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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4467600 | System for controlling the thrust nozzle adjustment of dual cycle gas turbine jet propulsion engines The thrust nozzle opening angle of two cycle gas turbine jet engines is controlled in a system which comprises a low pressure compressor driven by a low pressure turbine. A first compressor is arranged radially inward for a first flow cycle or circuit and... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4438926 | Timepiece apparatus having a game function A timepiece having a game function preferably includes a single display having a figure displaying region and a numerical value displaying region. A game mode is established upon operation of a game start switch. The figure displaying region includes an a... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4413460 | Method of assembling a spiral stair case A do-it-yourself spiral staircase has a central column (1) made of a hollow steel tube or pipe, which extends between a support (2; 7; 16) on a lower floor and a landing plate or end tread (3) on an upper floor of a residence or office building. The indiv... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4409658 | Apparatus for landing loads from transport aircraft, especially low flying aircraft A landing gear for loads including cargoes and/or personnel is removably ured to the load. At least one tiltable jet engine forms part of the landing gear and automatically controls the descent movement. A stabilizing mechanism forms part of the landing ... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4409565 | Circuit arrangement for producing a low frequency alternating current The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for producing a low frequency alternating current, such as is particularly used for electric massaging. Any desired frequency characteristics and beats may be produced by the interconnecting of several genera... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4408737 | Method and apparatus enabling a horizontal landing of a flying body A flying body such as an aircraft or a re-entry vehicle is enabled to land substantially horizontally with the aid of one or several glider parachutes also referred to as paragliders, which are stored in an upper body zone and ejected during the landing. ... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4398804 | Liquid crystal display unit A reflection type liquid crystal display unit wherein twisted nematic liquid crystal molecules are used in a field effect mode. A polarizing sheet placed on the upper surface of the liquid crystal display element of the unit is formed with spacer projecti... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4390153 | Apparatus for securing a wing to the body of a craft A wing is secured to the body of a craft, for example an aircraft, at least t four support points interconnected in pairs by a respective clamping bolt. The metal planking of the upper and lower wing structure forms two wing forks each having a respective ... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4389162 | Rotor blade comprising a plurality of individual sections A rotor blade, for example for a windmill, comprises a plurality of blade ctions between a blade root and a tip. The sections are interconnected by tensioning members such as steel cables or the like, preferably extending through the blade sections. Thus,... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4385957 | Method for heating a webbing reinforced by carbon fibers A webbing reinforced by carbon fibers is heated during its resin impregnation by passing an electric current through the carbon fibers whereby the carbon fibers act directly as heating mats in a system of layers of fiber reinforced material. Thus, the use... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4376911 | Circuit system for lighting a discharge lamp or lamps A discharge lamp lighting circuit system comprises a discharge lamp, an intermittent oscillation circuit, and an arrangement for controlling the energy supplied for lighting the discharge lamp with a high power factor. The intermittent oscillation circuit... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4373260 | Electrical circuit wiring arrangement and its soldering method A method of manufacturing an electrical circuit wiring assembly comprises the steps of preparing a first sub-assembly having a metal board chassis and a first circuit element provided with hard stiff leads, preparing a second sub-assembly having a second ... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4369018 | Rotor head structure with stacked connecting elements, especially for a helicopter The wings of a hingeless helicopter rotor are secured to the head of the rotor by connecting elements of fiber compound materials. Each connecting element has at least two outer layers of fiber compound materials and an intermediate layer of &#b1;ଲ-... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4368900 | Minimizer system of vibrational movements of a mass A mass such as a vehicle or craft, for example an aircraft, is cushioned against landing shocks and vibrations by an electronically controlled shock and vibration absorber system. For this purpose an electrical control signal is produced which takes into ... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4366707 | Apparatus for optimizing tire or wheel characteristics The operating or running characteristics of a vehicle tire or rim with a tire secured thereto are optimized on one and the same machine. For this purpose the tire or wheel is supported on a subcritically tuned support bridge structure and driven by a spin... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4364576 | Baby walker A baby walker is provided with a substantially doughnut-shaped upper frame and a seat suspended from the upper frame by three straps. The end of each strap is provided with an engaging bar disposed at right angles with the direction of the length of the s... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4363166 | Automatic tool exchanger The present machine tool is constructed for an automatic tool exchange and includes a double column (11, 12) in which a spindle unit (15) and a tool magazine (22) are separately guided for moving jointly. A grapple claw mechanism includes an angular doubl... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4362315 | Baby carriage A foldable baby carriage has a pair of front legs and a pair of rear legs, with each rear leg being pivotally connected to the intermediate portion of the associated front leg and rearwardly downwardly extending therefrom. An angle bar is pivotally suppor... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4360337 | Damping device for a helicopter rotor blade The wing blades of a helicopter rotor each are connected to the rotor hub a connection, e.g. a spar being .fwdarw..rarw. including a hinge which is at least fictitious to permit lead-lag movements of the blades | 11/23/1982 |
| 4359215 | Device for feeding sheets of paper to a copier A device for the feeding of single sheets, for example letterheads, to a xerographic copier instead of the paper supply from a roll. The device is located on a slide-in unit (1) and comprises an exchangeable cassette (4) which holds the supply stack (7). ... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4358122 | Apparatus for power clamping work pieces According to the present apparatus work pieces such as railroad wheels are power clamped on a cone shaped inwardly facing side. In a first clamping step clamping areas are impressed into the side or surface of the work piece said clamping areas having a s... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4357852 | Guitar synthesizer A guitar synthesizer comprises a guitar portion and a synthesizer portion which are electrically connected to each other. The guitar portion includes strings stretched between a nut and a bridge and pickup means for detecting a string vibration for provid... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4357171 | Mill for cane sugar and related uses A mill, particularly a mill for extracting juice from cane sugar, has a fixed top roller (24), and feed discharge rollers (25) and (26) which are independently pivotable by respective power operated means (47, 51) to vary the feed opening between the feed... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4353011 | Hot cathode discharge lamp lighting device A parallel circuit of a capacitor and a switching element is connected to a hot cathode discharge lamp lighting device using a high frequency and high voltage generating means for permitting the flow of current into the filaments of the hot cathode type d... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4352631 | Hingeless rotor, especially for a helicopter A connecting element for securing a rotor blade to the rotor hub of a helicopter rotor comprises at least two components arranged at an angle relative to each other. At least one component extends outside the boundary of the other component on both sides ... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4350983 | Navigation method for precisely steering a flying object A flying object is precisely steered by determining the position of the fng object with the aid of a trigonometric calculation. For this purpose pulse signals emitted in synchronism from two ground stations are received by the flying object and the time ... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4350950 | Frequency measuring method and apparatus The frequency of a pulse signal is measured with the aid of a reference signal generated in an oscillator (11). Both the pulses of the frequency to be measured and the pulses of the reference frequency are counted by separate counters (12, 13) and the cou... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4348766 | Chemically fuelled laser and method for increasing the efficiency of such lasers The efficiency of a chemically fuelled laser with regenerative cooling of its combustion chamber is increased by using the fuels as coolant in the diffuser. The heat resulting from this cooling in the diffuser is supplied in a regenerative manner to the c... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4348140 | Connecting device, preferably for sheet metal components of light metal allows The present connecting device for joining sheet metal components has a la of synthetic material at least in the area of the contact surfaces with neighboring components thus effectively preventing contact corrosion.... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4345876 | Rotor structure for a rotary wing aircraft The wings of a rotary wing aircraft comprise, for example, four wing blades orming two pairs of wing blades whereby the blades of a pair are located diametrically opposite each other. The blades of a pair are connected to each other by a spar extending fro... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4344739 | Hingeless and bearingless multiblade rotor for rotary wing aircraft The wing blades of a hingeless and bearingless multiblade rotor are connected to a substantially rigid rotor hub by spar sections elastically twistable and bendable in the flapping direction and in the lead-lag direction. The mounting positions on the per... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4343237 | Apparatus for manufacturing cable harnesses and printer therefor Cable harnesses are manufactured with a so-called cable head arranged on a able laying carriage. The cable head is controlled by an electronic data processor and continuously lays a cable running off a coil or spool, about pins on a cable laying table or p... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4343094 | Drafting apparatus The present drafting apparatus comprises a rail (6) removably secured along the edge of a drafting board. Normally, the rail (6) serves for guiding a T-square (2, 3) which is, for example, pulled against the rail (6) by a magnetic force. If the rail (6) i... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4342217 | Strain gage pick-up and method for adjusting such strain gage pick-up Off-center load applications to strain gage pick-ups or transducers are substantially compensated by reducing the off-center load application sensitivity of such transducers. This is accomplished by providing the strain gage of the transducer with additio... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4341603 | Process for manufacturing screens for centrifugals, particularly working screens for continuously operating sugar centrifugals Working screens for centrifugals, especially sugar centrifugals are made by electrodeposition of screen material on an electrically conducting matrix without filling the screen slots. Support material is then deposited on the screen material even to the e... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341053 | Built-in connector element for sandwich type compound panels A built-in connector element is constructed for being anchored in sandwich ype compound panels. For this purpose the connector element has a central threading for cooperation with further connector components and a body with corners forming anchoring fins ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4337011 | Crankshaft milling machine The present crankshaft milling machine comprises at least one milling unit which may be controlled in its feed advance drive by a copying mechanism operating in synchronism with the rotation of the work piece. The copying mechanism is movable back and for... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4335587 | Universal coupling member for two shafts and method of manufacturing such a coupling member A drive shaft including a universal coupling is made in the form of a uniy bonded fiber material structure having anisotropic properties. A winding form or mold is assembled to include, for example, an elongated winding sleeve, a flange forming core elem... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4334180 | Electromagnetic driving mechanism for oscillating displacement pumps Electromagnetic driving mechanism for oscillating displacement pumps (10) is described which comprises a linear motor (21, 22) and a control circuit (51, 52, 53, 54). The control circuit controls the stroke movement of the linear motor (21, 22) in respons... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4332271 | Throttling device for pipe conduits A throttling device is located in a venting pipe or in a pipe section such as a flue gas pipe or conduit arranged between a boiler and a flue or chimney. The flap is held in a pipe section for removal out of the respective pipe either by tilting or by pul... | 06/01/1982 |
