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| 5871087 | Common conductor assembly for a contact switch A common conductor assembly is employed in a contact switch and includes a mounting plate, a pivotally movable member and a tension spring. The mounting plate has an elongated flat portion with first and second vertical edges, and first and second end pla... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5554848 | Gantry for nuclear medicine imaging systems A nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging system wherein the gamma camera rotates about the patient and is coupled to receive electrical power, control signals and to transmit data using cableless coupling means. This enables the system to provide whole body ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5548809 | Spectrum sharing communications system and system for monitoring available spectrum A mobile radio communications network is provided with a system for allocating one or more ranges of transmission frequency to the communications network, in order to prevent the network from interfering with received signals of an incumbent radio system.... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5541701 | Eye direction detecting apparatus of camera view finder An eye direction detecting apparatus of a camera having a view finder in which a bundle of rays reflected from an object to be photographed and transmitted through a taking lens is made incident on a photographer's eye to form an erect image thereof by an... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5539622 | Strobe device A strobe device is provided, including a light source and a reflector which reflects part of the light emitted from the light source. The reflector is provided with a reflecting surface that is shaped to form virtual images of the light source behind the ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5533692 | Beamrider guidance system using digital phase modulation encoding A beam of electromagnetic radiation is spatially encoded using a digital phase modulation technique. The spatial encoding defines the beam cross section into a series of resolution elements each identified by a different digital code. The codes defining r... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5515208 | Endoscope objective lens An endoscope objective lens having a first lens group of negative power, a diaphragm, a second lens group of positive power consisting of first and second lenses, and a third lens group of positive power consisting of a positive lens cemented to a negativ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5510803 | Dual-polarization planar antenna A dual-polarization planar antenna includes: a first feeding substrate having a plurality of first radiation elements and a first feeding line; a first dielectric member; a first ground conductor having a plurality of slots; a second dielectric member; a ... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5509179 | Autoleveller draw frame having process feed back control system An apparatus for controlling a fiber processing plant including a series of processing stages in order to supply fibrous material as a product with predetermined qualities, whereby the qualities of the product can be influenced by suitable, selectively ad... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5505535 | Camera system and photographing lens thereof A camera system includes a camera body and a photographing lens which is detachably attached to the camera body. The photographing lens has an input and output device which inputs and outputs data to and from the camera body, a timing controller which out... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5502954 | Flap folding device of wrapping machine Flap folding device of a wrapping machine. Side folding guides approach side flaps to hit a hitting part against the closed side faces of a wrapped body part of a content or volume, thereby pressing a wrapped body part, near the base end of the side flaps... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5500305 | Vacuum insulated panel and method of making a vacuum insulated panel A vacuum insulated panel having high thermal insulating value and long vacuum life, and a method of making such a panel are disclosed. The panel is formed of peripherally welded metal wall members which define a cavity within which, in one embodiment, a c... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5499461 | Boot for guiding sports A boot for gliding sports, and more specifically, for "snowboarding". The boot includes two distinct zones with different characteristics and functions, including a first relatively rigid energy/power circuit, distributed with respect to the foot, so as t... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5499105 | Maximizing the quality of a signal reproduced from a recording disk A video signal reproducing device for reproducing a video signal recorded on a track of a magnetic disk. The track on the magnetic disk is divided into a plurality of portions along a rotational direction of the magnetic disk. An auto-tracking operation i... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5498944 | Automatic focusing apparatus An automatic focusing apparatus having an object distance data detecting mechanism having an optical system which includes a focusing lens assembly which can be driven by a motor, and a mechanism for detecting an angular velocity of the motor. The optical... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5497624 | Method of and apparatus for producing power using steam A power plant operating on steam for producing electric power including a plurality of integrated power plant unit modules each having a steam turbine responsive to the steam and producing heat depleted steam, a steam condenser associated with the steam t... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5498946 | Device for controlling the variation of the power and/or the speed of a load The invention relates to a device for controlling the variation of the power and/or the speed of a load (2), such as an asynchronous, synchronous, universal motor, a transformer, an inductance, a condenser or a resistor, comprising a switch (5) placed on ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5497246 | Image signal processing device A DCT processing circuit outputs DCT coefficients based on image data stored in an image memory. The DCT coefficients are quantized by a quantization processing circuit, then input to a Huffman encoding processing circuit and an inverse quantization proce... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5497222 | Image transfer apparatus incorporating an integral heater An imaging system including an image bearing surface and an intermediate transfer member operative for transfer of toner images from the image bearing surface to a transfer surface of the intermediate transfer member and for subsequent transfer to a subst... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5496190 | Electrical connector casings Electrical connector casings comprising a female casing member and a male casing member the male casing member, wherein includes an inclined elastic bar fastened at a point partway along its length to an abutment and the female casing member has a passage... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5497223 | Method for fusing developed image A method of fusing and fixing a liquid toner image on a substrate. The image includes a carrier liquid and a non-volatile portion including thermoplastic toner particles which are plasticized by the carrier liquid at a predetermined temperature. The non-v... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5495329 | Adaptive lamp control A method and apparatus for determining the quality of an illuminating device, such as an elongated lamp, that is useable with an imaging device, such as a scanner. Electrical power is supplied to the lamp so that it emits a light beam. The light beam is t... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5493318 | Continuous form positioning device with control of rollers in response to a tip sensor A device for positioning a tip portion of a continuous form provided in a laser printer when the continuous form is set in the laser printer. The device includes a pair of fixing rollers provided at a position separated by a predetermined interval from a ... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5492593 | Parts feeder A parts feeder for feeding parts that are disposed on a carrier having a base tape and an adhesive tape. Parts are disposed above holes which are formed at equal intervals on the base tape, and the parts are held by an adhesive tape adhered to a lower sur... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5493377 | Continuous form printer An electrophotographic printer includes a fixing unit having a movable pressure roller, movable toward and away from a heat roller. The heat roller of the fixing unit is above a plane formed between a pair of discharge rollers and a tractor, so that the p... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5491587 | Collimating lens for optical system using semiconductor laser A collimating lens system comprises a chromatic aberration correction element and a converging lens which has both surfaces formed of a convex aspherical surface. The converging lens has no aberrations except chromatic aberration. The chromatic aberration... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5490794 | Branch joint box A branch joint box comprising: a base plate; and a pair of connector coupling portions which are, respectively, formed on opposite faces of the base plate so as to confront each other; the base plate being formed with a plurality of insertion openings for... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5491332 | Transparency viewing apparatus having display and masking functions Apparatus having the dual function of display and optical mapping of transparencies which includes a viewing surface to which a transparency is adjacent, a segmented surface underlying the viewing surface and having a plurality of segments at least two of... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5488737 | Land-based wireless communications system having a scanned directional antenna A radio communication system is disclosed which comprises a base station for transmitting and receiving signals to and from one or more remote stations. The base station is provided with at least one receive antenna coupled to a base station receiver. The... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488492 | Apparatus for adjusting color tone of image to be recorded A color adjusting apparatus is provided with a color image pickup device for picking up an object image signal and a color adjusting device for adjusting a color component of the object image signal picked-up by the color image pickup device. The apparatu... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488446 | Indicator within finder of single lens reflex camera An indicating apparatus within a finder of a single lens reflex camera includes a mirror which reflects light of an object transmitted through a photographing lens to form an object image on a focusing plate, and a finder optical system through which an i... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488509 | Light source apparatus for endoscope A light source apparatus for an endoscope having a light source for emitting a bundle of illuminating light rays which are to be supplied to a light guide of the endoscope. The apparatus includes at least a pair of light-blocking plates disposed in the bu... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5486700 | Proximity controls for gamma camera Proximity controls for controlling the proximity of a gamma camera to a patient during a scan of the patient. The proximity controls consist of two spaced apart energy screens, each comprising 200 beams, parallel to and spaced from the detector of the gam... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5486434 | Battery terminal A battery terminal includes a main member and ring member, each made from a conductive metal. A stud bolt for cable connection projects from the main member. A post fitting is provided in the ring member. The ring member is placed on top of the main membe... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5485315 | Backlash removing mechanism for zoom lens assembly A zoom lens assembly has a rotatable cam ring having first helicoid threads and a cam groove, a front lens group held by a front lens group frame having second helicoid threads held in mesh with the first helicoid threads for moving the front lens group a... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485242 | Exposure control apparatus of camera An exposure control apparatus of a camera having a photometer for detecting a brightness of an object to be taken, an exposure value calculator for calculating an optimum exposure value in accordance with the object brightness, and an exposure factor sett... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485236 | Camera A camera is provided with an object distance measuring sensor for detecting an object distance, an object brightness measuring sensor for detecting an object brightness, a photographing lens, a position of which along an optical axis is variably set, and ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485201 | Fill-in light emitting apparatus and still video camera A fill-in light emitting apparatus having an illuminating mechanism for emitting illumination light whose color temperature can be varied; a color temperature metering mechanism for measuring the color temperature of the external light; and a color temper... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485072 | Process for operating permanently excited single-phase alternating current machines A method and apparatus is provided for operating a permanently excited single-phase alternating current machine, otherwise known as a transverse flux machine, which allows optimal exploitation of the machine and economical design of the converter. A termi... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485403 | Method and apparatus for processing signals from photoconductive sensor A signal processing method for detecting a point of change from a first signal level to a second signal level, outputted from a line sensor having a photoconductive bit element array including setting a threshold level between the first signal level and t... | 01/16/1996 |
