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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5431315 | Apparatus for applying uniform metal coatings An apparatus for coating the surface of a substrate with a coating material, which apparatus includes a chamber into which the material is supplied in a pressurized molten state from a source thereof. The molten material is subjected to vibrations within ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5423610 | Thermocouple probe A thermocouple probe 10 suitable for use in a gas turbine engine comprises a thermocouple element 12 which is coaxially arranged inside a protective sheath 16. The thermocouple element 12 is resiliently supported by a helical member 18 which insulates the... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5414409 | Alarm system for detecting an audio signal when glass breakage occurs A processor, such as a microprocessor, responds to the detection of an input audio signal generated by glass breakage to cause an alarm to be indicated, such as at a remotely located alarm control panel. The system determines when the input power supply v... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5406233 | Tunable stripline devices A stripline device using at least one strip conductor and at least one ground plane separated therefrom by a dielectric substrate. The ground plane is caused to move relative to the strip conductor so as to change the propagation velocity of the stripline... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5396111 | Clocking unit for digital data processing A technique for generating gated clock signals for use in enabling various operating gating units in a data processing system in which an internal reference clock signal is used to generate both processor clock signals and the gated clock signals such tha... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5388232 | Method and system for providing successive data transfers among data processing units in a non-multiplexed asynchronous manner using unique pipelined arbitration, address, and data phase operations A method for performing address and data transfers among a plurality of different units of a data processing system having a system bus which includes an address bus and a data bus. The system uses arbitration phase, address transfer phase, and data trans... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5377332 | Bus arbitration algorithm and apparatus A bus arbitration algorithm using round robin and variable packet counts. In addition, each node is assigned a maximum packet size which can be adjusted by the operating system. The round robin determines which node will be granted the bus based on priori... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5371743 | On-line module replacement in a multiple module data processing system A method for providing on-line replacement of a module which is at a specified position in an array of modules connected to a common control processor so that all other modules in the array can continue operating during the replacement operation. When the... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5361132 | Back to front alignment of elements on a substrate A technique for aligning corresponding features on opposite surfaces of a transparent substrate. In one embodiment thereof a laser beam is applied to a pair of grating elements on one surface of the substrate to produce an interference fringe pattern on t... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5351829 | Plurality of air inflatable/deflatable components shaped to fit corners of articles A packaging component which, in one preferred embodiment is made of a first generally rectangular plastic element and a second generally oval plastic element, each of such elements being inflatable and deflatable. A plastic coupling element couples the fi... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5352966 | Battery charging device A battery charging device uses a primary battery source which is preferably a rechargeable lead acid battery, connected to a secondary battery source, which is preferably a pair of parallel battery circuits each using series-connected non-rechargeable bat... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5346061 | Biostable treatment delivery system A treatment delivery system which uses a flexible plastic outer container and a smaller, readily burstable, thin film plastic inner container fixedly positioned in the outer container. The inner container contains a treatment solution and a dry foam appli... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5345769 | Cryogenic refrigeration apparatus A system for providing a cold environment which has a number of cooling stages with variable displacement volumes into which input fluid from a compressor flows in an input channel to and from the displacement volumes and output fluid flows in an output c... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5340656 | Three-dimensional printing techniques A process for making a component by depositing a first layer of a powder material in a confined region and then depositing a binder material to selected regions of the layer of powder material to produce a layer of bonded powder material at the selected r... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5334356 | Supermicrocellular foamed materials A supermicrocellular foamed material and a method for producing such material, the material to be foamed such as a polymerplastic material, having a supercritical fluid, such as carbon dioxide in its supercritical state, introduced into the material to fo... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5333014 | Non-sharp cut filters for assembling and splitting in Weston Clean PAL An assembler and splitter of a Weston PAL (W-PAL) video signal has filter functions F1, F2 at the assembler for the luminance and chrominance components and corresponding functions F3, F4 at the splitter. The tr... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5325199 | Field-rate upconversion of television signals To alleviate problems experienced with field rate unconversion, a high definition source is field rate upconverted prior to bandwidth compression. Bandwidth compression is performed by a number of different methods, at least one of which is applied to the... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5319396 | Eyeglasses and goggles An eye protective device having a frame member and a shield member attached to the frame member, the shield member having end portions which have tapered configurations. A pliant foam plastic member has a groove therein, the end portions of the groove hav... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5317497 | Internally excited, controlled transformer saturation, inverter circuitry An inverter circuit for providing an AC driver voltage for a capacitive load from a DC input voltage. The circuit uses a pair of balanced transistors supplying a split primary winding of a transformer, a feedback winding thereof being coupled thereto to s... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5313830 | Assessment of air ingress to steam systems The specification discloses an apparatus for assessing the ingress of air into a steam system which includes a steam condenser having an exit, a vacuum pump arrangement for maintaining the exit under a partial vacuum, and pipework connecting the exit to t... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5299358 | Measurement device A measurement device which includes a band of flexible material having measurement indicia and a zero reference marked thereon. The band is fixedly positioned on a surface on which the measurement is to be made so that at least a portion of the band and t... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5298988 | Technique for aligning features on opposite surfaces of a substrate A technique for aligning features on opposite surfaces of a substrate by generating a fiducial image at an image plane and identifying the location of the image at a viewing device remote therefrom, e.g., a video display screen. The substrate is placed so... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5270558 | Integrated electronic shutter for charge-coupled devices A charge-coupled device having an array of pixel elements formed in a substrate, which device is operable in a first state to expand the depletion well regions of each pixel element into the substrate for storing incoming photoelectrons therein and in a s... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5269016 | Byzantine resilient fault tolerant shared memory data processing system A fault tolerant data processing system which provides single fault Byzantine resilience which system uses a number of fault containment regions each of which includes at least one processing element. The fault containment regions of the system are arrang... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5268927 | Digital adaptive transversal filter for spread spectrum receivers A digital adaptive transversal filter includes an interface circuit for regulating and digitizing analog input signals, which comprise of multiple spread-spectrum signals, additive thermal noise and additive multiple narrowband interferers, to provide mul... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5266098 | Production of charged uniformly sized metal droplets A process for producing charged uniformly sized metal droplets in which a quantity of metal is placed in a container and liquified, the container having a plurality of orifices to permit passage of the liquified metal therethrough. The liquified metal is ... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5262856 | Video image compositing techniques A method of processing video data created for display in one aspect ratio in a plurality of different sequences of frames thereof, each frame in a sequence containing background data which represents at least a part of the same relatively stationary backg... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5260558 | Measurements using balanced illumination optical microscopy A technique for measuring the distance between the edges of a feature positioned on a substrate wherein the feature is illuminated with light on either side of the edges and the light intensities at either side of each of the edges are detected and are ba... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5239681 | RDS radio system A radio data system transmits message groups comprising four blocks of which the first block always carries the program identification code for the transmitting network (P1(TN)). One type of message group, identified by a corresponding group type code (GT... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5225935 | Optical device having a microlens and a process for making microlenses An optical device having a lens substrate and a microlens portion formed thereon, wherein the microlens has its lens portion formed on the part of the optical device that has substantially the same coefficient of expansion as that of the lens substrate.... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5211372 | Exhaust valve for a gas expansion system A exhaust valve for use in a cryogenic gas expansion system which uses a non-metallic valve seat and a metallic valve disk assembly which is moved into and out of contact with the valve seat to close and open the valve, respectively. The valve disk assemb... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5210486 | Circuit test method The present invention relates to a method of testing of digital and analog circuits. If a fault is detected, after stimuli are applied and test measurements are made at some circuit nodes, steps are taken to locate faulty circuit components. At least one ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5210871 | Interprocessor communication for a fault-tolerant, mixed redundancy distributed information processing system A method for resolving access contentions by a plurality of processing sites having the same or different redundancies to a shared communications system wherein the start of the access contention process is first synchronized for all contending sites. A d... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5204055 | Three-dimensional printing techniques A process for making a component by depositing a first layer of a fluent porous material, such as a powder, in a confined region and then depositing a binder material to selected regions of the layer of powder material to produce a layer of bonded powder ... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5202092 | Device for monitoring the PH of water based inks A device for automatically and continually monitoring the pH characteristic of a water based printing ink which uses a housing for a pH probe, which housing is placed in a flow line through which such ink is flowing, the housing having a main channel for ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5202639 | Method and apparatus for testing analogue circuits An analogue circuit or unit under test is tested utilizing automatic test equipment and an interface unit to apply stimuli to the circuit the stimuli including supply potentials. A computer analyses the circuit as a network of nodes and modules to deduce ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5195143 | Acoustical ribbon transducer loudspeaker system A loudspeaker system using ribbon transducer elements wherein the ribbon elements of the high and mid-range transducer units form a plurality of conductive circuits separated by spaces, or cuts, therebetween which have substantially smooth, undulating wav... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5193082 | Optical/magnetic composite head having magnetic and optical heads in one integrated unit A photomagnetic composite head comprising a magnetic head and an optical head that are integrated into one unit, an optical waveguide path of the optical head being located in the surface of the magnetic head that faces a recording medium, and a laser bea... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5179602 | Magnetically operated fiber optic switch for controlling light transmission A switching device which uses a pivotable switching element carrying a first magnet and a movable component carrying a second magnet mounted adjacent thereto, the north and south poles of the magnets being arranged so that, when the movable component is m... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5175793 | Recognition apparatus using articulation positions for recognizing a voice A first voice recognition apparatus includes a device for analyzing frequencies of the input voice and a device coupled to the analyzing unit for determining vowel zones and consonant zones of the analyzed input voice. The apparatus further includes a dev... | 12/29/1992 |
