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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5223352 | Lead-acid battery with dimensionally isotropic graphite additive in active material A lead-acid battery in which the plates are fabricated from a paste containing principally lead oxide and a small amount of dimensionally isotropic graphite fiber of a specific type. The specific type of graphite fiber may be either a graphite fiber synth... | 06/29/1993 |
| 4855595 | Electric field control in ion mobility spectrometry An ion mobility spectrometer for detecting ions and for facilitating controlled chemical reactions is described incorporating an inlet for carrier and sample gas, a reaction region having an ionization source and at least two electrodes for generating an ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4797554 | Ion mobility spectrometer An ion mobility spectrometer is described incorporating an air mixer having a clean air inlet and a sample air inlet, an ion mobility spectrometer cell for generating reaction ions and sample ions which are subsequently measured in a drift region, a first... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4769343 | Single step lift-off technique for submicron gates A method for forming a submicron width metal line on a substrate is described incorporating the steps of coating a substrate with a layer of photoresist, baking the layer, exposing the layer to a pattern, soaking the layer in a solution including chlorobe... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4749996 | Double tuned, coupled microstrip antenna An first antenna for radiating a signal at a predetermined frequency employing at least one 1/4 wave-length microstrip resonator positioned below a metal 1/4 wavelength radiator. A circularly polarized antenna including a 1/2 wavelength radiator electroma... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4744954 | Amperometric gas sensor containing a solid electrolyte An electrochemical gas sensor is described incorporating a sensing electrode, a reference electrode, a solid matrix containing an alkali salt, a potentiostat and a heater. The invention overcomes the problem of a liquid electrolyte which may operate over ... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4742799 | Animal training device A puppy toy or comforter comprising two generally rectangular hollow bodies of fabric of similar dimensions which are filled with padding material and which are joined together in overlying relationship along three outer edges. The conjoined bodies define... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4712008 | Ion mobility spectrometer An ion mobility spectrometer is described for detecting gas constituents in an ambient air incorporating a cylindrical tube containing a reaction region, a shutter assembly and a drift region therein, the cylindrical tube fits within a housing having a ch... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4709238 | Sequential mono-lobe tracker A mono-lobe tracker is described for tracking a target emitting radio signals incorporating an antenna, a circuit for sequential lobing, a radio frequency amplifier, a mixer, an intermediate frequency amplifier, an amplitude modulator detector, and integr... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4664057 | Photoprocessing apparatus including conical reflector A photoprocessing apparatus for processing substrates includes a chamber for holding the substrates and a light source for providing an electromagnetic beam along an axis. A substantially conical reflector is positioned along the axis of the electromagnet... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4665374 | Monolithic programmable signal processor using PI-FET taps A monolithic programmable signal processor with piezoelectric insulator FETs and an InP substrate. The piezoelectric insulator FETs are capable of being constructed on the same substrate with circuits associated with the signal processor and optical compo... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4662060 | Method of fabricating semiconductor device having low resistance non-alloyed contact layer A method of forming a semiconductor device having a non-alloyed contact layer. An active region is formed in a substrate and the non-alloyed contact layer is formed in the active region, the barrier height of source and drain electrodes for the non-alloye... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4654817 | Real time controller A real time controller is described for obtaining real time data from a sensor incorporating a memory, comparator, instruction decoder and real time counter. The real time controller solves the problem of gathering real time data as a function of time fro... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4652869 | Color enhancement for display device A circuit for modifying the luminescence of one color of a multicolor display device is described incorporating a logic circuit, a plurality of amplifiers, a plurality of multipliers, and a display device for displaying a plurality of colors. The inventio... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4652880 | Antenna feed network An antenna feed network is described incorporating a plurality of power dividers and a plurality of power combiners to distribute at least two microwave signals over predetermined electrical path lengths to two overlapping subarrays of antenna elements fo... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4648098 | Signal generator and correlator for receiving minimum shift keyed data A minimum shift keyed reference signal generator is described (FIG. 3) incorporating a shift register, for holding a spreading function, a first and second memory for holding in-phase and quadrature weights, a counter for addressing the first and second m... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4635221 | Frequency multiplexed convolver communication system A spread spectrum communication system is described for decoding data from a signal having a carrier frequency and at least one of a plurality of predetermined orthogonal modulations thereon incorporating a frequency synthesizer for generating a plurality... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4617678 | Apparatus for detecting and recovering binary data from an input signal A circuit is described for recovering binary data from an input signal which may be phase coded and received intermittently and nonsynchronously incorporating an edge detector for detecting transitions of the data from a 0 to a 1, a counter which may be r... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4599609 | Personal liquid chemical agent detector A personal liquid chemical agent detector incorporating a sensor which changes resistance in response to contact with liquid, first and second switches which function as pins for attaching the detector to the wearer and as electrical switches, a battery, ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4595486 | Electrochemical gas sensor An electrochemical gas sensor is described for detecting a gas constituent, for example hydrazine in a gas ambient incorporating an electrochemical cell including a reference electrode, counter electrode and sensing electrode spaced apart and with an elec... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4554547 | Range processor for DME A range processor for airborne distance measuring equipment in which coherency of reply signals from the ground based DME station is determined by incrementing the contents of storage locations of a random access memory device for each reply signal accord... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4532517 | Cyclic redundancy check monitor for microwave landing system beam steering unit In a microwave landing system the individual words of a train of command words generated by the antenna beam steering unit are applied to a polynomial generator where each is, seriatim, summed with a polynomial check word generated in a previous operation... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4525704 | Enzymatic toxic gas sensor An enzymatic toxic gas sensor 10 having a plurality of parallel planar surfaces and a buffered electrolyte reservoir 44. The buffered electrolyte is conveyed by means of diffusion to a substrate 28 to dissolve the substrate. The substrate diffuses to an i... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4525266 | Electrochemical gas sensor An electrochemical gas detection cell, particularly suitable for detecting H2 S, includes an electrochemical gas sensor which has a reference electrode, a sensing electrode and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is composed of carbon. T... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4500391 | Method of and system for real time differential pulse detection An electrochemical detection cell which includes, in the order named, a stack of components constituted by a first membrane, an electrode carrier having reference and counter electrodes thereon, a membrane support, an electrode carrier having a sensing el... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4490720 | Multipulse signal processing for radar system A radar system alternately transmits relatively short and long pulses. The video signals corresponding to the target returns from consecutive pulse transmissions are converted to digital format and then integrated except that radar return signals from tar... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4487080 | Seal for liquid injection valve for gas chromatography A sampling valve having a stem which reciprocates between a liquid filled chamber and a vaporizing chamber is provided with a stem seal comprised by a thermoplastic bushing fitted to the valve stem with an interference fit. The bushing is encircled by a c... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4468633 | Adjustable microwave power combiner for a plurality of coaxially mounted impatt diodes A typical coaxial circuit which couples a negative resistance diode to the cavity of a power combiner consists of a metallic rod which is biased by a spring against the diode supported by a carrier which is effective to vary the position of the diode alon... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4458214 | Fast sampling phase locked loop frequency synthesizer The output frequency of a phase locked loop frequency synthesizer is measured by a counter which counts whole output cycles and a timer providing a signal proportional to a fractional output cycle during a sampling period. The counter output is stored int... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4445038 | Apparatus for simultaneous detection of positive and negative ions in ion mobility spectrometry An ion mobility detector has dual drift regions respectively on either side of a centrally located reaction region and respectively separated therefrom by dual shutter grids. Each drift region terminates in a Faraday cup. An ion accelerating electrical fi... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4428062 | Surface acoustic wave convolver having a horn central ray transit time compensating stub A surface acoustic wave convolver (10) with parabolic horns (16, 18), a typical horn (16) having a compensating stub (16a) at the horn input end (16b) disposed centrally on the horn longitudinal axis (19) to maintain the phase coherence at the horn output... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4425567 | Beam forming network for circular array antennas A beam forming network for a circular array antenna includes a sum pattern network for generating signal weights corresponding to a sum antenna pattern having omnidirectional sidelobes and a difference pattern network for generating signal weights corresp... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4414550 | Low profile circular array antenna and microstrip elements therefor An antenna element is comprised of two rectangular microstrip patch dipoles spaced by dielectric a predetermined distance above a ground plane conductor. One edge of each dipole is electrically shunted to the ground plane conductor. The dipole feedpoints ... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4410824 | Means for preventing cracks in the gap region of a surface acoustic wave device A thin film metallic loop is used to electrically short the gap between metallic portions of a surface acoustic wave device to eliminate substrate surface cracks. The loop is deposited on the substrate at the same time the structures defining the gap are ... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4406019 | Selectivity means in amplitude modulated radio receivers In an amplitude modulation radio receiver a relatively narrow band filter is placed before the receiver detector and a relatively wide band filter is placed just prior to the IF amplifier stages. An IF stage controlled by receiver AGC is designed to have ... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4404459 | Housing and mounting assembly providing a temperature stabilized environment for a microcircuit An electronic package is mounted by its leads in an inner hermetically sealed package in an atmosphere of dry nitrogen gas at about 50 torr gas pressure. Leads extend through hermetically sealed electric feedthroughs into an outer enclosure which is maint... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4390784 | One piece ion accelerator for ion mobility detector cells The ion accelerator for an ion mobility detector cell is comprised of a ceramic tube coated inside with a thick film resistor composition across which a voltage potential difference is impressed to provide an ion accelerating electrical field gradient wit... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4359700 | Balancing network for microwave power combiner The diode bias input terminals of an IMPATT microwave power combiner are resistively coupled to a common floating node to provide stabilization of the operating points of the individual IMPATT diodes, thus minimizing the tendency of the diodes to contribu... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4356461 | Practical implementation of large Butler matrices A large N×N Butler matrix is comprised of a first plurality of smaller essentially flat M×M Butler matrices arranged in a first stack and a second plurality of smaller, essentially flat P×P Butler matrices arranged in a second stack in which the planes... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4342120 | Squelch system for use in a multiple carrier AM communications systems receiver A squelch system for use in a multicarrier communications receiver includes a conventional noise squelch circuit having a detector and filter operative to close a squelch gate in the absence of an incoming carrier and a phase locked loop means parallel th... | 07/27/1982 |
