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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5513062 | Power supply for a redundant computer system in a control system A simplified and economical power supply for redundant computer systems of control systems is disclosed. These control systems may include burner control for furnaces. The safety and reliability of the system are increased. The power supply comprises one ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5458704 | Process for the production of thick armour plates The invention relates to a process for the production of very hard armour plates from steel slabs, wherein the slabs are hot rolled to a final thickness above 50 mm and then hardened and possibly tempered. The characterizing feature of the invention is th... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5436836 | Electronic system for an antilock braking system which adjusts for variations in tire size An electronic regulating system for regulating the supply of pressure medium to each brake cylinder of a vehicle having a plurality of wheels thereby preventing spinning of the wheels upon starting and locking of the wheels upon braking, comprises wheel s... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5435081 | Ballast plow A ballast plow (1) comprises a machine frame (6) supported on on-track undercarriages (2), with which is associated a center plow (5) which is vertically adjustable by means of drives and on each longitudinal side of the machine a vertically adjustable sh... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5432833 | Automatic exposure control system for tomographic applications An automatic exposure control system which regulates the power supplied to an x-ray source of a tomographic apparatus is disclosed. The system includes an x-ray source movably opposing an ionization chamber with a sweeping mechanism and a control for cont... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5431443 | Supporting device for a rescue vehicle A supporting device for a rescue vehicle comprises two legs each of which has a footing plate (16) located near a lateral vehicle edge of the vehicle. The legs are capable of being swivelled from a transportation position to a supporting position. In orde... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5430452 | Device for supply to the radiating elements of an array antenna, and application thereof to an antenna of an MLS type landing system Disclosed is a device for supply to the radiating elements of an array antenna with electronic scanning, notably applicable to an MLS type landing system. The disclosed antenna has as many (n) phase-shifters as it has radiating elements each of the phase-... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5429868 | Yarn, especially sewing yarn, and method of producing same A yarn, especially a sewing yarn, comprises at least two multifile yarn components. The first yarn component forms mainly the core of the yarn and the second yarn component forms mainly the jacket of the yarn. The two yarn components are intermingled with... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5429690 | Method of precipitation-hardening a nickel alloy The Application relates to a precipitation hardening alloy which has a 0.2% proof stress of at least 500 N/mm2 and a high resistance to corrosion in highly aggressive sour gas media. The alloy consists of 43 to 51% nickel, 19 to 24% chromium, 4... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5422657 | Graphics memory architecture for multimode display system A display memory architecture which efficiently stores and processes true color and index mode pixels is disclosed. The R, G and B components of true color mode pixels occupy different groups of bit planes in different banks of a frame memory. In addition... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5419621 | Braking system A braking system comprises at least one brake, a brake value demand mechanism which emits an operator signal when actuated by an operator, and an energy dimensioning device which supplies braking energy to the brake to actuate it, thereby producing a brak... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5416786 | Error correction circuit for BCH codewords An error correction circuit for detecting and correcting errors in a received BCH codeword comprises first and second syndrome generators for generating patterns of binary signals representative of first and second syndromes of the received BCH codeword. ... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5416401 | Dual voltage supply circuit for vehicles A dual voltage supply circuit for vehicles is disclosed, in particular for vehicles with a dual circuit electrical braking system. The circuit contains a starter battery and an auxiliary battery, each supplying an electrical braking circuit. The two batte... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5416300 | Electric igniter actuator with network voltage clocking to pass only a portion of the wave trains to the igniter An automatic furnace comprises an actuator for an electric igniter. The electric igniter has a distinctly lower standard voltage, e.g., 120 V, than the network voltage, e.g., 230 V and is operated by the network voltage. The network voltage is fed into th... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5414631 | Collision-avoidance device for aircraft, notably for avoiding collisions with the ground A device for avoiding aircraft collisions with the ground determines the geographical location of the aircraft, and has a data base containing a description of safety altitudes for the geographical location. From the geographical location and the descript... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5410044 | Process for preparing Z and E-rotamers of 3-hydroxy cephem derivatives A process for the manufacture of 7-acylamino-3-hydroxycephem-4-carboxylate-1-oxide in E-rotamer form (Formula III), comprises reacting a 7-acylamino-3-exomethylenecepham-4-carboxylate-1-oxide with ozone in an inert organic solvent in the presence of ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5404469 | Multi-threaded microprocessor architecture utilizing static interleaving A static interleaving technique solves the problem of resource contention in a very long instruction word multi-threaded microprocessor architecture. In the static interleaving technique, each function unit in the processor is allocated for the execution ... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5404379 | Timing recovery method and system An apparatus and method for receiving a continuous time pulse amplitude-modulated passband signal is disclosed. The pulse amplitude modulated signal is periodically sampled by a local clock to generate received samples. A convolution of the received sampl... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5404262 | Apparatus for driving electromagnetic actuator A counter electromotive force due to electromagnetic induction is generated on interruption of a current if an actuator 10 is in a normal state. An output signal generated by the counter electromotive force and a pulse signal which is generated from the f... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5396498 | Integrated circuit with peripheral test controller The instant invention relates to complex integrated circuits incorporating circuits for internal testing. The test controller has: a finite-state machine or status register (RE1 to RE4), the parallel outputs of which are looped back to the parallel inputs via ... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5394270 | Optical beam divider for a laser beam The invention relates to an optical beam divider which subdivides a beam (A), more particularly a laser beam, into at least two beams (B, C) which differ from the original beam (A) only in intensity. To this end the beam divider has a deflecting mirror (2... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5393233 | Process for fabricating double poly high density buried bit line mask ROM In accordance with the invention, a double poly process is used to double the memory density of a buried bit line ROM on the same silicon area. In particular the word-line pitch is decreased to increase the cell density in a direction perpendicular to the... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5386380 | Bypass scheme for ROM IC A ROM IC includes an extra bit line. The extra bit line outputs a first binary logic signal when a word line in a no-use area is attempted to be read and a second binary logic signal when a word line in a use area is attempted to be read. The output of th... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5382855 | Electric drive motor with interchangeably-mounted connector Device equipped with an electric drive motor (3) and with a body (2) on which a stator of this motor is mounted, characterized in that it comprises a casing (10) immovably attached to said stator (5, 6) and constituting together with the latter an autonom... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5381413 | Data throttling system for a communications network A station is provided which is connected to a network segment via a shared transmission medium. The station includes one or more protocol stacks for processing each type of data packet which the station may transmit to or receive from the shared transmiss... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5372109 | Exhaust modulator An exhaust modulator in or to be fitted in the exhaust system of an engine, having a body defining a flowpath therethrough for engine exhaust gases, a gate in the exhaust flowpath movable between an open and a closed position, one or more bleed flowpaths ... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5363148 | CRT display set and optical device having means for accurately positioning the CRT The disclosure relates to display sets wherein the image produced by a cathode-ray tube is displayed on a display screen by means of an optical device. It relates more particularly to means for facilitating the relative positioning between the cathode-ray... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5360324 | Reciprocating vacuum pumps A reciprocating vacuum pump has a disc shaped piston (22, 122) having a peripheral elastomeric seal (52, 152) with oppositely directed, radially outwardly extending skirt portions (54,56); the piston is driven axially by a rod (34, 134) reciprocal in a lu... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5357582 | Character boundary identification method and system An optical recognition method and system utilizes a scanner to digitize a complex document comprising regions of text and graphics. A recognition engine, illustratively in the form of a general purpose computer, separates regions of text and graphics and ... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5357466 | Flash cell with self limiting erase and constant cell current A Flash memory cell has a self-limiting erase to prevent over-erase and delivers a preset constant read current. The memory cell comprises first and second MOS transistors. The first and second transistors have a common source, first and second separate d... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5353645 | Device to measure the deformation of a structural component A device for measuring the deformation of a structural component comprises a sensor installed at a first end of a hollow bore in the structural component, the sensor having a measuring surface and producing an electrical signal indicative of a deformation... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5352103 | Pump with undulating pump element A pump comprises a pump casing having a pump channel, a pump element rotating in the pump channel, and a rotor shaft mounted in the pump casing and attached to the pump element. The pump element has a cylindrical outer periphery, and undulating surfaces i... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5347000 | Process for the preparation of 2-chlorosulfinylazetidinone A process for preparing a 2-chlorosulfinylazetidinone comprises heating in an inert organic solvent a penicillin sulfoxide ester, at a temperature between about 75° C. and 140° C., with an N-chlorohalogenating agent in the presence of a weakly basic N-a... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5345562 | Data bus arbitration for split transaction computer bus An arbitration method is disclosed which insured that both write data and ordered read responses achieve fair access to a data bus in a computer system which comprises demultiplexd commands and data buses and a plurality of processors.... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5345065 | Inductor with variable active length The invention relates to an inductor having two parallel main heating conductors which are interconnected at one of their ends via a bridge-shaped branch and are connected at their other end to a transformer, the connections also forming a bridge-shaped c... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5344329 | Plug-in socket with blocking member A plug-in socket for amplifiers, loudspeaker boxes, electric musical instruments etc. is described. The plug-in socket has a socket member for the introduction and holding of an electrical plug and at least two electrical contacts engageable with the plug... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5343377 | Method of controlling switching regulator A method of controlling a current resonant parallel type switching regulator comprises providing a current circulating circuit for preventing a circuit loss increasing phenomenon from occurring due to an increase in a resonant current caused by an increas... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5341746 | Transport wagon comprising a wagon frame supported on on-track undercarriages A transport wagon (1) is provided with a wagon frame (4) supported on on-track undercarriages (2) and a conveyor belt (8) extending in the longitudinal direction of the wagon and arranged so as to be inclined relative to the track plane, forming a lower-l... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5338106 | Process for braking a vehicle A process for braking a vehicle which comprises applying to a front axle group and to a rear axle group front axle brake pressure (p1) and rear axle brake pressure (p2) in accordance with wear-optimized curves when a deceleration com... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5338072 | Gastight connection between tubes of small diameter The invention relates to a gastight connection between tubes of small diameter of metals or metal alloys having different melting points, more particularly copper and aluminium, wherein the end zone of the first tube (1) is opened out and the second tube ... | 08/16/1994 |
