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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5580785 | Field-portable toxicity tester A portable toxicity tester for use in the field using bioluminescent organisms consisting of a light tight container for housing the necessary flash of light detecting apparatus and the necessary signal processing circuits, digital readout and control pan... | 12/03/1996 |
| 4789434 | Method and apparatus for measuring corrosion current induced by microbiological activities A corrosion measuring device is disclosed for measuring microbiologically duced corrosion using galvanically coupled electrodes exposed in an electrolytically continuous, biologically separated environment. The device consists of two, mirror image, half-c... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4784363 | Radial pipe mount A radial pipe mount has a spoked elastomeric element around the pipe with e spokes pointing outward. A circular ring retains the spoked elastomeric element and has a support leg attached to it. The cross-section of the ring is a semi-elliptic of formula 2... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4773793 | Pile having double cone anchor A light weight pile having increased load bearing capacity for being embed in the ocean floor. Two cones are welded together at their base. An opening of about one third the diameter of the base is made in the apex of each of the cones to provide an open... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4689305 | Solid-state photometer circuit A stable, inexpensive and easily constructed photometer consisting of a cercial intergrated photodetection assembly, complementary solid-state operational amplifiers and a solid-state power supply for use in the detection and quantification of low level ... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4688942 | Radial and azmuthal non-resonant open-tubular optoacoustic cell A radial or azmuthal non-resonant flow-through optoacoustic cell is operated without windows, completely eliminating the window background interference. The cell is constructed of an elongated tube the length of which is 34×103 cm×1/f, where ... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4689578 | Hydrophone pre-amplifier with self-calibration A differential charge amplifier design for a hydrophone pre-amplifier inces a calibration circuit for in situ measurement of the hydrophone/pre-amplifier gain. The hydrophone signal is input to a pair of amplifier stages which form a balanced differentia... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4662609 | Capstan adaptable "V" puller A capstan adaptable "V" puller fitted with a plurality of vertical staves d is positioned on a "host" capstan. The staves are adjusted to the diameter of the capstan and securely clamped in place by any suitable means. Friction is enhanced by rubber pads ... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4661907 | Method for determining an angstrom exponent for correcting satellite color scanner images Effective removal of atmospheric contamination for a sequence of satellite olor scanner ocean imagery is achieved through determination of an optimum Angstrom exponent for weighting data in a plurality of channels of different wavelengths by the method of ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4658218 | Circuit for synchronizing a mode-locked oscillator-amplifier dye laser with a streak camera detection system A synchronization circuit couples a mode-locked oscillator-amplifier laser to a streak camera and Vidicon detection system. A sync signal from a mode-locker driver and a sync signal from a Nd:YAG pump laser act as basic circuit start signals. The circuit,... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4658322 | Arcing fault detector An arcing fault detector used the thermodynamic conditions created by an arcing fault within a vented electrical equipment enclosure to quickly activate a protective device which causes tripping of the supply circuit breaker(s). A plurality of temperature... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4608566 | Foliage-penetration surveillance radar A pseudo-noise modulated continuous wave radar for providing foliage penetion as a means for quickly establishing perimeter surveillance of an emplacement in heavily foliaged environments. An RF signal is radiated into free space by means of a static ant... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4587817 | High security internal locking system A locking system that consists of two locking mechanisms protected by a dl resistive shutter plate. The shutter plate can be rotated to expose a first lock which when unlocked allows it to be further rotated to uncover the second lock. Upon unlocking the... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4575723 | Foliage clutter rejector Signals from a balanced processor are sampled at a constant rate, integra and then divided by the number of samples. Two averages are obtained: a positive half cycle average and a negative half cycle average. Over a long period, clutter contributions ten... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4575026 | Ground launched missile controlled rate decelerator A deceleration sled to decelerate and safely contain a launched test miss. The sled has crushable honeycomb which absorbs the initial impact of the missile as the sled accelerates along a track to the same speed as the missile. As the deceleration sled i... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4562706 | Mechanical relocker for locking bolts A torsion spring longitudinally rotates a locking bolt when the bolt actung linkage is severed. A woodruff key or the like is upstanding from a surface of the bolt. When the linkage is undamaged, the key slides with the bolt through a slot on the lock fr... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4542334 | Induced-signal capacitance effect cable tracking sensor Inductive coupling of a high-frequency signal into a cable to be detected d tracked in a seawater medium for sensing the relative position of the cable with respect to capacitor plates. The capacitor plates are positioned so that in conjunction with the c... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4531299 | Analog inclination data system A means for taking roller paths inclination data as part of a weapon system lignment sequence. An accelerometer sensor sends out a DC signal representative of tilt. This signal is amplified and fed to a difference amplifier where a reference signal from a ... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4527062 | Portable infrared spectrophotometer A portable infrared spectrophotometer for nondestructive testing of coatings, plastics, rubber and other organic construction materials. A single source of infrared light is formed into two beams. One beam is directed to the surface of a sample where it i... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4525843 | Ring laser with wavefront conjugating beams An improvement for a ring laser gyro employs insertion of a wavefront conjugating coupling element inside a laser cavity to reduce the lock-in threshold and to reduce the imbalance between the amplitudes of the opposite direction traveling waves (ODTW) in... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4516111 | Pulsewidth modulated, charge transfer, digital to analog converter A microprocessor-driven pulsewidth modulated, charge transfer, digital to alog converter for use in a sample data system. During the sample period a capacitor is charged to an error signal value which is the difference between the output of an operational... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4479217 | Message identification and data entry apparatus Apparatus for data entry and error detection of digital information. Data ocked into a register undergoes a correlation comparison against a data word already stored within the comparator circuit and a convolution check in which the bits of the data word ... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4447407 | Perfluoroammonium salts fluoroxenon anions New energetic salts NF4 XeF7 and (NF4)2 XeF8 are prepared by reacting NH4 HF2 with XeF6 and exposing NF4 XeF7 to blue 4880 Å laser light.... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4428913 | Perfluoroammonium salt of heptafluoroxenon anion New energetic salts NF4 XeF7 and (NF4)2 XeF8 are prepared by reacting NF4 HF2 with XeF6 and exposing NF4 XeF7 to blue 4880Å laser light.... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4416630 | Weapons effect signature simulator A realistic audio-visual effects generator for simulating anti-tank and a-aircraft missile launching. A pyrotechnic cartridge having disc at one end that ruptures and allows the efflux of the products of combustion to exit through a hole in the breech bl... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4415991 | Multiplexed MOS multiaccess memory system Multiaccess memory modules are each connected by means of a bus to a system ddress multiplexer and to a system data multiplexer/demultiplexer. Each module includes a multiaccess memory connected to the system address multiplexer through a component address... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4413239 | Field effect transistor circuit for modulator and demodulator applications A double balanced modulator-demodulator consisting of two pairs of field ect transistors. A field effect transistor is connected in series between the source electrodes of each of the field effect transistor pairs. The field effect transistors making up ... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4400803 | Wide swath precision echo sounder A Wide Swath Precision Echo Sounder is provided by means of transmitting grammed acoustic pulses (pings) to insonify a target area and receiving the backscattered energy in two receivers separated vertically. The outputs of each receiver are stored (incl... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4395773 | Apparatus for identifying coded information without internal clock synchronization A self-synchronized apparatus for recognizing identifying codes especially n missiles and spacecraft. The apparatus comprises a video quantizer for receiving bipolar video input signals and providing an output of validly timed data to a decode register whi... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4388870 | Bowed pellet pack warhead A bundle of tubular shaped pellets for a rotating warhead packaged in a wl arrangement for uniform dispersion without coning upon release.... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4360928 | Non-interfering on-line receiver test system An on-line noise figure measurement system for receivers that produces va results whether or not signals are being received. A narrow pulse having a low pulse repetition frequency and low amplitude is injected into the receiver. A processing circuit cycl... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4333079 | Doppler signal processing circuit A signal processing circuit for producing a warhead firing pulse when the rhead is in a position to cause maximum target damage in a missile, target encounter. The received doppler signal is processed through filter circuits and a first band-pass amplifie... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4329883 | Apparatus for collecting deep-sea sediment pore water The collector filters and encapsulates pore water, in-situ, from unconsolted sediments. A pressure casing mounts a collection cylinder having a valved inlet opening for receiving the sediment pore water through a 1 micron filter. The valve is spring pres... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4323897 | Target detecting device with improved counter-countermeasures capability A system which in response to a received signal, alters the transmit chareristics in a manner that cannot be predicted by any enemy attempting to jam the target detecting device and has no effect on the inherent probability of detecting a target. Any sig... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4315255 | Multiple-quantum interference superconducting analog-to-digital converter An analog-to-digital converter using superconducting interferometers connected in parallel, each interferometer being identical. The coupling of the analog signal to each successive interferometer is increased in the ratio of 1:2:4:8:16:32:, etc. The appl... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4314873 | Method for depositing heteroepitaxially InP on GaAs semi-insulating substrates A method for depositing high quality indium phosphide layers heteroepitaxly on GaAs substrates by controlling the growth between them of an interfacial quaternary alloy of Iny Ga1-y Asx P1-x.... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4295200 | Automatic particle analyzing system A measured stream of particles is dropped onto the apex of a distributor e where it is divided into a circular pattern falling through a narrow sizing zone onto the peripheral edge of a rotatable platen. Platen rotation carries each particle into a frame... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4293220 | Application of inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry to the elemental analysis of organic compounds and to the determination of the empirical formulas for these and other compounds An inductively coupled plasma torch (ICP) provides an efficient means for ermally degrading many organic molecules and exciting the resulting atomic species into optical emission. Spectrometric analysis produces reliable data for qualitative and quantiati... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4293109 | Pivotable cable guard for retaining a swingable-movable cable The guard retains the cable on a pulley of a cable control system that indes another pulley mounted on a pivotable radius arm for swingable movement relative to it. Usually, the swingable pulley is linked to a third pulley mounted on a hinged structural ... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4290020 | Method and apparatus for detecting subterranean anomalies by generating two parallel magnetic fields Improved method and apparatus for detecting anomalies beneath an area of earth's surface wherein an oscillator couples a current into two conductors laid parallel to each other to generate two magnetic fields in the earth beneath the area. The magnetic ... | 09/15/1981 |
