| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE31860 |
Harvesting machines |
April 2, 1985 |
| The harvesting mechanism of the present invention uses a transversely extending threshing means and a rotary separating mechanism. The separating mechanism includes a transversely extending separating rotor having crop treating and crop conveying elements cooperating with a separatin |
| RE31790 |
Shared processor data entry system |
January 1, 1985 |
| A data entry system having a plurality of data entry key stations each having its own inexpensive, random access magnetic storage device with removable media and visual display connected to a common shared processor. Data characters of data records which are entered at the key stations a |
| RE31464 |
Damped apparatus for quick-stopping rotating members |
December 20, 1983 |
| Quick or instantaneous stopping of rapidly rotating members places severe stress loads on components. These loads are substantially reduced by providing a quick-stopping apparatus including a damped member having an attached element which is movable into engagement with a rotating member |
| RE31098 |
Feed material handling apparatus |
December 7, 1982 |
| The feed material handling apparatus has a frame vertically supporting a feed material blower with an upwardly extending transition discharge member and horizontally supporting an impeller with a rotor for delivering feed material to the blower. The blower discharges the material upwardl |
| RE31064 |
Adjustable width row crop header |
October 26, 1982 |
| A multi-row crop header for a harvesting machine has a plurality of fore-and-aft extending row crop units, each having an elongated passageway with a front inlet opening and a rear discharge opening. The row crop units are pivotally mounted such that they can be swung toward and away |
| RE31063 |
Adjustable width row crop header |
October 26, 1982 |
| A multi-row crop header for a harvesting machine has a plurality of fore-and-aft extending row crop units, each having an elongated passageway with a front inlet opening and a rear discharge opening. The row crop units are pivotally mounted such that they can be swung toward and away |
| D284382 |
Splash guard for box type manure spreaders |
June 24, 1986 |
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| D284116 |
Splash guard for slurry type manure spreaders |
June 3, 1986 |
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| D276612 |
Video display terminal adjustable support |
December 4, 1984 |
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| D273494 |
Cab for a harvesting machine |
April 17, 1984 |
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| D272608 |
Compass heading display |
February 14, 1984 |
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| 4791632 |
Compensated laser diode transmitter |
December 13, 1988 |
| A compensated laser diode transmitter for high speed data transmission is provided with a pair of current switches, a novel current summing circuit and a novel current sink. The power output of the laser is sensed in real data time and employed to generate instantaneous feedback signals |
| 4791559 |
High-speed instruction control for vector processors with remapping |
December 13, 1988 |
| An instruction flow control system includes an instruction buffer for receiving stored program instructions. A program address generator signals the instruction buffer for fetching the instructions. A translate RAM decodes the fetched instructions and a translate map gate array generates |
| 4791390 |
MSE variable step adaptive filter |
December 13, 1988 |
| A very rapidly converging adaptive filter which uses a variable scale factor for each weight of the filter. The value of the variable scale factor is chosen for each iteration and is based upon the sign changes of the incremental weight change. The variable scale factor exhibits large |
| 4772890 |
Multi-band planar antenna array |
September 20, 1988 |
| A planar array of radiating elements which includes a plurality of radiating elements which are capable of operating upon electromagnetic signals of different frequency bands in a single planar array. |
| 4756627 |
Optical temperature sensor using photoelastic waveguides |
July 12, 1988 |
| An integrated-optic waveguide apparatus uses a photoelastic substrate for sensing temperature changes. Optical channels are formed in a photoelastic crystal substrate by depositing film stripes thereon to cause stress-induced changes in the relative refractive index responsive to cha |
| 4750631 |
Anti-slosh apparatus for liquid containers |
June 14, 1988 |
| In order to avoid the sloshing of liquid within a container caused by movement of the container, the single bulk volume of the liquid is retained in the form of a plurality of separated mini-volumes. This is accomplished by providing a chamber formed by upper and lower plates and an |
| 4734909 |
Versatile interconnection bus |
March 29, 1988 |
| A bus arbitration system comprising a plurality of bus lines and a clock which produces first and second phrases in which a drive generates a first logic state during the first phase to precharge the capacitance associated with the bus lines and generates either first or second logic sta |
| 4726025 |
Generation and diagnostic verification of complex timing cycles |
February 16, 1988 |
| A timing generator and verifier is provided in which a PROM stores the timing constants that are employed by the generator. An address counter, which is driven by a clock timer, cycles through an associated portion of the PROM to provide a sequence of output signals which represent timin |
| 4723242 |
Digital adaptive voting |
February 2, 1988 |
| A digital system employing adaptive voting circuitry to improve its fault-tolerance receives an input data bit from each of a number of input data sources. The adaptive voting circuitry has a separate section for each of the input devices which has a weight register that stores an in |
| 4722596 |
Acousto-optic analyzer with dynamic signal compression |
February 2, 1988 |
| An acousto-optic spectrum analyzer in which the dynamic range is effectively extended by detecting the frequency bands wherein the photo-detectors are saturated and providing a filter to suppress those frequencies. With this pre-filter, the entire spectrum appears to be within the dy |
| 4722052 |
Multiple unit adapter |
January 26, 1988 |
| A Multiple Unit Adapter is disclosed which provides a high speed interface between a single Scientific Processor and a plurality of High Performance Storage Units. This Multiple Unit Adapter is required only when more than one High Performance Storage Unit is used in the data processing |
| 4721685 |
Single layer poly fabrication method and device with shallow emitter/base junctions and optimize |
January 26, 1988 |
| A method for fabricating high performance bipolar transistors using a single polycrystalline silicon layer whereby horizontally and vertically scaled base/emitter junctions are achieved. In an extrinsic base transistor, a composite sandwich of overlying layers of poly silicon, oxide |
| 4716460 |
Display refresh memory apparatus utilizing one half frame updating |
December 29, 1987 |
| Refresh memory apparatus for use in a CRT raster display system utilizes half field storage memories for ping ponging between updating and readout. In one TV mode of operation the even and odd raster lines are stored in the respective memories and in another TV mode the top and bottom ha |
| 4714837 |
High speed flip-flop |
December 22, 1987 |
| A high speed, edge-triggered, set/reset flip-flop of relatively simple circuit configuration which operates on small, narrow pulses. |
| 4713742 |
Dual-inductor buck switching converter |
December 15, 1987 |
| A DC-to-DC power converter is constructed by coupling two parallel-connected inductors in series with a DC input power source. A communication switch is connected in series of each of the inductors. One terminal of each of these switches is connected to one terminal of the input powe |
| 4712059 |
Broadband optical processor for determination of frequency and time of arrival of multiple signa |
December 8, 1987 |
| A real time, optical processor for the detection and separation of multiple frequency hop signals and which is capable of determining both the frequency and the time of arrival for all frequencies within a specified bandwidth. |
| 4712047 |
Power on demand beam deflection system for dual mode CRT displays |
December 8, 1987 |
| A cathode ray beam deflection system operable in slew and random stroke and periodic raster display modes provides automatic power supply voltage switching to maintain linear operation and high efficiency. Control of automatic switching is obtained by continuously monitoring yoke voltage |
| 4712024 |
Active balum star mixer |
December 8, 1987 |
| A mixer circuit wherein transistors are used to drive Schottky diodes in a star configuration in order to avoid the disadvantages of transformer coupling. |
| 4709336 |
Descent flight path control for aircraft |
November 24, 1987 |
| Apparatus for the automatically controlling aircraft descent to a computed descent flight path. At any point in the descent portion of flight, a path error signal is used to compute an incremental speed command that is algebraically summed with a nominal descent speed command to cause th |
| 4706191 |
Local store for scientific vector processor |
November 10, 1987 |
| A local store for a scientific vector processor which provides high speed access to scalar variables, parameters, temporary operands, and register save area contents of the system. Basically, the local store is a general purpose storage structure which provides access which is as fast as |
| 4698633 |
Antennas for wide bandwidth signals |
October 6, 1987 |
| A system for transmitting and receiving very wide instantaneous bandwidth signals. Synchronized short pulse generators are positioned at the feed location of each element of a linear array of short capped monopole antennas to sequentially excite the antenna elements which are spaced in |
| 4696061 |
Acousto-optic R-F receiver which is tunable and has adjustable bandwidth |
September 22, 1987 |
| There is disclosed an acousto-optic filtering apparatus which includes Bragg cells in the signal path and in the local oscillator reference path of the apparatus in order to permit relatively high frequency signals to be detected by a relatively low frequency detector mechanism. |
| 4695752 |
Narrow range gate baseband receiver |
September 22, 1987 |
| A baseband receiver with a range gate interval in the order of nanoseconds. A tunnel diode, set to the low level state, is coupled across the output terminals of a bridge that is balanced in the absence of a received signal, during the range gate interval. Signals received by an antenna |
| 4692899 |
Propagational control for Vertical Bloch Line memories |
September 8, 1987 |
| Stabilization of the propagation of storage bits around the storage loops of a Vertical Bloch Line (VBL) memory is obtained by the vapor-deposition of a nickel-iron film over the VBL structure. The film has a composition range of 65-90% nickel and a thickness of 1,000 to 10,000 Angstroms |
| 4692868 |
Adaptive autopilot |
September 8, 1987 |
| An adaptive autopilot for Marine Vessles which seeks to obtain minimum combined hull and rudder drag while maintaining heading control by providing optimum rudder activity through a series of iterative steps. |
| 4691973 |
Superconducting connector |
September 8, 1987 |
| A superconducting pin and socket conductor is formed with a cylindrical pin of superconducting material, such as niobium, which fits into a mating superconducting cylinder, such as niobium or titanium, which is open at the top. A superconducting wire is laser welded to the bottom of the |
| 4691303 |
Refresh system for multi-bank semiconductor memory |
September 1, 1987 |
| Refresh signals for a multiple semiconductor MOS bank memory are implemented with a refresh counter that supplies 15.6 microseconds refresh pulses so that one row of 128 row of memory bank, or of each of a group of memory banks, may be refreshed on a sequential, stepped-through basis. Th |
| 4691126 |
Redundant synchronous clock system |
September 1, 1987 |
| A synchronous clock circuit is provided on each module of an electronic digital system formed of a plurality of modules. Each clock circuit has two control pins which are used by control logic to determine whether or not the clock on a particular module is disabled, is operating as the |
| 4689559 |
Apparatus and method to reduce the thermal response of SQUID sensors |
August 25, 1987 |
| A SQUID, nominally of the "hybrid" type, wherein the normally superconducting modulation coil is modified to instead be a non-superconducting material, nominally manginin, exhibits reduced long-term, or d.c., thermal response. When an alternating current waveform--rising to a nominal |
| 4688042 |
Short pulse receiver with anti-jam capability |
August 18, 1987 |
| A short pulse radar receiver having a detector with a threshold automatically adjustable with the level of noise and interfering signals. Interfering signals at signal levels which exceed the maximum for which a threshold may be achieved to prevent a false alarm are attenuated prior to |
| 4688041 |
Baseband detector with anti-jam capability |
August 18, 1987 |
| A method and apparatus for detecting a short pulse signal in the presence of an interfering jamming signal wherein the jamming signal is utilized as the local oscillator in a diode mixer when it is received at a sufficiently high level for efficiently mixing with a short pulse signal. |
| 4685132 |
Bent sequence code generator |
August 4, 1987 |
| A method and apparatus for generating a bent sequence code as a transform of an m-sequence code. |
| 4685106 |
High rate multiplexer |
August 4, 1987 |
| A high rate multiplexing system which is capable of operating on multiple channels while ensuring synchronization of the system operation. The system includes a basic timing network for synchronizing the system operation. Automatic phase adjusters are used to re-align data signals wi |
| 4680759 |
Standard/proportional multiplexer |
July 14, 1987 |
| A multiplexer system which operates as a standard multiplexer as well as a proportional multiplexer by providing typical multiplexing operation by one circuit portion and proportional multiplexing operation by other portions of the circuit wherein the multiplexer system can interface wit |
| 4679215 |
Exceedance counting integrating photo-diode array |
July 7, 1987 |
| The use of a comparator and counter associated, on-chip, with each photo-element of an array. Sensing each photo-element without discharging it and allowing each photo-element to accumulate a charge which is large relative to noise variations. These features result in a photo-detector |
| 4678984 |
Digital power converter input current control circuit |
July 7, 1987 |
| A digital power converter input current control circuit is connected between a power converter and a power source. This circuit monitors, and controls if necessary, the current that flows between the power source and the power converter in a manner that protects the power source, the inp |
| 4678970 |
Power as required beam deflection system for CRT displays with raster supply switching |
July 7, 1987 |
| An electron beam magnetic deflection system capable of raster and stroke deflection and providing minimum power dissipation in raster mode. Automatic switching of the voltage demanded in raster mode is obtained by continuously sampling the yoke current, the power supply voltage being |
| 4677349 |
Self converging deflection yoke for in-line gun color CRT |
June 30, 1987 |
| An apparatus for applying convergence corrections to correct positional and misconvergence errors in a CRT employing a self-converging deflection yoke for magnetic deflection of an inline color gun assembly. Convergence correction coil windings are coupled to the deflection windings with |
| 4672548 |
Speed capture in climb for aircraft |
June 9, 1987 |
| An improved method for the automatic acceleration of an aircraft to a preselected speed is described. At any point in the climb portion of flight, a capture of a computed altitude that is increased at a specified rate is performed to provide optimal acceleration. |
