Patents Assigned to Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.
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Patent number: 5223013Abstract: Fiber composites, particularly for imaging, easy to manufacture even with great cross-sectional area, in which fibers are in a peak-to-valley relation with abutting pairs of fibers throughout.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1991Date of Patent: June 29, 1993Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventors: Lee M. Cook, Danna A. Mancini, Susan M. Patterson
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Patent number: 5049176Abstract: Fiber composites, particularly for imaging, easy to manufacture even with great cross-sectional area, in which fibers are in a peak-to-valley relation with abutting pairs of fibers throughout.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1990Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventors: Lee M. Cook, Danna A. Mancini, Susan M. Patternson
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Patent number: 4988867Abstract: A simultaneous positive and negative ion detector including a microchannel plate having segments which are biased to attract positively and negatively charged particles.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1989Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Bruce N. Laprade
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Patent number: 4988868Abstract: An ion detector in which conversion dynode means are placed near a microchannel plate means for receiving and amplifying converted ions.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1989Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: John W. Gray
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Patent number: 4983551Abstract: Glass consisting essentially of, in weight percent:______________________________________ SiO.sub.2 30-35% PbO 50-57% Cs.sub.2 O 2-10% .SIGMA.MgO + CaO + SrO + BaO 0-5% .SIGMA.Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 + ZrO.sub.2 + TiO.sub.2 + Nb.sub.2 O.sub.5 0.1-1%, ______________________________________wherein the ratio of Si or Pb, expressed as the molar ratio of SiO.sub.2 to PbO, is 2.0-2.4, and channel electron multipliers made therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1988Date of Patent: January 8, 1991Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventors: W. Bruce Feller, Lee M. Cook
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Patent number: 4958079Abstract: Scanning electron microscopy apparatus employing a detector to detect emission of electrons resulting from the impingement of electrons of an electron beam on an object being viewed, the apparatus including an electron beam source providing the electron beam, a magnet providing a magnetic field to direct the electron beam to the object, a first microchannel plate having a first hole through it aligned with the electron beam, a first surface directed toward the electron beam source for receiving low energy electrons that have been emitted from the object and directed through the hole by the magnetic field, a second surface on the opposite side of side first microchannel plate for discharge of multiplied electrons, and a first anode facing the second surface, the first anode being positioned to collect electrons discharged from the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1989Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corps.Inventor: John W. Gray
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Patent number: 4950939Abstract: Channel electron multipliers, including microchannel plates, with alternating layers of deposited conductive and insulative material, the conductive material and insulative material having, at holes therethrough in registry, secondary emission coefficients respectively of greater than one and less than one.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1988Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4931688Abstract: A gas-filled triode with an anode, a cathode, and a control electrode therebetween having trigger and corona portions defining gaps respectively with the anode and cathode. The triode detects energy falling upon the cathode and produces an amplified output corresponding thereto through the anode gap.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1988Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4752688Abstract: An imaging tube in which an image, particularly in middle infrared, is guided onto a mosaic of electrically separate semiconductor elements, and in which energy then applied to the mosaic produces electrons with characteristics reflecting whether the portion of the mosaic from which they emanated had been struck by energy defining the image, the electrons produced then being gated in accordance with the characteristics; and in particular in which the mosaic is carried on a substrate through which the image is introduced to the tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1986Date of Patent: June 21, 1988Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4731538Abstract: An ion detector including a microchannel plate (MCP) with a hole through it provided along an undeflected trajectory of an ion beam, a faraday cup in position to receive ions passing through the hole, and a deflector to selectively deflect ions to multiplying channels of the MCP.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1986Date of Patent: March 15, 1988Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: John W. Gray
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Patent number: 4730141Abstract: An imaging tube particularly useful in providing a visible image corresponding to an incident infrared image in which a reflective photocathode is used to provide an electron image corresponding to the infrared image, and in which the incident image rays and the ultimate image rays move along different directions.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1986Date of Patent: March 8, 1988Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4714861Abstract: A microchannel plate with a plurality of microchannel portions, a portion in an amplifying direction from another portion having a lower surface zone resistance than the other, materials and circuitry being provided to permit controlled higher-temperature operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1986Date of Patent: December 22, 1987Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4701618Abstract: A middle-infrared image intensifier including an image-forming microchannel plate, a thermionic emissive membrane in front of the microchannel plate, and a lens system to form a middle-infrared image on the membrane, whereby electrons emitted from the membrane are multiplied in channels of the microchannel plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1985Date of Patent: October 20, 1987Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4636629Abstract: There is provided a device which will provide a trace or image or will store a trace or image. One microchannel plate in series with another selectively multiplies into the latter, which provides feedback into the former, selectively as permitted by suitable gates.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1985Date of Patent: January 13, 1987Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4608519Abstract: A middle-infrared image intensifier including an image-forming microchannel plate having an input face with a photoconductor material that is activated by middle-infrared radiation, means for flooding electrons to a region adjacent to the input face of the photoconductor, an electron sensitive light emitting screen positioned to receive electrons from the output face of the microchannel plate, and means for activating the microchannel plate to multiply electrons in channels of the microchannel plate having middle-infrared radiation incident thereon.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1984Date of Patent: August 26, 1986Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4598018Abstract: An electrical wire for use in high temperature applications made by providing refractory fibers that are larger than one micron in diameter and made of nonmetallic mineral material that has a melting point greater than 1200.degree. F., and applying the fibers and a binder to an electrically conductive core, to form an insulating coating around the core.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1984Date of Patent: July 1, 1986Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Clinton J. Beuscher
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Patent number: 4305643Abstract: An optical device for viewing a sample contained within a holder (e.g., pair of glass slides), featuring an array of lenses and a collimating plate for illuminating spaced-apart narrow areas of the sample, and another lenticular array and collimating plate for viewing the illuminated areas.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1979Date of Patent: December 15, 1981Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4278891Abstract: Distant radiation sources are imaged using a collimator having a multiplicity of portions, the transmissivities of the portions to radiation reaching the collimator from a given source being different from portion-to-portion for a given orientation of the collimator; these transmissivities are varied over time, and radiation passing through each portion is detected for successive values of its transmissivity.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1978Date of Patent: July 14, 1981Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4262207Abstract: In imaging apparatus comprising a slit collimator, means for imparting to the collimator a basic movement through a succession of different positions relative to a source of radiation, detector means for providing measurements of the radiation passing through the collimator in each of the positions, and means for processing data from the succession of measurements to gain information about the source, that improvement comprising means for superimposing upon the basic movement of the collimator a cyclic lateral movement of the collimator and the detector means transverse both to the direction of radiation transmission through the collimator and to the walls of the collimator defining the slits, and means for making a succession of such measurements during each cycle of the lateral movement.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1979Date of Patent: April 14, 1981Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventor: Christopher H. Tosswill
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Patent number: 4241360Abstract: A miniature thick-film hybrid voltage multiplier comprising a metallized ceramic substrate, silicon diodes, and wire bonded electrical connections. The ceramic metallization patterns provide the required capacitors, appropriate diode soldering areas, and most circuit connections. The remaining circuit connections are made by bonding wires to provide for either series or parallel multiplier circuit arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1978Date of Patent: December 23, 1980Assignee: Galileo Electro-Optics Corp.Inventors: John G. Hambor, James G. Bickel