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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7699317 | Hierarchical, multi-dimensional, strategy board game apparatus and playing method A hierarchical, multi-dimensional, strategy board game apparatus includes game boards having game spaces, posts for supporting the board members, and game pieces including a static piece, a pawn-like piece, a first promotion piece, and a second promotion piece. In p... | 04/20/2010 |
| D589779 | Ergonomic locking pin | 04/07/2009 |
| 7505139 | Signal processing for a Sagnac interferometer Disclosed is a method and apparatus for modulating the phase difference between a pair of optical waves that exit a Sagnac interferometer, and, more particularly, one that is commonly employed as a fiber gyro, and includes a detector responsive to phase difference b... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7488391 | Rotating brush optimizing method The present invention provides an improved mechanical coupling for rapidly adjusting the elevation of a working edge portion of a tool which working edge portion is subject to wear that decreases the effective length of the working edge portion. In one embodiment, t... | 02/10/2009 |
| D577988 | Ergonomic lynch pin | 10/07/2008 |
| D566538 | Ergonomic retaining clip | 04/15/2008 |
| 7199991 | Electrical bus protection method & apparatus A protection relay for a power line system that employs current transformers for detecting current on a bus is provided with a fault trip scheme that includes transformer current saturation detection so as to avoid false tripping due to temporary transformer current... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7147388 | Method for fabrication of an all fiber polarization retardation device The polarization state of a light wave is changed by a fiber polanrzation retardation device constructed by a method including employment of a pair of clamping fixtures, and a series of steps including clamping, cleaving, splicing, releasing, clamping, and cleaving,... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7113086 | Systems and methods for monitoring room conditions to improve occupant performance Systems and methods for monitoring conditions in a room are disclosed. Sensors may be placed in a room that measure various environmental conditions of the room, such as temperature, CO2, ventilation, humidity, volatile organic compounds, sound, static, light, press... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7082639 | Brush optimizer The present invention provides an improved mechanical coupling for rapidly adjusting the elevation of a working edge portion of a tool which working edge portion is subject to wear that decreases the effective length of the working edge portion. In one embodiment, t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7038786 | Optical interferometric sensor with measureand compensation that may selectively be used for temperature compensation and long term life degradation In accordance with the preset invention, an optical interferometer employed as a current sensor is provided with visibility compensation and scale factor compensation. In accordance with the present invention, the interferometer is constructed so as to propagate a p... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7009378 | Time division multiplexed optical measuring system A time division multiplexed optical voltage measuring system includes an optical voltage sensing system module including, (i) a plurality of optical sensors where each sensor is responsive to an input interrogation light wave, and (ii) one or more optical outputs af... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6952107 | Optical electric field or voltage sensing system An electric field sensing system is characterized so that a signal processor may derive an output representative of an electric field intended to be measured, particularly established by high voltage on a power line, with enhanced accuracy. Characterizing parameters... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6946827 | Optical electric field or voltage sensing system An electric field sensing system is characterized so that a signal processor may derive an output representative of an electric field intended to be measured, particularly established by high voltage on a power line, with enhanced accuracy. Characterizing parameters... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6793139 | Library article transport system with inclined conveyor A conveyor apparatus transports materials along an incline. The apparatus includes an endless base conveyor belt that is tensioned between lower and upper end rollers and is aligned with the incline. A drive means drives the base belt at a selected speed and in a se... | 09/21/2004 |
| D487577 | Camera | 03/16/2004 |
| 6690013 | Apparatus and method for compensating for pixel non-uniformity in a bolometer In accordance with the present invention, a microbolometer focal plane array is provided with at least one thermally-shorted microbolometer detector that is thermally shorted to the microbolometer focal plane array substrate. A characteristic relationship... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6675108 | Line fault protection unit for an electrical power system In a line protection unit for monitoring fault conditions of an electrical power line and actuating breakers to disconnect the line from a power supply bus, the supply bus is in the ring bus arrangement including a first bus and an auxiliary bus so that e... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6561418 | Check-out system for library-like materials A check-out system for library-like materials includes a console-like housing having a materials receiving end and a materials output end. A transport system conveyor provides conveyance of the materials between the receiving and output ends of the housin... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6545261 | Fiber optic alignment system and method A method and system for aligning optical fibers includes aperturing the optical beams from the optical fibers at two points along a path. Photodetectors are placed on the apertures and the positions of the tips of the optical fibers are controlled using a... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6538250 | Microbolometer focal plane array with controlled bias A method and apparatus for controlling bias for an microbolometer focal plane array which includes use of one thermally-shorted microbolometer detector thermally shorted to the substrate upon which one or more thermally-isolated microbolometers are constr... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535654 | Method for fabrication of an all fiber polarization retardation device In many optics applications, it is desirable to retard the polarization of a light wave, i.e., to change the polarization state of a light wave. In a method for retarding polarization of a light wave, a first linear polarization-maintaining fiber having a... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6465785 | Apparatus and method for compensating for pixel non-uniformity in a bolometer In accordance with the present invention, a microbolometer focal plane array is provided with at least one thermally-shorted microbolometer detector that is thermally shorted to the microbolometer focal plane array substrate. A characteristic relationship... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6444983 | Microbolometer focal plane array with controlled bias A method and apparatus for controlling bias for an microbolometer focal plane array which includes use of one thermally-shorted microbolometer detector thermally shorted to the substrate upon which one or more thermally-isolated microbolometers are constr... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6434285 | Fiber optic difference current sensor A sensor that measures a difference of currents at two locations along a conductor. The sensor uses two fiber optic current sensors. One current sensor at the first location measures current and has a nulling coil about its sensing loop, which carries cur... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6285182 | Electro-optic voltage sensor A true dV/dt voltage sensor having no need for a ground reference for measurement. The sensor is connected at two places on the electric line to be measured. The voltage wave has a delay between the two places on the line and the difference is sensed and ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6195831 | Display screen cleaning tool An optical grade chamois like fabric is employed as a display screen cleaning tool. In one embodiment of the invention, an optical grade chamois like fabric is utilized, at least in part, to form a body having an inner chamber capable of being filled with... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6166816 | Combination fiber optic current/voltage sensor A combination fiber optic current and voltage sensor having a common source and other components. One other common component for certain configurations is the detector. Voltage sources are necessarily designed to avoid coherence and intensity problems whe... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5933009 | Spark plug ignited engine analyzing device and method An engine analyzing device for an internal combustion engine including a spark generator and means for testing the voltage of the sparks generated for a diagnosis of engine performance, the testing of the sparks generated relating to analysis of the spark... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5596328 | Fail-safe/fail-operational differential GPS ground station system A fail safe differential satellite positioning system ground station employing a plurality of processors to produce signals indicative of satellite-specific pseudo range errors and which includes at least a pair of input/output devices each including at l... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5504492 | Look ahead satellite positioning system position error bound monitoring system A method and apparatus are provided for predicting the position error bound in a satellite positioning system at a future time. The future position of each satellite at the future time is predicted from the trajectory data obtained from each satellite. Th... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5424949 | Multi-channel data receiver system The present invention is a system that is used on board an aircraft that receives data, examines the data, and directs the data to appropriate memory devices for future use. A plurality of receivers are coupled to a serial data bus for selectively receivi... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5400025 | Temperature corrected integrating analog-to-digital converter Disclosed is an integrating analog-to-digital converter characterized as a function of the temperature. The characterizing information is processed in a manner to correct the digital information before the digital information is subsequently processed by ... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5395257 | Fault-tolerant connector In the present invention, fault containment module signals are assigned to the pins so that a band of guard pins connected to ground exists between the signal pins belonging to each fault containment module. Thus, a bent pin or foreign contaminant can onl... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5369889 | Single gyro northfinder Disclosed is a northfinding apparatus having a single rotation rate sensor secured to a platform. The output of the rotation rate sensor is corrected for tilt and tilt rate of the platform. Measurements of the tilt and tilt rate and the rotation rate are ... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5363700 | Skewed axis inertial sensor assembly In the present invention six gyros and six accelerometers are mounted to a support frame generally comprised of a block of a selected material. The relationship of each input axis of each of the gyros and accelerometers is selected to permit all of the se... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5360236 | Apparatus and methods for mounting an inertial sensor chassis to an aircraft support frame An inertial sensor chassis is disclosed. The system includes a support frame including three alignment pins and two planar mounting surfaces. The chassis includes three mating bushing and mating planar surfaces held against the support frame planar mounti... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5361212 | Differential GPS landing assistance system An aircraft landing system is disclosed in which a differential GPS global positioning system is employed. A ground station, located in the vicinity of one or more landing strips, includes a GPS receiver and a data link transmitter for transmitting GPS co... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5347361 | Rotation sensor output signal processor Angular motion sensor signals from an inertial integrating rate sensor are provided to a translation device that provides a translated output signal that is substantially the same as an input sensor signal translated in frequency by an amount equal to a r... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5337141 | Method and apparatus for distortion free measurements The present invention provides a method and apparatus for removing systematic distortion from measurements of an observable parameter. The method and apparatus of the present invention is particularly useful for removing systematic distortion in phase ang... | 08/09/1994 |
