Abstract: Solventless ultraviolet (UV) radiation curable polyamideimides which are useful as coatings for substrates are disclosed. The UV curable solventless polyamideimides are prepared by grafting acrylate functionality on the polyamideimide backbone The polyamideimides of the invention may be a part of UV curable compositions.

Abstract: Both a system and a method are provided which allows an eddy current probe to accurately determine both the proximity and dimensions of non-conductive structures which are normally invisible to such probes. The system includes a portable target medium that is movable into a known position with respect to the non-conductive structure, and that includes a conductive material that couples strongly with a fluctuating magnetic field, and a movable eddy current probe that emanates a fluctuating magnetic field and which generates a signal indicative of the magnitude of the interaction between the field and the portable target medium from which the distance between the two may be computed. The system may be used to determine the proximity of non-conductive structures such as plastic pipes that have been buried under ground, as well as the dimensions of such non conductive structures.

Abstract: A multiple outlet locking receptacle has a molded insulating body which includes a housing portion and a mounting flange portion formed integrally therewith. The housing portion has a front face thereon. The receptacle includes multiple groups of internal contact elements disposed in the housing portion of the body rearwardly of the front face thereon. The multiple groups of contact elements define multiple electrical outlets adapted for receiving multiple outlet plugs. Multiple arrays of plug blade receiving apertures are defined in the front face of the receptacle body housing portion. The multiple arrays of apertures are aligned with the multiple groups of internal contact elements and have arcuate configurations for accommodating insertion of the blades of the multiple outlet plugs through the apertures into electrical contact with the internal contact elements and then rotation of the blades relative to the internal contact elements into locking relation therewith.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon vapor sensor which is simple and low cost and can easily detect the existence of hydrocarbon vapor. The device is temperature compensated so that a change in resistance due to a change in temperature is avoided and an arcurate response is always provided. The sensor can be used in a system in which a number of sensors are provided at various depths to determine whether a leak or a ground spill has occurred.

Abstract: An actuator plate type electrical switch employs an actuating mechanism which includes an overcentering cam, sleeve, actuator plate, plunger, and biasing spring. The cam is rotatable between first and second overcentered positions and has an actuating lobe aligned with a contact assembly causing the assembly to assume respective contact and non-contact positions upon rotation of the cam to corresponding first and second overcentered positions. The sleeve has a central passage and a transverse slot communicating with the passage. The cam is received through the transverse slot. The sleeve also mounts the actuator plate outwardly from the cam. The sleeve and actuator plate are pivotal together about an axis which extends parallel to the cam rotational axis. The plunger, biased by the spring toward and into continuous engagement with the center of the cam, is slidably mounted in the sleeve passage for reciprocal movement toward and away from the cam.

Abstract: A UV curable electrically conductive adhesive has been developed with low resistivity, adequate lap shear strength, good thermal stability, and very stable conductivity at high temperatures of about 100.degree. C. and high humidity. The adhesive may be applied by silk screen printing and cured by UV in about 8 seconds. The adhesive may also be used as a replacement of solder in automated surface mount technology for electronic circuit fabrication. The adhesive is a mixture of (A) a blend of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane, a copolymer of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane, or mixtures thereof; (B) a polyfunctional acrylate monomer; (C) a photoinitiator, and (D) a conductive filler. Optionally, adhesion promoters and flow control agents may be used.

Abstract: A process for fabricating cermet electrodes for solid oxide electrochemical cells by sintering is disclosed. First, a porous metal electrode is fabricated on a solid oxide cell, such as a fuel cell by, for example, sintering, and is then infiltrated with a high volume fraction stabilized zirconia suspension. A second sintering step is used to sinter the infiltrated zirconia to a high density in order to more securely attach the electrode to the solid oxide electrolyte of the cell. High performance fuel electrodes can be obtained with this process. Further electrode performance enhancement may be achieved if stabilized zirconia doped with cerium oxide, chromium oxide, titanium oxide, and/or praseodymium oxide for electronic conduction is used.

Abstract: Whether a compound will thermoparticulate, that is, decompose to produce particles detectable by an ion chamber monitor or a condensation nuclei monitor and, if so, at what temperature, is predicted by determining the decomposition products of the compound, eliminating the compound if none of its decomposition products are greater than 25 .ANG., and using the temperature at which the decomposition products greater than 25 .ANG. have a vapor pressure of 10 millimeters as an estimate of the temperature at which the compound will decompose to produce products detectable by the monitor. Also disclosed are compounds which have been found to thermoparticulate at low temperatures.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of rapidly and reproducibly checking the quality of zirconium base material welds and heat affected zones. In this method, weldment samples are immersed in an elevated temperature fused salt bath for a time period sufficient, at the bath temperature selected, to produce an essentially black oxide film in acceptable quality welds while producing a scaling oxide in unacceptable welds.

Abstract: A ferromagnetic amorphous metal strip insulated with a coating of glass that is about 0.001 to about 0.02 mils thick.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for determining the eccentricity of insulation on an elongated conductor comprising two flat parallel opposing electrodes positionable on opposite sides of an insulated conductor in physical contact with the insulation of the conductor, means for moving one of the two electrodes relative to the other in a direction parallel to the electrodes, whereby the insulated conductor is rotated therebetween, electrical contact means for making electrical contact to the conductor, means for translating the electrical contact means at the same rate that the insulating conductor is translated between the two flat opposing electrodes, and electrical means for determining the ratio of the capacitance of each of the two electrodes to the conductor as the insulating conductor is rotated between the two electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of determining the eccentricity of the insulation on a round wire without making electrical contact with the wire. The insulated wire is passed between two pairs of opposing electrodes, pair A-C and pair B-D, positioned at a known distance from the insulated wire and spaced apart azimuthally at a known angle. Known, out of phase, alternating voltages are applied to each pair of electrodes. Signals are generated from the four electrodes that are proportional to (1) v.sub.A -v.sub.B +v.sub.C -v.sub.D and (2) -v.sub.A -v.sub.B +v.sub.C +v.sub.D, where v.sub.A, v.sub.B, v.sub.C, and v.sub.D are the voltages on electrodes A, B, C, and D, respectively. From those signals the eccentricity of the insulation on the wire can be determined by ##EQU1## where .vertline.q.vertline. is the magnitude of ##EQU2## The direction of the eccentricity can be determined from the difference in phase between the two signals.

Abstract: Disclosed is a superconducting Josephson junction which comprises a layer of niobium nitride on a substrate, an epitaxial layer of a pseudo-binary compound on the layer of niobium nitride, where the pseudo-binary compound has the composition about 3 atomic percent MgO--about 97 atomic percent CaO, to about 97 atomic percent MgO--about 3 atomic percent CaO, and an epitaxial layer of niobium nitride on the layer of pseudo-binary compound. Also disclosed is a method of making a Josephson junction by depositing a layer of niobium nitride onto a suitable substrate, depositing an expitaxial layer of a pseudo-binary compound onto the layer of niobium nitride, where the pseudo-binary compound has a composition of about 3 atomic percent MgO--about 97 atomic percent CaO, to about 97 atomic percent MgO--about 3 atomic percent CaO, and depositing an epitaxial layer of niobium nitride onto the layer said pseudo-binary compound.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for forming a conductive coating of polyacetylene or substituted polyacetylene on fibers. The fibers are immersed into a solution of a catalyst for the polymerization of acetylene or substituted acetylene. The fibers are removed from the solution and acetylene or substituted acetylene gas is permitted to permeate the fibers, polymerizing to form a polyacetylene coating on the fibers. The coated fibers are then doped to make the polyacetylene coating conductive. Also disclosed are conductive polyacetylene coated fibers and a laminate containing conductive polyacetylene coated fibers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of insulating ferromagnetic amorphous metal strip by coating the strip with a composition of about 3 to about 32% of a metal alkoxide having a general formula of M(OR).sub.n, where M is an alkoxide forming metal, R is alkyl, and n is the valence of the M, about 56 to about 96% of a solvent for the metal alkoxide, about 1 to about 12% water, and about 0.001 to about 0.01% of an acid. The coated strip is heated at a temperature above the temperature at which the metal alkoxide hydrolizes and polymerizes and the water and solvent evaporate, and below the temperature at which the amorphous metal crystallizes. Also disclosed is ferromagnetic amorphous metal strip insulated with a coating of glass that is about 0.001 to about 0.02 mils thick.

Abstract: An alkoxide glass former composition has silica-containing constituents present as solid particulates of a particle size of 0.1 to 0.7 micrometers in diameter in a liquid carrier phase substantially free of dissolved silica. The glass former slurry is resistant to coagulation and may contain other glass former metal constituents. The immobilization of nuclear waste employs the described glass former by heating the same to reduce the volume, mixing the same with the waste, and melting the resultant mixture to encapsulate the waste in the resultant glass.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a non-aqueous solventless polyester varnish. A composition is prepared which comprises about one mole of maleic anhydride, about 0.25 to about 0.35 mole of dicyclopentadience, about 0.65 to about 0.75 mole of ethylene glycol, and about 0.35 to about 0.45 mole of a polyol. The composition is heated to about 150.degree. to about 170.degree. C., and then to about 200.degree. to about 210.degree. C., which condenses out water, forms an unsaturated polyester and, reduces the acid number to less than about 45. The composition is cooled to a temperature below about 150.degree. C., and about 0.1 to about 0.5% of an inhibitor is added to said composition, followed by an unsaturated aromatic compound which can be styrene, vinyl toluene, or mixtures thereof, in a ratio of about 20 to about 40 pbw unsaturated aromatic compound to about 60 to about 80 pbw unsaturated polyester. When it is desirable to use the composition, 0.5 to about 1.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of reoxidizing a partially oxidizable metal or metal oxide powder. The powder is spread on a first sloped trough to form a layer of less than about a half inch in thickness. The layer of powder slides down the trough and falls onto a second trough sloped in the opposite direction, thereby inverting the powder on the second trough. While the powder is on the troughs, it is exposed to an amount of oxygen sufficient to partially oxidize the powder but insufficient to completely oxidize the powder.Also disclosed is apparatus useful for partially reoxidizing a partially oxidizable powder.

Abstract: A method of removing tenacious oxide film from particulates, such as submicron sized superconductor powder, to enhance the electrical characteristics of superconductor wire fabricated from the powder. The method includes removing the oxide film with an alkali metal, or a hydroxide of an alkali metal, and coating or plating the particles with a metal whose oxide is easily reduced just prior to use, such as by annealing the coated particulate in hydrogen.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming an adherent metal deposit on a conducting layer of a tube sealed at one end. The tube is immersed with the sealed end down into an aqueous solution containing ions of the metal to be deposited. An ionically conducting aqueous fluid is placed inside the tube and a direct current is passed from a cathode inside the tube to an anode outside the tube. Also disclosed is a multi-layered solid oxide fuel cell tube which consists of an inner porous ceramic support tube, a porous air electrode covering the support tube, a non-porous electrolyte covering a portion of the air electrode, a non-porous conducting interconnection covering the remaining portion of the electrode, and a metal deposit on the interconnection.