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...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373223 | Global navigation satellite system landing systems and methods A method and system are provided for performing satellite-supported landings in CAT II/III type landing conditions. An exemplary system includes a communication component, a positioning system, a radar altimeter, and a processor. The communication component receives... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365349 | EUV light source collector lifetime improvements An apparatus and method for cleaning a plasma source material compound from a plasma produced EUV light source collector optic which may comprise reacting the plasma source material compound with hydrogen to form a hydride of the plasma source material from the plas... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7333835 | Method and apparatus for providing user specific downlink beamforming in a fixed beam network The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for providing user specific beams in a fixed beam network. In one embodiment, there is provided a mobile transceiver comprising a first device configured to receive phase reference signal data from a base stati... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317179 | Systems and methods to shape laser light as a homogeneous line beam for interaction with a film deposited on a substrate Systems and methods are disclosed for shaping and homogenizing a laser beam for interaction with a film. The shaping and homogenizing system may include a lens array and a lens that is positioned to receive laser light from the lens array and produce a respective el... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301504 | Mechanical scanning feed assembly for a spherical lens antenna The invention includes a mechanical scanning feed and a spherical lens antenna system. The mechanical feed includes a waveguide, which has a movable wall assembly that contains a guide slot. The moveable wall portion also includes an end wall that is located proxima... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298316 | Apparatus and method for instantly automatic detecting clutter blocks and interference source and for dynamically establishing clutter map An apparatus for detecting clutter blocks and an interference source for dynamically establishing a clutter map includes a clutter block detecting module accumulates a plurality of range cell data of each detecting area, and compares the accumulated value with a clu... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7217941 | Systems and methods for deflecting plasma-generated ions to prevent the ions from reaching an internal component of an EUV light source A system is disclosed for protecting an internal EUV light source component from ions generated at a plasma formation site. In one aspect, the system may comprise a plurality of foil plates and an arrangement for generating a magnetic field to deflect ions into one ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203216 | Timing control for two-chamber gas discharge laser system Feedback timing control equipment and process for an injection seeded modular gas discharge laser. A preferred embodiment is a system capable of producing high quality pulsed laser beams at pulse rates of about 4,000 Hz or greater and at pulse energies of about 5 to... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7180083 | EUV light source collector erosion mitigation An EUV light source collector erosion mitigation system and method is disclosed which may comprise a collector comprising a multilayered mirror collector comprising a collector outer surface composed of a capping material subject to removal due to a removing interac... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7141806 | EUV light source collector erosion mitigation An EUV light source collector erosion mitigation method and apparatus for a collector comprising a multilayered mirror collector comprising a collector outer surface composed of a capping material subject to removal due to a removing interaction with materials creat... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136012 | Approach radar with array antenna having rows and columns skewed relative to the horizontal A monopulse precision landing or other land-based radar system uses an array antenna and a beamformer to produce sum, azimuth difference and elevation difference beams relative to the array. The rows and columns of the array are skewed relative to the horizontal for... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7038613 | Method and device for determining at least one cue of vertical position of an aircraft A method and device for determining a vertical position cue of an aircraft while landing in the presence of a lateral alignment beam, which is emitted from the ground and provides an indication of the aircraft's lateral alignment with respect to a landing strip, may... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7031561 | Monolithic integration of micro-optics circuits and RF circuits A chip for integrating functions performed by micro-optics and RF circuits including at least one optical function module that receives an optical signal and performs at least one of a plurality of optical functions. A RF function module that receives a RF signal an... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7006032 | Integrated traffic surveillance apparatus An apparatus and method for combining the functionality of multiple airborne traffic surveillance systems that operate in the L-band frequency range. The apparatus and method combine the functionality of both a Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and a M... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6975923 | Autonomous vehicle guidance on or near airports A method for operating an autonomous vehicle at an airport comprises the steps of: receiving a set of general purpose navigation signals; receiving a supplementary set of navigation signals; receiving constraint data representing a permitted area of operation; calcu... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6789011 | Method and system for allocating aircraft arrival/departure slot times A computer program product, that allows an aviation system to temporally allocate aircraft slot times during a specified period for the flow of a plurality of aircraft toward a specified fix point, has, according to the present invention: (1) a means for collecting ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6751545 | Aircraft taxi planning system and method A taxi planning system for aircraft provides an intuitive user interface for entering and selecting taxi plans quickly and easily. The system includes predefined reduced selection menus that prompt the pilot with feasible taxi choices. Predefined standard routes all... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6606545 | Method and apparatus for fitting global landing systems on aircraft A global landing system (GLS) for retrofitting an aircraft having ILS systems, as well as autopilot or flight control computers. The GLS using horizontal and vertical guidance control points (GCPs) which are co-extensive with glideslope and localizer ante... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6359583 | Ground based millimeter wave imaging system System and methods for a ground based millimeter wave imaging system that provides real-time millimeter wave images of an airport to one or more aircraft from one or more ground stations (18). The system includes at least one millimeter wave transceiver (... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6181271 | Target locating system and approach guidance system The invention comprises a mulli-wave radar system for obtaining first target position information of a flying object by capturing and tracking the flying object from a maximum detection distance, a stereo-camera system for taking over the tracking of the ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6018698 | High-precision near-land aircraft navigation system An aircraft including an approach and landing system, including a navigation unit for providing navigation information, a weather radar unit for providing radar information, a processor which receives navigation information from the navigation unit and in... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5907568 | Integrated precision approach radar display An improved precision approach radar (PAR) system using an integrated digital display for displaying the relative position of one or more targets, e.g., aircraft, to a preferred glide path and azimuth course line. A preferred PAR system uses a radar head ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5841391 | Combined air surveillance and precision approach radar system A radar system which time shares the use of a common radar head to perform functions associated with Air Surveillance Radar (ASR) and Precision Approach Radar (PAR) systems, i.e., for respectively displaying information to an air traffic controller useful... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5736955 | Aircraft landing/taxiing system using lack of reflected radar signals to determine landing/taxiing area A system for displaying a landing/taxiing area as an aircraft approaches/taxis that landing/taxiing area. The system includes means on the landing/taxiing area that absorbs radar signals. The remainder of the landing/taxiing area reflects radar signals, a... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5614908 | Helicopter system with rotor blade antennas for landing assistance and for detection of electro-magnetic anomalies A system for assistance in landing a helicopter and for the detection of electro-magnetic anomalies utilizing helicopter blades as carriers of receiving devices in a wide spectrum of electro-magnetic fields with a predicted sensitivity and resolution far ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5483241 | Precision location of aircraft using ranging A millimeter wave radar is placed on an aircraft and several radar targets are placed near a runway. The targets are discrete objects, each having a relatively localized radar cross section, a unique signature or a unique range bin, and a position which i... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5022751 | Portable localizer siting system A portable siting system particularly useful for siting a portable localizer for a collocated approach guidance system for aircraft utilizes a laser range finder in conjunction with a shaft encoder to determine the distance between the localizer and two a... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4675678 | Frequency agile radar system A frequency agile radar system allows tracking of noncooperative targets with high accuracy. The system is particularly useful in an automatic landing system aboard an aircraft carrier. The radar employs an electronically steered planar array antenna syst... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4667196 | Active visual display system for remote three-axis flight path guidance of landing aircraft An active, electro-optical display system for use on fixed-wing, land-based airport runways, is disclosed for remotely guiding a pilot during visual approach and landing of an aircraft. Conventional Microwave Landing System (MLS) ground-transmitted data i... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4454510 | Discrete address beacon, navigation and landing system (DABNLS) An aircraft surveillance, navigation, landing, guidance and collision avoidance system is provided which takes the form of a two-way data communication link between each of a plurality of controlled aircraft and a ground station, and appropriate measuring... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4157544 | Hybrid terminal assist landing Control of multiple remotely piloted vehicles provided through a system ced the Hybrid Terminal Assist Landing. This system, also referred to as HYTAL, is composed of two principal subsystems, an RF approach control subsystem and a precise optical landin... | 06/05/1979 |
