Patents Represented by Attorney R. F. Beers
  • Patent number: 4964040
    Abstract: The computer hardware executive is a special purpose associative processor hich interfaces to the memory bus of a digital computer to provide high-speed execution of executive functions. These functions include task registration, task synchronization, normal, time-dependent and time-critical event registration and triggering, hierarchical event-to-semaphore translation, and buffer allocation. The programmer invokes an executive function by accessing the address in the hose computer address space dedicated to that function. The data written to or read from that address is the function operated or result, respectively. The hardware executive maintains task and event tables internally within its associative memory. The memory is organized such that the same field bit position of all table entries is accessed in parallel within a microinstruction cycle. Searches are performed by sequencing through the bit positions of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Dwight R. Wilcox
  • Patent number: 4721836
    Abstract: An improved apparatus for annealing an ion-implanted semiconductor sample duces the deleterious side effects otherwise associated with the process. A semiconductor sample, fabricated, for example, from indium phosphide or gallium arsenide, is set upon the fingers of a carrier which is displaced to the interior of an elongate furnace having its internal temperature maintained at the proper annealing temperature. Next, the fingers are rotated and the sample is placed on a number of razor blade-like edges extending up from an internal rack. The carrier is withdrawn and the sample is quickly brought to the annealing temperature for the precise period of time usually no more than 20 seconds. After the exact annealing period, the carrier is reintroduced and the fingers are rotated to lift the sample from the rack and the sample is withdrawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Carl R. Zeisse, Edward R. Schumacher
  • Patent number: 4717256
    Abstract: In a fiber optic rate sensor employing a Sagnac ring circuit wherein an ocal source launches an optical signal which is divided into two equals signals which are coupled in opposite directions through a multi-turn fiber optic coil to provide two counter-propagating optical signals. The two counter-propagating optical signals are coupled to a photodetector after passing through the multiturn fiber coil. The signals detected at the photodetector have traversed identical optical paths between said source and said photodetector and have undergone a Sagnac phase shift directly related to the rate of rotation of the fiber coil about its axis in inertial space. The two counterpropagating signals are phase modulated by a phase modulator at one end of the fiber optic coil and the output of the photodetector undergoes signal processing in a signal processor to produce a rate output directly related to the rate of rotation of the fiber coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Donald Ensley, Hiroshi Satake
  • Patent number: 4717862
    Abstract: A pulsed illuminator projector for reducing the reverberation levels of rected ligh by illuminating a lamp that is pulsed on and off at a specified rate and for a specified time duration. The critical factor is controlling the amount of time the light is on versus amount of time it is off, and the frequency at which the lamp is pulsed on. The pulsed illumination projector device reduces the amount of backscatter from particulate matter such as water, zooplankton, dust, fog and the like which causes a significant amount of light to reflect back toward the source thereby reducing visibility. Backscatter is reduced through the reduction of direct incident light. As the backscatter is reduced, the distance which objects can be detected is increased. Illumination is controlled directly by pulse length and repetition rate. The device is completely portable and can be hand held item as well as mounted on a vehicle and operable in gaseous or liquid atmospheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: The United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: William B. Anderson
  • Patent number: 4704925
    Abstract: Apparatus for stripping insulation from electrical cables which has two osing clamp assemblies, a front assembly which is fixed to a housing box and a movable rear clamp assembly which slides on guide rods. The rear clamp assembly is biased against the front clamp assembly to maintain both clamp assemblies in the open position. A cable in which the insulation is scored is inserted into the opposing clamp assemblies with the scored section being disposed between the two clamp assemblies. A pneumatic motor operates through a pulley and rope system to pull the rear movable clamp assembly away from the front clamp assembly allowing the clamps to close on the wire to be stripped. The insulation is stripped as the rear clamp assembly is pulled away from the front pulley while the wire is held by the front pulley assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Donald C. Sutton
  • Patent number: 4692769
    Abstract: A dual band microstrip antenna including a slotted microstrip radiating pllel to and spaced from a ground plane with dielectric material therebetween, the slotted microstrip radiating and having a first resonance corresponding to the dominant radiation mode that would occur in an unslotted microstrip and a second resonance created by the slot. The polarizations of the two resonances are perpendicular to each other with the slot resonance being polarized along the centerline of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Michael J. Gegan
  • Patent number: 4691209
    Abstract: A wideband antenna with reduced diameter and volume compared to prior art tennas and having non-critical dimensions resulting in ease of manufacture and tolerance to damage in portable applications and during installation. In one embodiment the antenna is comprised of a vertical element, a number of equally spaced, equal length horizontal elements in the form of a disc and a number of equally spaced, equal length round plane elements in the form of a cone. The vertical and horizontal elements are connected to the inner conductor of a coaxial transmission line and the conical elements are connected to the outer conductor transmission line. In a second embodiment of the present invention, the vertical element is deleted and a parallel inductor is connected between the transmission line outer and inner conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Joseph E. Kershaw
  • Patent number: 4671718
    Abstract: A fastener in which a captive bolt engages a cylindrical nut within a cylrical confining housing. The cylindrical nut has a longitudinal slot in which a pair of oppositely facing latches are disposed and which cooperate with the housing to prevent the rotation of the nut. Rotation of the captive bolt moves the cylindrical nut longitudinally within the housing and operates to extend the ends of the latches to engage a surface or to retract the ends of the latches to within the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: David M. Eakin
  • Patent number: 4666084
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly capable of controlling the hot exhaust gases which flow om the burning solid rocket propellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Ronald B. Mitchell, Frederick W. Du Vall
  • Patent number: 4662581
    Abstract: A method of pulse-width modulation for operating oppositely aligned thrus valves of an integrated valve assembly in an aerospace post-boost control system in which zero average thrust during a modulation period is provided by commanding the thruster valves to be simultaneously on for a selected portion of the modulation period and simultaneously off for the rest of the modulation period. Non-zero average thrust is provided by varying the simultaneous operation of the thruster valves established for zero average thrust by commanding an increased on-time for one thruster valve while commanding a correspondingly decreased on-time for the other thruster valve, the excursions in on-time and in off-time occurring around the zero-thrust turn-on time or the zero-thrust turn-off time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Edward J. Samario
  • Patent number: 4662580
    Abstract: A method for compensating for pre-reentry errors generated by the weapon ivery system to provide a reduced impact range error dispersion over that provided by a ballistic trajectory after reentry comprising maneuvering the reentry body after reentry so that the terminal flight direction is essentially in line with the line of means of the reentry body's position-error ellipse that exists just prior to reentry. The reentry body trajectory follows a sequence of a ballistic leg from reentry, a dive maneuver including an optional pullup leg and a pulldown leg to establish the required terminal direction, and a terminal ballistic leg to impact. The required maneuvering is accomplished by modulating the aerodynamic lift of the reentry body by controlling the reentry body's roll orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Robert L. Nelson
  • Patent number: 4659035
    Abstract: A method of providing an angular rate signal for attitude control in a mile flight control system by linearly mixing a derived rate signal generated from the measured attitude angle and a simulated rate signal generated from the measured nozzle angle. The derived rate is generated from the differentiation of missile attitude data and the simulated rate is generated by simulating the missile attitude dynamics based on the actual nozzle angle. The derived rate, which is filtered to remove the effects of quantization and noise is dominant at low frequencies. The simulated rate, which is filtered to block low frequencies, is dominant at higher frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: The United States as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Donald C. Clendenning
  • Patent number: 4658261
    Abstract: An antenna for providing a broadband omnidirectional circumferential radion pattern is formed by an array of arcuate waveguide radiators arranged to form a cylindrical antenna. Each waveguide radiator has a ridged waveguide cavity and a plurality of longitudinally-oriented slots communicating with the waveguide cavity. The slots are arranged in two parallel rows on either side of the longitudinal centerline in a staggered relationship along the outside surface of the radiator. Each radiator is fed from the interior of the cylindrical array at a feed point located at the center of the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Daniel G. Reid, C. Sterling Van Meter
  • Patent number: 4654103
    Abstract: A method of bonding propellant to the insulation in a motor chamber by use f an adhesive and powder granule layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: West F. Pehrson, Robert J. Baczuk
  • Patent number: H330
    Abstract: Apparatus for on-site testing of wrist straps or shoe straps of the type d to prevent the buildup of electrostatic charges on the body and clothing of a worker engaged in handling charge-sensitive electronic devices. The worker wearing a grounding strap connects the grounding strap to a terminal on the tester and touches a touch pad on the apparatus. The tester incorporates the resistance of the grounding strap and the worker wearing the strap into a voltage divider. If the incorporated resistance is within acceptable limits, an indicating lamp is lighted to show that the grounding strap is working properly. An indicating signal may also be coupled to a computer for automatic recordkeeping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Lawrence R. Burich, Thomas O. Balcer
  • Patent number: H408
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a filament wound chamber combining circular and helical winging configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Steven J. Sargent, Anthony L. Stephenson
  • Patent number: H866
    Abstract: Improved shaped charge assembly of relative lightweight and sealable consction and composed of nonmetallic and nonmagnetic materials that can be used for selectively destroying or disarming a variety of targets. The assembly is generally made up of casing means of tubular-like configuration, jet-forming linear means of conical shape and shaped charge body means. The liner means is interposed between the ends of the casing means where the charge body means is interposed between the casing means and the liner means at one end of the casing means. Depending upon the manner in which the assembly is to be used, at least the one end of the casing means is capped. Suitable plastic materials for use in the liner means have been found to be either polyethylene or polypropylene, having an ultra-high molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Ernest C. Faccini, Felipe A. Garcia
  • Patent number: H956
    Abstract: This invention is a mechanism for connecting a spiral antenna to a wavegu with very low transmission and reflection losses. The invention provides a smooth broadband transition from a spiral, balanced transmission line through a printed circuit fin-line transition and then to a waveguide TE.sub.10 E-plane transition and extends the use of spiral antennas to millimeter wave frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secreatry of the Navy
    Inventor: John Reindel
  • Patent number: H1235
    Abstract: Improved armor-piercing projectile of either caliber or saboted, subcaliber esign for effectively penetrating and destroying a fast moving, armored target. The improved projectile is generally comprised of a dome-shaped nose, a fragmentable hollow body of thimble-like configuration, and an integrated base-plug and fuse device. The hollow body is advantageously made up of a heavy metal, preferably either a tungsten alloy or depleted uranium, having a predetermined density of at least eleven grams per cubic centimeter (11.0 gm/cc). The interior of the hollow body is filled with a suitable high energy explosive material. The improved projectile, by reason of its hollow body, not only exhibits an improved ballistic coefficient as compared to previous projectile designs, but also maintains a substantially more uniform velocity throughout its effective range so as to strike a target in shorter time and with greater momentum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Michael C. Canaday
  • Patent number: H1533
    Abstract: A method of recovering an underwater object wherein a beluga whale wears a ackpack harness, beaches into a boat with beaching capabilities and is transported to an area of work. The beluga whale is trained to then follow small boats, carry attachment hardware using a bite plate connected to the hardware, carry tow lines and buoyancy modules from the surface, dive and then locate and deploy the attachment hardware onto the non-pingered target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Clark A. Bowers, Donald Miller