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System for magnetically attaching templeless eyewear to a person

A system of eyewear that eliminates the need for hinges on the frames of the eyewear.

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Attorney: Gortler; Hugh P., Sales; M. W., Denson-Low; W. K.


Number of patents: 14
Last date: January 16, 1996

NumberTitleIssue Date
5485007Optical fiber quadrant detector having a sensor head with intermixed receiving and transmitting optical fibers
An optical fiber quadrant detector (10) includes a sensor head (22) wherein each quadrant (A, B, C, D) thereof includes a plurality of light transmitting optical fibers (26) and a plurality of light receiving optical fibers (20). The light transmitting op...
01/16/1996
5412951Cyrogenic cooling system with active vibration control
A cryogenic cooling system having a mechanism for canceling vibration at a fundamental frequency and at harmonics thereof. The inventive system includes a first apparatus (28, 32) for cooling a mass. The first apparatus (28, 32) creates a vibration at a f...
05/09/1995
5406417Differential pneumatic pressure zoom lens drive
An optical apparatus (2) has a first optical element (4, 4a) and a second optical element (5, 5a). The first optical element (4, 4a) is disposed in the same optical path (3) as the second optical element (5, 5a). A first optical assembly (6a, 6b, 8, 8a, 1...
04/11/1995
5406328Adaptive track loop bandwidth reduction in cluttered scenes
A tracking system and method that achieves system bandwidth reduction and analyzes scene information from an expanded area around a tracked target. Objects in the scene that may interfere with the target and cause degraded tracking performance are tracked...
04/11/1995
5396414Adaptive noise cancellation
A compensator that enables an adaptive filter to be placed within a closed loop control system so as to reduce the effects of both measurable and unmeasurable disturbances on the output of the control loop. The disturbances may have spectra that lie withi...
03/07/1995
5386312Collimating lens having doublet element between positive-power elements
A collimating lens (10) is constructed of a lens assembly having a first lens set (12, 14) at a first end of the assembly and a second lens set (20) at a second end of the assembly with a doublet (16, 18) disposed between the first lens set and the second...
01/31/1995
5368271Gimbal vibration isolation system
A gimbal vibration isolation system suitable for use with an inertial platform to enable accurate positioning of the platform independently of a presence of vibratory translational movement upon a gimbal housing enclosing the platform employs a frame asse...
11/29/1994
5367154Photosensor readout detector having dynamic reset rate
An integrating circuit (12) includes a capacitor (22) which charges at a rate proportional to the instantaneous amplitude of an input signal VIN generated by a photosensor (14) to produce an integrated output signal VOUT. The input s...
11/22/1994
5365532Cavity dump laser amplitude stabilization
An amplitude stabilization circuit for a CO2 laser employing a filter for generating a Q-switched baseband video pulse representing intracavity laser flux, a comparator to detect when the video pulse and flux reach a selected level, and logic t...
11/15/1994
5363391Conductive face-cooled laser crystal
A technique for passively removing heat from an optical element in a laser system through its optically transmissive faces. Heat is removed by way of optically transmissive heat sinks or other heat conducting media disposed adjacent the optically transmis...
11/08/1994
5349432Multi-laser coherent imaging through aberrating media
An improved method for imaging laser illuminated objects through a near field aberrator, and/or for measuring the phase distortions of the aberrator. The method utilizes a set of at least three laser beams that are offset with respect to each other in a l...
09/20/1994
5347391Ultra wide field of view scanning surveillance optical system
A refractive inverse telephoto optical system (10) has a first lens doublet (12), a Pechan prism assembly (14) and a second lens doublet (16). The Pechan prism assembly (14) is spaced between the front negative doublet (12) and the rear positive doublet (...
09/13/1994
5345466Curved grating surface emitting distributed feedback semiconductor laser
An improved broad area surface emitting distributed feedback semiconductor laser diode device (10) includes a P-side ohmic contact (28) and an N-side ohmic contact (36). A potential difference is applied across these contacts to create an electric field t...
09/06/1994
5331470Fast folded wide angle large reflective unobscured system
A wide angle large reflective unobscured system (10) has a primary (12), secondary (14), tertiary (18) and fold (16) mirror. The primary (12) and secondary (14) mirrors act as a non-reimaging afocal telescope of the Galilean type and relay a virtual entra...
07/19/1994
 
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