Patents Represented by Attorney Joseph M. St.Amand
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Patent number: 3993577Abstract: Micro electrochemical cells which utilize an intimate mixture of active and assive metals are reacted with seawater for producing heat and hydrogen gas for use as a heat source, energy source, or buoyancy generator for use in remote areas.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1975Date of Patent: November 23, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Stanley A. Black, James F. Jenkins
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Patent number: 3992613Abstract: A flying target control system for directing a flying target along a radio eam heading toward a ship under simulated attack according to a preselected altitude and speed profile. The control system utilizes a TACAN transceiver which receives TACAN signals emitted from the ship under simulated attack. The TACAN transceiver produces an azimuth signal to steer the target via an automatic pilot toward the ship under simulated attack and a range signal which is used to address a profile storage device. The profile storage device produces altitude profile control signals and speed profile control signals according to the range of the target from the ship which are fed into the automatic pilot to guide the target along its preselected altitude and speed profile.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1975Date of Patent: November 16, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Dean Blatchford
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Patent number: 3991574Abstract: A fluid pressure power plant which converts heat energy, externally generated, to high hydraulic pressure. The system generates heat energy in the form of steam or hot gas, supplies the heat energy to a double-acting intensifier piston which converts the heat energy to high hydraulic pressure which is stored in an accumulator. The high pressure hydraulic energy stored in the accumulator is used to drive hydraulic motors or turbines through hydraulic output control valves. The system operates on a demand cycle in that no energy input from the heat generator and power conversion piston is necessary until there is some demand for power output from the hydraulic accumulator, once said accumulator is fully charged.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1975Date of Patent: November 16, 1976Inventor: Larry Vane W. Frazier
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Patent number: 3992692Abstract: A self-contained acoustic beacon activated by a seawater switch for provig an independent method of locating and recovering a floating or submerged recoverable target. The device provides an ideal operating life for target recovery of about 36 hours as well as providing an extensive underwater range. The device also provides stable frequency operation without a crystal-controlled oscillator over a wide range of source voltages allowing use of inexpensive batteries as a voltage supply source. Additionally, the signature or output signal code of the device can be changed simply and quickly providing positive identification of the acoustic beacon and lengthened operating life span.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1975Date of Patent: November 16, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Armand Jay Filer
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Patent number: 3992628Abstract: A system for significantly reducing the laser energy striking an illuminated target such that the reflected target energy is reduced in intensity for seriously degrading the performance of energy seeking devices by introducing into a known laser path a gas or vapor material having laser absorbing and attenuating properties.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1972Date of Patent: November 16, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: James L. Karney
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Patent number: 3986116Abstract: A detector for locating the direction of propagation of transients on eleical power lines supplying critical loads having various types of random impulse voltage transients. The device detects the polarity of transient voltages and the direction of transient current. An integrated logic and control circuit compares the sampled voltage and current to indicate from which direction the transient came. The logic and control circuit activates indicator lights which show whether the transient occurred in the direction of the source or the load and whether the transient was positive or negative.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1975Date of Patent: October 12, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Maurice N. Smith, Kwang-Ta Huang
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Patent number: 3985080Abstract: A device for use in an active-passive fuzing system to guard against the functioning of the fuze due to jamming signals transmitted by the target. A gate circuit is utilized to prevent an enabling signal to be passed to the warhead detonator until there is jamming signal fall-off in the guard detector and there is an increase in signal strength in the passive detector.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1967Date of Patent: October 12, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Raymond T. Kostecki
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Patent number: 3985077Abstract: An ogival explosive warhead lens, nearly hemispherical in shape, construc in the form of four coaxial spheroidal shells containing different explosives which when initiated at a point on the curved surface near the flat base, will result in detonation waves converging to a line on the opposite curved surface lying in a plane which passes through the axis of symmetry.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1972Date of Patent: October 12, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Robert L. Conger, Frederic L. Menz, Charles A. Roberts, Jr.
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Patent number: 3986021Abstract: An angular tracking servo system for passive tracking of the sun which utzes solar radiation to control the attitude of a mirror element in an array of Fresnel reflectors. The array collects and focuses solar energy onto a high efficiency conversion device. The energy required to move the mirror element is supplied by a gear system which is attached through a pivot arm to a vertically moving float immersed in a chamber containing water.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1975Date of Patent: October 12, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Robert D. Hitchcock
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Patent number: 3986115Abstract: A transient direction detector which indicates the occurrence of power line ransients and their direction of propagation. The system is comprised of current and voltage sensors, a logic and control circuit which receives the transient current and voltage sensed and provides an output to an indicator circuit to show the direction of any transients on a power line. The current sensing circuit receives an input from an induction coil on an iron clamp around a power line. The voltage sensing circuit receives its input from a voltage sampling transformer directly connected across a power line. The logic and control circuit determines where the transient occurred by comparing the polarity received from the transient current and voltage sensing circuits.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1975Date of Patent: October 12, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Kwang-Ta Huang
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Patent number: 3984834Abstract: A diagonally fed electric microstrip dipole antenna consisting of a thin ctrically conducting, rectangular-shaped element formed on one surface of a dielectric substrate, the ground plane being on the opposite surface. The length of the element determines the resonant frequency. The feed point is located along the diagonal with respect to the antenna length and width, and the input impedance can be varied to match any source impedance by moving the feed point along the diagonal line of the antenna without affecting the radiation pattern. The antenna bandwidth increases with the width of the element and spacing between the element and ground plane. Singularly fed circular polarization is easily obtained with this antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1975Date of Patent: October 5, 1976Assignee: The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Cyril M. Kaloi
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Patent number: 3984673Abstract: A compact and safe means for providing high intensity cold light to illumte hyperbaric chambers. The lighting system is comprised of a high intensity light source and a dichroic mirror enclosed in a housing which permits easy attachment to a viewport on a hyperbaric chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1975Date of Patent: October 5, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Kenneth O. Gray
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Patent number: 3978444Abstract: A seafloor mapping system utilizing echo signals from a pair of towed, silooking sonar transducers to generate in real time a roll of photographic film which after conventional processing can be directly viewed in a stereoscope to produce a three-dimensional illusion of seafloor topography.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1975Date of Patent: August 31, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Robert D. Hitchcock
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Patent number: 3978488Abstract: An offset fed electric microstrip dipole antenna consisting of a thin eleically conducting, element formed on one surface of a dielectric substrate, the ground plane being on the opposite surface. The length of the element determines the resonant frequency. The feed point is located along one edge of the antenna length and the input impedance can be varied by moving the feed point along the edge of the antenna to obtain optimum match for the resonant mode without affecting the radiation pattern. The antenna bandwidth increases with the width of the element and spacing between the element and ground plane. Slanting one end of the element will provide a slightly wider bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1975Date of Patent: August 31, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Cyril M. Kaloi
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Patent number: 3978487Abstract: A coupled fed electric microstrip dipole antenna consisting of a thin eleically conducting, rectangular-shaped radiating element (resonator) and a nonradiating coupler formed on one surface of a dielectric substrate, the ground plane being on the opposite surface. There is only a single mode of oscillation. Oscillation takes place along the length of the radiating element, and the length determines the resonant frequency. The feed point is normally located at the end of the coupler; energy is in turn coupled to the radiating element. Input impedance matching is determined by a combination of the coupler length and the separation between the coupler and the radiating element.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1975Date of Patent: August 31, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Cyril M. Kaloi
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Patent number: 3977149Abstract: A rigid ferro-cement construction panel comprising a plurality of U-shaped ections adjoined in abutting relationship such that the cross-section across the length thereof is in the shape of a square wave. The construction panel may be interfitted with other similar construction panels to form larger structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1975Date of Patent: August 31, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Harvey H. Haynes, Gene S. Guthrie
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Patent number: 3977036Abstract: Apparatus and method for cleaning soldering irons in which a soldering tip of the type having capillary passages is provided with a tiny passageway through the wall of the tip into the upper portion of the capillary passages through which solder and other debris can be expelled from the tip by vapor pressure. Solder collected by capillary action in a cavity in the tip is expelled through the tublar passageway communicating with the capillary passageways when the working end of the soldering tip is pressed lightly on a moistened sponge. The sponge is mounted in a receptacle which has first and second reservoirs containing water and high temperature oil, respectively. The sponge is kept moist by a wick which extends down into the water. The reservoir containing the high temperature oil has a small access hole which supports a soldering iron with the tip substantially submerged in the oil when not in use.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1975Date of Patent: August 31, 1976Inventor: Louis Vanyi
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Patent number: 3974323Abstract: Amino compounds are applied to steel and aluminum by direct application and lso from solution, and then subjected to ultraviolet radiation to produce photooxidative polymerization of the coating on the surface of the metal. Adherent thin film polymers are thus produced on the metal which resist wetting and are corrosion resistant to prevent rust or oxidation of the metal.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1973Date of Patent: August 10, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Carl V. Brouillette, Harry Hochman
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Patent number: 3972814Abstract: An oil-water separating method and apparatus utilizing the Coanda Effect separating oil from an oil-water mixture in a continuous manner. The device comprises a housing having an inlet port, an outlet port and a pair of offsetted walls. The oil-water mixture enters the housing parallel to the offsetted walls. A pair of concavely curved walls having an apex adjacent the inlet port splits the entering oil-water mixture into two sub-jets. Each sub-jet enters a bounded region where oil is separated from the water before the oil-water mixture exits the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1975Date of Patent: August 3, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Aleksy J. Paszyc, Dharam Pal, John B. Curry
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Patent number: 3972253Abstract: A multi-size socket wrench utilizing a jaw plate with at least one jaw mer rotatably attached thereto. The jaw plate and the jaw member have diametrically opposed toothed sections thereon. A driving strut rotates about a shaft attached to the jaw plate. When rotated, the driving strut engages the jaw member rotating the jaw member with respect to the jaw plate, thereby closing the tooth section of the jaw member upon a bolt disposed adjacent the toothed section of the jaw plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1975Date of Patent: August 3, 1976Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Philip K. Rockwell, Glenn L. Liffick