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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4754282 | Improved data analysis system A data analysis system accepts time related data samples which are develo from sets of common wavefronts incident upon a plurality of sensors. The data samples are converted from analog-to-digital form and the Fourier transforms relative to the frequency... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4291984 | Optical amplification for the fiber interferometer gyro An improvement for a fiber interferometer gyro provides for greater rotation rate sensitivity. The gyro has a single mode fiber coiled about an identical area a great number of times. A single external laser sends pulses of energy which are split and pass... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4225380 | Method of producing light emitting semiconductor display A method is provided for mass production of a monolithic light emitting semiconductor display utilizing light emitting semiconductor devices formed in a monocrystalline silicon wafer and a covering of silicon dioxide formed into lens structures for contro... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4214313 | Multiple sonar masking and jamming countermeasure system 1. A masking-jamming sonar countermeasure system comprising in combination, receiver, a transmitter, a sequence timer connected between said receiver and said transmitter for regulating the operative time intervals thereof, and means coupled to the input ... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4210881 | Millimeter wave microstrip triplexer A planar millimeter wave microstrip triplexer for separating three contigs bands of frequencies (lower, middle and upper bands). The middle band is separated by the use of a diplexer comprising two quadrature couplers connected by dual identical planar b... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4201618 | Apparatus for curing adhesively joined fiber optic elements An apparatus and method is provided for adhesive bonding together of fiber ptic elements, i.e. fibers, utilizing a light source and an adhesive that will be cured by said light source, the adhesive being irradiated by the light and cured around the entire ... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4201987 | Method for determining antenna near-fields from measurements on a spherical surface A method for determining antenna near-fields from measurements on a spherical surface. Phase and intensity values are measured by scanning a probe antenna over a spherical surface. The method applies both to planar or conformal antennas. The spherical sur... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4201988 | Wideband VHF antenna A wideband VHF antenna operable simultaneously on multiple frequencies hag an instantaneous bandwidth greater than one octave and having a total length less than one-quarter wavelength at the lowest operating frequency. A wideband impedance transformer i... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4200873 | Folded tapered coaxial cavity-backed annular slot antenna A low profile transmitting antenna consisting of a circular slot in a coal cavity that is folded several times. The last inner fold of the coaxial cavity is loaded with the tuning coil. The tuning coil can in the alternative be connected in series with t... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4200859 | Device for simulating marine craft noises 1. In combination in electronic apparatus for simulating the self-noise of submarine, means for generating a wide-band noise signal, means for modulating the noise signal at a frequency corresponding to the propeller speed of a submarine, means for genera... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4200920 | Artificial underwater target 1. In combination in a free, underwater craft, a hull, means for carrying llast, means for discharging said ballast, depth responsive means, a timer providing two time intervals, control means operated by said timer for actuating said discharging means af... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199809 | Programmable data terminal set An operator console, a general purpose digital computer and a radio set irface are connected to perform the modulation and demodulation of the differential coherent quadrature phase shift signal used to transmit the digital information over a computer-to... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4195359 | Automatic echo detection and classification system 1. In an automatic echo detection and classification system wherein sonar equipment transmits pulses toward a target in predetermined and equal time intervals and receives background, dopplered and undopplered echoes which are produced as video output and... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4194021 | Microwave InP/SiO2 insulated gate field effect transistor An InP/SiO2 insulated gate field effect transistor which exhibits power gain at microwave frequencies is manufactured by using an n-type epitaxial semiconducting InP film on a semi-insulating InP substrate and depositing a pyrolytic silicon dio... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4194204 | High resolution microwave seeker An active microwave seeker for missile guidance against ships or permanent and targets. Frequency agility and pulse time compression are employed as means to provide a capability for tracking small targets in heavy sea clutter, to reduce target angular sci... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4188884 | Water reactive underwater warhead 1. Apparatus for inflicting explosive damage upon an underwater object, crising; (a) an encapsulated charge of a first material which is highly reactive with water, said first charge being for explosively reacting with the water to produce a gas bubble w... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4185273 | Data rate adaptive control device for Manchester code decoders An automatic means for decoding a wide data range of Manchester code data. Variable delay means are provided for the Manchester code decoder which are digitally controlled in response to the output of a data rate sensing circuit that provides a digital eq... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4181892 | Sweeping noise blanker A noise rejection circuit for a communications receiver in which the input o the receiver is continually sampled by a sweeping heterodyne oscillator to develop a difference frequency noise signal which represents the input noise over a wide frequency band.... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4179782 | Cable terminal-ferrule attaching apparatus Apparatus for attaching a cable terminal to a ferrule using a snap ring to chieve a rotatable connection wherein one jaw of the apparatus supports the terminal, a second jaw supports the ferrule, and an intermediate third jaw supports and compresses the sn... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4178708 | Fiber optic visual display system Fiber optic cables are employed to convert punched card type of input infation to an alpha-numeric visual display. Separate groups of the fiber optic cables have first terminal ends positioned in an aperture area corresponding to the punched card apertur... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4178722 | Grinding and polishing tool A grinding and polishing tool is designed to finish the ends of fiber optic able terminals preparatory to installation or maintenance, the tool being portable to enable the work to be performed in a field environment, and is air driven to eliminate any ele... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4179194 | Electrically controllable wide angle of view optical notch filter An electronically controllable, wide angle of view, notch filter operates attenuate predeterminable narrow bandwidth wavelengths of light energy. An enclosure contains a selected material characterized by exhibiting strong quantum mechanical coupling bet... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4177468 | Inflatable cavity-backed annular slot transmitting antenna A transmitting antenna that can be inflated with air or a liquid dielectric nd floated in seawater. It consists of a cuplike cavity backing a radiating annular slot antenna. It can be used to communicate to submarines or surface ships or as a navigation tr... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4176919 | Passive high-speed automatic shutter for imaging devices A passive, high-speed, automatic shutter for controlling the transmission light energy of known wavelengths along a predetermined optical axis is provided to protect imaging devices against sudden, undesirable optical overload which may cause damage. A l... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4174084 | Dual parachute ripcord cable releasable clamp A clamp assembly is provided for a dual parachute release mechanism for a litary personnel-type parachute which enables the automatic power cable to be in a condition to function for initiating parachute deployment, even though the manual ripcord cable an... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4173000 | Simulated VLF/LF noise generator A reliable, repeatable and stable generator capable of producing noise with nown or given amplitude probability distributions up to 96 dB dynamic range, commonly found in atmospheric noise VLF/LF frequency bands. A continuous impulse noise amplitude probab... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4171526 | Event mark decoder for use with time code generator A logic circuit for decoding parallel BCD output from a time code generator o operate an analog event marker pen on a strip chart recorder, every one minute a one second pulse, every ten minutes a ten second pulse, and every hour a sixty-one second pulse o... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4171525 | VLF loop array antenna A directional loop array antenna for very low frequency (VLF) reception. array comprises four closely spaced loop antennas forming a unidirectional reception pattern with a main beam of less than 43° between half power points. The array combines two do... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4169568 | Hermetically sealed parachute container A parachute container for aircrew ejection seats is designed with a rigid dy having a reduced volume and weight, and which is hermetically sealed and filled with an inert gas to extend service life without maintenance, the container being provided with a ... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4168475 | Pulsed electron impact dissociation cyclic laser A pulsed laser produces emitted laser energy by electron impact dissociation of metal dihalide and cyclic recombination. A metal dihalide selected from sub group II-B of the periodic table of elements is contained within an elongate sealed enclosure. Two ... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4168479 | Millimeter wave MIC diplexer A millimeter wave MIC diplexer constructed in either stripline or microstrip comprising two edge coupled bandpass filters separated by specific lengths of transmission lines designed to separate two bands of frequencies. Input signals having frequencies w... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4166782 | Method of anodically leveling semiconductor layers A method for the thinning and automatic leveling of layers of a semicondur for use in device fabrication applications. The method is to be employed with anodic thinning wherein a conducting semiconductor layer on a high resistivity substrate is placed in... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4164753 | Dual pyroelectric vidicon infrared camera Two pyroelectric vidicons are adapted to alternately receive infrared ene radiated from an object by means of a rotating half circle mirror and fixed mirror arrangement. The alternations of the infrared energy received between the two vidicons are synchr... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4161739 | Microwave InP/SiO2 insulated gate field effect transistor An InP/SiO2 insulated gate field effect transistor which exhibits power gain at microwave frequencies is manufactured by using an n-type epitaxial semiconducting InP film on a semi-insulating InP substrate and depositing a pyrolytic silicon dio... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4157861 | Optical beam steering system An optical beam steering system is provided by a reflective surface mounted n a baseplate which is electromagnetically driven by applied signals to control its angular disposition to a degree of accuracy within fractions of a microradian. Resilient means s... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4156556 | Fiber optic coupler with concave spherical reflecting elements An optical coupler transfers light energy signals relative to an optical h which includes a fiber optic cable. A body member includes first and second ports at opposite ends for supporting first and second terminals of the fiber optic cable in laterally ... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4156242 | Light-weight low-cost antenna element An antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements formed from ml-clad boards and conductive pins. Two metal-clad boards are placed together to form a sandwich, the metal-clad surfaces of the boards forming the top and bottom walls of a waveguid... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4154385 | Single filament fiber optic cable parting tool A hand-held, manually operative tool is designed for severing single filat, fiber optic cable. The exertion of a squeeze-like pressure on the handles of the tool cause the fiber optic cable to be gripped firmly and positioned on an anvil member where it ... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4153917 | Image stabilizer system for stop-action playback Light energy data is generated in sequential interlaced field raster format y a sensor driven in azimuth to detect a panoramic scene. The light energy data is sequentially recorded together with an azimuth rate signal which is a function of the rate that t... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4147942 | Fast recovery one-shot A video-blanker system for supplying blanking pulses to receivers including a main delay one-shot for responding to a pretrigger pulse and establishing a time delay in response thereto by providing an output pulse of a predetermined width and an auxiliary... | 04/03/1979 |
