| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| H81 |
Projectile guidance recording system |
July 1, 1986 |
| An instrument package (or telemeter) designed to be carried by a projectile uring test flights thereof and to process and record performance and/or meterorological data during such flights. The data is obtained from a plurality of on-board sensors and after signal conditioning the sensor |
| H805 |
Exhalation duct |
August 7, 1990 |
| An exhalation duct is formed from a gas impermeable covering layer having acer material extending through the length of the duct to define a substantally cylindrical opening. A lower end of the duct is formed with a plurality of exhalation holes or openings in the covering layer and an |
| H799 |
High concentration standard aerosol generator |
July 3, 1990 |
| An apparatus which produces an aerosol having a narrow size distribution. e apparatus includes a supply means for providing a primary aerosol stream having a wide size distribution. Concentration means are positioned to receive the stream and this concentration means includes means for |
| H798 |
Phase shifting apparatus and method for shearing inferferometry |
July 3, 1990 |
| A shearing interferometer, sensor head that combines advantages of standard hase shifting processing with the simplicity of shear plates. In the interferometer sensor head either a conical or a linear x-y scan is used to bring about phase shifting in the resultant interferogram, permittin |
| H796 |
Open loop seeker aiming guiding system |
July 3, 1990 |
| An open loop seeker aiming guiding system for directing a guided missile m its launching to its impact with a target. The system includes a fire control mechanism for initially controlling the flight of missile toward the target. Located on the missile itself is a seeker homing system f |
| H795 |
Reduced temperature sensitivity launch motor |
July 3, 1990 |
| A rocket motor that has a main exhaust nozzle area and a secondary exhaust ozzle area with the secondary exhaust nozzle area being closed by burst discs that rupture and open secondary nozzle areas when predetermined temperatures and pressures are reached when propellant is burned inside |
| H793 |
Robotic autoloader |
July 3, 1990 |
| An autoloader for loading ammunition from plural cavities of a magazine to breech of a gun, comprises a base having a pair of jointed links pivotally connected thereto. Actuators are connected to the links for pivoting the links from a low storage position near the magazine to an extende |
| H792 |
Mainlobe canceller with motion compensation for use with radar systems |
June 5, 1990 |
| This invention relates to a mainlobe jamming cancellation system which can e used to allow a radar to detect targets even when relative motion exists between the jammer and the radar platform. In particular, this invention relates to a mainlobe canceller that utilizes a main antenna and o |
| H783 |
Telescope with improved mirror support |
June 5, 1990 |
| A Cassegrain telescope having a primary mirror having an aperture centered n the axis thereof and a secondary mirror spaced from the primary mirror and centered on the axis of the primary mirror for receiving reflected light from the primary mirror and reflecting it through the aperture i |
| H781 |
Method of making a ferrite circulator |
May 1, 1990 |
| In the manufacture of a ferrite circulator, a ferrite material is introdu into the cavity area of a microstrip circuit or substrate by arc plasma spraying, thus eliminating any chance of gaps between ferrite material and microstrip circuit material. |
| H780 |
Optical data processing detection of chemical agents |
May 1, 1990 |
| A method of detecting chemical agents present in a sample by utilizing a ctrometer to produce an output spectrum which is transmitted to an optical correlator which processes the output spectra of the spectrometer and identifies particular chemical species present in the sample by u |
| H775 |
Method of assembly of compacted powder and explosive charge for effective dissemination |
May 1, 1990 |
| A minimum hazard visual screening cloud-forming product is made by forming slurry of fine spheres of titanium dioxide composition, of submicron diameter, together with a volatile surface-wetting agent liquid, in the form of a liquid hydrocarbon, extruding and severing the extended slurry |
| H772 |
Power source converter |
April 3, 1990 |
| A power source converter apparatus that is the structural and functional ivalent of a typical internally stored battery, such as a lithium organic cell. The converter has a shape and size that conforms to that of the battery being replaced. The converter includes a pair of output termin |
| H771 |
Method for casting a rotating band onto a projectile |
April 3, 1990 |
| A method for casting a rotating band onto a projectile having a metallic ll, with a nose at one end, a closed base at the other end, and a hollow core axially formed within said shell. The method comprises the steps of (a) forming a projectile mold having three sections, a first section |
| H770 |
Tracer training projectile |
April 3, 1990 |
| A tracer training bullet which can be assembled into a conventional cartre case and fired in a conventional M2 machine gun is disclosed. The bullet consists of a main body of relatively low strength material which is segmented so that, if not restrained, it will bend under the centr |
| H77 |
Low loss, single-mode planar waveguide |
July 1, 1986 |
| A low loss optical waveguide is provided by taking a silicon substrate with a silicon dioxide waveguide thereon and depositing lead on the air interface surface of the silicon dioxide. The lead is then oxidized and diffused into the silicon dioxide creating a high optical quality, high |
| H769 |
Method of forming a safe visual smoke screen |
April 3, 1990 |
| A minimum hazard visual screening cloud is formed comprised of an aerosol fine spheres of a titanium dioxide composition, in which the particles are of submicron diameter. The cloud is formed by aerosolizing a compact mass of titanium dioxide spheres of submicron diameter through the ac |
| H768 |
Projectile for limited range training ammunition |
April 3, 1990 |
| A ball or projectile for small caliber ammunition is disclosed. The projele is useful in training ammunition for the training of personnel on firing ranges having a limited area and a maximum range which is below the range of the standard service round for the weapon on which the traini |
| H765 |
Smoke generator and method |
April 3, 1990 |
| The temperature of heated exhaust gases from a gas turbine is increased to value sufficient to vaporize fog oil to form smoke. The turbine itself is unmodified and requires no bleed air control valve at the air inlet to the compressor to regulate exhaust gas temperature. |
| H76 |
Instructional polariscope |
July 1, 1986 |
| An instructional polariscope which is easily disassembled, reassembled, cbrated and operated in the classroom by individual students for the purposes of teaching and demonstrating the interoperation of components of a polariscope and the principles of photoelasticity. This polariscope c |
| H747 |
Active control of solid propellant generators using throat modulation techniques and programmabl |
February 6, 1990 |
| A system for controlling solid propellant gas generators including a microcessor which has inputs such as the sensed temperature of the gases in the solid propellant gas generator, the pressure within the solid propellant gas generator and/or pre-programmed input control signals to |
| H746 |
Solar reference flight roll position sensor |
February 6, 1990 |
| A solar reference flight roll position sensor is mounted on a flight vehi having a longitudinal flight axis. The sensor, a photodetector, senses the angular position of the vehicle with respect to the sun about the flight axis. The sensor includes a lateral effect photodiode for gen |
| H743 |
Low current voltage reference |
February 6, 1990 |
| A voltage reference circuit for use with a low-voltage detector or like circuit includes a voltage source, a proportional-to-absolute-temperature circuit connected to said voltage source. The proportional-to-absolute-temperature circuit has a positive temperature coefficient and prod |
| H740 |
Antenna sidelobe interference canceller |
February 6, 1990 |
| Interference signal cancelling is provided by a multiplexed interference celling system that utilizes a primary high gain antenna and an auxiliary antenna pair including a low gain notch antenna in conjunction with a low gain omnidirectional antenna. The output of the two low gain auxil |
| H739 |
Auxiliary antenna interference canceller |
February 6, 1990 |
| A high gain, primary receiving antenna and a single scannable auxiliary lar antenna array are utilized. The auxiliary linear array is coupled to means for forming multiple directive narrow receiving beams simultaneously on the auxiliary array, each of which are scanned over an assigned |
| H738 |
Switched holograms for reconfigurable optical interconnect |
February 6, 1990 |
| A device that provides reconfigurable optical interconnections of multiple ata channels that have applications in highly parallel computers. The device utilizes an array of optical switches which direct a set of optical beams toward any one of a selection of holograms and each hologram wh |
| H723 |
Lithium electrochemical cell containing diethylcarbonate as an electrolyte solvent additive |
January 2, 1990 |
| An electrochemical cell comprising lithium as the anode, the lithium intelating compound Li.sub.x CoO.sub.2 (O<X<1) as the cathode, and a solution of a lithium salt in a mixed organic solvent of methylformate and diethylcarbonate as the electrolyte. |
| H72 |
Organic substitutes for charcoal in black powder |
May 6, 1986 |
| The instant invention relates to a black powder type pyrotechnic composit comprising potassium nitrate, sulfur and an organic crystalline compound as a fuel in place of the charcoal conventionally employed. The organic compound contains at least one hydroxyl group or carboxyl group, |
| H718 |
Multi-sensor buffer interface |
December 5, 1989 |
| A multi-sensor buffer interface that couples a multi-sensor inertial measment unit to a missile flight computer. The buffer converts input serial data into 16 bit parallel data and outputs messages of either 6 or 16 words. The buffer will provide computer requested data until the co |
| H717 |
High burn rate ammonium perchlorate propellant |
December 5, 1989 |
| A solid propellant composition employing 2,2-bis(t-butyldicyclopentadienyon)propane (TBD) as the burn rate enhancer in a weight percent from about 2 to about 6 weight percent yields higher threshold values for ignition by impact and improved friction and spark testing values to ther |
| H712 |
Method of stellar navigation using an optical correlator |
November 7, 1989 |
| A method of easily detecting a predetermined star pattern by directing imng means in the general direction of the pattern desired to be detected and imaging the star pattern onto a matched filter of a correlator to produce and output that is used to signal a computer to enable the c |
| H70 |
Method for producing nutritionally dense freeze dried food bars |
May 6, 1986 |
| A method of producing a nutritionally dense, freeze dried food item usually n bar form in which uncooked food ingredients are mixed together and then cooked until about 40% to about 60% of the water content is removed by evaporation. Then the partially dried mixture is formed into the des |
| H7 |
Explosive ordnance disposal protective suit |
January 7, 1986 |
| An explosive ordnance disposal protective suit which includes trousers, a at with collar, a protective helmet and a combination face shield-chest plate. The face shield-chest plate is supported and held in place by a pocket on the front of the coat. The chest plate is made of laminated |
| H699 |
Submunition fuse with pyrotechnic ignition |
November 7, 1989 |
| A plurality of submunitions packed in a projectile deliver an incapacitat gas payload at far range from the projectile launch site only after the projectile has been properly launched and armed. A pyrotechnic fuse detonates each submunition by the detonation of an on-board expelling |
| H698 |
Submunition fuse |
November 7, 1989 |
| A plurality of submunitions packed in a projectile deliver an incapacitat gas payload at far range from the projectile launch site only after the submunitions have been properly ejected and after each submunition has been properly armed. A non-ground-impact type fuse detonates each |
| H697 |
Submunition fuse with removable blocker |
November 7, 1989 |
| A plurality of submunitions packed in a projectile deliver an incapacitat gas payload at far range from the projectile launch site only after the submunitions have been properly armed by mechanical removal of a blocker member from between an in-line firing pin and primer. A non-grou |
| H695 |
High energy optically controlled kilovolt semiconductor switch |
October 3, 1989 |
| A high energy, optically controlled kilovolt semiconductor switch is provd including a bulk piece of high resistivity semiconductor for illumination by a high speed laser, said semiconductor having a thick highly doped epitaxial layer of P+ impurity grown on one side of the semicond |
| H694 |
Movable thermal and radar vehicular decoy |
October 3, 1989 |
| The present invention decoy is able to simulate an armored vehicle by proing for both thermal and radar signatures. The thermal signature is actively generated by a plurality of thermal panels located on a platform which is configured to have the same passive millimeter wavelength c |
| H693 |
PYX twister with superconducting confinement |
October 3, 1989 |
| Permanent magnet structures are fabricated from a plurality of hollow cylrical flux sources, the sources displaced radially from each other progressively along the structures' elongate axes so as to produce a heliform magnetic field extending centrally in a passage through the struc |
| H686 |
Electro-optical light modulator for protection of optical systems against pulsed lasers |
October 3, 1989 |
| An electro-optic shutter containing liquid crystal material is used to prct optical systems from pulsed laser radiation. The shutter provides the protection by being positioned between the optical system and the pulsed laser radiation and by rapidly alternating between clear and dark |
| H685 |
Deployable fin configuration for free flight control of cylindrical bodies |
October 3, 1989 |
| This invention offers a simple, inexpensive solution to both the dispersion nd orientation problems, and can also be very effective for inducing scanning of the ground in flight of a munition, for target location. A munition, such as a cylindrical body, is provided with two curved, fu |
| H684 |
Vented in-tube burning rocket |
October 3, 1989 |
| A rocket for firing from a tube having open ends wherein a rocket motor sed from a projectile is connected to the projectile by a frangible, ported collar, the front of the motor having a vent for allowing combustion products to flow into the tube between the motor and the projectil |
| H682 |
Erosion rate determinator: rocket nozzle |
October 3, 1989 |
| In a method for determining and evaluating nozzle erosion rate, an eroding ozzle and a non-eroding nozzle are employed in a dual nozzle arrangement to receive a balanced thrust and flow rate from a common solid propellant grain of a solid propellant rocket motor when initially fired. When |
| H679 |
Foldable towable thermal and radar vehicular decoy |
September 5, 1989 |
| To provide for ease of movement, a decoy capable of misleading smart munins having both radar and thermal sensors utilizes a frame having two sections, with one foldable over the other. On this frame are mounted a plurality of thermal panels for generating representative thermal sig |
| H677 |
Motor control circuit |
September 5, 1989 |
| Described is a control circuit or energizing circuit for a series field mr. To limit the surge of inrush startup current to no greater than the steady-state running current, a series string of three thermistors is inserted in series with the motor. The thermisters have negative temp |
| H675 |
Method for chemical reaction control using a surface acoustic wave device |
September 5, 1989 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling a chemical reaction by heterogeneous catalysis, in which a surface acoustic wave (SAW) is propagated along a surface of a piezoelectric element in contact with liquid or gaseous substances to be chemically reacted, to thus generate an electric field |
| H666 |
Circuit for measuring absolute time lapse between impact and detonation |
August 1, 1989 |
| Insulating material is used to attach a conducting foil patch to conductive urface of motor case. The patch is a part of an open electrical circuit, along with a power source, timer and connecting wires until impact which causes the patch to collapse and come in contact with the motor sur |
| H657 |
Torque calibrator |
August 1, 1989 |
| A torque calibrator which has a pair of torque beams with hydraulic cylins for exerting forces on opposite ends of the torque beams and with load cells mounted at opposite ends of the beams for measuring the forces applied to the beams with the beams being designed for a torque cell to |
| H653 |
Superconducting, superdirective antenna array |
July 4, 1989 |
| A superconducting, superdirective antenna array wherein a superconductive terial is employed for the elements of the array which are arranged in a uniform half-wave dipole has low ohmic resistance and a very high radiation efficiency. The superdirective antenna array which is a linear |
| H651 |
Gas phase photoacoustic detector for infrared spectroscopy |
July 4, 1989 |
| A photoacoustic detector includes an evaporation space for receiving an onic vapor. The space is bounded by a window which is transparent to infrared radiation. A spectrometer irradiates the space with infrared radiation through the window to heat the vapor and acoustically modulate |
