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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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120023769 | Assembly Comprising a Measuring Scale Attached to a Substrate and Method for Holding a Measuring Scale Against a Substrate An assembly including a substrate and a scale held on the substrate, wherein the scale has a measuring graduation, and the scale is held on the substrate by pneumatic suction. The scale is braced on the substrate via two-dimensionally distributed, spaced-apart supports,... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110167659 | Angle-Measuring Device An angle-measuring device including a first component group and a second component group, the component groups being disposed in a manner allowing rotation relative to each other by a bearing. The first component group includes a housing having a connecting device, as w... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110119945 | Arrangement with a scale fastened on a support An arrangement for a scale, the arrangement including a scale having a measurement graduation that defines a measurement range and a support arranged opposite to the measurement graduation. The arrangement further includes spheres two-dimensionally distributed on the su... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110072676 | Linear encoder A linear encoder that includes a housing having: an elongated hollow profile section including a first face end and a second face end; a cap disposed on the first face end; and a seal which is disposed in sealing fashion between the hollow profile section and the cap, w... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110067255 | Linear encoder A linear encoder that includes a scale supporting a measurement graduation and an assembly that includes a support. The scale is fastened on the assembly by a fastener, wherein the fastener has a structure that makes a temperature-dependent linear expansion of the suppo... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20100325909 | AUTO-CALCULATED LENGTH DETERMINATION AND DISPLAY In one embodiment, a tape measure having a tape, housing, and an input, has an OLED strip overlaid on top of the tape. The housing contains a programmable controller and a rolled-up portion of the tape. A specified fraction of the length of the linear target is provided... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100097462 | WEB LONGITUDINAL POSITION SENSOR Methods and systems for determining longitudinal position of an elongated web are described. Sensors are used to detect one or more substantially continuous fiducial marks disposed longitudinally on the web. The sensors generate signals associated with the fiducial mark... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20090277033 | MEASURING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A POSITION AND/OR A SPEED A measuring device for determining a position and/or a speed includes a scale having marks arranged at spacings from one another, and a scanning head, with the scale and the scanning head being arranged for movement relative to one another along a movement direction. Th... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090064524 | Scale and Readhead System A method of calibrating a scale measurement apparatus. A scale has scale markings arranged to form an incremental pattern and at least one scale mark. A readhead has an incremental detector means which produces an output signal and a scale mark detector means for produc... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20080307665 | ENCODER HUB TO DISC ATTACHMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS An annular having a central bore includes a conical surface concentric with the bore such that the conical surface has a peak, an inner trough and an outer lip and the inner trough is adjacent to the central bore. A retention groove located under the outer lip has an ou... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080282566 | POSITION-MEASURING DEVICE A position-measuring device is used for measuring the position of an object relative to a tool, the tool having a tool center point. The position-measuring device includes at least two intersected scales displaceable relative to each other in at least one plane of movem... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080276477 | Electronic Measuring Tape and a Length Measuring Device Provided Therewith The invention relates to the simple and low-cost production of an electronic measuring tape (10) comprising an external housing (12) provided with a tape exit opening (14), a tape winding-up device (20), a tape (30) which is wound up i... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080040942 | Position Measurement A measurement system has a measurement scale pattern (10) and sensor (12) moveable relative to one another. The measurement scale pattern has a pattern of features (14) arranged into groups, each group having a known absolute position. The sensor (<... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080034603 | Reversing Linear Drive Comprising Means For Detecting An Armature Position A reversing linear drive which comprises a field coil and a magnetic armature that is excited by the magnetic field of the field coil to perform a linear, axially oscillating movement. In order to detect the armature position, the drive is provided with a stripe pattern... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080028629 | Position measuring arrangement and procedure for the assembly of a position measuring arrangement A method for assembling a position measuring arrangement for measuring a relative position of a first object with respect to a second object, wherein the position measuring arrangement includes a first unit movable in relation to a second unit of the position measuring ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20070271805 | Optical position measuring arrangement An optical position measuring arrangement for detecting the position of a first object and a second object which are movable in relation to each other in a measuring direction. The optical position measuring arrangement including a scale which is connected with the firs... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070240325 | Optical metrological scale and laser-based manufacturing method therefor A reflective metrological scale has a scale pattern of elongated side-by-side marks surrounded by reflective surface areas of a substrate, which may be a nickel-based metal alloy such as Invar® or Inconel® and may be a thin and elongated flexible tape. Each mark has a... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070186431 | Position measuring arrangement A position measuring arrangement that includes an arrangement of scanning elements for scanning an absolute code and a selection system for selecting scanning signals from the arrangement of scanning elements by a first method of selection and a second method of selecti... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070180725 | Position measuring system A position-measuring system is for measuring the position of an object, movable in several degrees of freedom, relative to a stationary object. The position-measuring system includes at least one measuring graduation that is joined to one of the objects, as well as a pl... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070144026 | Scale assembly for optical encoder having affixed optical reference markers A flexible optical marker is applied to an optical scale substrate to make an optical scale assembly for an optical position encoder. The marker may be a limit marker, index marker, or other type of marker. The marker substrate may be a plastic film such as polyester, s... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070107247 | Position-measuring device and method for operating a position-measuring device A position-measuring device is for determining the position of two objects which are arranged displaceably with respect to each other in at least one measuring direction, and a method is for the operation of such a position-measuring device. The position-measuring devic... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20070056181 | Scanning unit of an optical position measuring device and optical position measuring device A scanning unit including a light source for illuminating a scale by a light beam and a detector for detecting the light beam which has been modulated by the scale as a function of a relative position between two objects. An inner chamber of the scanning unit in which t... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070028476 | Optical position measuring instrument A position measuring instrument for detecting a relative position, the position measuring instrument including a scale having a measuring graduation extending in a measuring direction and a scanning unit that can be moved in the measuring direction in relation to the sc... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20060288598 | Position measuring arrangement and method for controlling scanning signals of the position measuring arrangement A method for controlling a scanning signal of a light-electric position measuring arrangement, the method includes in a first mode of operation providing the scanning signal to a control device and the control device comparing an amplitude of the scanning signal with a ... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060283035 | Reader for a scale marking The invention relates to a reference mark detector for use with a metrological scale or encoder (10) having a patterned reference mark rm movable relative to the reference mark detector. The detector may comprise a photodetector array (20) for detecting th... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060242853 | Optical Probes and Probe Systems for Monitoring Fluid Flow in a Well Several optical probes useful in downhole applications are provided. A first probe has a tip in the form of a cubical corner with the diagonal of the cubical corner aligned with the axis of the probe. A second probe has a tip formed in a 45° cone. In these designs, lig... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060107545 | Length measuring device A linear measuring device including a housing fastened to a first machine element and a scale within the housing, wherein the scale is fastened extending along the housing in a measuring direction. A scanning device for scanning a scale. A linear guide device including ... | 05/25/2006 |
