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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5417778 | Ductile, light weight, high strength beryllium-aluminum cast composite alloy A light weight, high strength quaternary or higher-order cast beryllium-aluminum alloy, including approximately 60 to 70 weight % beryllium, and from approximately 0.2 to 5 weight % germanium and from 0.2 to 4.25 weight % silver, with the balance aluminum... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5381718 | Process for magnetically seating a tone hole pad A process for evenly seating a woodwind instrument tone hole sealing pad in the pad cup includes placing the pad on the tone hole rim, placing an at least partially magnetic element between the pad and cup; placing a solidifiable substance between the ele... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5371594 | Sample and hold flyback phase control circuit for a null seeking fiber optic gyroscope A flyback phase control circuit for a null seeking fiber optic gyroscope system having an optimal peak phase amplitude includes a sample and hold circuit for sampling the phase difference between the clockwise and counterclockwise optical beams in the dif... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5367966 | Automatic edge sewing system and method An automatic edge sewing system and method for sewing together the edge of a plurality of parts in which the parts to be sewn are clamped together in a sewing machine having a reciprocating needle; the parts are mounted for rotation about a first rotation... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5365538 | Slab waveguide pumped channel waveguide laser A slab waveguide pumped channel waveguide laser includes a slab waveguide having a primary pump guiding layer with a first index of refraction and having first and second opposing faces and a peripheral edge including a mirrored surface, and cladding mean... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5365367 | High-resolution synthetic aperture telescope system A high-resolution synthetic aperture telescope system includes a primary mirror which is a section of the aperture to be synthesized; and a device for rotating the primary mirror section through a number of angular positions about the aperture being synth... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5353656 | Electrostatically controlled micromechanical gyroscope An integrated electrostatically-controlled micromechanical gyroscope with a rotor encompassed within a rotor cavity and electrostatically spun within the cavity. The gyroscope includes a plurality of axial electrostatic rotor actuators above and below the... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5349526 | System and method for converting sentence elements unrecognizable by a computer system into base language elements recognizable by the computer system A system and method for converting inoperative sentence elements into operative elements in which a set of grammar rules for substituting sentence elements with different elements is established. A sequential comparison between each grammar rule and the s... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5347497 | Tide indicator system A graphic tide indicator system in which time intervals between a plurality of corrective tides are stored, the temporal position in the current time interval is determined, and a visual display is employed to display the relative water depth.... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5339719 | Process for seating a tone hole pad A process for evenly seating a woodwind instrument tone hole sealing pad in the pad cup, and the tone hole sealing pad for accomplishing this even seating. The process contemplates placing the pad on the tone hole rim, applying a force to the rim to pull ... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5339155 | Optical wavelength modulated long-path gas monitoring apparatus Optical long-path gas monitoring apparatus (2) comprising means (4) for providing a radiation beam, a modulator (10) for modulating the wavelength of the radiation beam such as to produce amplitude modulation of the beam in the presence of the gas being m... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5325868 | Self-gripping medical wire torquer A self-gripping wire torquer including a sleeve body, a clamping device biased for automatically grasping the wire and releasably fixing the sleeve body in place on the wire, and a release mechanism for temporarily releasing the clamp means to slide and r... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5327161 | System and method for emulating a mouse input device with a touchpad input device A system and method for emulating a mouse input device with a touchpad input device having a drag switch and touch device in which the direction of movement of the touch device across the touchpad surface is determined, a display cursor is caused to move ... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5324170 | Pump control apparatus and method Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for controlling electrically powered liquid-moving pumps, particularly bilge and sump pumps. The apparatus is characterized by the fact that no portion thereof need be located in the hostile environment of the b... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5319273 | Fixed gain electromagnetic actuator and electromagnetic bearing incorporating same A fixed gain electromagnetic actuator for controlling the position of a body including at least two pair of a magnetically permeable pole spaced from the body, bias coils about each pole, separate control coils about each pole, a bias source for the bias ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5317199 | Ramp generator system An improved ramp generator system includes a plurality of ramp generator circuits; a ramp rate signal source for controlling the ramp slope; a ramp voltage signal source for establishing the starting voltage of the ramp; a ramp starting signal source for ... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5316019 | Condom applicator A condom applicator (2) comprising a rolled up condom (4) and a ring member (6) for applying the condom (4) by unrolling it over a penis, the ring member comprising a side wall (8), a flat portion (10), a first lip (12), a second lip (16), and first and s... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5315874 | Monolithic quartz resonator accelerometer A monolithic quartz resonator accelerometer including a monolithic quartz sensing structure with a frame, a proof mass support structure within the frame, and a resonator structure interconnecting the frame and the support structure. Further included are ... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5316518 | Clean containment room construction A clean containment room construction (2) comprising a work room (4) having a floor (6), walls (8) and a ceiling (10), an isolation void (12) which surrounds the walls (8) and the ceiling (10) of the work room (4), air-circulating apparatus (14) for maint... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5313394 | Document assembly customization system for modifying a source instrument including text and decisional commands A document assembly customization system for modifying a source instrument including text and decisional commands and their associated decisional clauses, including a function for indicating each decisional command and, its associated decisional clause in... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5313361 | Ceramic substrate An improved ceramic substrate for supporting, cooling and interconnecting components on both surfaces of a substrate includes a plurality of coolant carrying channels separated by fins and extending through the substrate generally parallel to the surfaces... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5313399 | Adaptive synchronous vibration suppression apparatus An adaptive synchronous vibration suppression apparatus for suppressing vibrations in a dynamic system subject to synchronous disturbance detects the energy representative of the synchronous component of the vibration induced by the synchronous disturbanc... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5310507 | Method of making a conductive polymer selective species sensor A selective chemical species detector including a conductive polymer based sensing element having a detectable characteristic, for example, the polymer resistivity, permanently altered on exposure to a first chemical species and not permanently altered on... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5309390 | Ferroelectric space charge capacitor memory A ferroelectric space charge capacitor memory device includes a pair of spaced first and second electrodes; a ferroelectric dielectric disposed between the electrodes; a coercive voltage supply for applying a coercive voltage to the dielectric to write th... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5305882 | Self-storing collapsible implement A self-storing collapsible implement includes: a collapsible handle; a grip at the proximal end of the handle; a tool at the distal end of the handle; and a cover, attached to the handle proximate the junction of the grip and the handle for covering and c... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5303210 | Integrated resonant cavity acoustic transducer An integrated resonant cavity acoustic transducer includes a substrate chip having a cavity; a movable plate electrode; means for resiliently mounting the movable plate electrode across the cavity in the substrate chip; and a perforated electrode spaced f... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5303349 | Interface for establishing a number of consecutive time frames of bidirectional command and data block communication between a Host's standard parallel port and a peripheral device A computer interface having time frame dependent functional designation of parallel port lines system. A communication cycle is established with a plurality of time frames for a group of parallel port lines. Discrete data bytes are transferred to and from... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5299596 | Sewer chimney system A sewer chimney system for stabilizing and protecting a chimney pipe interconnecting a service pipe and a main sewer line includes a base for bridging a main sewer line, the base having a hole for accommodating the chimney pipe rising from the main sewer ... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5301344 | Multibus sequential processor to perform in parallel a plurality of reconfigurable logic operations on a plurality of data sets A reconfigurable sequential processor includes a data bank for storing data to be processed; a programmable logic block address generator for addressing data in the data bank; a programmable logic block arithmetic unit responsive to the data bank for proc... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5297466 | Tone hole pad and process for magnetically seating same A process for evenly seating a woodwind instrument tone hole sealing pad in the pad cup, and the pad assembly itself. The process contemplates placing the pad on the tone hole rim, applying a magnetic force to the pad to pull it against the tone hole rim,... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5297280 | Automatically retrieving queried data by extracting query dimensions and modifying the dimensions if an extract match does not occur An automatic data reference system and method responds to a query for a data item by determining whether a match can be found between the query dimensions and the dimensions of one of a number of data tables stored in the database for queries which consti... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5293721 | Horizontal cable animal barrier A horizontal cable animal barrier for mounting on a cable to deter animal passage including a plurality of roller elements each having a central hole for rotatably mounting on a cable and a spacer element between each pair of roller elements and also havi... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5295158 | Dynamically selectable multimode pluse width modulation system A dynamically selectable multimode pulse width modulation system includes ramp generator means for generating a ramp; pulse edge modulation means responsive to the ramp generator means for defining a leading edge modulated pulse, a trailing edge modulated... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5291975 | System and method for damping narrow band axial vibrations of a rotating device A system and method for damping narrow band axial vibrations of a rotating device in which a reaction mass is coupled to the rotating device and a reaction mass actuator is employed to move the reaction mass axially along the rotating device. An effect of... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5291889 | Apparatus and method for spatially positioning images An apparatus and method for facilitating the positioning of a live image with respect to a reference image in which the live and reference images are combined to produce a composite image that is displayed.... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5292569 | Rotationally relieved flexure for accelerometer A flexure for an accelerometer includes an inner hub; an outer rim spaced from the inner hub; one of the hub and rim being mounted to the accelerometer body and the other to the proof mass of the accelerometer; at least three curved tapered beams extendin... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5284047 | Multiplexed single-channel knock sensor signal conditioner system for internal combustion engine A multiplexed single channel knock sensor signal conditioner system for internal combustion engines includes a plurality of sensors for sensing the vibrations associated with knocking in an internal combustion engine; a single signal conditioning channel ... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5279866 | Process for depositing wear-resistant coatings A process for depositing on a sample surface a smooth, wear-resistant coating including the steps of providing a vacuum processing chamber for holding the sample to be coated, introducing into the processing chamber coating-forming reactants for depositio... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5280407 | Linearized ferroelectric capacitor A linearized ferroelectric capacitor includes a ferroelectric dielectric medium; a doped region in the ferroelectric dielectric medium, the doped region having a charge of a first polarity which divides the medium into two sections of opposing polarized d... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5276335 | Cask for storing and transporting highly radioactive material and method of making same A cask for storing and transporting highly radioactive materials includes an inner shell and a number of layers of depleted uranium wire wound on the inner shell to create a radioactive shield against emanation of radioactivity from the material stored wi... | 01/04/1994 |
