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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5546122 | Film image input system This is a film image input system wherein an image of the developed still photo film is made to focus on an image sensing plane of a charge coupled device through a taking lens to be converted into electric signals and the electric signals are input in a ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5519442 | Film image input system having a guide mechanism adjustable about at least three different axes This is a film image input system wherein an image of the developed still photo film is made to focus on an image sensing plane of a charge coupled device through a taking lens to be converted into electric signals and the electric signals are input in a ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5515136 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus having a light source which illuminates light to one of a reflection original image and a transparency original image, and an imaging lens system which uses the light reflected or transmitted from the original image after bein... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5506939 | Robot control system for moving a position and pose of a hand of the robot without changing the present position of the hand A control system for a robot including a teaching box having a hand alignment command section, and a control unit for controlling the robot. A hand-alignment movement-amount computing section computes an amount of movement of each axis of the robot in a h... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5498851 | Laser machining apparatus and method A pulse laser beam of energy distribution having a plurality of peaks is generated (e.g. having a TEM01 mode or greater) and is directed onto an optical system. The system combines beam-condensing optical elements and multi-beam-splitting prism... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5494621 | Method for producing shutter for disc cartridge A cartridge including a cartridge case having a disc-shaped recording medium received therein so as to allow predetermined information signals to be recorded and reproduced, and a shutter and method for producing the shutter which is molded of a synthetic... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5465125 | Method of detecting inclination angle of image frame read by microfilm reader A method of determining an inclination angle of a rectangular image frame read by a microfilm reader at high accuracy. The method is characterized in that the inclination angle of the bottom side line of the image frame is detected to determine the inclin... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5462088 | Gas turbine exhaust diffuser The present invention relates to an exhaust diffuser for a gas turbine, the diffuser being designed to be inserted downstream from a last expansion stage constituted by an outlet duct of circular cross-section containing a central bulb. The diffuser inclu... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5461446 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus A photosensitive material processing apparatus which performs, with high accuracy, the positioning of a negative table, an optical system supporting member, a guide member for photographic paper, a conveying member, a development portion, a drying portion... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5454044 | Apparatus for enhancing image data using a monotonously decreasing function With a method for compressing a dynamic range of an image, an original image signal Sorg representing an original image is processed, and a processed image signal Sproc representing an image having a narrower dynamic range than the original image is there... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5436689 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus A photosensitive material processing apparatus includes a transport device for transporting an elongated photosensitive material so that the photosensitive material is immersed in respective processing solutions accommodated in a plurality of processing t... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5423615 | Cross roller bearing A cross roller bearing is disclosed that achieves a long service life by reducing the effects of split surfaces formed in an outer ring in the direction that crosses a V-shaped groove of said outer ring. In addition, a cross roller bearing is disclosed th... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5421097 | Temperature control method and drying device for drying a photosensitive material In a temperature control method of a photosensitive material drying device relating to the present invention, a photosensitive material is heated and dried by drying air heated by a heating device. A temperature of a member heated by the drying air is det... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5410382 | Photosensitive material drying apparatus A photosensitive material drying apparatus equipped with a plurality of rollers, which are disposed along a direction of transport of a photosensitive material and form a transport path and which are able to provide heat to the photosensitive material, an... | 04/25/1995 |
