| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5507935 |
On-line reactant analysis system |
April 16, 1996 |
| A reactant monitoring system for monitoring certain properties of, e.g. a BHP reactant solution is provided. Such system incudes a diagnostic conduit loop having one or more sensors in the conduit to measure, e.g. pH and/or ORP of such solution. The solution is pumped through the conduit |
| 5506680 |
Liquid mercury optical scintillator system for simulating optical atmospheric turbulence effects |
April 9, 1996 |
| A liquid mercury optical scintillator for simulating atmospheric laser scintillation effects is described which comprises a partially bounded mercury pool, a transducer operatively connected to the the pool for coupling vibrational energy to the surface of the pool, and a detector for |
| 5506677 |
Analysis of wear metals in perfluorinated fluids |
April 9, 1996 |
| Soluble metal complexes for use as standards in wear metal analysis of PFPAE fluids are provided. These standards are the metal complexes of 2,2-dimethyl-6,6,7,7,8,8,8,-heptafluoro-3,5-octanedione (HFOD). These complexes are soluble in PFPAE's to at least 100 ppm metal and are stable |
| 5506413 |
Spatial-focus energy analyzer |
April 9, 1996 |
| The spatial-focus energy analyzer consists of an aperture plate (a) in the shape of a wedge, with the actual aperture at the apex of the wedge, an analyzing region (b) in the shape of a rectangular box with a hole in one end through which the aperture plate protrudes and a wide slit at t |
| 5506054 |
Ultra high frequency absorbing material capable of resisting a high temperature environment and |
April 9, 1996 |
| This invention involves a method of providing suitable electrical isolation for small metal particles (such as iron) from each other, agglomerating these particles into a larger size, and overcoating the agglomerates to provide environmental protection. A product of this type has attract |
| 5506027 |
Metal matrix monotape |
April 9, 1996 |
| A method for preparing a metal matrix composite (MMC) monotape from a monofilament, is provided. The monofilament is first coated with a primary coating having metal particles uniformly distributed therein to form a primary monofilament. The primary monofilament is then clad with a s |
| 5505793 |
High temperature melting molybdenum-chromium-silicon alloys |
April 9, 1996 |
| High temperature melting molybdenum-chromium-silicon alloys having good high temperature strength and specific stiffness are described which comprise Mo--Cr--Si alloys in the Mo-rich (Mo, Cr)--(Mo, Cr).sub.3 Si two-phase field. |
| 5504578 |
Temporal fringe pattern analysis system of a laser gain media |
April 2, 1996 |
| An interferometric based diagnostic for experimentally determining the time-dependent OPD change in an optically heated media works by heating a glass window with a CO.sub.2 laser, effectively simulating high power end-pumping in a rod. Temporal OPD changes are measured by automated |
| 5502451 |
Patch antenna with magnetically controllable radiation polarization |
March 26, 1996 |
| A microstrip patch antenna with radiation polarization that can be magnetically varied via the application of the in-plane magnetic field. The antenna comprises a retangular metallic patch which is deposited on a ferrite film, which itself has been deposisted on a dielectric substrate. |
| 5500865 |
Phased cascading of multiple nonlinear optical elements for frequency conversion |
March 19, 1996 |
| Optical frequency doubling apparatus is disclosed having a system output portion and a source of coherent radiation together with a plurality of discreet nonlinear light transmissive devices positioned in series between the source of coherent radiation and the system output portion, and |
| 5499391 |
Digital channelized IFM receiver |
March 12, 1996 |
| An instantaneous frequency measurement receiver (IFM) is used at each output of a digital channelized receiver. A Fast Frequency Transform (FFT) is used to form an instantaneous frequency measurement (IFM) receiver at every frequency component. These IFM receivers can perform frequency |
| 5499030 |
Expert system constant false alarm rate (CFAR) processor |
March 12, 1996 |
| An artificial intelligence system improves radar signal processor performance by increasing target probability of detection and reducing probability of false alarms in a severe radar clutter environment. This utilizes advances in artificial intelligence and expert systems technology |
| 5498784 |
Phosphonic acid-pendent benzoxazole copolymers |
March 12, 1996 |
| Alcohol-soluble aromatic heterocyclic copolymers having repeating units of the formula: ##STR1## wherein x has a value of 0.05 to 0.50 and y has a value of 1.0-x. These copolymers are useful in the preparation of organic/inorganic hybrid materials having transparency which compri |
| 5498374 |
Laskin nozzle particle generator |
March 12, 1996 |
| A particle generator system is described which comprises a substantially closed tank for containing liquid, a pressurized air source connected to the tank, a plurality of Laskin type nozzles operatively connected to the pressurized source and immersed in the liquid for generating particl |
| 5497161 |
Angle of arrival (AOA) solution using a single receiver |
March 5, 1996 |
| A solution to the AOA problem is provided, receiving the data via a plurality of antennas, which uses a switching network to couple the antennas to a single receiver and a single analog-to-digital converter to digitize the incoming signal. It is possible to solve the problem where th |
| 5496735 |
Method for concentration based analysis of lipid fatty acids and its use in determining the like |
March 5, 1996 |
| A new method for determining and reporting lipid fatty acids compositions and its use in diagnosing diabetes is disclosed. Adding internal standards, which are true analogs of the fatty acids to be analyzed, to blood serum or plasma samples before performing a gas chromatographic ana |
| 5495180 |
DC biasing and AC loading of high gain frequency transistors |
February 27, 1996 |
| A small sized energy conveying and signal dissipating loading apparatus for use in the testing of a transistor of the high gain high frequency type is disclosed. The energy conveying and loading device of the invention employs a transmission line-like network of distributed components in |
| 5494833 |
Backside illuminated MSM device method |
February 27, 1996 |
| An improved Metal Semiconductor Metal (MSM) photodiode device and a fabrication process for realizing this device. The improved photodiode device employs frontside electrodes and backside illumination to avoid active area shadowing in the device. This configuration is achieved throug |
| 5493985 |
Process and apparatus for controlled synthesis and in-situ single crystal growth of phosphorus c |
February 27, 1996 |
| The present invention is a process and apparatus for the synthesis and growth of single crystals of phosphorus compounds starting with the elemental materials in a single furnace without external exposure. The apparatus of the present invention is a crystal growth furnace heated by R |
| 5493719 |
Integrated superconductive heterodyne receiver |
February 20, 1996 |
| A high frequency receiver detects and downconverts 50-1,000 GHz radio frequency signals using a receiver consisting of a lens and planar antenna, pre-amplifier, mixer, local oscillator, and IF-amplifier. The insulating dielectric lens is used to focus terahertz radio frequency signal |
| 5493629 |
Liquid core heat exchangers for fiber optic sensing and method using same |
February 20, 1996 |
| A new liquid-core fiber optic system adds a pump and a heat exchanger to flow the transparent liquid core through the optical fiber. Flowing the transparent liquid through the core of the optical fiber allows heating and cooling of substances in thermal contact with the optical fiber. Th |
| 5493444 |
Photorefractive two-beam coupling nonlinear joint transform correlator |
February 20, 1996 |
| An all-optical nonlinear joint transform correlator has been implemented for the first time without using a spatial light modulator and digital processing in the Fourier plane. The correlator utilizes energy transfer from two-beam coupling in the Fourier plane. A compressional nonlineari |
| 5493005 |
Hydroxy-pendent benzoxazole copolymers |
February 20, 1996 |
| Alcohol-soluble, aromatic heterocyclic copolymers having repeating units of the formula: ##STR1## wherein x has a value of 0.10 to 0.90 and y has a value of 1.0-x. These copolymers are useful in the preparation of organic/inorganic hybrid materials having transparency which compr |
| 5492996 |
Alcohol soluble benzazole polymers |
February 20, 1996 |
| Alcohol-soluble aromatic heterocyclic polymers having repeating units of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is --O-- or --S--, and R is selected from the group consisting of: ##STR2## and R' is selected from the group consisting of alkyl having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, alkaryl h |
| 5492666 |
Controlled coagulation of rigid-chain polymer thin films |
February 20, 1996 |
| A method for preparing optical quality, thin films of rigid-rod polymers and co-polymers, as well as blends of such polymers or co-polymers with flexible coil-like aromatic heterocyclic polymers and co-polymers which comprises(a) preparing a solution of the rigid-rod polymer or co-polyme |
| 5491705 |
De bruijn graph based VLSI viterbi decoder |
February 13, 1996 |
| The disclosed system uses a binary tree which is embedded in a De Bruijn graph to sort the survivor paths based on their path metrics. The system includes a sorting algorithm which is implemented in a pipelined fashion. The same communication structure underlining the De Bruijn graph is |
| 5491580 |
High power multilayer stack quarter wave plate |
February 13, 1996 |
| A multilayer stack of alternating low index and high index of refraction low loss dielectric mirror layers are formed on top of a metallic mirror surface, the thicknesses of the mirror layers being chosen to satisfy the Bragg condition at a selected incident angle of polarized light. The |
| 5485775 |
Gun gas control system for multi-barrel weapons |
January 23, 1996 |
| The invention consists of four components: a diverter assembly, a blocking plate assembly, a blast deflector and an exhaust duct. The diverter attaches to the gun barrel clamp and rotates and recoils with the gun; as gases leave the gun barrels and enter the diverter they are redirected |
| 5485312 |
Optical pattern recognition system and method for verifying the authenticity of a person, produc |
January 16, 1996 |
| A method of verifying the authenticity of an object is disclosed preferrably employing a joint transform coherent optical processor. An unreadable and hence non-counterfeitable phase mask is coupled to the object and the optical processor compares the phase mask with a reference phas |
| 5485158 |
Linear near field test facility and process |
January 16, 1996 |
| A method to measure the far field antenna pattern of an experimental antenna on a smaller range than conventionally used. The basic innovation of the present invention is that the implementation is moved in straight line, toward or away from the antenna under test (AUT), and the meas |
| 5484867 |
Process for preparation of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes and systhesis of polymers conta |
January 16, 1996 |
| A process for preparation of reactive polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes and the subsequent synthesis of polysilsesquioxanes which produce high yield, tractable polymers containing silsesquioxane segments is provided. A trifunctional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane of the formula |
| 5477230 |
AOA application of digital channelized IFM receiver |
December 19, 1995 |
| This system compares the phases from Fast Frequency Transform (FFT) outputs to obtain angle of arrival (AOA) information. |
| 5473726 |
Audio and amplitude modulated photo data collection for speech recognition |
December 5, 1995 |
| A speech recognition data collection arrangement in which audio sounds spoken by the user are supplemented with lip and mouth movement information obtained from a combination of a light emitting diode and photodiode disposed immediately before the user's face is disclosed. The lip an |
| 5472914 |
Wafer joined optoelectronic integrated circuits and method |
December 5, 1995 |
| A full wafer to full wafer integrated circuit fabrication process wherein substrate removal and replacement of one wafer is used to enable an accurate alignment of this wafer with features of a receiving wafer during a see through alignment step. The invention is disclosed in terms of a |
| 5471844 |
High dissipation packaging for cryogenic integrated circuits |
December 5, 1995 |
| A packaging apparatus used to store semiconductor devices with a coolant without contaminating the semiconductor devices. The apparatus has an enclosure which is evacuated at room temperature and then cooled in an atmosphere of coolant gas until the gas condenses and the enclosure is |
| 5470612 |
Aerogel mesh getter |
November 28, 1995 |
| A porous light-weight getter which collects particulate and molecular contaminates that is believed a significant improvement over the prior art is provided in which a metal mesh matrix is coated with a low-density porous aerogel. In the prior art bare metal mesh matrices have been e |
| 5465221 |
Automated process planning for quality control inspection |
November 7, 1995 |
| A computer is used for generating a part inspection plan for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), in a feature-based rapid design system (RDS), having a Feature-Based Design Environment (FBDE), an Episodal Associative Memory (EAM), Fabrication Planning (FAB), and an Inspection Plan (INS |
| 5465095 |
Time efficient method for processing adaptive target detection thresholds in doppler radar syste |
November 7, 1995 |
| A time efficient method for processing digitized doppler radar signals and establishing adaptive target detection thresholds which are used to distinguish targets from noise and clutter. After subdividing the range-doppler matrix into several equally-sized parallel processing element |
| 5464768 |
Enhanced nitrite production in transfected murine cells |
November 7, 1995 |
| Mamammalian cell lines capable of enhanced nitrite production are by transfecting a murine macrophage or murine thymoma with barley nitrate reductase gene (NR). |
| 5463647 |
Broadband multi-wavelength narrow linewidth laser source using an electro-optic modulator |
October 31, 1995 |
| A semiconductor laser diode is optically coupled to an electro-optic phase modulator and an electrical control signal is applied to the phase modulator to modify its optical gain or loss and its real refractive index, to in turn alter the optical length of the modulator and shift its |
| 5461559 |
Hierarchical control system for molecular beam epitaxy |
October 24, 1995 |
| A multi-featured control system which improves the manufacturing capability of the thin-film semiconductor growth process. This system improves repeatability and accuracy of the process, reduces the manpower requirements to operate MBE, and improves the MBE environment for scientific |
| 5460034 |
Method for measuring and analyzing surface roughness on semiconductor laser etched facets |
October 24, 1995 |
| A scanning electron microscope is used to scan the etched facet edge to produce digital data representative of its profile. A Fourier transform of the edge profile is produced and the resulting plurality of spatial frequency components can be used to generate a first low frequency wa |
| 5458043 |
Battery charging capacitors electromagnetic launcher |
October 17, 1995 |
| A rapid fire electromagnetic launcher system (EML) employs a plurality of capacitor modules which are charged by an equal number of modules of lead acid batteries. The invention comprises the combination of standard automotive lead acid batteries for charging an electrolytic capacitor |
| 5457685 |
Multi-speaker conferencing over narrowband channels |
October 10, 1995 |
| A terminal is disclosed for use with a system for digital conferencing over narrowband channels which allows use by multiple simultaneous speakers and which allow for interfacing between systems which operate at different bit rates. For each conferee, the terminals interconnect between a |
| 5456848 |
High temperature lubricants containing cesium, robidium, and lithium salts |
October 10, 1995 |
| In one respect, this invention is a lubricating composition which comprises a polyaryl ether lubricating fluid and an additive which is (a) cesium carbonate, (b) cesium phosphate, or (c) a benzoate of cesium, rubidium, or lithium wherein the additive is present in the lubricating composi |
| 5453835 |
Multichannel acousto-optic correlator for time delay computation |
September 26, 1995 |
| A first signal acousto-optic (AO) cell together with a first signal source for injecting a first signal therein is disclosed along with a second AO cell together with a second signal source for injecting a second signal therein, to be correlated with the first signal. A first plus one |
| 5451299 |
Method for reducing hydrogen absorption during chemical milling |
September 19, 1995 |
| The invention provides method and apparatus for chemical milling of a metal part in a milling solution that reduces hydrogen absorption by the part wherein, the metal part to be milled, which serves as the anode, and a cathode of more noble metal than the anode, are mounted in such solut |
| 5449347 |
Patient transport, plural power source suction apparatus |
September 12, 1995 |
| A portable, patient assignable, medical suction apparatus usable especially in the medical evacuation field. The suction apparatus includes self contained battery energy sourcing in addition to capability of operation and battery charging from a variety of alternating and direct current |
| 5448817 |
Cryogenic removal of silicon substrates from metallic heat sinks using thermal mass to cool surf |
September 12, 1995 |
| The use of a liquid nitrogen (LN.sub.2) bath to produce thermal stress between an aluminum heat sink and a silicon circuit board by deep cooling, makes it possible to separate each from the other product undamaged. This allows repair or replacement of the silicon substrate in a very shor |
| 5448252 |
Wide bandwidth microstrip patch antenna |
September 5, 1995 |
| An improved microstrip patch antenna has a pair, for example, of dielectric overlay strips attached along the radiating edges of the patch where the patch is rectangular. By optimizing dimensions parameters and materials, the bandwidth of the patch is increased substantially as well as t |
