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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4977529 | Training simulator for a nuclear power plant A training simulator for the full-scope real-time dynamic operation of a nuclear power plant utilizes apparatus that includes control consoles having manual and automatic devices for operating simulated plant components and indicating devices for monitori... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4674056 | Portable billing machine A portable meter-billing machine, for issuing bills to the customers of public utilities such as town gas and electricity which are supplied to the consumers through meters at the consumer's premises, comprises a portable carrying case for the official me... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4669051 | Vector network analyzer with integral processor A precision vector network analyzer which is suitable for a wide range of applications including both laboratory and automated production measurements and testing is disclosed. New measurement capabilities, greater ease of use, and nearly complete automat... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4658373 | Position detecting apparatus A position detecting apparatus has a matrix-like arrangement constituted by a plurality of substantially parallel X-direction magnetrostrictive line bundles, each of the bundles having at least one magnetostrictive transmission medium element, and a plura... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4648049 | Rapid graphics bit mapping circuit and method A circuit and method for a display controller especially adapted for display memories organized in arrays. The invention permits high speed modification of the contents of a display by generating the address signals of a selected linear pattern as the dat... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4648042 | Method of and arrangement for generating pulses of an arbitrary time relation during immediately successive assumed pulse intervals with a very high accuracy and time resolution The present invention is directed to a method of and and apparatus for continuously generating desired pulses during assumed successive desired pulse intervals with a very high time resolution by digitally predetermining the time values related to the sta... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4648045 | High speed memory and processor system for raster display Disclosed is a high speed memory system having a parallel architecture which is particularly advantageous in controlling a multiline raster scanned display. Data for a plurality of scan lines is processed in parallel, and pixel data for each of a pluralit... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4646255 | Gyro simulator An aircraft gyro simulator is operable in a dynamic mode to produce simulated pitch, roll and azimuth signals as a function of control wheel commands, flight control system commands, control surface status and the stored equations of flight for the aircra... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4646253 | Method for imaging electrical barrier layers such as pn-junctions in semiconductors by means of processing particle-beam-induced signals in a scanning corpuscular microscope A method for high-precision imaging of electrical barrier layers (pn-junctions) in semiconductors by means of processing particle beam induced signals created during scanning with a corpuscular microscope, even when the electrical barrier layers are align... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644486 | Vector network analyzer with integral processor A precision vector network analyzer which is suitable for a wide range of applications including both laboratory and automated production measurements and testing is disclosed. New measurement capabilities, greater ease of use, and nearly complete automat... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4644480 | Reliability analyzing system for manufacturing processes A reliability analyzing system for manufacturing processes is disclosed, which comprises a computer system provided with a data memory device, a central processing device and input/output devices, terminals which input/output information into/from said co... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4642784 | Integrated circuit manufacture Proven data base is generated for electrical test responses of sporadic defects in integrated circuits as manufactured. Manufactured circuits are subjected to that electrical testing and resulting responses used to identify defect and check the manufactur... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4641253 | Process for synchronizing computer video with independent audio A process for use of a low-cost personal computer to display video images which provide the effect of animation in synchronization with an audio program, such as voice or environmental sounds, originating independently of the computer. The computer is pro... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4641246 | Sampling waveform digitizer for dynamic testing of high speed data conversion components A sampling digitizer system which may be expanded for the dynamic testing of high speed data conversion components is provided. The system includes latching comparators which are supplied with the waveform under test and the comparator digital output is i... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4639882 | Monitoring system A system for monitoring data signals representing a number of parameters of a plant or apparatus, periodically superimposes test signals on to some of the data signals so as to produce combined signals representing unacceptable states of the parameters. T... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4639879 | Method and device for light emitting intensity control in a graphic display device While characters are being displayed on a graphic display device according to commands from a computer, the light emitting intensity of a desired pixel is controlled by outputting only commands related to the light emitting intensity control from said com... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4638456 | Spot quantitation Describes a method and system for improving the ability to quantitate the amount of flux or material in localized collections of such flux or material typically called a "spot". Quantitation of spots using a software algorithm which utilizes reduction vol... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4638439 | Postage metering system with display A postage value determining scale includes a scale for determining the weight of an item to be mailed, a system processor for determining the applicable postage value and a display for displaying a breakdown of such postage value, all inter-connected by a... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4636959 | Microprocessor controlled d.c. motor for controlling a postage meter In combination with a postage meter which includes a plurality of loads, a source of supply of motive power for driving the respective loads and instrumentalities for selectively coupling the source of motive power to the respective loads, there is provid... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4636966 | Method of arranging logic circuit devices on logic circuit board In the fabrication of an electronic circuit such as an integrated circuit, a method of determining the arrangement of logic circuit devices on a circuit board on the basis of a logic data defining the logic circuit devices and the interconnections among t... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4635209 | Overspeed protection control arrangement for a steam turbine generator control system In a steam turbine control system three overspeed protection circuits (OPC) are provided, each one being identical to the others and each having a programmable digital computer in two-way data communication with a master controller, as well as with the ot... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4635205 | Microprocessor controlled d.c. motor for indexing postage value changing means An improvement in combination with a postage meter including a rotary postage printing drum having apparatus for changing respective postage values to be printed, and including apparatus for actuating the changing apparatus, there is provided an improveme... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4633419 | Angle measuring device An angle measuring device operating without a graduated board and of a type including a disc rotating a constant speed having a reference point fixed on the housing of a disc, an angle measuring arm concentric with the disc and rotatable, and a measuring ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4633413 | Digital dilution apparatus and method Digital dilution apparatus is disclosed which performs multiple processing functions such as pipetting, diluting, titrations and the like under microprocessor control. The apparatus is responsive to operator-entered processing requests and performs comple... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4633423 | Coherent error suppression in digital tachometers and the like Synchronous or coherent error appearing as one or more FM sidebands in the high frequency pulse signal of an incremental position encoding digital tachometer or the like and in an error signal having a magnitude representing the difference in velocity bet... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4631686 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A programmable semiconductor integrated circuit device is disclosed, which includes different kinds of MSI scale function blocks formed on a substrate. First wiring lines extending in a row direction are connected to input terminals of the function blocks... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4631691 | Video display device simulation apparatus and method A video display device may be simulated using a computer and a conventional video image processor. A test image which is an enlarged version of a typical image to appear on the simulated display device is generated. This enlarged test image is then digita... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4631681 | Microprocessor controlled d.c. motor and application therefor An improvement in combination with a postage meter including a rotary drum having a periphery adapted for feeding a sheet in a path of travel. The improvement comprises: a first device for sensing a time interval during which a sheet is linearly displaced... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4630226 | Ultra-sonic distance sensor system and method with correction feature for sensor value An ultra-sonic distance sensor system includes means for measuring the elapsed time between transmission of ultra-sonic waves and receipt of the return wave reflected by an object which reflects ultra-sonic waves and the distance to which is to be measure... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4630223 | Scanner amplitude stabilization system Circuitry for controlling the amplitude of a self-resonant scanner including a first means for measuring the time to complete a number of full cycle scanner movements, a second means for measuring the time to complete a number of movements between a first... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4630217 | Signal synthesizer system A signal synthesizer system allowing a wide variety of signal sources for test and evaluation is provided. In one embodiment, the signal synthesizer system is a precision two channel synthesizer having a variety of capabilities which are made possible by ... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4630210 | Microprocessor controlled d.c. motor for controlling a load Apparatus is provided for controlling the velocity of a portion of a load in accordance with a trapazoidal-shaped velocity versus time profile. The apparatus includes a d.c. motor having an output shaft for driving the load; instrumentalities for sensing ... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4628461 | Phase detector A phase detector for detecting in real time the difference in phase between frequency pulse signals and data pulse signals, including a control signal generator for generating control signals corresponding to the occurrence of the frequency pulse signals ... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4628471 | Digital system simulation method and apparatus having two signal-level modes of operation A digital system simulation apparatus and method enable better efficiency and precision of system simulation by operating in either a four signal-level mode or a nine signal-level mode, depending upon the particular circuitry being employed. All signal ou... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4627007 | System for processing poultry carcasses An automatic system for processing poultry carcasses such as turkeys and the like which vary in size and shape as they are being conveyed on a conveyor is disclosed. The weight of the carcass is determined by a weighting system and the relative position o... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4627008 | Optical quantitative analysis using curvilinear interpolation In the quantitative analysis of a sample by computing constituents from optical absorptivity data at different wavelengths, optical absorptivity data values for selected nominal wavelengths are obtained by curvilinear interpolation from measured optical a... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4622645 | Method and apparatus for determining the presence of gaps between textile fiber bales In order to determine the height of textile fiber bales disposed in successive groups in the operative range of a bale opener which is arranged to move horizontally adjacent the bale groups, each bale group containing at least one bale of fibers of a sele... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4622642 | Batch interference granulometric process particularly applicable to poly-dispersed biological particles A process for batch interferential granulometry applicable particularly to poly-dispersed biological particles. The process is characterized in that the positioning of the angular measurement regions is selected according to the criteria of representativi... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4620283 | Programmable load controller A control method and system for minimizing the on-peak power demand of a residential electric utility user having a plurality of loads is implemented by determining the average energy demand over predetermined sliding time windows and comparing them with ... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4620290 | Transmission line dividers multipliers Fourier transformers and convolvers A transmission line is used to implement a divider or multiplier. Transmission lines are used to implement coefficient multipliers in Fourier transformers and Convolvers.... | 10/28/1986 |
