| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7561085 |
Systems and methods for improving data converters |
July 14, 2009 |
| Systems and methods for improving efficiency of a data converter. An example method generates a noise signal, alters the spectrum of the noise signal based on operation of an associated data converter, and supplies the altered spectrum noise signal to the associated data converter. The |
| 7561014 |
Fast insertion means and method |
July 14, 2009 |
| Methods and apparatus are provided for rapidly moving a filter into and out of an optical beam. A shuttle carries the filter at a first end and first and second spaced apart pieces of magnetic material near the other end. A low friction guide-way supports the shuttle. A base supports the |
| 7560971 |
Level shift circuit with power sequence control |
July 14, 2009 |
| A level shift circuit for providing predictable outputs when VDDH is powering up and minimizing DC current when VDDL is powering up. The level shift circuit may have a control circuit that includes a first inverter with an input coupled to VDDL, one or more diodes coupled between the |
| 7560888 |
Electromechanical actuator including redundant, dissimilar position feedback |
July 14, 2009 |
| A relatively small, lightweight actuator includes a plurality of motors, an actuation element, a translation member, and a plurality of position sensors. The motors each supply a drive force to the actuation member, causing it to rotate. The translation member is configured, upon rotatio |
| 7560881 |
Electric drive fuel control system and method |
July 14, 2009 |
| An electric drive fuel control system and method for controlling a total drive torque supplied to a fuel metering pump includes a first main drive motor, a second main drive motor, and a backup drive motor, all coupled to the fuel metering pump. The operability of a main motor control to |
| 7560602 |
Process for manufacture of fluorinated olefins |
July 14, 2009 |
| A process for the production of fluorinated olefins, preferably fluorinated propenes, by contacting a feed stream containing a fluorinated olefin and hydrogen with a first amount of catalyst to produce the hydrofluorocarbon, wherein a first exit stream contains unreacted fluorinated |
| 7559528 |
Manual lock pin with lanyard |
July 14, 2009 |
| An apparatus is provided for a valve assembly comprising a valve body, a valve element, an actuator housing, an actuator, an unlocked storage opening, a locked storage opening, and a lock. The valve body has an inlet port, an outlet port, and a flow passage therebetween. The valve el |
| 7559454 |
Low cost brazes for titanium |
July 14, 2009 |
| A braze material and method of brazing titanium metals. The material may consist of Ti, Ni, Cu Zr, PM and M where PM is a precious metal and M may be Fe, V, Cr, Co, Mo, Nb, Mn, Si, Sn, Al, B, Gd, Ge or combinations thereof, with the (Cu+PM)/Ni ratio around 0.9. Optionally, a second b |
| 7559199 |
Variable-nozzle cartridge for a turbocharger |
July 14, 2009 |
| A variable-nozzle turbocharger includes a cartridge containing a variable vane mechanism connected between the center housing and the turbine housing. The cartridge comprises an annular nozzle ring supporting an array of rotatable vanes, an insert having a tubular portion sealingly r |
| 7558940 |
Virtual memory translator for real-time operating systems |
July 7, 2009 |
| A multi-tiered lookup table is used to progressively map a virtual address to a specific control word that facilitates resolution of the virtual address for a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) miss. In one embodiment, the control word has a compressed and efficiently encoded image of th |
| 7558648 |
HVAC zone control panel with zone configuration |
July 7, 2009 |
| A zone control panel that is easy and intuitive to use and to program. In some embodiments, a zone control panel may be configured to have an easy to use, single level menu structure with, for example, a configuration mode and/or a checkout mode. The configuration mode may, if present, |
| 7558404 |
Detection of abnormal crowd behavior |
July 7, 2009 |
| A system and method detects the intent and/or motivation of two or more persons or other animate objects in a video scene. In one embodiment, the system forms a blob of the two or more persons, draws a bounding box around said blob, calculates an entropy value for said blob, and compares |
| 7557870 |
Nuclear hardened liquid crystal display |
July 7, 2009 |
| A nuclear hardened liquid crystal display (LCD) and a method for hardening a liquid crystal display is provided. The nuclear hardened LCD can include an LCD glass laminate stack. The LCD glass laminate stack can include a front transparent substrate, a back substrate, and a liquid cr |
| 7557549 |
Automatic output mode select for an actuator controller |
July 7, 2009 |
| Methods and systems are disclosed for automatically controlling the mode of an output that can be coupled to one of several types of actuators or the like. In one illustrative embodiment, an actuator controller is provided that can automatically detect what controlled mode an output of |
| 7557425 |
Package cap with bypass capacitance |
July 7, 2009 |
| An integrated circuit package is provided. The package comprises a lid which is adapted to cover an integrated circuit, the lid is further adapted to provide bypass capacitance to the integrated circuit. |
| 7557254 |
Method for producing fluorinated organic compounds |
July 7, 2009 |
| A method for preparing fluorinated organic compounds wherein at least one fluorinated olefin is reacted with methyl fluoride in the gas-phase and in the presence of a Lewis Acid catalyst to form at least one product having at least 3 carbon atoms. |
| 7556882 |
Impact resistant battery housing with cover |
July 7, 2009 |
| A battery housing unit with a releasable cover for minimizing mis-alignment of a battery housed therein during high impact loads. The battery unit includes a battery holder having retention members biased towards one another that receive a battery. The retention members engage stop r |
| 7556695 |
Apparatus to make nanolaminate thermal barrier coatings |
July 7, 2009 |
| Methods and apparatus to make multilayer thermal barrier coatings for superalloy substrates such as turbine blades or vanes are disclosed. The methods produce non-homogeneous, nanometer-size, successive layers and a non-homogeneous interfacial layer without the use of baffles. Methods ar |
| 7556224 |
Distributed flight control surface actuation system |
July 7, 2009 |
| An aircraft flight control surface actuation system includes a plurality of flap actuators, and a plurality of slat actuators. The actuators receive actuator position commands from an actuator control unit and, in response, move flaps and slats between stowed and deployed positions. The |
| 7556026 |
Hydrocarbon adsorber for air induction systems |
July 7, 2009 |
| An inlet conduit for an engine air induction system is provided, the inlet conduit having a plurality of openings located about a portion of the inlet conduit, the plurality of openings being disposed in a cavity of the inlet conduit; a hydrocarbon vapor-adsorbent member disposed in the |
| 7555951 |
Determination of remaining useful life of gas turbine blade |
July 7, 2009 |
| A system may be used to indicate a need for replacement of a vibrating structure and includes a sensor, an indicator, and a processor. The sensor senses a frequency of vibration of the vibrating structure. The indicator is controlled to provide an indication of the need for replaceme |
| 7555752 |
Configurable levels of source control for the configuration of a process automation system |
June 30, 2009 |
| Configurable levels of source control for the configuration of a process automation system are enabled through a preference selection or license. A user that starts with a certain level of source control may later change the level. Manually entered version information is overwritten if |
| 7555706 |
Human machine interface |
June 30, 2009 |
| An industrial control user interface provides a flexible, extensible architecture for the provision of real-time process data to a state-of-the-art user interface, using MSHTML as the underlying rendering engine. The architecture of the interface provides a user interface that is des |
| 7555372 |
Method and apparatus to display landing performance data |
June 30, 2009 |
| A display system is provided for displaying runway landing data. The system includes a processor and a display device. The processor is adapted to receive data representative of an aircraft landing operation and is operable, in response thereto, to supply one or more image rendering |
| 7555262 |
Radio frequency interference monitor |
June 30, 2009 |
| A method for monitoring radio frequency interference (RFI) in a pass band of a satellite signal is provided. The satellite signal includes a carrier signal tracked by a carrier tracking loop located at a receiver. The method involves calculating a statistical variance estimate based on |
| 7555089 |
Data edge-to-clock edge phase detector for high speed circuits |
June 30, 2009 |
| A novel method and system for detecting and synchronizing the skew between a data signal and a reference clock signal are presented. A multiple-phase clock generator is used to create multiple phase-separated clock signals having a common frequency. The multiple clock signals are the |
| 7554324 |
Turbine blade proximity sensor and control system |
June 30, 2009 |
| A proximity sensor system uses a sensor coil as the frequency determining element of an oscillator circuit. The frequency of the oscillator circuit is thus modulated based on the proximity of the sensor coil to a conductive element, thereby supplying a frequency modulated sensor sign |
| 7553801 |
Automotive additive composition |
June 30, 2009 |
| An automotive additive composition comprising an automotive additive ingredient and a matrix is described. The automotive additive ingredient may be a fuel additive ingredient such as a detergent. The matrix may comprise a gel composition, a solid water removal agent, or a combination |
| 7553564 |
Ternary carbide and nitride materials having tribological applications and methods of making sam |
June 30, 2009 |
| A turbomachinery component includes a substrate having a surface, the surface being a material consisting essentially of at least one compound having the chemical formula M.sub.n+1AX.sub.n, wherein M is at least one early transition metal selected from groups IIIB, IVB, VB, and VIB, A is |
| 7553453 |
Assay implementation in a microfluidic format |
June 30, 2009 |
| An assay implementation in a microfluidic format in a cartridge relating to a point-of-care instrument platform for monitoring and diagnosing infectious diseases (e.g., AIDS and malaria). The platform may also provide a complete blood count. The instrument platform may hold the cartr |
| 7553152 |
Flame detector trapezoidal excitation generator output control circuit and method |
June 30, 2009 |
| An electronic circuit for generating a trapezoidal excitation waveform includes a controllable frequency source and a trapezoidal waveform generator. The controllable frequency source generates a source waveform that, upon energization thereof, has an initial frequency value, and dec |
| 7553127 |
Variable nozzle device |
June 30, 2009 |
| A variable nozzle device comprises a wall member 10, a unison ring 12, and a plurality of vanes 1 rotatable about a pivot axle 8 by the unison ring 12. Each vane 1 has a tab member 9 comprising a shaft portion 6 and a tab portion 5 for holding the vanes 1 on the wall member. The nozzle d |
| 7553086 |
Hydrodynamic journal bearing |
June 30, 2009 |
| A journal foil bearing comprising a retaining member having an inner surface which defines a shaft opening within which a rotatable shaft is receivable for rotation; and a foil assembly affixed to and lining the inner surface and comprising a plurality of foil sub-assemblies each sub |
| 7552637 |
Torque driving circuit |
June 30, 2009 |
| A torque driver that includes a regulator circuit for mitigating zero-g discontinuity effects and deadbanding is presented. An accelerometer may comprise the torque driver and the torque driver may be arranged to receive a control signal from a control circuit that is coupled to defl |
| 7552582 |
More electric aircraft power transfer systems and methods |
June 30, 2009 |
| A turbofan gas turbine propulsion engine includes a system to transfer power from the low pressure turbine to the high pressure turbine and/or extract additional load from the low pressure turbine during certain turbofan engine operational conditions. The systems include a hydrostatic |
| 7552470 |
Generic security infrastructure for COM based systems |
June 23, 2009 |
| The present invention provides a generic technique to perform access control check for data access and/or for doing an operation in a COM based system comprised of multiple servers and having multiple users. A unique user security context number is generated after validating the user |
| 7552442 |
Military data link integration apparatus and method |
June 23, 2009 |
| The military data link integration solution provides a common and reusable approach to interface tactical data link radios with legacy subsystems on each unique military platform. The solution implements the full Link 16 J-Series message set. Enhancements are provided that allow the mili |
| 7552439 |
System and method to allow non-deterministic execution in a process control system |
June 23, 2009 |
| A method includes receiving at least one process control value from a deterministic process control environment according to an execution cycle of the deterministic process control environment. The method also includes providing the at least one process control value to a non-determi |
| 7552030 |
System and method for learning patterns of behavior and operating a monitoring and response syst |
June 23, 2009 |
| A system and method of operating a monitoring and response system for an actor in a daily living environment that relies upon learned models of behavior for adapting system operation. The learned model of behavior preferably includes sequential patterns organized pursuant to assigned |
| 7552005 |
Method for fault diagnosis of a turbine engine |
June 23, 2009 |
| A method of diagnosing a turbine engine includes the steps of acquiring engine operating parameters; calculating corresponding engine residual values; computing the mean and the standard deviation of each engine residual value; normalizing dynamically each engine residual value to yi |
| 7551990 |
System and method for management of a ground obstacle display |
June 23, 2009 |
| Systems and methods for managing a visual display in a ground proximity warning system. In one embodiment, a system includes at least one aircraft sensor system operable to acquire aircraft data and a ground proximity warning computer coupled to the aircraft sensor system that is ope |
| 7551783 |
Methods, functional data, and systems for image feature translation |
June 23, 2009 |
| Methods, functional data, and systems are provided for image feature translation. An image is decomposed into sub images, each sub image having its features identified by feature attributes. The feature attributes are used to identify a particular feature within each sub image. The o |
| 7551278 |
Fluid light guide system |
June 23, 2009 |
| A system having a flow channel for conveying a sample and having fluid light guides for projecting light to the sample target area and collecting light from the sample target area. The system may have fluid light guides on or off the card containing the flow channel. Accurate alignme |
| 7551243 |
Lens for increased light distribution uniformity in an LCD backlight |
June 23, 2009 |
| A lens for use in a lighting arrangement, such as an LCD backlight, includes a light guiding region and a lens surface. The light guiding region is shaped to focus light from a light source toward a region of the lens located on its periphery. The lens surface has reflection regions |
| 7551096 |
Multi-sensor device and methods for fire detection |
June 23, 2009 |
| Multiple parameter fire detection uses outputs from one or more radiant energy sensors in combination with outputs from smoke or thermal sensors to shorten response times to alarm while minimizing nuisance alarms. The radiant energy related outputs can be used to alter parameters of the |
| 7551076 |
Object locator feature as part of a security system |
June 23, 2009 |
| An object locator feature is incorporated into a security system that includes a user interface device with a display, keypad and associated transmitter. Wireless RF electronic tags with sounders are attached to different objects, e.g., an inanimate object, or a living being such as a |
| 7550981 |
Circuit and method for determining potentiometer wiper resistance |
June 23, 2009 |
| A circuit and method for determining the wiper resistance of a potentiometer that includes the step of electrically coupling a sense resistor having a substantially constant sense resistance to the potentiometer third terminal. The potentiometer is electrically energized, and a poten |
| 7550881 |
Vibration damper for generator or motor stator |
June 23, 2009 |
| A vibration damping sleeve for a stator assembly having radial vibration isolator features at both ends is provided. At one end, the vibration damping sleeve comprises a groove for a damping element such as an annular gasket while a plurality of beams circumferentially disposed are a |
| 7550693 |
Hand-held laser welding wand with improved optical assembly serviceability features |
June 23, 2009 |
| A hand-held laser welding wand includes internal flow passages through which filler media, gas, and coolant may flow. The wand is dimensioned to be grasped with a single hand, and includes an optics assembly disposed therein. The wand is configured such that the optics assembly, or p |
| 7550056 |
System and method for manufacturing a brake shoe |
June 23, 2009 |
| A method for manufacturing a brake shoe in accordance with an exemplary embodiment is provided. The method includes disposing an adhesive layer on a brake shoe carrier. The method further includes moving a friction material against the adhesive layer on the brake shoe carrier. The method |
