| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7445017 |
Mesovalve modulator |
November 4, 2008 |
| A mesovalve having a diaphragm situated between a first chamber and a second chamber. There may be an inlet and an outlet in the first chamber. The diaphragm may provide an orifice between the first and second chambers. There may be a first electrode on the diaphragm and a second ele |
| 7444883 |
Vibrating beam force transducer |
November 4, 2008 |
| An apparatus and method for monolithic force transducers in which a sensed force is applied across only two ends of a pair of force sensing elements so that the pair of force sensing elements are loaded in series with one in compression and the other in tension, whereby the force sensed |
| 7444869 |
Force rebalancing and parametric amplification of MEMS inertial sensors |
November 4, 2008 |
| MEMS devices and methods for measuring Coriolis forces using force rebalancing and parametric gain amplification techniques are disclosed. A MEMS inertial sensor can include one or more proof masses, at least one sense electrode positioned adjacent to each proof mass, a number of tor |
| 7444868 |
Force rebalancing for MEMS inertial sensors using time-varying voltages |
November 4, 2008 |
| MEMS devices and methods employing one or more electrodes coupled to a time-varying rebalancing voltage are disclosed. A MEMS inertial sensor in accordance with an illustrative embodiment can include one or more proof masses, at least one sense electrode positioned adjacent to each proof |
| 7444212 |
Jet exhaust display |
October 28, 2008 |
| A graphics display system is provided. The graphics display system comprises a display element, a database adapted to store thrust profile data, and at least one processing unit coupled to the display element and the database. The at least one processing unit is adapted to process th |
| 7444209 |
Miniature cooling device |
October 28, 2008 |
| A method for regulating temperature in an enclosure is disclosed. The method involves monitoring a component temperature inside the enclosure. When the component temperature reaches a threshold, the method injects a coolant into the enclosure. The method further involves regulating a flo |
| 7443304 |
Method and system for monitoring a patient in a premises |
October 28, 2008 |
| A system and method for monitoring the whereabouts of a patient in a house using security system components such as motion detectors and the like, and for providing automated lighting sequences to strategically located light fixtures for use as an aide in the patient walking around the h |
| 7443289 |
Automatic detection of microphone sabotage in a security system device |
October 28, 2008 |
| The present invention automatically detects the sabotage of an audio transducer such as a microphone in a security system device. An audio transducer generates an electrical signal, which is analyzed to determine if the electrical signal exhibits a predetermined sabotage characterist |
| 7443257 |
Mechanical oscillator control electronics |
October 28, 2008 |
| A control system for a mechanical oscillator having a sinusoidal drive signal with a frequency that is a fractional multiple of a frequency of a signal of the mechanical oscillator. The drive signal may be in phase and in registration with the signal from the mechanical oscillator. A sen |
| 7442676 |
Methods and composition for cleaning and passivating fuel cell systems |
October 28, 2008 |
| A cleaner-passivator composition and method for treating a fuel cell cooling system are described. The cleaner-passivator comprises a complexing agent, a surfactant, a corrosion inhibitor, and a solvent. The cleaner-passivator reduces the contaminants circulating in the fuel cell coo |
| 7442589 |
System and method for uniform multi-plane silicon oxide layer formation for optical applications |
October 28, 2008 |
| Methods and systems for growing uniform oxide layers include an example method including growing a first layer of oxide on first and second facets of the substrate, with the first facet having a faster oxide growth rate. The oxide is removed from the first facet and a second oxide la |
| 7442223 |
Complex shaped fiber for particle and molecular filtration |
October 28, 2008 |
| An ultra-efficient multilobal cross-sectioned fiber filter for chemical contaminant filtering applications is described. An absorptive chemically reactive reagent, preferably an acid or base and in liquid or an adsorptive chemically reactive reagent (an acid or base) in solid form, i |
| 7442024 |
Mold fixture for extracting and inserting upper and lower molds |
October 28, 2008 |
| A mold fixture 20 for safe and efficient extraction, insertion and storage of mold inserts 26, 28 is provided. The mold fixture 20 includes a lower receiving area 24 for fixedly receiving a lower mold insert 28, an upper receiving area 22 for fixedly receiving an upper mold insert 26. Th |
| 7442006 |
Integral diffuser and deswirler with continuous flow path deflected at assembly |
October 28, 2008 |
| An integrated assembly is provided for a centrifugal compressor, which integrates selected static portions of the centrifugal compressor into a monolithic structure to allow a small deflection of the inner flow path at assembly. The integrated assembly may include a machined compressor |
| 7441642 |
Low inertia ball brake/clutch |
October 28, 2008 |
| A clutch assembly is provided that includes a rotor, a stator, a clutch element disposed between the rotor and stator, and an axial force source. First and second contact surfaces are disposed on the rotor and spaced axially apart. The second surface has a smaller radial distance to a |
| 7441464 |
Strain gauge sensor system and method |
October 28, 2008 |
| A strain gauge sensor system and method for measuring the strain in a member, such as a fiber rope, has a sensor target assembly having a plurality of magnets carried spaced apart by individual gauge lengths along the member. Position and trigger sensor devices are configured spaced |
| 7440398 |
Fault tolerant communication apparatus |
October 21, 2008 |
| A fault tolerant communication apparatus provides redundant links between at least two computers. The apparatus includes a first set of links connected to a first computer, a second set of links connected to at least one second computer, and a communication controller between the fir |
| 7439646 |
High power generator with enhanced stator heat removal |
October 21, 2008 |
| A high speed, high power generator has its main stator configured with one or more reduced-diameter sections. The generator includes a generator housing, a main rotor, and a main stator. The generator housing has a main stator cooling flow passage formed therein that is configured to |
| 7439634 |
Electrical starting, generation, conversion and distribution system architecture for a more elec |
October 21, 2008 |
| A system (200) for distributing electrical power, includes: a first high voltage AC power distributing unit (210a) including a first high voltage AC bus (214a-1, 214a-2), which is selectively connected to a first high voltage AC generator (224a), and a first start bus (212a); a second hi |
| 7438865 |
Augmented catalytic heat exchanger system |
October 21, 2008 |
| Systems, apparatus, and methods for the catalytic removal of at least one pollutant from an air stream via a catalytic precooler arranged in series with at least one augmentative catalytic device. The augmentative catalytic device may be located upstream or downstream from the catalytic |
| 7438839 |
Formulation for the manufacture of carbon-carbon composite materials |
October 21, 2008 |
| Method for manufacturing a carbonized carbon-carbon composite preform, by: mixing (a) chopped carbon fiber, chopped stabilized pitch fiber, or chopped oxidized polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fiber, (b) thermoplastic pitch binder powder, and (c) activated carbon powder to form a mixture of 15-60 |
| 7437931 |
Medical application for no-motion sensor |
October 21, 2008 |
| A sensor unit to detect a stillness event, the sensor unit including a gyroscope attached to a monitored person, a micro-controller communicatively coupled to the gyroscope, and a memory communicatively coupled to receive and to store the angular velocity data with a correlated time. |
| 7437272 |
Systems and methods for self-synchronized digital sampling |
October 14, 2008 |
| Systems and methods for self-synchronized data sampling are provided. In one embodiment, a system for capturing synchronous data samples is provided. The system includes an analog to digital converter adapted to capture signals from one or more sensors and convert the signals into a |
| 7437231 |
Brake system providing at least one enable signal to brake controllers and method of using same |
October 14, 2008 |
| A braking system includes a brake control system (BCS) (26) having a first output (30) and a second output (32), a first controller (34) having a brake command input (38) connected to the BCS first output (30), a direct enable input (36), an indirect enable input (44), a driver output (4 |
| 7436810 |
Determination of wireless link quality for routing as a function of predicted delivery ratio |
October 14, 2008 |
| Packet signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values and historical delivery ratio information are combined to predict a delivery ratio for a communication link. Since packet SNR may be available with every received packet on the link, link SNR level is both accurate and easy to obtain. In one |
| 7436323 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for unstabilized approach alerting |
October 14, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for assisting the pilot of an aircraft in making a go-around decision. Various aircraft parameters are monitored during the approach to land and a risk level assessed. When the risk level exceeds a specified threshold, an alert is provided. |
| 7436316 |
Method and system to detect tampering using light detector |
October 14, 2008 |
| An optical anti-tamper system including a light emitting layer located within a chassis, a light detecting layer located within the chassis and one or more detectors optically coupled to the light detecting layer. The one or more detectors are in communication with an alarm. The alarm is |
| 7436297 |
System and method for protecting networked security devices |
October 14, 2008 |
| A system for protecting a plurality of networked security devices is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of connectors, a plurality of security containers coupled together by the plurality of connectors, and a plurality of sensors, whereby at least one sensor of the plurality of |
| 7436129 |
Triple-loop fluorescent lamp driver |
October 14, 2008 |
| A driver circuit provides electrical energy from a power source to a fluorescent lamp such as that used in a flat-panel or other liquid crystal display (LCD). The circuit includes a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, with the ends of the secondary winding c |
| 7435278 |
Deep filter element suitable for replacing a shallow filter element and having a support frame m |
October 14, 2008 |
| A deep format filter element has a peripheral frame with outwardly protruding mounting flanges. The mounting flanges simulate the periphery of a shallow format filter element to allow the deep format filter element to replace the shallow format filter element in many situations. |
| 7435180 |
Thrust reverser actuator system flex shaft assembly |
October 14, 2008 |
| A thrust reverser system drive shaft assembly is provided that includes a first shaft and a barrel. The first shaft has an end section and comprises an age-hardenable martinsitic steel alloy material having fracture toughness, stress corrosion cracking resistance, and a tensile stren |
| 7434123 |
Single event functional interrupt detection system |
October 7, 2008 |
| A method for detecting a single event functional interrupt for an electronic circuit is provided. The method involves periodically generating a refresh signal for the electronic circuit, and generating a single event functional interrupt indicator signal in the electronic circuit tha |
| 7433987 |
Computer apparatus for interconnecting an industry standard computer to a proprietary backplane |
October 7, 2008 |
| A computer apparatus that interconnects a standard commercial off the shelf (COTS) computer to a proprietary system. The standard COTS computer replaces a proprietary computer and assumes its roles of controlling a workstation and a display thereof of the proprietary system. The computer |
| 7433854 |
Backward chaining with extended knowledge base network |
October 7, 2008 |
| Mixed mode inferencing is provided by creating an extension to a RETE network to handle both forward and backward chaining efficiently. The extended RETE network is traversed from a root node through intermediate nodes to the rules of the network. The intermediate nodes contain objects |
| 7433821 |
Methods and systems for intelligibility measurement of audio announcement systems |
October 7, 2008 |
| A measurement system and method combine an audio announcement system with a plurality of spaced apart wirelessly coupled devices which evaluate speech intelligibility of audio output from loudspeakers of the audio announcement system. Processing can take place at some or all of the d |
| 7433190 |
Liquid cooled electronic chassis having a plurality of phase change material reservoirs |
October 7, 2008 |
| A system and method of thermal management of electrical and electronic systems and components that adequately maintains the temperatures of the system electronics and electrical devices within reliable limits during various postulated system malfunctions. The system and method use a phas |
| 7432828 |
Dynamic lateral deviation display |
October 7, 2008 |
| A method of dynamically displaying lateral deviation in formats on a display is provided. The method comprises assigning one or more positional boundaries for displaying the lateral deviation information, wherein the one or more positional boundaries define areas on a display. The me |
| 7432702 |
Circuit board damping assembly |
October 7, 2008 |
| A circuit board damping assembly provides a damping node for a circuit board coupled in spaced relationship to another circuit board or chassis. The circuit board damping assembly includes a chassis or circuit board forming a base member; a circuit board coupled in spaced relationship to |
| 7432317 |
Cellulose reinforced resin compositions with wax blend |
October 7, 2008 |
| The present invention provides an extrudable reinforced resin-containing composition comprising resin capable of plastic flow, reinforcing material, and a lubricant composition comprising oxidized polyethylene wax, ester wax, and amide wax. Also provided are the lubricant composition |
| 7431307 |
Over center high deflection pressure energizing low leakage seal |
October 7, 2008 |
| A low leakage seal for separating two environments and contacting a component surface is provided. The seal includes a base and an annular rib. The annular rib is coupled to and extends from the base. The annular rib includes at least one contact surface configured to contact the com |
| 7431240 |
Hybrid deicing system and method of operation |
October 7, 2008 |
| This invention overcome the disadvantage of the prior systems and produces a high velocity specially formed and constituted pressure aerodynamic stream for efficiently and effectively removing ice from an aircraft. The specially formed stream includes a stream within a stream, wherein a |
| 7431126 |
Support means for an acoustic liner used in an auxiliary power unit exhaust muffler |
October 7, 2008 |
| The present invention provides support means for an acoustic liner in an APU exhaust system, where the acoustic liner has a tubular sidewall with an outer surface, a first longitudinal edge, a second longitudinal edge, and an axial gap formed between the first and the second longitudinal |
| 7431125 |
Composite muffler for use with airborne auxiliary power unit |
October 7, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a composite muffler for use with an auxiliary power unit. The composite muffler comprises a composite outer can, an annular baffle, an acoustic liner, and a thermal barrier. The composite outer can is disposed substantially symmetrically about a longitu |
| 7431015 |
Fuel metering system proportional bypass valve error compensation system and method |
October 7, 2008 |
| A method and system for controlling fuel flow in a fuel metering system that includes a metering valve and a proportional bypass valve that produces a differential pressure error across the metering valve includes supplying a first fraction of fuel through the metering valve. A second |
| 7430918 |
Amplified flow through pressure sensor |
October 7, 2008 |
| A MEMS based pressure sensor for flow measurements includes a pressure sense die located between a media seal and a conductive seal. Such a system includes a pressure sense die located between a media seal and a conductive seal. A sensing diaphragm is generally associated with the pr |
| 7430328 |
Rice lossless compression module |
September 30, 2008 |
| A Rice coding data compression module includes a memory interface operable to receive sensor data from memory, a data normalization module operable to normalize received sensor data, an encoder operable to apply a Rice compression algorithm to the normalized data to produce compressed se |
| 7430102 |
Pulse width modulated servo clutch driver |
September 30, 2008 |
| Disclosed is a system and method for controlling a clutch associated with a solenoid using a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal, which keeps the current through the coil constant over a wide temperature range and fluctuations in line voltage. The system may include a voltage source, a |
| 7429923 |
Neuronal sensor networks |
September 30, 2008 |
| A method for detecting significant events using neuronal sensor networks is provided. The method includes monitoring an environment surrounding a plurality of sensors for the presence of an event, when one or more events are detected, integrating the detected events over space and time |
| 7429915 |
System and method for detecting unauthorized access to electronic equipment or components |
September 30, 2008 |
| An improved system and method for protecting sensitive electronic equipment or components against unauthorized access, by detecting and also reacting to unauthorized intrusions into the enclosures for the sensitive electronic equipment or components is disclosed. For example, a prote |
| 7429436 |
Method for determining state of charge of lead-acid batteries of various specific gravities |
September 30, 2008 |
| In accordance with various embodiments, there is a method for determining the state of charge of a battery. Various embodiments include the steps of determining the specific gravity of the battery and measuring an open circuit voltage of the battery at rest. The open circuit voltage at r |
