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| 5376414 | Expansion compensated precision extrusion method Extrusion apparatus and method includes a chamber of alterable volume having an outlet and a vent in a movable wall of the chamber to facilitate sealing the chamber upon application of force to the movable wall to displace viscous, fluid composition from ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5347482 | Multiplier tree using nine-to-three adders A multiplier tree sums the partial products of a multiplication operation, employing a regular hierarchical arrangement of bit adders that accept nine initial inputs and a carry input and produce three outputs and a carry output. The regularity of the str... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5345531 | Optical fiber lighting apparatus and method A composite optical cable for lateral emission of light flux therefrom includes a plural number of sets of transparent optical fibers with each set of fibers assembled into a single cable and with a plurality of single cables assembled in the composite op... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5299115 | Product demand system and method A product-demand production-control system and method stores past-product demand data during past time periods for use with other data to compute product demands in such manner that the past-product demand data is used to estimate the product demands in c... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5266849 | Tri state buffer circuit for dual power system A CMOS tri-state buffer circuit transfers digital signals between a first digital circuit system operating at 3.3 Volts and a second system operating at 5 Volts. The buffer circuit receives an active high enable signal and a data signal as inputs to a tri... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5228126 | Image data accelerated processing apparatus and method The system and method for processing streams of coordinated data segments includes formatting the data segments into a single processing data word having a number of bits not less than the sum of the formatted data segments for common processing as a sing... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5210671 | Write protection for memory diskettes A slide component is configured to be inserted into a recess in an assembled magnetic diskette cartridge and rotated into operable orientation to be slideably positioned between locations in the recess that designate whether or not the magnetic disk in th... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5192709 | Nanoscale modulation doping method A method for modulation doping of semiconductor heterostructures includes forming a semiconductor heterostructure comprising a substrate layer, a narrow band-gap quantum well layer, and a donor implantation layer. A focused ion beam writes across the surf... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5188458 | Pyrometer apparatus and method Dual pyrometric detectors and method measure the temperature of a remote heated object in the presence of ambient radiation. One detector measures emitted radiation from both the remote object and from the environment, and the other detector measures radi... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5183457 | Infant environmental transition system and method An infant environmental transition system and method provides an infant with a controlled, healthy transistion from an intrauterine environment to the extrauterine environment, and includes a housing within which the infant is supported by a soft, form-fi... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5179489 | Method and means for suppressing geomagnetically induced currents A polyphase electric power distribution system is protected from the effects of geomagnetic storms by countering the difference of potential between spaced grounding points in the system, and or by altering the magnetic circuits of transformers in the sys... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5179355 | Slew control in current feedback amplifiers A current feedback circuit for controlling the error current in current feedback amplifier includes transistor biasing circuitry which monitors the error current to detect high input signal slew rates and switches on a transistor controlled shunt circuit ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5172217 | Transcoder for spatial manipulation of composite color television signals The apparatus and method transforms composite video signals according to NTSC, PAL, or SECAM standards into a symmetrical form in which the chroma component is phase locked to the instantaneous horizontal frequency to provide a fixed chroma phase to horiz... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5165796 | Bichannel radiation detection apparatus Apparatus for optically determining the temperature of an object in an environment at elevated temperature provides enhanced measurement accuracy by sensing radiation from the object in two or more different wavebands of radiation. The information derived... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5146589 | Refresh control for dynamic memory in multiple processor system A computer system in a fault-tolerant configuration employs three identical CPUs executing the same instruction stream, with two identical, self-checking memory modules storing duplicates of the same data. Memory references by the three CPUs are made by t... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5140867 | Vibration suppressor for handlebars An attachment for a handlebar includes a pair of relatively movable elements that are constrained against movement in a substantially vertical plane by resilient elements that generate opposing centering forces in response to relative movement of the pair... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5138695 | Systolic array image processing system A systolic array of processing elements is connected to receive weight inputs and multiplexed data inputs for operation in feedforward, partially-- or fully-connected neural network mode or in cooperative, competitive neural network mode. Feature vector o... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5136453 | Method and means for suppressing geomagnetically induced currents A polyphase electric power distribution system is protected from the effects of geomagnetic storms by countering the difference of potential between spaced grounding points in the system, and or by altering the magnetic circuits of transformers in the sys... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5128564 | Input bias current compensation for a comparator A current compensation circuit for a comparator includes a pair of switching transistors which supply input bias current to their corresponding comparator input transistors, a pair of current to voltage conversion means which use collector current from th... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5114242 | Bichannel radiation detection method The system and method for pyrometrically determining the temperature of a semiconductor wafer within a processing chamber accurately determines the actual emissivity of the semiconductor wafer at a reference temperature using multiple pyrometers operating... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5097418 | Method and means for managing citations in documents One of several processes is performed for the automatic management of footnote references in printed documents and a computer-controlled display shows bibliographically correct information in long form and short form in a processing system that provides f... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5062927 | Method of operating a still The method of preparing and operating a heat-exchanging membrane of plastic material as the evaporating and condensing surfaces in a still includes treating the evaporating surface to be wettable by the distilland, and includes selectively washing the con... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5061084 | Pyrometer apparatus and method Dual pyrometric detectors and method measure the temperature of a remote heated object in the presence of ambient radiation. One detector measures emitted radiation from both the remote object and from the environment, and the other direction measures rad... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5037375 | Individual environmental control method An infant environmental transition system and method provides an infant with a controlled, healthy transition from an intrauterine environment to the extrauterine environment, and includes a housing within which the infant is supported by a soft, form-fit... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5035695 | Extendable electrocautery surgery apparatus and method An improved electrocautery method and instrument includes interlock features which enable the instrument to be safely operated under convenient manual controls including a slide element and control buttons and interlock switch positioned on the instrument... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5027365 | Pulsed laser and method A structure and method for operating a copper-vapor laser involves splitting and polarizing the exiting beam of radiation into two beams of different polarization orientations. One beam is completely reflected back to the laser medium within a first exter... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5026059 | Golf shot duplicator A golf duplicator course includes large putting greens on which putting is performed, and target areas associated with tees on a teeing loop from which all other shots to the target areas are performed. The teeing loop is disposed along a boundary of the ... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5016152 | Focused light source and method An improved light source for illuminating optical fibers includes a high-intensity gas-discharge lamp positioned within a reflector assembly that focuses radiation from the lamp onto a remote focal point, and that selectively transmits and reflects desire... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5006889 | Graphic material registration apparatus and method and vacuum hold down apparatus therefor Improved method and apparatus for supporting photographic sheet materials in intimate surface contact during contact exposure includes a flexible membrane which forms a common boundary wall between two gas-tight chambers. Air at ambient pressure is admitt... | 04/09/1991 |
| 5002201 | Bottled water cooler apparatus and method A water dispensing system and method for carbonating water from a bottled water supply includes a carbonator that is controlled by electrical components which are coupled to fluid lines associated with the carbonator for remotely controlling the liquid le... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4989991 | Emissivity calibration apparatus and method An improved method and apparatus are disclosed for calibrating the emissivity characteristics of a semiconductor wafer within a processing chamber by supporting a sample wafer on a graphite susceptor within the chamber and by comparing the temperature mea... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4967061 | Heated basin Apparatus for warming a sterile liquid includes a basin with a heater assembly, a base surrounding the basin, and an electronic temperature controller. The shape of the basin bottom includes an plateau-like elevated central region and a depressed surround... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4963802 | Resistor programmable velocity controller A logic-controlled circuit superimposes a constant voltage across an actuator or motor load that is driven by a bridge-type amplifier to control the constant velocity operation of such load in response to an applied logic signal that may also disable the ... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4954151 | Method and means for optimizing batch crystallization for purifying water An improved water purification apparatus and method includes the freeze plate of a refrigeration system disposed in contact with the surface of water to be purified for transferring heat from the water substantially only through the surface and for formin... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4941664 | Golf shot duplicator A golf duplicator course and game method includes large putting greens on which putting is performed and target areas associated with tees on a teeing loop, from which loop all other shots are performed. The teeing loop has surfaces of tall grass, short g... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4940164 | Drink dispenser and method of preparation The improved method and apparatus for dispensing carbonated water from a supply of cooled water includes thermal coaction of carbonator apparatus with a reservoir of cooled water, and includes a control system to inhibit water-pumping operation into the c... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4935704 | Low distortion linear amplifier with high-level output An improved direct-coupled transistor amplifier circuit includes a pair of complementary conductivity type output transistors that are quiescently biased to slightly conductive state to provide low distortion amplification and temperature stabilized opera... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4935952 | Alarm-responsive apparatus and method A method and apparatus for detecting a fire-alarm acoustic signal includes an energy discriminator to segregate the desired acoustic tone from background noise. Digital circuitry responds to the active output of the energy discriminaton to dial into a tel... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4933871 | Graded learning device and method A graded-learning processing network which grades its performance as it maps the input-output relationship during a training period. At the end of an operation of the Processing Newtork, its performance is graded and network variables are adjusted or amen... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4933971 | Method for encrypting transmitted data using a unique key The invention comprises a method for encrypting data for communication between a host computer and each of a plurality of remote terminals in a network. A method is provided for periodically generating a unique dynamic encryption key for each of said plur... | 06/12/1990 |
