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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4473927 | Trim for fabric mounting track system A trim for a fabric mounting track system as disclosed and claimed in the applicant's prior application, Ser. No. 441,990, filed on Nov. 16, 1982. The trim consists basically of a unitary substantially F-shaped structure having a flat trim portion. There ... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4433570 | Mechanical shock machine A mechanical shock machine may consist of a small bench-top device with a built-in pneumatic isolator, the working parts of which are enclosed to prevent injury to the operator. The device to be tested is placed on the test platen of the mechanical shock ... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4429811 | Liquid storage container assembly and decanter A liquid decanter includes a collapsible container, a cylindrical outer casing enclosing the container, a piston rotatable upwards and downwards in the container and a transparent pouring neck. The piston has an outer handle and external screw threads mes... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4386274 | Isotope separation by standing waves The separation of isotopes is accomplished by scattering a beam of particles from a standing electromagnetic wave. The particles may consist of either atoms or molecules, each having a desired isotope and at least one other. The particle beam is directed ... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4306001 | Electric storage cell with output power control An electric storage cell which permits control of the output power without substantially increasing the power loss. An electric storage cell combining two conductive electrodes spaced from each other, and an electrolyte between the electrodes capable of g... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4280623 | Method and apparatus for controlling, orienting and analyzing biological cells in liquid suspension A liquid flow system contains suspended biological cells for the purpose of orienting them, spacing them from each other and analyzing the cells. Many biological cells are not of spherical shape but may be disk-like or rod-like in appearance. The present ... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4217402 | Photoelectrochemical cells having gelled electrolyte Schottky and p-n type photo-electrochemical cells are disclosed. These cells are suitable for sunlight and use gelled electrolytes based either on aqueous or solvent substances. The gel is a light-transparent, inert substance. These cells have at least on... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4207442 | Driver circuit for electrostatic transducers A driver circuit for an electrostatic transducer which may have a flat or folded configuration. The transducer has a pair of rigid sound transparent stator plates spaced from each other and a flexible, conductive diaphragm disposed between the stator plat... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4155784 | Process for epitaxially growing a gallium arsenide layer having reduced silicon contaminants on a gallium arsenide substrate A process for epitaxially forming a layer of gallium arsenide having a first conductivity on a substrate of gallium arsenide having a second conductivity in an enclosure having an inner liner comprised of a silicon compound, comprising decomposing arsine ... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4150905 | Spheres obtained by vapor deposition for use in ball point pens A sphere particularly suitable for ball point pens having a core capable of withstanding temperature in excess of 800° C. and a chemically vapor deposited coating on the core, the combined diameter of core and coating ranging from approximately 0.5 to ap... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4139434 | Method of making circuitry with bump contacts A process for manufacturing a carrier for semiconductor devices such as integrated chips. The carrier conventionally comprises, on one surface, a lead circuit providing leads to the conduction pads of the semiconductor devices. The other side may be calle... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4125441 | Isolated bump circuitry on tape utilizing electroforming A process for electroforming a bump circuit and a lead circuit on a tape to be used for making contact with integrated circuit chips and the like. By means of the process, an inverse bump pattern is produced. To this end, a first metal plate is coated wit... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124796 | Emission control calculator An adjustable display having interworking parts whereby upon manipulation interference frequencies emitted from spurious harmonic and imaged electromagnetic radiators interfering with an intended or expected bracketed received frequency can be isolated an... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4122771 | Squeegee holder A squeegee blade for a thick film printing apparatus is held between horizontally compressing holder plates. One of the holder plates is integrally formed with a member for attachment to the pressure printing apparatus. The other holder plate attaches to ... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4093856 | Method of and apparatus for the electrostatic excitation of ions A selected isotope of an element may be caused to acquire more energy than other isotopes by generating a plasma in a magnetic field and electrically exciting the selected isotope at its resonant frequency. Instead of exciting the desired ion by a variabl... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4081677 | Isotope separation by magnetic fields One of the isotopes of an element having several isotopes can be separated from the others in a dense, neutral plasma. Thus initially a neutral plasma is prepared including the element in question. This may consist of positive ions and negative electrons ... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4069659 | Electronic switch activated by current flow through the human body An electronic circuit having two states, at least one of which is stable and which permits information to pass from one terminal to the other. The circuit can be activated by the flow of a minute electric current through the human body. The circuit is par... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4066893 | Isotope separation by ion waves One of the isotopes of an element having several isotopes can be separated from the others in a dense, neutral plasma. Thus initially a neutral plasma is prepared including the element in question. This may consist of positive ions and negative electrons ... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4062751 | Electroplating drum for relatively large fasteners and the like Relatively large parts, such as large fasteners and the like, are mass electroplated in a plating drum rotatable in a plating solution, without damaging contact of the parts with one another, by confining the parts in separate plating cells of the drum co... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4061989 | Redundancy switching system A redundancy switching system particularly suitable for transponders of the type used in spacecraft. A plurality of elements such as amplifiers is selectively connectable to a similar plurality of terminals such as input or output ports by switches. For e... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4059761 | Separation of isotopes by time of flight One of the isotopes of an element having several isotopes can be separated from the others in a dense, neutral plasma. Thus initially a neutral plasma is prepared including the element in question. This may consist of positive ions and negative electrons ... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4051479 | ELF vertical dipole antenna suspended from aircraft A vertical dipole antenna for the ELF (extremely low frequency) range. The antenna provides a series resonant circuit consisting of an inductor and the distributed capacitance of the conductor such as a wire which may be carried by lighter-than-air craft.... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4050035 | Self-aligned polarized laser A laser of the type which generates linearly polarized light and including optical means for self-alignment. Among such polarized lasers are, for example, solid state lasers and particularly ruby lasers, as well as various gas lasers employing Brewster wi... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4049336 | Pulsed holographic system having independent universal beam adjustment An improved holographic instrument for evaluating the structural integrity of a load-bearing structure by recording on a holographic recording medium two successive holograms of the structure under differing stress conditions to produce a holographic inte... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4048586 | Chemical laser with mixing enhancement device for power improvement An inert diluent such as N2, He, Ar, etc., is injected into the reactant streams emerging from the cavity nozzle of a CW, supersonic, laser to increase the cavity power and lower the cavity temperature by enhancing mixing of the reactant stream... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4034319 | Coupled bar microwave bandpass filter A microwave bandpass filter of the coupled bar type providing either an interdigital or combline structure. The filter consists of a plurality of resonator sections having two ground planes and a resonating bar integral with the structure and extending pe... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4034190 | Method and apparatus for remote salinity sensing Disclosed is a method and apparatus for remote sensing of the salinity of large bodies of water. A sequence of intensity values is obtained for the horizontally and vertically polarized components of sunlight specularly reflected as a solar glitter patter... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4034280 | Multiple high voltage output DC-to-DC power converter Disclosed is a multiple output DC-to-DC converter. The DC input power is filtered and passed through a chopper preregulator. The chopper output is then passed through a current source inverter controlled by a squarewave generator. The resultant AC is pass... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4025190 | Exposure control system for photographic copying An exposure control for automatically controlling the duration of the exposure time for a photographic material to be printed. The light intensity is sensed by a sensor which could be either of the photoresistive or the photovoltaic type. A range control ... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4021743 | Phase logic demodulator A demodulator for a biphase or quadriphase shift-keying system. The demodulator includes two AND gates for biphase demodulation. The AND gate is one which will provide an output signal if and only if the two input signals are in phase. Each of the AND gat... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4020461 | Method of and apparatus for transmitting and receiving coded digital signals A system for transmitting digital information such as audio or video over a lossy or dispersive medium. The digital information is of the type where certain bits are more important than others and hence the less important bits can suffer a greater bit err... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4020246 | Low temperature primary electrolyte cell A cell is fabricated using a solid alkali metal anode and a fluid cathode which are separated by a modified aluminate solid barrier which permits the flow of only the alkali metal ions. The fluid cathode can contain a solid, gaseous, or liquid oxidizer in... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4019374 | Electromagnetic impulser for dynamically loading a structure An impulser for percussively loading a structure to generate stress waves in the structure by driving a hammer into impact relation with the structure and generating an electrical signal in timed relation to the impact. The impulser may embody means, such... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4013939 | Multiple feedback control apparatus for power conditioning equipment An improved feedback control system to govern the cyclic operation of the power switch of a non-dissipative power conditioning equipment. The apparatus includes two or three control loops working in unison. The first causes the output DC level to be compa... | 03/22/1977 |
| 4012120 | Guided wave acousto-optic device An acousto-optic device suitable as a correlator, convolution integrator or Fourier transform device. The device comprises a piezoelectric substrate or crystal such as lithium niobate. The substrate is covered by a thin, outer layer having higher index of... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4011408 | Audio transmission protection apparatus In delay module means, an input signal is divided into a number of subsignals, each separated from the others by a selected time delay. In a primary module the subsignals are selectively weighted and combined with the input signal. In the inverse module, ... | 03/08/1977 |
| 4011523 | Azimuthal mode control for laser Azimuthal mode control for lasers employs an optical system which rotates the image to produce an optical feedback system, which through interference with the cavity fields, supresses the unwanted modes.... | 03/08/1977 |
| 4006317 | Electrostatic transducer and acoustic and electric signal integrator An electrostatic transducer of the type comprising electrically conductive plates and a conductive, flexible, vibratable diaphragm. The transducer may either be a flat radiator or of the folded type. The surface area of the plates is substantially smaller... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4003771 | Solid grain fuels containing polyphosphonitrilics difluoride for chemical lasers This invention relates to laser fuels and, more specifically, to solid fuels suitable for use in a chemical laser.... | 01/18/1977 |
| 4003058 | Color image data recorder Disclosed is an apparatus for producing color hardcopy pictorial data recordings. A two-dimensional data frame is displayed on a black-and-white CRT screen and is ultimately recorded on a moving photographic film as a color line, which line is parallel to... | 01/11/1977 |
