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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5213998 | Method for making an ohmic contact for p-type group II-VI compound semiconductors A method for producing an ohmic contact to a p-type ZnSe semiconductor body in a molecular beam epitaxy chamber. Zinc, thermally cracked Se2 and nitrogen are injected into the chamber. A ZnSe contact layer is grown by heating the semiconductor ... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5172905 | Film receive magazine for a laser imager A receive magazine for collecting and transporting sheets of exposed photographic media. The receive magazine includes an elongated, light-tight enclosure having front and back walls, top and bottom walls, and first and second end walls. Sheets of media a... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5170208 | Automatic exposure control apparatus for a microfilm printer An exposure control apparatus for a microfilm printer includes an area (planar) light source, photo detector, and digital control circuits. An averaged density reading over at least the central five to twenty percent of the area of the microfilm frame is ... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5165105 | Separate confinement electroabsorption modulator utilizing the Franz-Keldysh effect A semiconductor heterojunction, guided-wave, electroabsorption modulator. The device includes a rib waveguide fabricated on a substrate. The waveguide includes a relatively thin and off-center undoped electroabsorbing layer within a light-guiding region. ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5155565 | Method for manufacturing an amorphous silicon thin film solar cell and Schottky diode on a common substrate A thin film p-i-n solar cell and Schottky barrier diode are fabricated adjacent one another on a common flexible polyimide substrate. A titanium nitride diffusion barrier prevents contaminants of an aluminum contact layer on the substrate from reacting wi... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5152788 | Multifocal diffractive ophthalmic lens and method of manufacture A multifocal ophthalmic lens includes first and second lens members. Each lens member has a smooth outer surface and an inner surface with an edge about its perimeter. A multifocal diffractive zone plate on at least one of the lens members is characterize... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5148207 | Capacitive film position sensing system for a film processor A photographic media position sensing system for use in conjunction with a media processor of the type including a plurality of processing tanks for holding baths of conductive liquid media developing chemicals and a transport mechanism for driving the me... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5146257 | Developer solution replenishment control system for a digital imaging system A developer replenishment control system for a continuous tone digital imaging system of the type including a laser imager for exposing pixels on sheets of photographic film as a function of digital exposure values representative of an image and a film pr... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5141677 | Method of hot stamping intraocular lens bodies A method for manufacturing an intraocular lens from a cell cast sheet of high molecular weight polymethylmethracrylate (PMMA). A lens blank having a lens generation area with a surface contoured to correspond to the desired contour of the finished lens is... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5135592 | Ultrasonically welded hydrogel ophthalmic lens First and second hydrogel lens members are configured to be ultrasonically welded to one another. Both the first and second lens members have an annular bonding surface. The second lens member has an energy director extending from its bonding surface. The... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5132724 | Opening and closing mechanism for a laser imager film cartridge An opening and closing mechanism for photographic film cartridges of the type having a film-receiving tray with outwardly extending front and side lips and a flexible cover for the tray resealably engaged with the lips. The opening and closing mechanism i... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5117119 | Auto-ranging film densitometer A film densitometer for generating digital density values as a function of analog transmittance signals received at an input. A comparator coupled to the input compares the transmittance signals to one or more range references characterizing a plurality o... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5087987 | Color-corrected telecentric scan lens A diffraction limited, f/6.0, 71.0 mm focal length telecentric scan lens which is color-corrected for 780 nm, 830 nm and 890 nm wavelengths. The lens includes, in succession from a side of incident light: a first negative meniscus lens element, concave toward ... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5084756 | Apparatus operable as a viewer or image scanner A film image reader/scanner apparatus providing two capabilities, operable at separate times wherein one capability provides for the projection onto a viewing screen of a light image created from a film image presented to the apparatus with the second cap... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5057669 | Temperature control circuit having series connected fail-safe control An improved temperature control circuit having a controller portion with an inhibit input and a temperature responsive circuit portion that includes a resistive portion connected in series with a sensor portion which establishes the control point for the ... | 10/15/1991 |
