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A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350693 | Indexing mechanism An indexing mechanism comprising a body (10) mounted so as to be rotatble about an axis; means (3) for rotating said body about said axis; first cam means (9, 10) for displacing said body along said axis away from an axial rest position during r... | 04/01/2008 |
| 6922480 | Methods for encoding security documents Line art on a banknote or other security document is slightly changed to effect the encoding of plural-bit digital data (i.e. the banknote is digitally watermarked). When such a banknote is thereafter scanned, the resulting image data can be recognized as correspond... | 07/26/2005 |
| 5168146 | Bi-directional snap-action register display mechanism A bi-directional snap-action register mechanism for an odometer-type mechanical register display. The mechanism includes at least one register display wheel and a bi-directional cam mounted coaxially along a common shaft with the register display wheel. T... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5162637 | Odometer apparatus An odometer apparatus having an error elimination mechanism for eliminating an error in an indication figure. The odometer apparatus includes a set of gears rotatably supported on a first shaft for indicating each digit of a set of digits in the indicatio... | 11/10/1992 |
| 4728782 | Loading compensation in cyclometer register A cyclometer register in an electric watthour meter includes a free counterweight for producing a kinetic-energy kick for advancing superior cyclometer drums. A drum counterweight, affixed to the units cyclometer drum, is disposed 180 angular degrees out ... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4638434 | Cash processing system A cash processing system comprises: a transaction terminal having an opening for taking out and putting in a cash, and means for demanding payment or receipt of the cash; cashier terminal which is provided separately from the transaction terminal to effec... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4551621 | Flip-over mechanism A flip-over mechanism for a cyclometer register includes an eccentrically balanced fly-wheel freely rotatable on a drum shaft between a driver drum and a first driven drum, each drum being marked with decimal digits 0-9. The driver drum is driven in smoot... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4531051 | Meter register with incremental indicia wheel movement Flat indicia wheels are used in conjunction with a Geneva-type register movement. The register utilizes transfer wheels which have an outer edge shaped to contain a plurality of scallops and cusps. Each transfer wheel is associated with a transfer disc th... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4506147 | Hubodometer adapted for selectable gear ratios A hubodometer having a wide range of selectable gear ratios so that the same basic structure can be used to indicate distance traveled by wheels of greatly different wheel diameters in either miles or kilometers. The hubodometer has an elongated bore exte... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4493972 | Electrically heated apparatus employing a PTC heater for liquifying a rod of binding material An apparatus for liquifying a rod of binding by application of heat includes a die-cast aluminum heating member having an elongated conical first channel decreasing in diameter from an inlet adapted to receive a rod of liquifiable bonding material through... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4419571 | Stepped-down mechanical counting mechanism Stepped-down counting mechanism with number wheels drawn on a locking shaft, with a control disc and with a slotted link. The number wheels and the control disc are moved by a ratchet shaft which is located in the interior of the locking shaft and to whic... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4244515 | Preset counter A preset counter has a case and one or more counter units. Each counter unit has a number wheel, a first intermediate wheel in mesh with the number wheel, a preset wheel and a second intermediate wheel in mesh with the preset wheel. Said first intermediat... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4204112 | Bidirectional presettable odometer A bidirectional odometer having preset features is disclosed. It further includes means for scaling the rate of counting. It incorporates a set of three, four, five or six decade gears of counting gears having numeric indicators thereon and a variable inp... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4192136 | Adjustment of readout members in a digital clock A digital readout apparatus includes a housing, a plurality of members providing, respectively, a presentation of units-of-minutes, tens-of-minutes, and hours, a shaft for supporting the members within the housing for movement in rotation imparted either ... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4140899 | Recording distance measuring instrument attached to a vehicle hub A distance measuring meter includes counting wheels which are indexed by transfer pinions mounted on an axle parallel to the axis of the counting wheels. In order to prevent fraud by rotating the counting wheels back so as to decrease the distance display... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4057959 | Digital timer and method of operating such A digital timer has means operable generally for indicating digital time and means for actuating the indicating means to effect the digital time indicating operation thereof. A drive train is provided for connection with the actuating means and includes m... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4028530 | Counting devices A counting device of the kind having coaxial number wheels each with a reset cam and transfer pinions mounted on a shaft which is displaceable relatively to the number wheels the pinions being located between successive number wheels with each pinion mesh... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4015109 | Reset odometer mechanism An improved "reset" type odometer assembly having counting wheels rotatably supported on a shaft and interconnected by pinion gears therebetween for sequential counting as mileage progresses. A gear wheel between each of the counting wheels is engaged on ... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3977599 | Counting devices A counting device of the kind having coaxial number wheels each with a reset cam and transfer pinions mounted on a shaft which is displaceable relatively to the number wheels the pinions being located between successive number wheels with each pinion mesh... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3950633 | Damped transfer arrangement for a counter Two successive ordinal toothed counter wheels are connected by toothed transfer means to make a tens-transfer once during each revolution of the counter wheel of the lower order. The teeth of the counter wheels and of the transfer means are cut out and ho... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3940921 | Friction detent to permit setting of digital clock In a rotating drum type of digital clock, the minute drum is fixed to the drum shaft. A drive disc is carried on the shaft, freely rotatable thereon, adjacent to the minute drum. Sandwiched between them is a detent ring which is keyed to the drive disc, b... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3931705 | Counter feed mechanism as used in digital clock The present invention relates to a counter feed mechanism as used in digital clock comprising a cam member adapted for advanced rotation and another cam member adapted for delayed rotation both arranged on a common axis so that the advanced rotation of th... | 01/13/1976 |
