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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6943618 | Compensation mechanism for compensating bias levels of an operation circuit in response to supply voltage changes A compensation circuit is disclosed for compensating bias levels of an operational circuit in response to variations in a supply voltage. The compensation mechanism identifies variations in the supply voltage by comparing the voltage of a selected node of the operat... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6428680 | Method of providing safe haven within buildings during chemical or biological attack A room in a building serving as a safe haven for human inhabitants against harmful agent attack such as chemical or biological weapon attack. The room provides an environment sealed from air-carried harmful agents wherein the sealing can be accomplished b... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6377306 | Method and apparatus for providing a seamless tiled display A display for producing a seamless composite image from at least two discrete images. The display includes one or more projectors for projecting each of the discrete images separately onto a screen such that at least one of the discrete images overlaps at... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6373188 | Efficient solid-state light emitting device with excited phosphors for producing a visible light output A more efficient solid-state light emitting device in which phosphors excited by radiation produce visible light. The efficiency is increased by, for example, providing a reflector adjacent to the phosphor layer for reflecting at least some of the radiati... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370260 | Near-IR human detector An infrared detector having two cameras for viewing a scene to detect humans. The cameras focus the scene on their respective pixel arrays. One array is designed with a filter to be sensitive to light from 0.8 to 1.4 microns and the array of the other cam... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6363778 | Engine misfire monitor A misfire monitor for detecting cylinder misfires in an internal combustion engine. The monitor has a light detector that senses infrared light signals emerging from combustion gases through a window inserted on an exhaust pipe or manifold. Characteristic... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6361206 | Microsensor housing A microsensor housing having a structure with at least one inlet at one end and a thermal property sensor at the other end. Situated between the inlet and the sensor is a convection shield. Sampled fluid is taken in the inlet from a channel carrying the f... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6360773 | Methods for monitoring wear in seat materials of valves Systems and methods are discussed that monitor wear in seat materials of a valve. One aspect of the present invention includes a system. The system includes sensors to sense the open/closed status of the valve within a desired range. The system also inclu... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6358021 | Electrostatic actuators for active surfaces An actuator device controlling the shape of a flexible surface having a quasi-continuum in a plurality of locations. The device includes a plurality of individual cells arranged in an array for contact with the flexible surface. The cells comprise a cell ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6359333 | Wafer-pair having deposited layer sealed chambers A wafer-pair having at least one recess in one wafer and the recess formed into a chamber with the attaching of the other wafer which has a port plugged with a deposited layer on its external surface. The deposition of the layer may be performed in a very... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6354736 | Wide temperature range RTD An RTD having a thin film HfN resistor formed on a substrate for temperature detection in accordance with the resistance of the HfN resistor. The RTD is a two lead device having high accuracy and a wide temperature range from 20 to 1400 degrees Kelvin. Th... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6351054 | Compounded AC driving signal for increased reliability and lifetime in touch-mode electrostatic actuators An electrostatic actuator device and method for actuating the device. The device includes a pair of actuator plates having electrodes for conducting a voltage potential thereto and at least one of the pair being movable with respect to the other. The plat... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6327221 | Steered beam ultrasonic sensor for object location and classification A vehicle occupant sensor which utilizes an acoustic system for determining object range, extent, and direction. The system is composed of an ultrasonic transmitter formed from an array of air chamber resonator elements driven in relative phase to each ot... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6322670 | Flexible high performance microbolometer detector material fabricated via controlled ion beam sputter deposition process A microbolometer film material VOx having a value such that the thermal coefficient of resistance is between 0.005 and 0.05. The film material may be formed on a wafer. The VOx material properties can be changed or modified by controlling certain paramete... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6323446 | Rolling ball switch Environmentally safe, non-mercury electronic switches having a sphere lubricated with an arc suppressant. Electronic tilt switches utilize an electrically conductive sphere and have good resistance to physical damage of the sphere caused by electrical arc... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6322247 | Microsensor housing A microsensor housing having a structure with at least one inlet at one end and a thermal property sensor at the other end. Situated between the inlet and the sensor is a convection shield. Sampled fluid is taken in the inlet from a channel carrying the f... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6313463 | Flexible high performance microbolometer detector material fabricated via controlled ion beam sputter deposition process A high performance microbolometer in which a pixel contains the material VOx wherein x of VOx is set at a value to adjust a thermal coefficient of resistance to a selected value between 0.005 and 0.05.... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6310650 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a tiled display A display system that can be calibrated and re-calibrated with a minimal amount of manual intervention. To accomplish this, one or more cameras are provided to capture an image of the display screen. The resulting captured image is processed to identify a... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6308282 | Apparatus and methods for providing fault tolerance of networks and network interface cards Methods and apparatus for implementation of fault-tolerant networks provide a network fault-tolerance manager for detecting failures and manipulating a node to communicate with an active channel. Failure detection incorporates one or more methods, includi... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6305811 | Illumination system having an array of linear prisms An illumination system provides a light output distribution that is ideally suited for home and office applications. The illumination system generally comprises a solid waveguide and a light directing structure located on a side opposite of the waveguide'... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6300904 | Narrowband based navigation scheme Multiple pulses of narrow band signals of varying frequency are detected by multiple spaced apart receivers such that average time difference of arrivals of the signals from an item to be located are determined. The average time differences are used to ca... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6299328 | Structure for achieving a linear light source geometry Improved linear illumination sources which utilize external, highly reflective enclosures containing one or more linear openings and thereby achieve improved source efficiency, output irradiance and/or output radiance. Such improved illumination sources m... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6296808 | Method and apparatus for protecting building personnel during chemical or biological attack A system for at least partially decontaminating personnel in response to detection of an agent harmful to human life such as a chemical or biological agent. The system can provide a sprinkler head above a walkway such as a hallway through which personnel ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6288472 | Electrostatic/pneumatic actuators for active surfaces An actuator device providing an active surface. The actuator has an electrostatic electrode for electrostatic cooperative action with an opposing electrostatic electrode. The cover has at least one second electrostatic electrode for cooperative electrosta... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6289277 | Interfaces for planning vehicle routes A system for producing vehicle routes such as aircraft flight plans in the presence of weather and other hazards defines static and moving hazards with polygons drawn on a display containing graphic hazard regions. Different hazard types and intensities a... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6287940 | Dual wafer attachment process Producing the microstructures on separate substrates, which are bonded. One of these structures may be temperature sensitive CMOS electronics. There may be a high-temperature thermal sensor on one wafer and low-temperature CMOS electronics. In the case wh... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6278546 | Display screen and method of manufacture therefor A screen assembly that combines an angle re-distributing prescreen with a conventional diffusion screen is disclosed. The prescreen minimizes or eliminates the sensitivity of the screen assembly to projector location. The diffusion screen provides other d... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276313 | Microcombustion engine/generator A knocking-based, micro-combustion engine constructed in three layers of micromachined material. Two outer layers contain means for directing gases and fuels into and out of vents in a middle layer. The middle layer has machined in it two, linear, free pi... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6266610 | Multi-dimensional route optimizer A system and method of optimizing a multi-dimensional route, such as an aircraft flight path, using a lateral path optimizer and a vertical path optimizer. The lateral path is determined by searching for a path among nodes that minimizes a cost function. ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6261469 | Three dimensionally periodic structural assemblies on nanometer and longer scales This invention relates to processes for the assembly of three-dimensional structures having periodicities on the scale of optical wavelengths, and at both smaller and larger dimensions, as well as compositions and applications therefore. Invention embodim... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6255758 | Polymer microactuator array with macroscopic force and displacement A microactuator array device, which includes a plurality of generally parallel thin flexible polymer sheets bonded together in a predetermined pattern to form an array of unit cells on at least one layer. Thin conductive and dielectric films are deposited... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6246638 | Fiber-optic vibration sensor based on frequency modulation of light-excited oscillators A sensor device for detecting vibration, including a light source for providing a laser light, a first optical fiber connected to the source for transmitting the laser light, an oscillator positioned to receive the transmitted laser light and adapted to r... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6240944 | Addressable valve arrays for proportional pressure or flow control A device for controlling the proportional pressure or flow of fluids over a range of source pressure. An addressable array is interposed between a source pressure and an exit pressure chamber. The array comprises a plurality of valves, the total open area... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6238085 | Differential thermal analysis sensor A sensor having an active sensing material exposed to the substance to be detected and an active reference material that is shielded from the substance to be detected. Thermocouples having a set of junctions proximate to the active sensing material and an... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6234016 | Time lag approach for measuring fluid velocity A method and apparatus for measuring the velocity of a fluid relatively independently of the physical properties of the fluid. This is preferably accomplished by spacing two sensor elements at different distances from a heater element. The present inventi... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6236238 | Output buffer with independently controllable current mirror legs A programmable output buffer with independently controllable current mirror legs is disclosed. The output buffer includes a current mirror that has a reference leg and a number of current mirror legs. The reference leg is biased using a reference current ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6224237 | Structure for achieving a linear light source geometry Improved linear illumination sources which utilize external, highly reflective enclosures containing one or more linear openings and thereby achieve improved source efficiency, output irradiance and/or output radiance. Such improved illumination sources m... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6223593 | Self-oscillating fluid sensor A method and apparatus for determining selected fluid properties using a self-oscillating fluid sensor. In a preferred embodiment, a sensor is provided that oscillates at a frequency that is related to the transit time of a temperature disturbance through... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6219099 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a display using an array of cameras The present invention overcomes many of the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a display that can be calibrated and re-calibrated with a minimal amount of manual intervention. To accomplish this, the present invention provides one or more cameras... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6217441 | Method and apparatus for sealing building ductwork during chemical or biological attack A system for sealing a building air duct in response to a chemical or biological attack to prevent the building HVAC system from delivering the chemical or biological agent throughout the building. The system can include an inflatable bladder for disposit... | 04/17/2001 |
