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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7600398 | Method for making ceramic artificial dental bridges A method for making artificial tooth bridges including a ceramic densely sintered high strength individual core veneered with porcelain using powder metallurgical methods. The individual densely sintered bridge parts are joined together to a bridge core by a particl... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7215081 | HID lamp having material free dosing tube seal A hermetically sealed lamp having at least one seal-material-free bond. The seal material-free bond may be a material diffusion bond, a mechanically deformed bond such as a cold weld or crimp, a focused heat bond such as a laser bond, or any other such bond. For exa... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7205037 | Tubulation tubing of display panel Tubulation tubing of a display panel includes a flange at one end and a ring-shape adhesive member placed on a display panel to align a vent hole of the display with an opening of the tubulation tubing and the flange of the tubulation tubing is bonded to the display... | 04/17/2007 |
| 6551720 | Materials to fabricate a high resolution plasma display back panel Materials for making a plasma display having a transparent front panel spaced from a back panel which is a metal core having layers of a dielectric material extending over and bonded to the core. The materials of which the back panel is made are chosen to... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6546751 | Articles with selectively deposited overlay A method of providing a decorative metal pattern on an electrically non-conductive substrate, such as a glass or plastic substrate, which includes applying a mixture of heat fusible material, such as glass or plastic, with a metal having a particle size l... | 04/15/2003 |
| 5954850 | Method for making glass pressure capacitance transducers in batch The present provides a method for making glass pressure sensors in batch. First glass plates of appropriate dimensions are scribed. Then electrodes are sputters onto each of the plates, followed by screen printing a frit layer and crossover tabs. The plat... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5897927 | Seal for vacuum devices and methods for making same A method for permanently sealing an ultra-high vacuum within a glass enclosure. This is accomplished by first forming a hole, either in one of the flat plates that form the enclosure or in one of the standoffs that separate the plates, and then sealing a ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5855637 | Method of manufacturing image display apparatus using bonding agents A method of manufacturing an image display apparatus, which has a first substrate on which an electron emission element is arranged, a second substrate on which a phosphor that forms an image upon irradiation of an electron emitted by the electron emissio... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5677190 | Cell and circuit for monitoring photochemical reactions An improved measurement cell and circuit for measuring the electrical characteristics of a liquid sample during exposure to radiation includes a glass cell formed of a main tube extending generally parallel to an elongated lamp emitting the radiation, and... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5013347 | Glass bonding method A structure for packaging semiconductor integrated circuits including a ceramic housing consisting of a base and cap having opposed mating surfaces for subsequent mating during a cap-to-base sealing operation that encapsulates an integrated circuit within... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4906311 | Method of making a hermetically sealed electronic component A cermic substrate supports a thin or thick film electronic circuit hermetically enclosed by a vitreous glass covering sealed to the ceramic substrate by a heat fused vitreous sealing glass. The vitreous sealing glass is screened onto the vitreous glass c... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4746346 | Method for producing air-tight, heat-resistant plate A method for producing an air-tight, heat-resistant plate for a particular use in manufacturing bulbous fluorescent lamp, which comprises: preparing a shaping material by mixing an inorganic filler composed of alumina powder and silica powder in a specifi... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4676817 | Method and apparatus for forming a hermetic seal between glass and metal A rugged scintillation detector uses a hermetically sealed window assembly welded or otherwise bonded to the detector housing. A method and apparatus useful in forming a reproducible hermetic seal between the glass and an annular metal retaining ring is d... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4676816 | Method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed component housing, in particular for quartz resonators The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed component housing having a tray-like upper portion and a tray-like lower portion of an insulating material, which portions are hermetically sealed to each other, the lead-in conducto... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4643532 | Field-assisted bonding method and articles produced thereby Disclosed is an electric field-assisted method for bonding one glass (or other inorganic insulator) body, typically a plate, to a similar body, such that the two bodies are spaced apart. The interior volume of such a composite body is advantageously fille... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4545799 | Method of making direct seal between niobium and ceramics A high pressure arc lamp has a ceramic arc tube envelope. A niobium feedthrough positions electrodes within the tube. A ceramic insert at each end of the tube forms a direct high temperature hermetic seal with the niobium feedthrough and the ceramic tube ... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4526601 | Method of fixing an electron gun assembly into the neck of a cathode ray tube and structure so produced An improved means for incorporating an electron gun and stem assembly into the neck of a cathode ray tube wherein the stem is engaged with a metal collar while providing a groove therebetween, a thermally insulating fusible adhesive having an initial melt... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4445920 | Method of making glass-to-metal seal (header) A metal-to-glass-to-metal seal that includes a chemical bond between the ss and metal as well as a mechanical seal is obtained by using an oxide layer which joins the glass and metal. A glass tube or glass powder with a coefficient of expansion which app... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4426673 | Capacitive pressure transducer and method of making same A capacitive pressure transducer comprising a pair of disc shaped members having planar surfaces made from an insulator material, one of the members being several times thinner than the other plate and flexible and constituting a diaphragm and the other t... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4340409 | Method of fabricating a pressure sensor A pressure sensor including a pressure capsule such as a dual diaphragm quartz capacitance pressure capsule and structure for supporting and sealing same within the pressure environment to be measured. The pressure capsule having two parallel quartz plate... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4311505 | Method of manufacturing glass-lined metal tubes A method of manufacturing glass-lined tube. An undercoat of glass is fused onto the surfaces of nozzle-shaped flange-pieces, from their outer peripheral edges to their molded and curved inner faces, welding flange components then welded to either end of t... | 01/19/1982 |
