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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5716338 | Dual-chamber type injection cartridge with bypass connection An injection cartridge (1) of the dual-chamber type having a bypass connection (12) between its two chambers (9, 10) which is arranged such that the interior wall of the cartridge is modified in a predetermined area in such a way that the movable wall (11... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5668059 | Solder interconnection structure and process for making Solder interconnection encapsulant, encapsulated structure and method for its fabrication and use, whereby the gap created by solder connections between a carrier substrate and a semiconductor device is filled with a composition obtained from curing a pre... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5480399 | Electrosurgery monitor and apparatus A monitor for the return electrode of electrosurgery apparatus has three contacts in a socket that connect with two or three contacts on a plug connected to the return electrode. One pair of contacts in the socket is connected across an oscillator that pr... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5396558 | Method and apparatus for settlement of accounts by IC cards An IC card has a card information memory area wherein there are written a master public key nA, card secret keys pU and qU, a card public key nU, a card identification number IDU, and a first master digital signature SA1 for information including the card... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5379189 | Electrical assemblies An electrical circuit has a substrate and a surface mount capacitor having a connector pad at each end. The substrate has two separate contact pads that are both soldered to the same connector pad on the capacitor. Two further contact pads on the substrat... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5366383 | Connector assemblies A connector assembly has two rotatable parts both of which have external splines. An internally-splined locking ring is slidable along the assembly into a locking position where the splines on the ring engage the splines on both the rotatable parts so tha... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5356183 | Coupling with rotating retaining ring having cam surfaces A coupling for a corrugated conduit has a body with a rotatable retaining ring. The ring has inwardly-projecting locking bars with two finger grips which project outwardly through slots in the body. When the finger grips are held and the ring is rotated, ... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5336886 | Apparatus for measuring a diffraction pattern of electron beams having only elastic scattering electrons An electron beam emitted from an electron gun is applied to an object whose crystal structure is being examined in a vacuum, and electron beams diffracted by the object are introduced into an energy discriminator of an energy analyzer which discriminates ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5329277 | Displays and display systems An aircraft display system has a display unit comprising a matrix array of LED's mounted in the glareshield. Air traffic command signals received by a datalink processor produce a visual indication on the display unit which is visible to the pilot when lo... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5325835 | Electronic fuel injection system for engine An electronic fuel injection system for an engine with a self-triggered ignition system is provided with means for detecting the time interval between two adjacent voltage signals which are induced before and after an ignition signal in a primary winding ... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5321939 | Detector of grass-bag fullness for mower A transmission type light sensor is disposed in the vicinity of the exit of a shooter, which has the exit thereof positioned above a grass-bag opening, and the fullness of the grass-bag is detected when the light blocking state of the sensor continues lon... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5317405 | Display and image capture apparatus which enables eye contact In a display and image capture apparatus for a videophone or video teleconferencing system a half-transparent mirror array is disposed adjacent the display surface of a display and an image reflected by the half-transparent mirror array is captured by a v... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5305086 | Two step demodulation synchronous detector In a synchronous detector a first local signal from a first local signal generator is frequency divided by a frequency divider to obtain a second local signal. The polarity of the first local signal is inverted by a polarity inverter in synchronization wi... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5301549 | Liquid-level gauging An ultrasonic liquid level sensor has a transducer mounted at the lower end of an aluminum tube that projects upwardly in a liquid tank so that the tube is filled with liquid to the same height as that outside the tube. Internally, the tube has a layer of... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5302908 | High precision phase comparator and phase locked loop A modulus counter counts first clock pulses to modulus M and outputs the count value as an m-bit reference signal, M being an integer. A latch circuit samples and holds the reference signal in response to a trigger signal generated by a trigger signal gen... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5296951 | Multicolor display apparatus employing superposed planar discharge lamps A multicolor display has an LCD display unit with a matrix array of energizable regions. Below the unit are three planar discharge lamps mounted one above the other which emit respectively blue, red and green light. Each lamp has an array of transparent p... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5293448 | Speech analysis-synthesis method and apparatus therefor An impulse sequence of a pitch frequency is detected from a phase-equalized prediction residual of an input speech signal, and a quasi-periodic impulse sequence is obtained by processing the impulse sequence so that a fluctuation in its pitch frequency is... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5278911 | Speech recognition using a neural net Multiple examples of a vocabulary of known words are recorded. The examples of each word are temporally aligned and supplied to a neural net which identifies unique features of each word which discriminate it from other words in the vocabulary. These uniq... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5272410 | Radiation-emitting panels and display assemblies A flat, light-emitting discharge panel, such as for back lighting displays, has two parallel transparent glass plates which are spaced by rows of pyramid-shape pillars. The pillars are formed integrally with at least one of the plates. The space between t... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5272695 | Subband echo canceller with adjustable coefficients using a series of step sizes A received input signal and an echo signal resulting from the passage of the received input signal through an echo path are both analyzed or divided into a plurality of common subbands. The received input signal in each subband is supplied to an estimated... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5268788 | Display filter arrangements A display especially for viewing by a night-vision aid has an array of LED's which emit green light. A dichroic filter is located in front of the display and transmits radiation at the peak emission of the diodes but reflects radiation in the range to whi... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5267990 | Male urine collection devices A male urine collection device has a short sheath the rear end of which fits over the glans and a short part of the shaft of the penis. The device is of latex rubber and is between 0.6 mm and 1.0 mm thick at its rear end. At its forward end, the device ha... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5265471 | Sensor supporting structure for an accelerometer In an accelerometer supporting structure a housing is formed by a cylindrical portion and a flange, and a positioning part whose outer diameter is greater than that of the cylindrical portion and whose length is shorter than the length of the cylindrical ... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5258822 | System for detecting the position of a moving body A position detection system for a moving body comprising means for rotatively scanning the light beam projected from a light beam generator mounted on the moving body in a substantially horizontal plane, and vibrating to vertically vibrate the rotatively ... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5248961 | Track ball The case of a track ball structure has X-axis and Y-axis encoder shafts provided therein and X-axis and Y-axis driven rollers rotatably coupled with said shafts and provided closer to the top panel of the case than said shafts. A ball makes rotary contact... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5247869 | Method and a device for damping flow pulsations in hydrostatic hydraulic machines of the displacement type Each cylinder of a hydrostatic hydraulic machine of the displacement type is preliminarily pressurized after the inlet port of the cylinder has been exposed to the low pressure side of the machine and before the inlet port of the cylinder is exposed to th... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5246439 | Electrosurgery equipment Electrosurgery equipment has an alarm circuit for detecting when a return plate electrode is incorrectly attached. Capacitive dividers are connected between ground and each of the power supply line to the active electrode and the power supply return line ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5244424 | Electrical couplings and systems An electrical coupling for a power supply busbar has a U-shape metal body that embraces the busbar and is locked in place by a pin that extends through apertures in opposite limbs of the body. The pin has a shoulder that urges the bar against a flexible m... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5245687 | Optical fiber coil unit for a fiber optic gyro A cylindrical bobbin having flanges at both ends thereof is formed as a unitary structure, using a material of thermal conductivity nearly equal to or lower than that of an optical fiber coil, and the optical fiber coil is wound on a housing portion defin... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5220582 | Optical bus transmission method and transmitting-side encoder and receiving-side decoder therefor In each terminal connected to an optical bus a narrow pulse synchronized with the rise of a pre-synchronizing pulse appended to the head of the one digital signal TXN of Manchester-biphase signals, a narrow pulse synchronized with the rise of each pulse o... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5216532 | Optical multiplexing An optical multiplexing system has several optical sensors connected in parallel between a source and a detector, the path length between source and detector via each sensor being different. The source is modulated at a number of different frequencies, th... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5211908 | Method of manufacturing a grid having calibrated cells for a nuclear fuel assembly There is provided a method of manufacturing a grid for a nuclear fuel assembly, the grid having at least two crossed sets of mutually parallel plates which define cells, some of which receive guide tubes and others receive fuel rods, the plates being prov... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5207639 | Fetal lung apparatus Apparatus for oxygenating the blood of a non-breathing prematurely born baby which is still attached to its umbilical cord. The apparatus includes a lung member for oxygenating blood, and an adapter for connecting venous and arterial blood vessels in the ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5206673 | Reflection type overhead projector A mirror Fresnel lens (12) is disposed on a base (11), on which a liquid crystal display (18) is mounted. The liquid crystal display (18) is provided with a polarization plate (24) only in the mirror Fresnel lens (12) side. Light from a light source (15) ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5203349 | Electrical pulse generating device for therapeutic uses An electrical pulse generating device for therapeutic uses comprises a body containing a piezoelectric type generator and a head having at least two electrodes, an actuating trigger for operating the piezoelectric type generator, and a motor-reducer unit ... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5187757 | Fiber optic gyro An optical fiber coil in a fiber optic gyro is formed by a single mode optical fiber and two polarization retaining optical fibers of the same length connected respectively to both ends of the single mode optical fiber. The polarization retaining optical ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5187692 | Acoustic transfer function simulating method and simulator using the same A plurality of acoustic transfer functions for a plurality of sets of different positions of a loudspeaker and a microphone in an acoustic system are measured by an acoustic transfer function measuring part. The plurality of measured acoustic transfer fun... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5175592 | Electro-optic apparatus A radiation pyrometer has four rectangular photodiodes mounted in an orthogonal array. Radiation from a hot body is focussed as a circular image centrally of the array. The outputs of diagonally opposite photodiodes are connected together to form two iden... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5168270 | Liquid crystal display device capable of selecting display definition modes, and driving method therefor An input analog image signal is sampled by first and second A/D converters, using first and second sampling clocks of the same period, to obtain digital gradation data. In the case of a double definition display mode, the first and second sampling clocks ... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5166634 | Feed-forward amplifier In a feed-forward amplifier which has an error detection circuit for detecting a nonlinear distortion component of a main amplifier and an error rejection circuit for amplifying the detected distortion component by an auxiliary amplifier and injecting it ... | 11/24/1992 |
