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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5392817 | Apparatus for altering the loop length of terry cloth A fabric table (11) of a device (1) for altering a warp pile loop length during terry weaving is brought by a lever system from the starting position (V) into the partial beat-up position (T) and back again into the starting position (v). The lever system... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5392778 | Guidewire torque device for single-hand manipulation A torque device capable of both securement to a guidewire and release with only one hand, is constructed of a pair of tubular elements, one terminating in a series of prongs with outer surfaces which form an outwardly expanding cone, and the other surroun... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5390547 | Multiphase flow separation and measurement system A system 100 for measuring the relative flow rates of various components in a multiphase mixture. The system includes an inlet 114 connected to a larger horizontal flow line section 118. Gas flows to a gas flow line 122 from the inlet and/or the horizonta... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5390592 | Dewatering press for compressibly dewaterable material A press for the mechanical dewatering of water-containing pulverised solid material is provided with a rotatable feed screw (3) which is so floatably mounted that it can perform a rotary pendular pivoting movement about a swivel point (D) lying in the are... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392442 | Data-driven processor having an output unit for providing only operand data in a predetermined order A data-driven processor which has a packet assembling unit to add a tag information to the sequentially inputted data when the input data has no tag information, such as destination address or the like, thereby enabling the data to be inputted without usi... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392435 | Microcomputer having a system clock frequency that varies in dependence on the number of nested and held interrupts A microcomputer provided with improved interrupt handling. The frequency of a clock signal supplied to the central processing unit is increased to shorten the interrupt holding time when relatively many interrupts are occurring. When few interrupts are oc... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392386 | Method and apparatus for adding functionality to computer programs executing under graphical user interfaces A system for adding functions to an existing application program executing in a computer system having a graphical user interface that includes a clipboard. The invention displays menu options either on an added menu within the application program or on a... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392323 | Reactor pressure vessel in a nuclear power station The reactor pressure vessel comprises a pipe socket (2) connected to a feed-water supply line (3), in which is disposed a coaxial protective sleeve (5) (thermal sleeve) which expands with changes in temperature. With its outer end the protective sleeve (5... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392317 | Method and apparatus extracting pulse signal A pulse-signal extracting method and apparatus which are capable of generating an accurate pulse output even if the pulse input signal greatly pulsates due to a low-frequency noise component. A predetermined offset voltage is added to the input signal whe... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392276 | Method for linking a party within a full duplex (dual channel) TDM network with a party external to the network In a digital communications system with a time-division multiplexed medium having a transmit r.f. channel and a receive r.f. channel on an internal network having a head end multiplexer and interface for external connection of calls, timeslots are allocat... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392119 | Plate correction of imaging systems An object is projected through the lens system to be corrected to the image plane where the position of the diffraction limited ideal image is readily ascertainable. At least one primary image defect or Seidel Aberration is measured. These aberrations inc... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5391985 | Method and apparatus for measuring high speed logic states using voltage imaging with burst clocking An array of circuit elements which when excited produces voltages is analyzed by examining successive voltage images produced by the circuit elements. Specifically, the array of circuit elements is repeatedly excited at high speed while the voltage image ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5391146 | Mechanism for manipulating the distal end of a biomedical device A mechanism for manipulating the distal end of an elongate medical device, wherein steering is accomplished by a single wire which extends from the proximal to the distal end of the device, the wire being anchored at an eccentric location relative to the ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5390695 | Reel assembly for hose A reel housing having a coil spring mounted therein for biasing a garden hose wound into the housing reel for storage purposes. A hose segment coupled to water transfer structure in the housing is to be coupled to water transfer structure in the housing a... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5390355 | Computer architecture capable of concurrent issuance and execution of general purpose multiple instructions A system for issuing a family of instructions during a single clock includes a decoder for decoding the family of instructions and logic, responsive to the decode result, for determining whether resource conflicts would occur if the family were issued dur... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5390307 | Apparatus for a multi-data store or load instruction for transferring multiple contiguous storage locations in one transfer operation A data processor wherein, in the case where an instruction decoder has decoded a multi-data transfer (storing or loading) instruction, bits in a register list outputted from the instruction decoder are searched by first and second priority encoders to enc... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5390301 | Method and apparatus for communicating device-specific information between a device driver and an operating system in a computer system A method of communication between a device driver and a system kernel uses a standardized generic data structure which facilitates communication of numeric limitations as well as flags. In addition, device-specific extensions may be added to the data stru... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5390277 | Flow through electrical heat controller having asymptotic temperature control arrangement to avoid overshoot This invention relates to the control of the temperature of heated fluid flow through a so-called single pass electrical heater. Specifically, a controller and accompanying flow circuit including a flow through single pass electrical heater is disclosed w... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5389154 | Plasma processing apparatus In a plasma processing apparatus, a second microwave guiding unit has at least one vacuum waveguide with a dielectric window and an opening being formed on the side of the microwave introducing hole. The vacuum waveguide is arranged at a position where an... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5388974 | Gear pump Disclosed is a gear pump which is especially suitable for discharging highly viscous media from a vacuum against a high delivery pressure. It includes a pair of gear wheels (2) and an inlet and outlet area in one housing. The inlet (4) has an enlargement ... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5388580 | Head holder for magnetic resonance imaging/spectroscopy system A head holder with the following characteristics: it is compatible with MR (no metallic parts); it is adjustable for use with adults and children; it does not produce any degradation of imaging or spectroscopy raw data; it does not induce claustrophobia; ... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5388305 | Vacuum buffer A high speed propane power buffer is provided with a dust evacuation system. A peripheral skirt is telescopically depended from a hood overlying the high speed rotating buffer pad. This skirt, at the extremity adjacent the surface to be polished, is suppl... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5389829 | Output limiter for class-D BICMOS hearing aid output amplifier An invention providing a hard limiter between the pulse width modulator and output drive transistors of a class-D amplifier is disclosed. The limiter functions by controlling the duty cycle of the pulse width modulator output, which directly corresponds t... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5387398 | Supercritical water oxidation reactor with wall conduits for boundary flow control A reactor tube for supercritical water oxidation is designed to supply a thin, continuous layer of water along the inner surface of the reaction zone by a wall lining formed of laminated platelets individually etched and superimposed to form an array of e... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5386777 | Rocket motor construction from porous binder core Rocket motors are constructed by encasing a solid porous poly(vinyl alcohol) core in the shape of the propellant grain with motor casing material in the same manner as motor casing material is conventionally applied over a disposable or removable mandrel.... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5388227 | Transparent data bus sizing A bus system wherein N-bit devices (12b,12c) attached to the lower half (30L) of a 2N-bit bus (30) communciate with 2N-bit (12a, 12d) devices attached to the full bus. Bi-directional registered transceivers (60,62,65,67) are coupled between the upper and ... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5388130 | Steam generator located outside nuclear power plant primary containment The Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) plant steam generators, which are normally located inside the primary containment, are located outside, in separate structures. This arrangement provides for the removal or repair of the individual "leaky" steam generat... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5387877 | Voltage controlled attenuator for speakerphones An integrated circuit voltage controlled attenuator which reduces control voltage feedthrough by employing NPN transistors for both sets of current steering elements is disclosed. A pair of emitter coupled NPN transistors are provided, connected to a comm... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5387867 | Pulsed low frequency EPR spectrometer and imager An EPR imager and spectrometer includes pulse generating system for generating broadband pulses having an RF carrier frequency that is not highly absorbed by biological samples. The pulse generating system includes up and down chirp convertors for frequen... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5387788 | Method and apparatus for positioning and biasing an electro-optic modulator of an electro-optic imaging system An imaging method creates a two-dimensional image of a voltage distribution or a capacitance distribution of a substrate under test using an electro-optic modulator. A coarse modulator calibration determines the effect of non-uniformities in the modulator... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5387782 | Apparatus for smoothing paper webs The invention relates to an apparatus for the generation of smoothness in paper. The paper (1) is thereby supplied to the rolls (2) of the smoothing mechanism with a moisture distribution which is characterized in that the moisture content in the inner la... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5387552 | Method of fabrication of PNP structure in a common substrate containing NPN or MOS structures A pnp device in a BiCMOS structure (1). PNP transistors (4) are fabricated without the need for additional process steps on the same substrate as npn (2), PMOS (8), and NMOS (6) devices. The process not only requires a minimum number of additional process... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5385229 | Container for the packaging of a hollow endoprosthesis The container for packing hollow endoprostheses (8) comprises two germ-proof wrappings (1, 2). In accordance with the invention the inner wrapping (1) consists of a water-tight wall (10, 11) and various connection points (40, 50, 60). At least two of the ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5385263 | Compressed gas mobile storage module and lightweight composite cylinders Lightweight compressed gas cylinders are incorporated into a module which contains manifolding and which is designed for easy loading, unloading and transport on a flat-bed truck or other vehicle, particularly a roll-on roll-off transport truck, which is ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5386580 | Data processor A data processor which comprises: an instruction decoding unit for decoding the instruction; an operand address calculating unit having an adder and an output latch holding the added result and calculating addresses of plural memory operands, in accordanc... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5386562 | Circular scheduling method and apparatus for executing computer programs by moving independent instructions out of a loop A procedure which is a particular type of software pipelining is provided which increases the efficiency with which code is executed by reducing or eliminating stalls such as by filling delay slots. The process includes moving instructions in a loop from ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5386548 | Method for storing data from an external processor in storage devices through buffer devices A data storage system having a local processor and a plurality of memory storage elements is used for storing data from one or more external CPUs. The storage system includes a plurality of memory buffers, each coupled to a separate memory storage element... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5386490 | Automated workstation for the manufacture of optical fiber couplers The present invention provides for a workstation for automatically manufacturing a coupler between at least two optical fibers. The workstation has a control unit for directing operations of said workstation and an operations unit for performing the manuf... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5386243 | Ghost signal cancellation system for television signals A ghost cancellation system for filtering out ghosts in a received video signal including an active filter having a filtering function defined by a first set of coefficients (akold) and having a input and a output. A transmitted ghost cancellat... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5385865 | Method of generating active semiconductor structures by means of starting structures which have a 2D charge carrier layer parallel to the surface A novel unipolar transistor device has been realized starting from two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) in modulation-doped AlGaAS/GaAs heterostructures. A 600 nm wide 1D channel is insulated laterally from 2DES regimes by 700 nm wide deep mesa etched ... | 01/31/1995 |
