Patents Represented by Attorney Norman J. O'Malley
  • Patent number: 4038205
    Abstract: A green emitting ZnS : Cu, Al cathodoluminescent phosphor having x and y coordinate values of from 0.250 to 0.280 and 0.560 to 0.615 respectively, is produced by a critical firing schedule exemplified by slow heating to about 1000.degree. C, soaking at this temperature for about 1 hour, followed by slow cooling at about 3.degree. C per minute to 700.degree. C, followed by air quenching. The phosphor is useful for example, in tri-color television color television cathode ray tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Henry B. Minnier, H. David Layman
  • Patent number: 4037110
    Abstract: An X-ray phosphor composition consisting essentially of a material having the formula(Y.sub.1.sub.-x In.sub.x PO.sub.4)wherein X has a value of from about 0.005 to about 0.2, emits in the area of the spectrum of from about 300 to about 460 nanometers when excited by X-rays. A method of preparing the phosphor composition and an X-ray intensifying screen containing the same are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Francis N. Shaffer, James E. Mathers
  • Patent number: 4032875
    Abstract: Circuit breaker having a trip arm which is released during tripping of the breaker under overcurrent conditions. One end of a contact opening arm is pivotally mounted on the trip arm. When the trip arm is released, the trip arm also contacts the other end of the contact opening arm forcing it against the contact carrier which supports the movable contact thereby opening the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: Caribe Circuit Breaker Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Harold E. Belttary
  • Patent number: 4032791
    Abstract: A fluorescent screen is disclosed which comprises a plastic film support layer, a reflectance layer of vacuum-deposited aluminum on said support layer, and a layer of fluorescent material dispersed in an organic polymeric binder located on said reflectance layer. A method for making the above screen is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Vincent Chiola, Sixdeniel Faria
  • Patent number: 4031614
    Abstract: The invention concerns the manufacture of two-piece electrical contacts. The contacts produced by the present invention are adapted for electrically interconnecting an electrical wire with either a male pin or a female contact. The invention as described features a pair of forming steps to form each of the pieces and a step to join said pieces at the desired location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Richard Earl Gipe
  • Patent number: 4030790
    Abstract: A process for fabricating lenses for use in manufacturing cathode ray tube screen structure wherein a matrix of data points is selected on the viewing screen of the cathode ray tube and a light source is positionally located at each of the data points by optical scanning exposure apparatus. The location information for each of the data points is recorded and a cathode ray tube is constructed having the screen structure fabricated in accordance with the recorded light source location information. Error between the light source location information and electron beam landing of the cathode ray tube is measured and the error measurements are utilized to correct the light source location information which is then submitted to a lens design program to furnish lens manufacturing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: G. Norman Williams, Thomas W. Schultz
  • Patent number: 4029988
    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 constructions in the assembly incorporates discrete electrode structural modifications 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: June 14, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Donald L. Say
  • Patent number: 4030126
    Abstract: An improved CRT beam adjustment device is provided for exterior orientation on the neck of the tube. The device includes a plurality of rotatably adjustable annulate magnetic members sequentially positioned on a support sleeve, one end thereof being formed to have a plurality of tongue-like extensions, each having a terminal protuberance extending radially outward therefrom. Each protuberance has a surface facing the annulate member that is downward sloping toward the body of the sleeve. An adjustable ring clamp is positioned to ride on the slanted surface of the protuberance and abut the adjacent magnetic members, thereby providing by one adjustment, pressure to positionally lock the adjusted members while simultaneously affixing the device to the neck of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Peter George Puhak
  • Patent number: 4028095
    Abstract: Free flowing powders, such as for flame spray applications, are produced by spray drying a slurry of finely divided particles of the metal in a solvent-binder system to produce agglomerates, wherein the binder is a soluble compound of the metal. These agglomerates possess sufficient green strength to be screened and exhibit higher apparent densities than comparable powders agglomerated with conventional organic binders. When these powders are heated in a reducing atmosphere above the decomposition temperature of the binder, the binder converts to base metal and harmless by-products, such as nitrogen and water thus avoiding contamination of the product, equipment and work area usually associated with conventional organic binders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: John M. Laferty, Jr., Joseph E. Ritsko, David J. Port
  • Patent number: 4028581
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube plural-beam-in-line bi-potential electron gun assembly, having applied beam currents of differing levels, manifests structurally modified gun structures to effect focused beam landings at the screen that are evidenced as substantially equi-sized spots thereby providing improved resolution and brightness of the screen imagery. The structural changes embody modifications of the related focusing and accelerator electrodes of the respective guns to provide a partial telescoping arrangement for effecting the discrete placement, forming and shielding of the final focusing lenses. The three lenses so formed are in different planes in partial overlapping axial relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael G. Stratton
  • Patent number: 4027252
    Abstract: A tuning voltage circuit for providing a tuning voltage which is corrected by an automatic frequency control error voltage for application to a voltage controlled radio frequency tuning means for a television receiver is shown. The voltage controlled radio frequency tuning means has a non-linear frequency versus tuning voltage characteristic which causes the sensitivity of the tuning means to the error voltage to vary over the frequency range of interest. The tuning voltage circuit includes a high impedance tuning voltage source which provides sensitivity compensation for the automatic frequency control error voltage to compensate for variations of the automatic frequency control pull-in range in the frequency range of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Rangaswamy Arumugham
  • Patent number: 4026627
    Abstract: An improved electrical contact including an angular engagement arm for slidably engaging a conductive surface, said arm including a noble metal segment thereon for electrically contacting said surface and means for preventing transfer of material from the arm onto the noble segment. The improvement resides within the material transfer prevention means wherein said means comprises at least one elongated blade having at least one edge thereon, said blade formed so that only the edge slidably engages the conductive surface prior to said noble metal segment contacting said surface. The contact is ideally suited for use within a printed circuit board connector, said connector also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: John Eugene Benasutti
  • Patent number: 4027270
    Abstract: A high efficiency linear amplifier which operates in a class AB mode so long as the output potential is less than a first potential source and switches to a second potential source and output electron device when the output potential exceeds the magnitude of the first potential source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Ira Jay Pitel
  • Patent number: 4025150
    Abstract: An equipment housing for a communication system such as a community antenna television system wherein signals are coupled via a coaxial cable is shown. The coaxial cable can be attached to alternative ports of the equipment housing. A connector with first and second intersecting bores is retained in the housing in a position to receive the center conductor of the coaxial cable through either of the first and second ports. A threaded set-screw inserted in a third bore of the connector secures the center conductor in either of the first and second bores. A third port in the equipment housing provides access to the set-screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Svein T. Nordberg, Donald R. Shaner
  • Patent number: 4025951
    Abstract: A vertical synchronizing circuit wherein a counter counts pulses at twice the horizontal deflection rate and provides a vertical output pulse at a predetermined count is shown. A synchronism or mode detector causes the circuit to switch to a driven mode when the counter is not reset in synchronism with the vertical synchronizing pulses. The mode detector causes the circuit to switch to a countdown mode when synchronism is detected. A phase detector detects phase errors between the counter and the vertical synchronizing pulses when the circuit is in the countdown mode and causes the counter to delete or add counts depending upon the direction of the phase error when such phase errors persist for a predetermined number of vertical fields. The vertical synchronizing pulses are applied to a gate which is enabled in the countdown mode when the counter reaches a predetermined count shortly before a vertical synchronizing pulse is anticipated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert R. Eckenbrecht
  • Patent number: 4025462
    Abstract: A ceramic cellular structure having a cell density of up to 1600 cells per square inch and wall thicknesses down to 2 mils is produced by a process which comprises: (1) forming a slurry consisting essentially of finely divided sinterable solid particles of ceramic raw materials and a controlled amount of a plastic supporting matrix containing thermoplastic resin, a thermosetting resin, a plasticizer, an organic solvent and a small amount of a deflocculant; (2) ball milling the slurry; (3) casting the slurry in the form of a film; (4) removing the solvent to produce a self-supporting green ceramic tape; (6) molding a portion of the tape to form a corrugated first member; (7) providing another portion of the tape to form a substantially flat second member; (8) forming a first bilayer by bonding the second member to the nodes of the first member; (9) mutually bonding a predetermined number of bilayers substantially identical to the first bilayer to form a cellular green structure of a desired shape; and (10) fir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Joseph J. Cleveland
  • Patent number: 4025952
    Abstract: A vertical synchronizing circuit wherein noise pulses or signals which may accompany vertical synchronizing pulses are locked out for a predetermined time subsequent to the receipt of a vertical synchronizing pulse is shown. A counter counts pulses at the horizontal or line deflection rate. At a particular count of the counter the vertical synchronizing circuit is conditioned for receipt of a vertical synchronizing pulse. Subsequent to the receipt of a vertical synchronizing pulse, the vertical synchronizing circuit is conditioned to be unresponsive to any received pulses until the counter again counts to the predetermined count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert R. Eckenbrecht
  • Patent number: 4025334
    Abstract: Tungsten carbide-cobalt agglomerated flame spray powder is produced by spray drying a slurry of particles in an aqueous cobalt nitrate solution. The agglomerates are classified according to size and the out-of-size agglomerates are recycled. The classified agglomerates are heated in flowing hydrogen, to reduce the nitrate to cobalt metal, and then sintered to strengthen the agglomerates for subsequent flame spraying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Frank Cheney, William Daniel Lafferty, George Jacob Long
  • Patent number: 4023891
    Abstract: An adjustable two-axis lockable vibration resistant mirror mount assembly with an accuracy of approximately two arc seconds features separately adjustable inner and outer coaxial gimbals having locks which clamp the gimbals in the adjusted position without altering that position. An adjusting screw for each gimbal is mounted on the frame and abuts the respective gimbal offset from its pivotal axis. Diagonally opposed pairs of U-shaped locking clips mounted on the outer gimbal straddle bosses on adjacent parts of the frame and inner gimbal, respectively, and are moved tightly against the bosses in directions parallel to the respective gimbal axes by locking screws to secure the gimbals in relatively fixed positions. After locking, the adjusting screws may be removed from the assembly. The center of the reflective mirror surface lies at the intersection of mutually perpendicular pivot axes with the normal to the mirror surface at its center substantially perpendicular to the pivot axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: Curt H. Chadwick
  • Patent number: 4023155
    Abstract: An active ultrasonic perimeter intrusion detection system comprises an elongated flexible electret tape capable of being stored on and deployed from a reel or the like and connectable when deployed to a signal generator operating at ultrasonic frequencies and to a receiver having a signal processing and alarm capability. The tape comprises an electret layer sandwiched between relatively fixed and movable conductive strips and lies flat on a surface adjacent to the area to be protected such as the walls or ceiling of a room or the perimeter of a ground area. The movable stip produces a substantially undirectional ultrasonic beam outwardly from the tape and along its length so as to illuminate objects that cross over the tape. This causes a reflection of the ultrasonic signal and doppler shifting of its frequency which is detected by the tape, the output of which passes to the receiver for indicating the intrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1977
    Assignee: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
    Inventor: G. Kirby Miller