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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7523890 | Non-pyrotechnic remote-controlled parachute jettison method A method of severing an extraction line connected between an extraction parachute and a cargo load when the cargo load fails to eject from an aircraft. The method comprises the steps of spacing a cutter from the extraction line; spring-biasing the cutter in the dire... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7457803 | Method for processing data Improved method involving a series of unique steps for progressively and selectively processing data relative to a multiterminal computer network for storing, analizing and periodically upgrading stored data where the network is made up of one or more user terminals... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7432872 | Compact aviation vertically polarized log periodic antenna A reduced height log periodic antenna that may safely be positioned under the rotating blades of a helicopter sitting on the ground and still resonate in the frequency range at which the antenna was originally designed to resonate. The antenna comprises a pair of an... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7306188 | Non-pyrotechnic remote-controlled parachute jettison device A device for severing an extraction line connected between a cargo load and an extraction parachute when the cargo load fails to eject from an aircraft. The device comprises a cutter spaced from and spring-biased in the direction of the extraction line; a housing fo... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7296520 | External telemetry unit An external telemetry unit for a projectile. The external telemetry unit comprises a shell adapted to be inserted between the front of the projectile body and the fuze, a flexible battery and flexible electronic circuitry encircling the front of the shell, and a plu... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7180301 | Power monitor-glitch trap system A device for sensing and capturing the state of a direct current electrical power line comprising a voltage comparator having a pair of inputs, one of the inputs adapted to be connected to the power line, the other input connected to an analog and digital I/O module... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7131229 | Portable tube cleaning system A portable cannon tube cleaning method comprising the steps of pulling a trailer to the site of a cannon tube to be cleaned, adjusting the height of a main cleaner chassis assembly to be in line with the cannon tube to be cleaned, fitting the main cleaner chassis as... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7055278 | Portable tube cleaning system A portable cannon tube cleaning system that includes a trailer designed to be pulled to the field site of a cannon tube to be cleaned; a mechanism securely mounted to the floor of the trailer for providing vertical height adjustment; a main cleaner chassis assembly ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7017466 | Primer removal method A method for removing a damaged primer from the primer chamber of a cannon. The method comprises the steps of running a starter tap into a damaged primer, and shaking the damaged primer loose from the primer chamber so that the damaged primer comes out of the primer... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7010463 | Method of determining whether an improved item has a better mean lifetime than an existing item A method of determining whether an improved item has a better mean lifetime than an existing item having a fully specified lifetime distribution function. A finite number n of examples of the new item are placed on life test, and the failure times of the n examples ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6982039 | Method for improving ultraviolet radiation disinfection of water using aqueous silver A method of disinfecting water is provided including treating water by irradiating the water with ultraviolet light and introducing silver ions to the water. The water may be treated by either initially irradiating the water with ultraviolet light followed by introd... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6955111 | Method for safely removing the spindle and the breechblock from the carrier of an M777 howitzer A method comprising the steps of lifting a stool-like device onto the recoil slide rails of a howitzer, sliding the device on the recoil slide rails of the howitzer until the device is centered under the breechblock of the howitzer, receiving and holding the breechb... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6922933 | Primer removal tool A primer removal tool comprising a starter tap, a holder for the starter tap, one or more setscrews passing through the holder and against the starter tap for securing the starter tap in the holder, a handle, a spacer bushing connected to the center of the handle, a... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6840150 | Device and method for safely removing the spindle and the breechblock from the carrier of an M777 howitzer A stool-like device for safely removing the spindle and the breechblock from the carrier of a howitzer. The device comprises a frame; rollers connected to the frame for sliding the bottom of the frame on the recoil slide rails of a howitzer until the frame is center... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6760351 | Liquid immersed pumped solid state laser A liquid immersed pumped solid state lasing system comprising a light source and a lasing element spaced from the light source. The light source and the lasing element are mounted in an insulated container. The top of the container is open for inputting a clear cryo... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6748351 | Modular covert remote electronic warfare simulator An apparatus for electronic warfare signal simulation which is used in an external test system to simultaneously test a plurality of “victim” communication systems for vulnerability to jamming. The test system includes a remote radiator of a signal free of jammi... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6674400 | Apparatus for providing GPS positioning information to a plurality of computers from only one GPS receiver An apparatus for providing GPS positioning information to a master computer and a plurality of slave computers from only one GPS receiver. The apparatus includes a circuit adapted to be coupled between the GPS receiver and the computers for providing each... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6445328 | Large dynamic range digitizing apparatus and method An apparatus and method for digitizing an analog signal and optimizing the dynamic range of the digitized signal. Dual analog-to-digital converters are preceded by respective amplifiers with different gains for receiving an analog input signal. The digita... | 09/03/2002 |
| 5274361 | Laser optical mouse An apparatus for determining distance coordinates along two orthogonal axes for a computer system, where the coordinates represent the position of a cursor on a screen of a display unit of the computer system. The apparatus includes a pair of velocity det... | 12/28/1993 |
| 4829521 | Test circuit for detecting short duration pulses A test assembly for automatically testing and diagnosing digital printed-circuit boards has a driver circuit for supplying a stimulus pulse to the circuit board to be tested, a sensor circuit for detecting the output from the circuit board in response to ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4698827 | Generalized polyphase code pulse compressor A decoding device for use in pulse compression radars to decode a novel pe code that has the advantage of precompression bandwidth tolerance. The novel code type is described by the following formula (where Ɗ$c;k,p is the phase change at t... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4674829 | Polarization-independent switch with coupler spacing optimized for low voltage operation A process of fabricating an optical directional coupler switch for the TE- and TM-mode polarizations at a given wavelength. Initially, a trial set of waveguide fabrication parameters is used to fabricate a series of channel waveguide directional couplers ... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4670722 | FET oscillator having controllable reactance element-controlled two port feedback network A broadband high frequency power oscillator employing a GaAs FET transistor and a two-port coupling network whose input port is connected across the drain and source terminals of the GaAs FET. The coupling network consists of 3 branches in T- or π-config... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4668894 | Waveguide coupler using three or more wave modes A coupler employing two similar sections of waveguide which extend coliney in longitudinal succession. Adjacent ends of the guide sections are spaced apart to form a gap in the boundary of the sections. A third section of waveguide is disposed external t... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4661783 | Free electron and cyclotron resonance distributed feedback lasers and masers Free-electron lasers and masers are modified by eliminating the resonator cavity as such. The feedback mechanism, essential to oscillation, is distributed through and integrated with the transmission line which guides the electromagnetic wave at the activ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4635246 | Frequency multiplex system using injection locking of multiple laser diodes An optical frequency division multiplex system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a transmission path connecting the transmitter to the receiver. In the transmitter a master laser is operated to produce a central peak at an optical frequency fo... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4580140 | Twin aperture phased array lens antenna A phased array lens antenna which includes a lens having two faces disposed ubstantially at a right angle to each other. Transmit-receive modules which include phase-shifters are shared between the two lens faces. Two lens antennas positioned in back-to-ba... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578614 | Ultra-fast field emitter array vacuum integrated circuit switching device A field-emitter switching device wherein a positive pulse is applied to a te (which is held at a bias potential V1 just below turn-on). A collector is held at a potential higher than the gate in order to collect emitted electrons from a field e... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4555703 | Environmental mapping system A circuit which detects environmental sources of echos received by a pulscho system such as a radar and classifies the sources of the echo at each range resolution cell as either short-pulse interference, rain clutter or jamming, distributed land clutter... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4548782 | Tokamak plasma heating with intense, pulsed ion beams An intense, space-charge-neutralized, pulsed ion beam is used to heat a magnetically-confined plasma, such as tokamak plasma, by injecting the ion beam into the plasma along a trajectory that is generally tangential to the confining magnetic field. The in... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4535023 | Process for fabricating cryogenic targets and targets made thereby A process for patterning a target for lasing at X-ray wavelengths from materials which cannot be readily shaped. A substrate of one material is placed in a gaseous atmosphere of another material, and the substrate is cooled below the freezing point of the... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4531195 | Polychromatic time-integrating optical processor for high-speed ambiguity processing A signal processor for generating the ambiguity integral using a modulatable, broadband, incoherent light source, a multiplicity of acousto-optic cells and diffraction gratings, and a two-dimensional time-integrating photodetector array. The various color... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4527040 | Method of laser welding A method of welding two HY-steel members to produce a weld joint having improved impact toughness. The surface to be welded are first machined, roto-blasted and cleaned with acetone. Then, an insert of Inconel 600 is provided and cleaned with acetone. Nex... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4524363 | P2 Polyphase code expander-compressor A pulse expansion and compression system, especially useful for radar rang, comprising a pulse coder for expanding an input pulse and a pulse compressor of the matched-filter type. The coder consists of a plurality of delay stages into which the input pu... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4524362 | Phase coded pulse expander-compressor A pulse expansion and compression system, especially useful for radar rang, comprising a pulse coder for expanding an input pulse and a pulse compressor of the matched-filter type. The coder consists of a plurality of delay stages into which the input pu... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4521075 | Controllable spatial incoherence echelon for laser A system for achieving very uniform illumination of a target. A beam of broadband spatially-coherent light is converted to light with a controlled spatial incoherence and focused on the target. An echelon-like grating breaks the beam up into a large numbe... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4521779 | Pulse compression system A system for polyphase encoding transmitted pulses of energy and for decog the received signals to enhance returns from the range interval being examined during a particular processing period and attenuate returns from contiguous range intervals (pulse c... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4512825 | Recovery of fragile layers produced on substrates by chemical vapor deposition A method of recovering intact at room temperature a layer of a first material, such as silicon carbide, produced by depositing it from the gas phase at a deposition temperature above room temperature on a substrate of a second material, such as silicon, h... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4513087 | Reversible optical waveguide vapor sensor A device for detecting small amounts of a chemical such as ammonia, and other ammonia-like molecules such as hydrazine or pyridine, in air and in other gases is disclosed. A capillary tube serves as a multiple total reflective medium for an optical beam f... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4513289 | P1 Polyphase code expander-compressor A pulse expansion and compression system, especially useful for radar rang, comprising a pulse coder for expanding an input pulse and a pulse compressor of the matched-filter type. The coder consists of a plurality of delay stages into which the input pu... | 04/23/1985 |
