Patents Represented by Attorney Joseph S. Iandiorio

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  • Thermal camouflage fabric
    Patent number: 4879171
    Abstract: A thermal camouflage fabric (12) comprising a heat reflective composite material (14, 16) which is coated on both of its sides with a protective material (18), the heat reflective composite material (14, 16) comprising at least one layer of a metal (14) and at least one layer of a flexible support material (16), the protective material (18) being such that it protects the heat reflective composite material (14, 16) from damage and such that it has predetermined thermal emission characteristics, the protective material (18) being securely bonded to the heat reflective composite material (14, 16), and the thermal camouflage fabric (12) being such that the heat reflective composite material (14, 16) is first formed from the said at least one layer of the metal (14) and the said at least one layer of the flexible support material (16), and is then woven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: J & D Wilkie Limited
    Inventor: Robert F. Jeffrey
  • Griding guide and method
    Patent number: 4878315
    Abstract: A guide for the grinding of a surface of an object having a region to be exposed, including at least two conductive leads and a conductive control track. Each conductive lead is associated with a different face of the object, and the control track interconnects the leads and extends across the surface to be ground which lies between the faces. At least a portion of the rear edge of the track is precisely located with respect to a predetermined grinding depth of the region so that a break in the track occurs with the grinding of the surface to that grinding depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Dawson, Paul C. Ewing
  • Microprocessor welder controller
    Patent number: 4876431
    Abstract: A welding system controller for controlling the welding of a workpiece including a switch for selectively applying power to a welding transformer and a controller for controlling the power delivered to the welding transformer by the switch to set the power level of the welding transformer. The controller allows the operator to set the time to reach the set power level, the time the set power level is maintained, and the time to decrease the power level from the set power level to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Black & Webster, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas J. Livingston
  • Convertible carriage with biased wheel retraction
    Patent number: 4872692
    Abstract: A convertible carriage having a wheel retraction mechanism to provide biased wheel retraction. The carriage has a superstructure including a seat for carrying a person to be transported, a plurality of wheels, and a plurality of leg members pivotably interconnected with the superstructure for rollably supporting the wheels to transport the superstructure when leg members are in an extended position below the superstructure. The carriage further includes a drive mechanism for relocating the leg members between a retracted position and an extended position, and a biasing mechanism, connected to the drive mechanism, for driving the leg members to the retracted position. The drive mechanism loads the biasing mechanism when the leg members are driven to the extended position. There is also a mechanism locking the leg members in the extended position to inhibit retraction by the biasing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Prodigy Corp.
    Inventor: Kip V. Steenburg
  • System for monitoring a liquid entrained in a fluid
    Patent number: 4872316
    Abstract: A monitoring system for detecting contamination of a liquid entrained in a circulating fluid, including a housing having an inlet for receiving the fluid, a reservoir for containing extracted liquid, and an outlet portion disposed in predetermined relationship with the reservoir for venting the fluid from the housing. There is also a separator, which may be formed as part of the housing, for extracting liquid from the fluid and directing the extracted liquid to the reservoir. A probe, disposed in the reservoir, measures an electrical parameter representative of the electrical resistance of the liquid to detect a change in resistivity indicative of contamination of the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Fredrick D. Browne, Jacob H. Martin
  • System for controlling the flow of a fluid medium relative to an object
    Patent number: 4872484
    Abstract: A system for affecting the flow of a fluid medium relative to an object including a plurality of surface deviations disposed on the surface of the object. The deviations are grouped into at least one set and the sets are arranged into at least one predetermined pattern. The deviations cover only a portion of the object's surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Inventor: John Hickey
  • Multiple axis displacement sensor
    Patent number: 4866854
    Abstract: A multiple axis displacement sensor is provided for sensing displacement of two relatively movable parts in a plurality of degrees of freedom. There are a plurality of displacement sensing units, each unit including at least two magnetic poles mounted on one of the parts, and at least two Hall Effect devices mounted on the other of the parts, and disposed relative to the poles so that relative displacement of parts in at least one degree of freedom causes at least one of the poles to move toward a respective said Hall Effect device and at least one other of the poles to move away from another respective Hall Effect device. The outputs of the Hall Effect device are differentially combined to produce a signal linearly representative of displacement of the poles relative to the Hall Effect devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald S. Seltzer
  • Microwave plasma generator
    Patent number: 4866346
    Abstract: A microwave plasma generator for producing an axisymmetric plasma, having a waveguide apparatus, means for introducing a microwave source into the waveguide apparatus, and means for generating a circular axisymmetric microwave field from the microwave source. There are means for tuning the field to match the impedance of a plasma load. Further included is a vacuum chamber for containing a gas to be ionized to form the plasma, means for introducing this gas into the vacuum chamber, and means for coupling the microwave field to the vacuum chamber to form the plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Applied Science & Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel P. J. Gaudreau, Donald K. Smith
  • Pattern-boundary image generation system and method
    Patent number: 4859999
    Abstract: A system for rapidly generating an image of a pattern in successive lines each being formed of a plurality of pixels, the system storing the previously generated line, producing one or more replacement pixels, and providing successively generated lines of the image by selectively delivering stored pixels or replacement pixels in accordance with commands defining the boundaries of the pattern. The pixels of the previously generated line are updated with the replacement pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Gerber Scientific Instrument Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Dusan A. Koso
  • Collimator system with improved imaging sensitivity
    Patent number: 4859852
    Abstract: A collimator system rotatable about an axis of rotation for use in a radionuclide emission tomography camera for imaging a region of an object, including a collimator having a number of collimator elements for restricting and collimating the radionuclide emissions. The collimator elements are disposed with their axes intersecting at least one line, parallel to the axis of rotation, at at least two different angles. The collimator elements establish a selected variation in imaging sensitivity across the imaging region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Digital Scintigraphics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Genna, Andrew P. Smith
  • Fluorescent illuminator with inverter power supply
    Patent number: 4855646
    Abstract: A fluorescent illuminator including a fluorescent lamp, a lamp housing, and a lamp power supply with a variable current output with a relatively fixed frequency at least an order of magnitude greater than line frequency and a non-integral multiple thereof. There are means for connecting the power supply to the lamp and also means for varying the current output of the power supply between a first, lowest level and a second, highest level to change the light intensity of the fluorescent lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Techni-Quip Corp.
    Inventors: Guy R. Peckitt, Edward E. Kopelman
  • Thermal head supporting means in thermal recording apparatus
    Patent number: 4855755
    Abstract: In a thermal recording apparatus using a plurality of thermal heads supported by a head supporting means including a head supporting mechanism and a head pressing mechanism. The head supporting means includes single supporting units provided for correspondingly respectively supporting the thermal heads. Each of the single supporting units has a pair of hook-shaped members fixed to corresponding one of the thermal heads at two places of the rear surface thereof, and has a head supporting member having a pair of side end portions corresponding to the pair of hook-shaped members and a plane portion formed between the pair of side end portions and fixed to a rotatable pillar-shaped member. The head supporting member is engaged at its side end portions with the respective hook-shaped members so as to be movable in the vertical and rotational directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Graphtec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Isamu Aizawa
  • Multiple interlocking system for file cabinets, e.g.
    Patent number: 4854653
    Abstract: A locking system for a stack of drawers in a filing cabinet comprising a single track of discrete studs or "bullets" in a string at the rear of the cabinet, and a bracket at the rear of each drawer energizing an actuator on the track to place it in locking condition relative to the slugs for all other drawers when one drawer is moved towards open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Engineered Security Products Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew L. Lakso
  • Automatic venting system
    Patent number: 4852469
    Abstract: An automatic venting system for an enclosed space such as a vehicle having one or more venting elements. The venting system senses precipitation and commands drive means to close the venting element when precipitation is detected and to open the venting element when precipitation ceases to accomplish passive venting of the enclosed space while minimizing entry of precipitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Inventor: Cliff L. Chuang
  • Winding apparatus utilizing magnetic carrier units
    Patent number: 4850542
    Abstract: A winding apparatus for winding a magnetic element through a form, the apparatus having at least one chain which has a plurality of magnetic carrier units disposed about the form for loading the coil of the element through the form and, after loading, for winding the element from the loading coil about the form under tension to tightly wind a final coil. Each carrier unit includes a device for generating a magnetic force to magnetically hold the element and to release portions of the element when tension on the element between the outer periphery of the final coil and the advancing point of separation of the element from the inner periphery of the loading coil exceeds the magnetic force exerted by the carrier units. The winding apparatus also includes a device for driving the chain during loading and winding, and structure for defining the path of the chain during loading and winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Isoreg Corporation
    Inventor: Emil B. Rechsteiner
  • Microwave reactive gas generator
    Patent number: 4851630
    Abstract: A microwave reactive gas generator including a microwave power source with a waveguide coupled to the power source for transmitting microwave radiation. A cavity for establishing a microwave mode is attached to the waveguide, and there is passage tube through the cavity transverse to the direction of propagation of the microwave radiation in the waveguide for passing the gas to be excited through the cavity. The generator also includes a device for matching the impedance of the load to the microwave power source. The cavity couples the microwave power from the waveguide to the passage to energize the gas into a reactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Applied Science & Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald K. Smith
  • Regenerating dynamic adsorber system and method for obtaining cleaned fluid from contaminated fluid
    Patent number: 4849111
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a regenerating dynamic adsorber system which removes a contaminant from fluid. The system includes at least one adsorption bed having a contaminant removal capacity that is based substantially on the flow of the contaminated fluid through the bed. The system alternately cleanses the contaminated fluid by feeding the contaminated fluid from a first volume to the bed and issuing cleansed fluid to a second volume, and regenerates the bed by providing clean fluid from a third volume and issuing the fluid back to the third volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Richard F. Abrams
    Inventor: Richard F. Abrams
  • Remote center compliance device with fully or partially coil-bound springs
    Patent number: 4848757
    Abstract: An improved remote center compliance (RCC) device having translational and rotational compliance. The RCC device includes at least two spaced monolithic members having a common axis extending therethrough. Adjacent pairs of monolithic members are interconnected by a stage including at least three discrete coil springs spaced about the axis of the monolithic members. Each spring is axially extensible and laterally deformable for providing both rotational and translational compliance about a center of compliance. The improvement includes providing coil springs that are at least partially coil-bound to increase the ratio of axzial stiffness to lateral stiffness of the springs and increase the projection of the center of compliance away from the RCC device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas L. De Fazio
  • Helically wound elbow conduit and method of fabricating same
    Patent number: 4841616
    Abstract: A method of fabricating elbow conduit including constructing a conduit development having a set of sequential segments, each segment having a lateral axis parallel to corresponding lateral axes of the other segments and a longitudinal axis skewed at least in part with respect to the lateral axis and having the same orientation as the corresponding longitudinal axes of the other segments in the set. The segments are joined end-to-end and the dimensions of the joined segments are transferred to a continuous length of material to generate a continuous blank havng periodically varying opposing boundaries. At least one outer alignment mark is defined on each segments of the blank to establish an outer ridge line on the outside circumference of the elbow and at least one inner alignment mark is defined on each segment to establish an inner ridge line on the inner circumference of the elbow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel E. Whitney
  • Coupon dispensing terminal
    Patent number: D304207
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: The Savings Spot, Ltd.
    Inventor: John C. Wistrand