Patents Assigned to Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, as represented by The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Abstract: A device fop detecting liquid incendiaries contained in bottles comprises a flexible cradle, such as a sling of thin rubber sheet (2), mounted between two supports (4); two conductors arranged laterally on the cradle (6), each conductor having a large surface area to thickness ratio; and an electrical circuit including a power source and indication means to provide an indication of the dielectric properties of a bottle placed within the cradle.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 24, 1994
Date of Patent:
March 5, 1996
Assignee:
Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, as represented by the Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Abstract: Semiconductor crystalline materials, e.g. silicon, GaAs, are grown from a melt, e.g. using the Czochralski technique where a seed crystal is dipped into the melt then slowly withdrawn. Rotation of the growing crystal (6) is partly responsible for convective flows within the melt (5). Convective flows are reduced while radial uniformity is improved by subjecting the crystal/melt interface to a shaped magnetic field. This magnetic field is rotationally symmetrical about the axis of crystal rotation, with a component of field parallel to this axis that is less than 500 gauss, preferably less than 200 gauss, with a value above 500 gauss at other parts of the melt. The field may be produced by two superconducting magnet coils (21, 22) spaced apart and arranged co-axially with the axis of crystal rotation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 12, 1990
Date of Patent:
September 27, 1994
Assignee:
Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, as represented by The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland