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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5363663 | Chemical warfare method with intermittently cooled protective garment A method for performing chemical warfare and similar cleanup activities and apparatus enabling the performance of such activity in high-temperature environments while maintaining safe and worker comfortable body temperatures. The disclosed method and appa... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5320866 | Method of wet coating a ceramic substrate with a liquid suspension of metallic particles and binder applying similar dry metallic particles onto the wet surface, then drying and heat treating the article A method for fabricating a liquid conducting porous article having micron sized metallic particles suspended on a ceramic substrate member. The method includes coating the ceramic substrate with a particle slurry on top of which is added an additional amo... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5319322 | Electron beam antenna microwave generation device A high energy level arrangement for generating microwave frequency electromagnetic energy from a DC power source by way of a high energy level electron beam coupled into an output waveguide member and serving therein as an antenna source of energy for the... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5268648 | Field emitting drain field effect transistor A field emitting drain field effect transistor FEDFET device which combines the desirable frequency response and current control characteristics of a field effect transistor (or other transistor) with the higher voltage higher power level characteristics ... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5258626 | Superconducting optically reconfigurable electrical device A superconducting network which, through the use of optical illumination, can form a selectable array of superconducting microstrip transmission lines or other electrical elements. The invention uses optical illumination to produce quasiparticles which ca... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5229959 | High order carry multiplexed adder A binary adder of the carry multiplex signal selection type wherein multiple levels of multiplexing between parallel carry paths is used to achieve improved adder performance as measured by adder fabrication area requirements and other performance criteri... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5225947 | Low cost time indexed voice recorder system A time indexed voice recording system wherein tone coded time signals are received on one channel of an entertainment grade stereophonic tape recorder and the desired voice signals entered into the other channel. The recording system is portable in nature... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5198812 | Aircraft attitude indicator display An aircraft attitude display format which maintains the horizon reference line always in view and which presents the pilot with multiple indications of aircraft attitude differing from level flight. The multiple indications include attitude registration a... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5198972 | Turn-off switch phase control with improved ripple and power factor An improved commutation arrangement for an AC to AC or AC to DC energy converter circuit is disclosed. The improved arrangement uses turn-off capable commutation switches to enable modification of the operating waveforms in the cycloconverter. The modifie... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5191327 | Programmable remote transducer with filtering, differentiation, integration, and amplification A mechanical-to-electrical transducer arrangement wherein a combination of signal preamplifier and programmable analog signal processing circuitry is disposed immediately adjacent the transducer's sensor cell where low losses a low noise coupling into the... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5166942 | Laser line narrowing and frequency shifting Multibeam coupling in a Kerr medium of nonlinear characteristics and finite response time is disclosed together with two different frequency spectrum examples of its use. In the first spectrum example, the modes are equally spaced and in the second spectr... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5162940 | Multiple energy level, multiple pulse rate laser source A multiple energy level, multiple pulse repetition frequency, common boresight laser energy source apparatus which employs phase conjugate energy reflection, achievable in a high-pressure gas retro-reflecting cell, to compensate for aberrations of the ene... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5162861 | Laser imaging and ranging system using one camera A pulsed laser illumination based one camera ranging and imaging system which requires only a single axis optical aperture and is therefore suited to use on aircraft and other space and configuration limited apparatus is disclosed. The invention uses inte... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5158843 | Small particle thin electrochemical electrode and method An electrochemical cell electrode such as the cathode element for a high energy density battery cell and its fabrication sequence are disclosed. Material such as finely-divided carbon particles is dispersed over the electrode surface during an ultrasonic ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157451 | Laser imaging and ranging system using two cameras A pulsed laser illumination based two camera ranging and imaging system which requires only a single axis optical aperture and is therefore suited to use on aircraft and other space and configuration limited apparatus is disclosed. The invention uses inte... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5155482 | Aircraft fluid vessel testing An electrical test set especially suited for use in correlating the fill sensor's output indication for a pressure vessel with a known vessel fill condition. The vessel may be the hydrazine fuel container for an aircraft such as the U.S. Air Force F-16 fi... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5141603 | Capacitor method for improved oxide dielectric Capacitor structure capable of achieving increased energy storage density is disclosed together with a fabrication sequence for the capacitor and its anodic oxide dielectric material. Soft porous aluminum oxide which has been formed in a first anodization... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5138555 | Helmet mounted display adaptive predictive tracking A system for predicting head movements by an aircrew member, such as a pilot flying a tactical aircraft, from input data which includes an ongoing record of head positions. The input is without head acceleration or velocity input data and is applied to a ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5101472 | Military robotic controller with majorizing function and nonlinear torque capability An error-reducing feedback controller for a robotic system wherein a new torque term is added to the existing generated torque in order to compensate for nonlinearity or imperfect modeling accuracy in the existing system. Equations for development of the ... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5071770 | Method for gaseous component indentification with #3 polymeric film A sensor having an interdigitated gate electrode field effect transistor (IGEFET) coupled to an electron beam evaporated copper phthalocyanine thin film is used to selectively detect parts-per-billion concentration levels of atmosphere contaminants such a... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5070304 | Distributed combiner power amplifier and method An improved distributed amplifier usable, for example, in the gigahertz frequency range for radar and electronic warfare applications is disclosed. In the amplifier stage a combination of optimum amplifier stage loading, a reflection cancelling output net... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5068671 | Orthogonally polarized quadraphase electromagnetic radiator A broadband multi-element antenna having desirable phase, standing wave and polarization characteristics is disclosed. The antenna is arranged as a plurality of airfoil shaped elements located in radial planes about a central axis with the element periphe... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5067985 | Back-contact vertical-junction solar cell and method An interdigitated back-contact vertical-junction solar cell which utilizes an anisotropically etched 110-oriented silicon crystal wafer. The cell structure includes rounded corner top edges of the between cell channel walls in order to improve light captu... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5062594 | Flight control system with tactile feedback A control system for an aircraft or other man-machine system wherein the usual visual feedback system is characterized and is optimally supplemented by a secondary feel oriented feedback arrangement in which input signals are derived from either of two su... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5063385 | Radar warning receiver compressed memory histogrammer A memory system for histogramming the pulse descriptor word output of a radar warning receiver for initial processing of the received data for quickly determining the numbers and types of emitters in the system's environment. The disclosed apparatus histo... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5045285 | Gaseous component identification with polymeric film sensor A sensor having an interdigitated gate electrode field effect transistor (IGEFET) coupled to an electron beam evaporated copper phthalocyanine thin film is used to selectively detect parts-per-billion concentration levels of atmosphere contaminants such a... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5008213 | Hybrid wafer scale microcircuit integration A wafer scale integration arrangement wherein integrated circuit die of varying size, fabrication processes, and function are commonly mounted in the same host wafer using a filled epoxy material of special characteristics. The mounting epoxy material als... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5002720 | Electret enabled thermal neutron flux detection and measurement An improved thermal neutron flux detector and measuring apparatus of the neutron induced transmutation type. The disclosed apparatus employs a plastic film electret and a fissionable material such as uranium-235 for generating energetic ion fission fragme... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4999591 | Circular TM01 to TE11 waveguide mode converter A waveguide mode converting apparatus especially of the TM01 to TE11 converting type and usable in circuit waveguide apparatus with desirable high efficiency and relatively small physical size is disclosed. The mode converter employs... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4992841 | Pseudo uniphase charge coupled device A pseudo uniphase CCD array having four functional regions, a clocked barrier region, a clocked well region, a virtual barrier region, and a gate variable potential well region per stage. The described structure allows flexibility in setting operating vol... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4989063 | Hybrid wafer scale microcircuit integration A wafer scale integration arrangement wherein integrated circuit die of varying size, fabrication processes, and function are commonly mounted in the same host wafer using a filled epoxy material of special characteristics. The mounting epoxy material als... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4969367 | Aircraft propeller servicing unit An energizing and functional exercising apparatus for use with a variable pitch aircraft propeller in a maintenance shop environment is disclosed. Use of the apparatus enables functioning and performance check-out of an overall propeller assembly while th... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4967077 | Multiple aperture arrays for optical and radio frequency signals A plurality of subaperture arrays which may be disposed within the diameter of the conventional single large aperture in order to achieve improved sidelobe energy characteristics with respect to that of the single large aperture. The apertures may be embo... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4947351 | Ultrasonic scan system for nondestructive inspection An ultrasonic echo scanning apparatus having operator determined software controlled gated sampling of individual radio frequency excursions in the reflected ultrasonic energy waveform. Use of the system to obtain heretofore images of damage layers, resid... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4936957 | Thin film oxide dielectric structure and method A metallic oxide such as aluminum oxide of significantly improved electrical properties is disclosed. The method of oxide formation includes a combination of soft porous anodization followed by transformation to a hard barrier form of oxide using inter al... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4927994 | Modular resistance heater assembly A high-temperature electrical resistance heating module which employs a graphite or equivalent material electrical resistance element in an arrangement providing for pressurized fluid cooling of the heater support headers, and additionally provides a rera... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4913143 | Trephine assembly A hollow trephine cutter unit capable of disassembly to provide damage-free access to the collected sample or to permit size changes of the cutting element. Disassembly by sliding movement of one element of the apparatus with respect to the other and mult... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4909064 | Impulse calibration of mechanical to electrical transducers A wide frequency spectrum mechanical impulse calibration apparatus for a microphone or other pressure wave to electrical signal transducer apparatus is disclosed. Calibration is accomplished using the Fourier series based transfer function of the transduc... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4900688 | Pseudo uniphase charge coupled device fabrication by self-aligned virtual barrier and virtual gate formation A pseudo uniphase CCD array having four functional regions, a clocked barrier region, a clocked well region, a virtual barrier region, and a gate variable potential well region per stage. The described structure allows flexibility in setting operating vol... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4894298 | Alkali and halogen rechargeable cell with reactant recombination An alkali metal plus halide electrical battery cell of, for example, the sodium and sulfuryl chloride type is disclosed. The disclosed cell provides accommodation for cell chemical reaction products that otherwise preclude achievement of secondary battery... | 01/16/1990 |
