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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7319039 | Aerosol-based detection of biological agents The presence of an aerosol or cloud (3) of a toxic substance is detected by producing an aerosol (17, 5) of ligands (13) to the target substance in a region of sky that contains the target substance, permitting molecules the target substance to ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7243757 | Exhaust muffler An exhaust muffler (1) invention includes an entry chamber (9), a resonator chamber (15), and a baffle chamber (23) positioned in serial order between an exhaust gas inlet (3) that lets exhaust gas into the entry chamber and an exh... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7213703 | Reusable environmentally friendly package and storage album A reusable package and storage album (1) displays and stores a multi-component product, combining the appearance of a blister pak with the security of a vacuformed clamshell package. Two sections (17 & 19) joined by hinges (43 & 45... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7162793 | Apparatus for clamping printed circuit boards inside an electronic module housing Reflow soldering of a variety of circuit boards (9, 11, 15) in a variety of sizes and shapes to assigned locations on the base or carrier (13) of the electronic module housing (3) is simplified by eliminating custom made metal blocks previously ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7157706 | Cryogenically cooled adjustable apertures for infrared cameras A continuously variable diaphragm or swappable fixed aperture for use in thermal infrared cameras, which aperture or diaphragm can be cooled to cryogenic temperatures. The invention contemplates mounting aperture control means, if necessary, in a vacuum or extending... | 01/02/2007 |
| D529865 | Non-metallic seal for an underwater luminaire | 10/10/2006 |
| D529441 | Metallic seal for an underwater luminaire | 10/03/2006 |
| 7081366 | Uniform bead dosing from a stable dispersion A primary antibody bead suspension for an enzyme-linked immunoassay (“ELISA”) procedure is formed of a quantity of primary antibody coated magnetic beads (3) uniformly dispersed and held in suspension (9) by a thixotropic non-Newtonian fluid (1 | 07/25/2006 |
| 7044266 | Exhaust muffler for internal combustion engines Performance sound is produced with a muffler that includes a casing with front (5, 37), rear (7, 41) and side (3, 35) walls, first (9, 45) and second (11, 47) compartment walls each with a central passage (25, 28, 46, 48) an... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7041579 | Hard substrate wafer sawing process Die of high aspect ratio formed in a hard wafer substrate are sawed out without requiring tape, obtaining high die yields. Preliminary to sawing the semiconductor die (3) from a sapphire wafer (2), the wafer is joined (20) to a silicon carrier s... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6959809 | Reusable environmentally friendly package and storage album A reusable package and storage album (1) displays and stores a multi-component product, combining the appearance of a blister pak with the security of a vacuformed clamshell package. Two sections (17 & 19) joined by hinges (43 & 45... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6933143 | Automated enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay device with ONP-GP An electronic controller, such as a programmed microcontroller, controls a series of pumps to automatically sequence the pumping of the individual fluids required by the ELISA procedure into a cell (or cells) necessary to produce a reporter, including the addition o... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6919125 | Dual composition ceramic substrate for microelectronic applications Ceramic substrates (1) for microelectronic modules are formed in multiple layers (7 & 9) fused into a unitary one-piece assembly. The layers contain the same ceramic material but in different purity so that one outer layer (9) is optimal ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6919863 | Integrated reflector and boom An integral reflector-boom assembly (1) for a deployable antenna includes a facesheet (9) of stiff reflective material and a stiff lattice or grid structure bonded to the facesheet to form a reflector (3) portion of the assembly and a boom (5... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917537 | RSFQ Batcher-banyan switching network Superconductor technology and Batcher banyan switching technology are combined and implemented as a practical component in a single cryo-MCM substrate (10) containing a plurality of superconductor chips (37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 53 a... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6888253 | Inexpensive wafer level MMIC chip packaging An inexpensive package for a semiconductor chip (1) that incorporates a stress relief buffer (13) between a side of the chip and the metal carrier layer (2) to absorb thermally induced stress produced by significantly different rates of thermal ... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6865690 | Voltage conditioner with embedded battery backup A power module for a CNI avionics system includes a rechargeable back-up battery (17) and a battery charger (9) in a back-up battery channel, a power conversion unit (11, 25, 27 and 29) in a power conditioning channel, and a semiconductor... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6815828 | Large multi-function integrated circuit device An integrated circuit device includes a thin semiconductor layer disposed on a surface of a wafer, a plurality of wafer-scale integrated (WSI) circuits formed on the semiconductor layer, and a node formed on the semiconductor layer that provides an optoelectronic in... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6806718 | On-circuit board continuity tester For qualification testing in product development, a test assembly contains a surrogate circuit board (7) and surrogate electronic modules (5) supported thereon. The terminals (5a-5j) of the modules are joined to respective b... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6803202 | Combinational strategy for identification of biological agents The existence of any one of a plurality of 2N−1 bioagents in a sample (1) may be determined by dividing the sample into N parts and performing separate ELISA processes (TEST 1 & TEST 2) on each of the N parts concurrently, where N is an integer greater ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6777808 | Capacitor for signal propagation across ground plane boundaries in superconductor integrated circuits The self inductance associated with a capacitance A52 in a superconductor integrated circuit (FIG. 1) is reduced by adding a layer of superconductor metal (A54) overlying the capacitor, effectively producing a negative inductance to counteract t... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775046 | Thin film shape memory alloy reflector Reconfigurable radiant energy reflectors (3) of very low areal densities are formed of a laminate of a thin layer of a shape memory alloy (17) and a thin film or membrane material (15). The outer surface of the membrane provides the energy refle... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6766277 | Early warning network for biological terrorism A computerized early warning network for biological events or terrorism produces the alert that calls the health authorities to action. Data generated in the point of sale (POS1 . . . POSn, POSa & POSb) units of a retail store or pharmacy that sells prescript... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6766154 | Fast settling fine stepping phase locked loops Fast switching and fast settling is achieved in a phase locked loop (“PLL”) containing a bandwidth switched active loop filter (8) by feeding the phase error signal of the phase detector (1) of the PLL to the non-inverting input of the amplifier ( | 07/20/2004 |
| 6720844 | Coupled resonator bulk acoustic wave filter A microwave filter made of acoustically coupled, bulk wave acoustic resonators. The resonators utilize piezoelectric materials sandwiched between conducting electrodes. Layers of material that intervene between the resonators control the amount of acoustic coupling ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6708400 | Method of attaching printed circuits boards within an electronic module housing Reflow soldering of a variety of circuit boards (9, 11, 15) in a variety of sizes and shapes to assigned locations on the base or carrier (13) of the electronic module housing (3) is simplified by eliminating custom made metal blocks previously ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6691688 | Nitrous plate system for fuel injected engines A tunable nitrous plate assembly for fuel injected 5.0 liter V8 engines contains a metal plate (1) that is sandwiched between the upper and lower manifold members of the engine air intake manifold. The plate contains multiple ports (17) mate with the port... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6683510 | Ultra-wideband planar coupled spiral balun A coupled transmission line balun construction employs two pairs of planar interleaved spiral coils (3, 5 & 7, 9) formed on an electrically insulating or semi-insulating substrate (11) defining a planar structure. One coil in each pair is connected in ser... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6678540 | Transmission line single flux quantum chip-to -chip communication with flip-chip bump transitions A superconductor on-chip microstrip line (2, 4) to off-chip microstrip line (7) transition of low characteristic impedance (15, 20, 22) is realized that obtains a bandwidth of 200 GHz for MCM application while employing solder bump (15, 17) technology to ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6638366 | Automated spray cleaning apparatus for semiconductor wafers Semiconductor wafer (11) are uniformly and thoroughly cleaned of particulate and organic contaminants by sweeping the wafer with a hydraulic broom that sprays cleaning solution onto the wafer. The broom contains an aspirating nozzle (3) for connection to ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6622629 | Submunition fuzing and self-destruct using MEMS arm fire and safe and arm devices A fuze for a submunition is miniaturized in size by forming the fuze of a micro-electromechanical systems ("MEMS") velocity sensor (38, 32, 34 and 36), a MEMs shock detector (31), a DC power supply (30) and one of the MEMs arm-fire device (2, FIG. 1) or M... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6580310 | Double flux quantum superconductor driver A rapid SFQ one-way buffer (13, 1, 4, 5, 15, 2 & 9), is combined with a Josephson transmission line (17,3, 19, 16, 21 & 4) that is lightly loaded (RL) to provide a superconductor driver capable of producing double flux quantum output pulses. Ea... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6562209 | Automated computer controlled reporter device for conducting imunnoassay and molecular biology procedures An electronic controller, such as a programmed microcontroller (33), controls a series of pumps (P1-P6) to automatically sequence the pumping of the individual fluids required by the ELISA procedure into a cell (or cells) necessary to produce a reporter, ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6562143 | Method for cleaning hazardous waste from vacuum chambers in molecular beam epitaxy processing Cleaning of MBE vacuum chambers of residue containing a volatile material, such as red phosphorus, is safely achieved by wetting the residue with de-ionized water (37) and depositing the residue in a water bath, formed by the water at the bottom of the ch... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6561172 | Nitrous oxide plate system for engines A nitrous plate (1) includes four end-fed nitrous oxide spray conduits (2, 4, 6 & 8) positioned coplanar in the plate passage (21), supported at one end by respective walls (17, 18, 92 & 20) of the plate with closed distal conduit ends positioned near the... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6520165 | Nozzle for emitting nitrous oxide for fuel to engines A nozzle (7) for a nitrous oxide system for an internal combustion engine contains outlet (9), to produce a high velocity cylindrical stream of nitrous oxide (9') expressed in a certain direction (29) and another outlet (11), located on the same side of t... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6518673 | Capacitor for signal propagation across ground plane boundaries in superconductor integrated circuits The self inductance associated with a capacitance A52 in a superconductor integrated circuit (FIG. 1) is reduced by adding a layer of superconductor metal (A54) overlying the capacitor, effectively producing a negative inductance to counteract the self-in... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6492620 | Equipotential fault tolerant integrated circuit heater Fault tolerance is incorporated within the integral electric heaters of a reworkable electronic semiconductor component, such as a reworkable multi-chip module, to increase production yield and longevity of the rework feature. Components of the foregoing ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6483339 | Single flux quantum series biasing technique using superconducting DC transformer The level of bias current (12) required by a superconductor integrated circuit (2 & 4) is lowered by separating the circuit into portions having separate ground planes and supplying the bias current to the circuit portion (2) in one ground plane in series... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6443796 | Smart blocks A child's construction set contains virtual intelligence, is interactive and smart, characteristics that may be exhibited to a player during player construction activity with the set and, thereafter, during continuing play and instills a sense of unpredic... | 09/03/2002 |
