Patents Represented by Attorney Norman J. O'Malley
  • Patent number: 4061163
    Abstract: Electrochemical cells containing highly reactive anodes are filled with a volatile electrolyte under controlled pressure conditions in a controllable pressure chamber. The cells are placed in the chamber with the fill port down and the chamber evacuated to a high vacuum for a given period of time. Thereafter, the pressure is increased to above the boiling point of the electrolyte being employed. A measured amount of electrolyte is then introduced to the chamber and the chamber is returned to atmospheric pressure and then raised to a pressure above atmospheric to force the electrolyte into the evacuated cell. The pressure is maintained at this level for a time sufficient to allow absorption of the electrolyte by the porous electrodes in the cell and then the excess electrolyte is blown from the chamber under pressure. Upon removal of the electrolyte the chamber is vented to the atmosphere and the cells removed and positioned with the fill ports up. The cells are now ready for final hermetic sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: John J. Decker, Charles R. Ricards
  • Patent number: 4061945
    Abstract: The invention provides an improvement in the means for supporting a container of effusive material located on the terminal end of an antenna-type positioning member for use in a cathode ray tube. The supporting structure is comprised of a rotatable member accommodated on axle means affixed to the positioning member at a region rearward from the forward edge of the material container. An augmentive fender-like protective component is associated with the rotatable member to shield that member from effusive material and to prevent any accumulated electric charge thereon from interfering with the scanning of the electron beam in the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: David Benda, Charles A. Davis
  • Patent number: 4061943
    Abstract: An electrical connective improvement is provided for a multiple-element electron gun assembly in an electron tube. The improvement relates to an isolated electrical conductor extending within the envelope from one of the elements of the electron gun assembly to the closure portion of the tube, whereat the conductor is shaped to project into and be encompassed by the exhaust tubulation wherein a portion of the conductor is sealed. Removal of the exterior portion of the tubulation beyond the seal provides an electrical connection extending exteriorly thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Mario A. DiDominico, Harry E. Smithgall
  • Patent number: 4061941
    Abstract: An improvement is provided in a cathode ray tube plural beam in-line electron gun assembly having applied beam currents of differing levels. At least one of the gun structures in the assembly incorporates discrete electrode modifications or differentiations whereby the respective focusing lens is dimensionally changed to effect a focused beam landing at the screen that is of a size similar to those of the beams emanating from the related guns in the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph L. Hallett, Donald L. Say
  • Patent number: 4060300
    Abstract: An edge connector for a printed circuit board including two actuator plates comprising cam followers and two contact holders comprising opposing cam surfaces. Movement of the actuator plates along the longitudinal axis of the connector forces the opposing contact holders apart when the cam followers engage the high point of an adjacent cam surface and allows the opposing contact holders to move towards each other when the cam followers engage the low point of an adjacent cam surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Max L. Jayne, Paul R. Natale
  • Patent number: 4057508
    Abstract: In europium-activated alkaline earth mixed halide x-ray phosphor compositions the addition of minor amounts of yttrium significantly reduces afterglow or persistance. A syngeristic effect upon the reduction of afterglow is observed when both yttrium and lithium additives are both included. Additions of other rare earths and alkali metals are not effective to reduce afterglow. The effective amount of Y is from about 0.001 to about 0.1 moles of yttrium per mole of host. When lithium is used in conjunction with yttrium, about 0.001 to about 0.1 moles of lithium per mole of host is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Wade Wolfe, Russell Francis Messier
  • Patent number: 4056872
    Abstract: An improved cutting insert for presenting positive back and side rake angles to the surface of a workpiece when the insert is positioned within a negative rake tool holder. The improvement comprises providing each of the inner and outer portions of the insert's channel with two straight faces which intersect at a common juncture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Heinz H. Seidel
  • Patent number: 4057759
    Abstract: Receiving apparatus for processing differential quadrature phase shift keyed (DQPSK) signals. Received 70 MHz IF signals are mixed with a 70 MHz reference frequency to provide quadrature components of each received signal. The resultant of the quadrature components of each signal is converted to a digital representation. The digital representations are sampled at sixteen times the baud rate. Samples are subtracted by two's complement addition and the difference produced by samples from two successive received signals is read out as the data encoded in the signal. The resultant of each two's complement addition is monitored to determine if there is no difference indicating that the samples are from the same received signal or if there is a difference indicating that the samples are from different received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Arthur F. Genova, Thomas J. Lennon
  • Patent number: 4056300
    Abstract: A terminal connector having a strip carrying pressure fitted terminals is shown. Openings or notches between the lands carrying the pressure fitted terminals relieve stresses in the strip to reduce longitudinal extension and bowing of the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Donald Alfred Schumacher
  • Patent number: 4056365
    Abstract: Electrical contact material of silver or mixtures of silver and a thermally decomposable compound of silver having an additive of an alkali metal, for example lithium, added in the form of a salt prior to sintering to increase the as-sintered density of the resulting material and to aid in the prevention of undesirable surface blisters. The silver material may be fabricated as a backing layer on a primary contact material of silver-cadmium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: Gibson Electric, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Bevington, David J. Snee
  • Patent number: 4054799
    Abstract: A mixture of from 5% to 95% by weight of calcium tungstate and from 5% to 95% of europium activated barium fluorochloride exhibits brightness and x-ray absorption characteristics superior to that which would be predicted from the foregoing properties of the individual phosphors. Intensifying screens employing the above mixtures have a speed in excess of the commercially available intensifying screens using the present calcium tungstate x-ray phosphors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Wade Wolfe, Russell Francis Messier
  • Patent number: 4053904
    Abstract: In an optical scanning exposure system for manufacturing cathode ray tubes having a faceplate with an inner surface layer of photosensitive material and an adjacent apertured mask wherein the exposure system includes a light source providing a light beam, an angle of incidence deflector means for deflecting the light beam at an angle related to the angle of incidence of an electron beam, means for imaging the light beam, and a means for scanning the light beam in a predetermined fashion over the apertured mask to expose the photosensitive material, a control system having a means for storing information representative of the angle of incidence of a light beam and the rate of scanning of a light beam between a matrix of positional locations on the faceplate, a scan rate means for controlling the rate of horizontal and vertical light beam scanning, an encoder means providing light beam positional information to the storage means, and an angle of incidence control means for activating the angle of incidence defl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: G. Norman Williams, Mahlon B. Fisher
  • Patent number: 4053903
    Abstract: In an optical scanning exposure system for manufacturing cathode ray tubes having a faceplate with an inner surface layer of photosensitive material and an adjacent apertured mask wherein the exposure system includes a light source providing a light beam, an angle of incidence deflector means for deflecting the light beam at an angle related to the angle of incidence of an electron beam, means for imaging the light beam, and a means for scanning the light beam in a predetermined fashion over the apertured mask to expose the photosensitive material, a control system having a means for storing information representative of the angle of incidence of a light beam and the rate of scanning of a light beam between a matrix of positional locations on the faceplate, a scan rate means for controlling the rate of horizontal and vertical light beam scanning, an encoder means providing light beam positional information to the storage means, and an angle of incidence control means for activating the angle of incidence defl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas W. Schultz
  • Patent number: 4053906
    Abstract: In an optical scanning exposure system for manufacturing cathode ray tubes having a faceplate with an inner surface layer of photosensitive material and an adjacent apertured mask wherein the exposure system includes a light source providing a light beam, an angle of incidence deflector means for deflecting the light beam at an angle related to the angle of incidence of an electron beam, means for imaging the light beam, and a means for scanning the light beam in a predetermined fashion over the apertured mask to expose the photosensitive material, a control system having a means for storing information representative of the angle of incidence of a light beam and the rate of scanning of a light beam between a matrix of positional locations on the faceplate, a scan rate means for controlling the rate of horizontal and vertical light beam scanning, an encoder means providing light beam positional information to the storage means, and an angle of incidence control means for activating the angle of incidence defl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas W. Schultz
  • Patent number: 4052735
    Abstract: A fleshtone and tint correction detector DC coupled to at least two of the first, second, and third demodulator stages of a color television receiver provides a control signal in response to a shift in differential potential output from the demodulator stages to effect a shift in phase angle of reference signals applied in the demodulators whereby fleshtone and other color errors are reduced with a minimum deleterious effect on other colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert Charles Wheeler
  • Patent number: 4050603
    Abstract: A clamp for securing an adjustable bar hanger to a molded thermosetting plastic electrical wiring box. The clamp includes a generally U-shaped portion having a deformable tab directed into the region defined by the U-shaped portion and a pair of side flanges integral with and on opposite sides of the U-shaped portion. A bar hanger is positioned within the U-shaped portion of the clamp and the wiring box is oriented with respect to the clamp and bar hanger assembly so that the bar hanger is captured between the clamp and a rear wall of the wiring box and the clamp is spaced a slight distance from the rear wall of the wiring box. Screws are then inserted through openings provided in the rear wall of the wiring box and threaded into corresponding threaded openings provided in the flanges of the clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: Union Insulating Company
    Inventors: Robert M. Harris, Gene F. Mills, David T. Shaffer
  • Patent number: 4050763
    Abstract: Electrical connective means are provided for effecting the external connections to a multi-element electron tube having a closure portion wherein the sealed exhaust tubulation has a conductive lead extending therefrom. The connective means includes a base member having a projecting hollow-stack portion which is formed to protectively encompass the sealed tubulation. Additionally, the hollow-stack has a metallic contact recessed therein, ahead of the seal, to which the protruding seal-related lead is affixed. A central recess is formed in a mating socket member to match the projecting stack of the base member. The stack is telescopically positioned within the recess to enable a receptor contact located therein to make seated abutment with the metallic contact in the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Harry E. Smithgall
  • Patent number: 4051544
    Abstract: A fail-safe ground fault receptacle circuit includes a ground fault circuit interrupter inductively coupled to a load, directly coupled to one potential source terminal, and coupled by way of a series connected solenoid winding and contacts of a circuit breaker shunted by a series connected impedance and indicating lamp to another potential source terminal whereby manually closing the circuit breaker causes current flow through the solenoid winding shunting the indicator lamp and preventing activation thereof and excessive current flow through the solenoid winding opens the circuit breaker to cause current flow through and activation of the indicating lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Edward J. Vibert
  • Patent number: 4050039
    Abstract: A magnetic trip assembly for use in a device such as an electric circuit breaker. The magnetic trip assembly includes a magnet and an armature arranged with respect to the magnet to coact with a pole face of the magnetic member which is in a plane normal to the magnetic plane of the magnetic member. An electrical load conductor is coupled to the magnetic member and establishes together with the magnetic member a magnetic field for closure of the armature in response to specified, excessive values (short circuit or overload values) of current passing through the load conductor. When the armature is operated to its closed position, a first portion of an actuating and latch member abutting against the armature is caused to move, in turn causing a captive, generally-cylindrical portion of the actuating and latch member to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Assignee: Zinsco Electrical Products
    Inventor: Gerald J. De Angelo
  • Patent number: 4049991
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved one-piece electrode member for use in an in-line multi-beam cathode ray tube electron gun assembly. The improved electrode has a plurality of spaced apart in-line apertures individually oriented in cup-like depressions which are collectively encompassed by a configurated continuous rim forming a cup encompassing unitized portion within the member. Formed contiguously with each side of the unit is a substantially longitudinal rib embossment having at least one complementary rib projecting therefrom in an angular manner to extend through supporting projections of the electrode. The discretely located conjunctive embossing configurations of the member provide marked strengthening to the in-line structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Floyd K. Collins