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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6020845 | Satellite for increasing the utility of satellite communication systems An existing TDRSS satellite communication system is incorporated, together with low-power ground-based remote transceivers of special design, and additional beamforming and steering elements at the ground terminals, to make possible digital communication ... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5991596 | Wireless request channel for use with information broadcast system An information broadcast system having a broadband broadcast system selected from cable and satellite for broadcasting requested information from a selected information source, including the Internet, to one or more selected subscriber stations includes a... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5921860 | Vehicle air outlet with uniform precision feel to operator A vehicle air outlet having an outlet bell, an upstream intruder member, a control shaft secured to the upstream intruder member, and a ball and socket device for mounting the control shaft to the outlet bell. In a preferred embodiment a portion of the co... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5909447 | Class of low cross correlation palindromic synchronization sequences for time tracking in synchronous multiple access communication systems A star configured multiple access radio communication system wherein a hub station communicates, in time division multiplex mode, with a plurality of remote subscriber stations by a forward link signal path and the remote subscriber stations communicate w... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5906385 | Adjustable bicycle dropout A bicycle rear wheel dropout assembly comprising a wheel dropout body member having a wheel axle receiving slot, a surface for securement of the rear end of a bicycle chainstay, and a seatstay projection a pivot pin projecting laterally from the wheel sid... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5906317 | Method and apparatus for improving improved fluidic oscillator and method for windshield washers A vehicle fluidic oscillator for causing a jet of liquid to repeatedly sweep through a selected fan angle has a power nozzle coupled to a source of liquid under pressure, an oscillation chamber having an upstream end and a downstream end with the power no... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5886989 | System for the delivery of wireless broadband integrated services digital network (ISDN) using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) A system for the delivery of wireless broadband integrated services digital network (ISDN) using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM).... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5860603 | Low pressure, full coverage fluidic spray device A two-stage liquid spray device having an outlet region with an island and an exit aperture and a fluidic oscillator, driving said outlet region. The improvement for the spray device is operable at low pressure to achieve full-area coverage with substanti... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5853624 | Fluidic spray nozzles for use in cooling towers and the like A cooling tower having a housing for forming droplets of hot water in an air stream which causes a small portion of the hot water issuing from said oscillating spray nozzles to evaporate and remove heat from the remaining water thereby cooling said remain... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5845845 | Fluidic circuit with attached cover and method A fluidic oscillator and method in which a first molded portion comprises a first part having an oscillator circuit silhouette formed in one surface. The oscillator circuit silhouette has a power nozzle, an oscillation chamber, with upstream and downstrea... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5847292 | Sheet flow water quality monitoring device A runoff water monitoring system for sampling sheet-flow from a generally flat surface having an edge comprises an elongated recess contiguous to the edge and depending below the generally flat surface. An insert in the recess has an upper end and an open... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5841974 | Ultra high speed data collection, processing and distriubtion ring with parallel data paths between nodes A high speed data collection processing and distribution system for coupling a plurality of digital data sources to a plurality of digital data processors. The system includes a plurality of segmented parallel data paths and a plurality of nodes connectin... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5828356 | Plasma display gray scale drive system and method An AC color plasma display system comprises an AC plasma display panel having transversely oriented first and second insulated electrode arrays defining a matrix of display pixels. Linear ribs are in substantially parallel alignment with one of the linear... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5827976 | Fluidic flow meter with fiber optic sensor A fluidic flow meter comprising a fluidic oscillator having an oscillation chamber, a power nozzle for issuing a jet of fluid into the oscillation chamber, an outlet for issuing fluid from the oscillation chamber. A bendable fiber optic wave guide loop ha... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5826899 | High performance suspension bicycle frameset A bicycle frameset having a front frame portion and a rear triangle swing arm portion, a head tube mounted don the forward end and a seat tube mounted on the trailing end. The rear triangle swing arm incorporates a rigid channel member having a pair of re... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5820034 | Cylindrical fluidic circuit A fluidic oscillator comprises a housing having interior walls defining a cylindrical space therein, a fluidic oscillator is mounted in said cylindrical space and has an oscillating chamber having an upstream end and a downstream end. A power nozzle issue... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5820026 | High-speed windshield washer nozzle system A windshield washer system wherein a nozzle is mounted on the hood of a vehicle and issues a jet of washer fluid in the ambient towards the windshield. The nozzle has a housing and a projecting surface, air deflector or tab formed to with or attached to t... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5816907 | Vehicle air outlet with combined flow straightener and shutoff door A vehicle air outlet having an outlet bell, an upstream shutoff valve having an open and closed position, a directionality control member which is downstream of the shutoff valve. The upstream shutoff valve includes a flow straightener assembly rendered f... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5809431 | Local multipoint distribution system A local multipoint distribution system having a head end coupled to a plurality of base stations with each base station constituting a cell. Each base station has a plurality of sector beam antennas, each sector beam antenna illuminating a predetermined s... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5807298 | Dynamic patella brace and method A dynamic patella brace having a first knee enveloping member with an aperture adapted to expose the patella, and a device for applying medial pressure to the patella. A mounting system for substantially freely floatingly mounting the device for applying ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5798726 | Air traffic surveillance and communication system Air traffic surveillance and communication system for air traffic controllers includes a plurality of ground based first digital radio transceivers, each first digital radio transceiver being located in specific geographic sectors, respectively, and havin... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5794367 | Sports shoe cleats A sport shoe cleat especially for golf shoes has a main body member having a dome-shaped outer face and a planar inner face, a threaded stud molded integrally with the main body member and projecting outwardly from the inner face. A plurality of pseudo py... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5794768 | Key finder system and method A system and method for assisting a person to rapidly find keys on a key ring in a container such as a purse, briefcase, pouch, sack, or the like comprises a fob element having a hole portion for placement on the key ring with the keys and a body portion.... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5794119 | Subscriber frequency control system and method in point-to-multipoint RF communication system A frequency control system and method for minimizing frequency drifts in subscriber terminals in a point-to-multipoint system is described enabling the use of low cost oscillators in the Subscriber terminals by measuring the frequency offset of the subscr... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5788394 | Grooved ball and socket joint A joint comprising a body member defining an annular groove and a pair of tangential notches intersecting the annular groove at diametrically opposed positions. A socket member is comprised of a preferably semispherically shaped frame having an open side ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5764630 | Forward link carrier recovery in an OCDMA spread spectrum communication system without a pilot tone A spread spectrum CDMA communication system in which a base station communicates with a plurality of subscriber terminals and the base signal transmitted by the base station is comprised of a set of substantially orthogonal functions which are overlaid wi... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5763806 | Method and apparatus for midifying vintage organs and pianos A system for rejuvenating old keyboard instruments has an array of key sensor switches which are individually adjustable in a horizontal plane to accommodate varying angulations of the keys behind the balance rail of the keyboard and each key sensor switc... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5763586 | Extraction of proteins from naturally occuring membranes The extraction of proteins from selected naturally occurring membranes without any harmful, adverse, or other deleterious effect(s). In one preferred embodiment the detergent is prepared from the reaction of a cycloalkyl aliphatic alcohol and a saccharide... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5757288 | Vehicle detector system and method A vehicle detector for detecting a moving vehicle traversing a predetermined roadway includes a coil antenna for detecting electromagnetic radiation inherently generated and emitted by the vehicle as it traverses the predetermined path and producing a fir... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5754171 | Display device having integrated circuit chips thereon A flat panel having at least one non-conductive substrate having a first conductor array on the surface thereof and a dielectric layer on said first conductor array having an exposed flat surface. A first predetermined pattern of vias external through the... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5749525 | Fluidic washer systems for vehicles A vehicle washer nozzle system having a source of washer liquid under pressure, a fluidic oscillator comprising a housing and a fluidic insert having a power nozzle, an oscillation chamber having an upstream end coupled to the power nozzle for issuing a j... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5751702 | Network protocol for wireless broadband ISDN using ATM A networking protocol for wireless point (base station) to multipoint (user) networks where the users are stationary which utilized time-division multiplexing the in the direction of the base station to the user, heretofore called the downstream direction... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5748610 | Multi-application wireless direct sequence spread spectrum digital cellular telephone system A wireless OCDMA communication system in which there is a cluster of base stations (BS), or radio fixed parts (RFP), which may in turn be controlled by a wireless cluster controller (WCC). The system uses frames of a time division duplex spread spectrum s... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5743547 | High efficiency, high performance leading link fork design for bicycle front wheel suspensions A high efficiency bicycle front fork suspension system in which the front fork and wheel assembly are isolated from the remaining parts of the bicycle frame by a leading, 3-point linkage arrangement configured to produce a trailing link action at the whee... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5742265 | AC plasma gas discharge gray scale graphic, including color and video display drive system A novel drive system is described for AC plasma (ACP) gas discharge flat bistable matrix panels on which real-time video and computer graphics, both with pixel by pixel gray scale are displayed. The drive scheme increases scan speed, reduces complexity an... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5734639 | Wireless direct sequence spread spectrum digital cellular telephone system An exceptionally efficient operation is achieved through the use of orthogonal code divisional multiple access radio communication between a base station and a plurality of user handsets. Each user handset is provided with a local oscillator. The base sta... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5730331 | Substitute lid device A substitute lid for use in association with a container, such as paint cans and the like, when the contents of the can are being poured or dipped by a brush therefrom. The lid is of a flat design and includes a peripheral flange having an inner surface f... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5729570 | Orthogonal code division multiple access communication system having multicarrier modulation An orthogonal code division multiple access (OCDMA) communication system having multicarrier modulation. The incoming input data stream is broken into multiple parallel streams, each of which modulates its own frequency-division multiplexed carrier. This ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5726893 | Cellular telephone with voice-in-data modem A GPS system has a plurality of satellites transmitting time and location data over radio frequency signals which enable a mobile GPS receiver on the ground to determine its position, includes a source of satellite data message block containing the epheme... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5717713 | Technique to permit rapid acquisition and alert channel signalling for base station-to-user link of an orthogonal CDMA (OCDMA) communication system An OCDMA spread spectrum communication system is provided with a PN encoded acquisition channel signal which is free of Radamacher functions. This provides a technique for very rapid acquisition of the PN code and data symbol timing; enables accurate PN c... | 02/10/1998 |
