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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5317045 | System and method for remotely heating a polymeric material to a selected temperature Both a system and method are provided for remotely heating a polymeric material to a selected temperature. The system generally comprises particulate ferromagnetic material dispersed throughout the polymeric material to form a composite, wherein the parti... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5298679 | Current lead for cryostat using composite high temperature superconductors A vapor cooled current lead for a superconducting device located in a cryostat includes a normal conductor section extending from ambient conditions inward to an intermediate point, and a composite lead having a ceramic high temperature superconductor cor... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5297232 | Wireless neural network and a wireless neural processing element A neural network is disclosed in which communication between processing elements occurs by radio waves in a waveguide. Radio wave communication using common carrier signals by transceivers in a waveguide allows processing elements to communicate wirelessl... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5272216 | System and method for remotely heating a polymeric material to a selected temperature Both a system and method are provided for remotely heating a polymeric material to a selected temperature. The system generally comprises particulate ferromagnetic material dispersed throughout the polymeric material to form a composite, wherein the parti... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5250388 | Production of highly conductive polymers for electronic circuits Processes for producing stable, radiation hard, highly conductive polymers by a combination of chemical doping and ion irradiation and microelectronics are described. The highly conductive polymers formed by these processes may contain regions of differen... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5243517 | Method and apparatus for physiological evaluation of short films and entertainment materials The present invention uses a personal computer 180 with an A/D converter 184 and a hard disk drive 182 to record the electroencephalographic (EEG) activity of a subject 192 during a commercial and to record event related potentials (ERP) during commercial... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5233320 | Compact multiple channel rotary joint A multiple channel rotary joint design is described in which the channel components are laid out in a manner to reduce the number of layers of microwave circuitry necessary to provide rotary coupling with the antenna. The reduction of layers in each chann... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5103405 | Digital probabilistic reasoning element A digital set theoretic system is disclosed that expands the reasoning capability from reasoning with probability measures to reasoning with set theory measures and other Venn diagram type operations using linear transformations and power series transform... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5073867 | Digital neural network processing elements A preprocessing device is disclosed which performs a linear transformation or power series expansion transformation on the input signals to a neural network node. The outputs of the preprocessing device are combined as a product of these linear transforma... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5034814 | System for reducing NTSC flicker in compatible high definition television systems A system for converting a high definition video signal corresponding to a high definition picture, into a subsampled video signal compatible with NTSC transmission includes a circuit for performing N-phase subsampling on the high definition video signal t... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4734572 | Dual light source locating and tracking system Dual light beams directed onto adjacent surface elements defining a seam therebetween produce reflected light images which contact an electro-optic linear array sensor which in turn generates light spot position information for determining seam location v... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4700386 | Technique for promoting CATV pay-per-view events and acknowledging subscriber orders In CATV systems employing one-way addressable converters in a subscriber's premise, a computer at the system head-end develops tagged messages for display on the subscriber's television to both promote upcoming pay-per-view events and to acknowledge a sub... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4688983 | Low cost robot An industrial robot in which both a column which is pivotally mounted on a rotatable base member and a boom which is pivotally mounted on the upper end of the column are of hollow construction to provide a rigid lightweight structure capable of carrying s... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4638359 | Remote control switching of television sources Binary data consisting of command signals and information is converted into a pulse width modulated waveform which is inserted in the non-picture portion of a television video signal and transmitted to remote local subscriber systems to control the televi... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4625235 | Remote control switching of television sources In a satellite communications network wherein primary video signals containing address and command data pulses in the vertical blanking intervals are transmitted to a plurality of local television subscriber systems, each local system is provided with dec... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4510604 | Operation of a two-photon three level laser The operation of a two-photon, three level laser system at high temperatures or pressures is made possible by reducing the build up time of the flux of the second lasing transition in the laser discharge region.... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4502144 | Gain tuned laser resonator Multiple wavelengths are produced from a single laser gain medium by utilizing gain saturation effects within the laser cavity. Two or more partially reflecting mirrors are coupled to a totally reflecting mirror through the laser gain medium by a grating ... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4471217 | Optical scanning system An optical reading system employing a commercially available line scanning camera which is sensitive to the ink employed in preprinted document formats. The sensitivity of a line scan camera to the preprinted ink formats is minimized by employing an incan... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4446426 | On-line RF arc monitor for large rotating generators The level and duration of RF current flowing in the neutral grounding circuit of a generator is monitored to determine internal arcing conditions.... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4442476 | Versatile printed circuit board termination rack A termination rack suitable for mounting in a 19 inch instrument cabinet is designed to provide separate cable troughs associated with each of a plurality of printed circuit board housings to permit versatile and high density packaging of electronic circu... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4428017 | Electric motor and transformer load sensing technique A Faraday rotator optical sensor in combination with optical fiber transmission means is employed to monitor overload current conditions in a high voltage electrical load and transmit this information to a low voltage signal processing circuit while provi... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4427880 | Non-contact visual proximity sensing apparatus An array of light sources transmit a series of light beams onto an object and the reflected light beams are focussed on a light responsive transducer. The output signals of the transducer are processed to determine the location and orientation of the obje... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4423510 | Laser tube design incorporating low inductance capacitor A multilayer high temperature, low inductance capacitor consisting of alternate layers of metal and dielectric insulator materials which are inert with respect to metal halide environments is directly affixed to a planar electrode of a high temperature me... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4397888 | Thick film sensor for hydrogen and carbon monoxide An improved thick film stannic oxide sensor is disclosed whereby the sensitivity of the sensor to CO is enhanced by the addition of a rare earth oxide to the sensor composition and the catalytic reactivity of the sensor, when contacted by a gas containing... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4397024 | Technique for amplifying two or more laser beams in a single laser amplifier Multiple input laser pulses, wherein each pulse serves to create the population inversion for the next pulse, are amplified in the laser medium of a single laser amplifier apparatus.... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4394240 | Combined sulfur oxide/oxygen measuring apparatus Oxygen ion and oxy-anion conductive solid electrolyte, electrochemical cells are combined to form a single gas measuring apparatus having a common internal gas reference and developing electrical signals from which the partial pressure of oxygen and an an... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4391690 | Apparatus for monitoring SO2 concentrations In a solid electrolyte electrochemical cell device for generating an EMF signal based on the Nernst equation which is indicative of the SO2 content of a monitored gas environment, the oxygen content of the reference environment of the cell is a... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4389570 | Wide range radiation monitoring apparatus An emitter plate of a high atomic number material is positioned between collector plates of a low atomic number material and the ionization current developed in the gap regions therebetween in response to low radiation fields and the self-powered current ... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4381565 | Radiative removal of lower laser level bottlenecking Stimulated emission resulting from a secondary source of radiation transfers population from a lower laser level of a primary lasing transition to a third energy level which is not involved in the primary lasing of a laser system to reduce lower laser lev... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4377460 | Solid electrolyte gas sensing apparatus An alkali ion conductive solid electrolyte electrochemical concentration cell assembly for measuring gases containing anhydrides or related compounds in air or in oxygen-bearing gases is divided into two identical alkali ion conductive half cycles. Each h... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4375689 | Operation of a two-photon three level laser The operation of a two-photon, three level laser system at high temperatures or pressures is made possible by reducing the build up time of the flux of the second lasing transition in the laser discharge region.... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4362057 | Optical fiber temperature sensor The self-generating thermal radiation properties of an optical fiber element are employed to determine the temperature, location and length of a hot spot, or region, of an object.... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4363061 | Electric motor and transformer load sensing technique A Faraday rotator optical sensor in combination with optical fiber transmission means is employed to monitor overload current conditions in a high voltage electrical load and transmit this information to a low voltage signal processing circuit while provi... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4361888 | Technique for increasing the efficiency of low pressure, short pulse laser systems The depletion of energy stored in the transfer gas component of a low pressure, short pulse laser system following excitation of the laser gas medium consisting of a lasing gas component and a transfer gas component is achieved by extracting a plurality o... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4357596 | Multi-line scan mark verification circuit In a document scanning scheme where data is preceded on the document by a preprinted document scan mark, circuitry is employed to utilize multiple line scans of the scan mark by a line scan camera to verify the presence of a scan mark and avoid erroneous ... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4356390 | Optical path monitoring circuit for a document scanner The light levels reflected from a predetermined blank portion of an optically scanned document are monitored. The presence of dirt or smudges in the optical path which could adversely affect the validity of the information read from the document.... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4334181 | Motor brake The braking of an a.c. motor is accomplished by sequence controlled outputs of a shift register circuit which sequentially disconnects the main a.c. electrical excitation from the a.c. motor, connects a full wave rectifier circuit to the a.c. motor and th... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4330843 | Digital display exerciser In a data acquisition and storage system including a plurality of remote data generating units, a data processor/display unit for addressing the respective data generating units, processing the data for storage and providing a visual display of the proces... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4325029 | Alkali ionization detector A calibration filament containing a sodium-bearing compound is included in combination with the sensing filament and ion collector plate of a sodium ionization detector to permit periodic generation of sodium atoms for the in-situ calibration of the detec... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4319966 | Technique for monitoring SO3, H2 SO4 in exhaust gases containing SO2 The SO3, H2 SO4 content of a gas environment containing SO2 and H2 O is measured by cooling the gas to a temperature to convert SO3 in the presence of H2 O to H2 SO4 | 03/16/1982 |
