 | Wire coil production system A wire coil production system is disclosed for winding, tieing and distributing coils fabricated from pre-cut wire segments. Four controllably driven mandrels or reels are mounted in relative quadrature on a rotatable turret which cycles each mandrel thro... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4540227 | Test equipment interconnection system An electronics interconnection system with a plug cartridge assembly having a planar body on which electronic equipment is plugged into terminations which are connected to a flat, flexible multiconductor cable terminus array on the bottom surface of a plu... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4524929 | Short take off jump mode for airplane landing gear struts A telescoping energy-dissipating oleo landing gear shock strut set which can provide both the main landing gear and forward landing gear function, and which is affixed to an airplane, is restrained in an unenergized, shortened condition. A high pressure g... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4522466 | Recursive optical filter system An optical notching or filtering system in which a beam of optical radiation is passed through the optical filtering means a multiplicity of times. The optical filtering means has an optical Fourier transform means, a spatial filter, optical inverse Fouri... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4510583 | Keyboard terminal A keyboard terminal for entering test programs written in an English-format computer programming language into computerized automatic test systems is disclosed. In response to the activation of selected user-activated keys associated with a programmable k... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4505442 | Transient surface contact vehicle A transient surface contact vehicle for transporting a load from a surface starting point to a surface end point has a structure for carrying the load from the starting point to the end point. A vehicle support extends from the structure. A buoyancy contr... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4505441 | Terrain-following transient surface contact vehicle A terrain-following transient surface contact vehicle for transporting a load from a surface starting point to a surface end point has a structure for carrying the load from the starting point to the end point. A vehicle support extends from the structure... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4505647 | Vacuum pumping system In a two-stage vacuum pumping system having a single drive motor powering both stages, a by-pass line connected between the container being evacuated and the interstage line between the two stages for relieving excess pressure in the interstage line durin... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4492525 | Pneumatic fire pump pressure controller An electro-pneumatic variable control for fire pumper engine and pump discharge.... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4490849 | Correlation plane recognition processor An automatic processing circuit is associated with an optical matched filter system which supplies correlation imagery representing the products of diffraction patterns of known objects with that of an input scene in which the known objects are to be dete... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4488809 | Planizing target A unitary targeting device is used to align a machined plane of a workpiece, for instance an industrial assembly fixture, with the optical axis of a reference instrument. The disclosed device and method are designed to fully utilize the depth of field of ... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4477040 | Aircraft wind energy device A tornado-type wind energy system is provided which is suitable for aircraft in flight or emergency use. Wind energy propels a turbine to provide shaft power to drive an electrical generator or the like. A vortex flow regime is produced downstream of the ... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4475031 | Solar-powered sun sensitive window A self-contained sun sensitive window made up of liquid nematic crystals sandwiched between two transparent conductors is powered directly by a solar cell. An increase in light intensity upon the solar cell reduces the transparency of the window, resultin... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4470759 | Capillary check valve pump and method A method for thermally pumping volatile liquids and a pump for use therewith. The pump has an inlet liquid cooled pump chamber having therein a porous inlet membrane and a porous exit membrane defining between them a pump volume. The membranes are permeab... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4470451 | Dual axial channel heat pipe A heat pipe comprising an elongated sealed metallic envelope having at least a pair of longitudinal channels extending along the length thereof. One of the channels is for the circulation of the vapor phase of the working medium in operation and the other... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4470225 | Variable position orbital sander A machine which orbits an abrader or cleaning tool about a fixed axis at a relatively low speed in which the orbital radius of the abrader may be changed while the machine is in operation.... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4459167 | Run-flat tire and method of making same A run-flat pneumatic tire having an annular structural compression element in the inside surface of the crown thereof, which compression element is stabilized by a multiplicity of closely spaced spoke-like radial elements in the tire sidewalls such that d... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4457059 | Method of making a re-entrant groove heat pipe A sealed heat pipe of uniform cross sectional profile from evaporator to condenser which includes a plurality of capillary channels communicating with a central channel by means of narrow re-entrant groove openings having convergent entrances. A two step ... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4456048 | Dual-modulus band banded tire A banded radial run-flat tire having a band with a dual-modulus of bending deflection behavior. Bands producing various basic dual-modulus characteristics are disclosed. In one type, the band has a greater resistance to bending forces tending to decrease ... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4453229 | Bus interface unit A bus interface unit for use with a multiplexed biphase serial bus includes a Mealy modeled sequence logic unit which allows flexibility in the design and implementation of a desired data transfer algorithm. The unit's internal architecture is such that t... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4447111 | Achromatic holographic element A process for producing a holographic optical element which operates at a multiplicity of wavelengths and which has no chromatic aberration is disclosed. The achromatic holographic elements are fabricated using substantially conventional apparatus employi... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4443014 | Combat simulator means A device adaptable to inexpensive models to operate either in a mode of being attacked or an attack mode that permits sequential shooting of energy within a predetermined angle profile and, within range limits, the receipt of such energy whereupon visual ... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4428411 | Run-flat tire and method of making same A run-flat pneumatic tire having an annular structural compression element in the inside surface of the crown thereof, which compression element is stabilized by a multiplicity of closely spaced spoke-like radial elements in the tire sidewalls such that d... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4422820 | Spoiler for fluid turbine diffuser A passive means for controlling the power augmentation of a diffuser augmented wind turbine is disclosed. Spoiler tabs for the boundary layer control slots of a diffuser augmented wind turbine include a lifting surface responsive to the fluid flow velocit... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4421379 | Multiple holographic lens A two step process allows a multiple holographic lens to be recorded with a single exposure. A multiple exposure, non-overlapping holographic fly's eye lens is first prepared with the correct F number spacing. A single collimated beam striking the fly's e... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4417708 | Interchangeable wing aircraft A design system for aircraft that allows wings of various different planforms to be mounted interchangeably on a common fuselage. Each of the wings has wing semi-spans joined by a center section torque box that mounts the wing in a cut-out in the aircraft... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4408736 | Landing gear door mud guard A combination landing gear door and splash guard for an aircraft landing gear which includes a linkage to control the clearance between the door/splash guard and a runway surface with respect to the extension of a shock absorbing strut of the landing gear... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4391582 | Fuel nozzle with concentric ignitor An electric ignitor to be used for fuel mixture ignition that delivers fuel through a fuel nozzle having integral concentric electrodes arranged such that radiated fuel from the nozzle washes a power arc providing required light-off energy.... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4390069 | Trifluorobromomethane foam fire fighting system An apparatus for use in foam-type fire-fighting equipment in which a halogenated hydrocarbon (halogen), preferably trifluorobromomethane, CF3 Br, is injected into the fire extinguishing agent to improve the efficiency thereof. In several embodi... | 06/28/1983 |
