Patents Assigned to The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's
Goverment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland
Abstract: An electroluminescent device (10) comprises a porous silicon region (22) adjacent a bulk silicon region (20), together with a top electrical contact (24) of transparent indium tin oxide and a bottom electrical contact (26) of aluminum. The device includes a heavily doped region (28) to provide an ohmic contact. The porous silicon region (22) is fabricated by anodizing through an ion-implanted surface layer of the bulk silicon. The silicon remains unannealed between the ion-implantation and anodization stages. The device (10) has a rectifying p-n junction within the porous silicon region (22).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 17, 1997
Date of Patent:
April 30, 2002
Assignee:
The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's
Goverment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland
Inventors:
Leigh Trevor Canham, Timothy Ingram Cox, Armando Loni, Andrew John Simons, Richard Simon Blacker
Abstract: A ferroelectric liquid crystal display comprises an addressable matrix of pixels, and addressing circuitry for selectively addressing each pixel in order to vary the transmission level of the pixel relative to the transmission levels of the other pixels. The addressing circuitry includes spatial and/or temporal dither circuits for addressing separately addressable subpixels with different spatial dither signals and/or for addressing each pixel or subpixel with different temporal dither signals in separate subframes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 15, 1997
Date of Patent:
July 25, 2000
Assignees:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Goverment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Inventors:
John Clifford Jones, Jonathan Rennie Hughes
Abstract: An antenna system for providing radiation over substantially 360.degree. in azimuth by illuminating a conical reflector with a radiation beam having a frequency distribution with a local minimum which is coincident with the point of the reflector thus avoiding scattering. Preferably the radiation intensity distribution is annular, most preferably being Laguerre-Gaussian in nature.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 27, 1998
Date of Patent:
July 4, 2000
Assignee:
The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Goverment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Abstract: 1,2 and 1,3-dinitrate esters are prepared from polyols containing 1,2- or 1,3-diol fragments using an alkyl or aryl boronic acid to form a cyclic boronate ester derivative which is then reacted with dinitrogen pentoxide to directly generate the dinitrate ester. In the cyclic ester from the 1,2- or 1,3-hydroxyl groups are protected and other reactions may then be carried out on other parts of the molecule of which the fragment form a part, leaving the dinitrate ester to be produced subsequently in the final step. High yields are obtained at both stages.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 1999
Date of Patent:
June 6, 2000
Assignee:
The Secretary of State for Defence in her Britannic Majesty's Goverment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Abstract: An electro-optical detection system for detecting objects embedded in a partially transmitting medium. The system includes a receiver for receiving electromagnetic radiation and a device for separating the received radiation into two separate spectral channels. A detector in each of the spectral channels for providing a signal indicative of the received radiation in each spectral channel. A signal processor, responsive to the outputs of the detectors, having a signal channel where transmission of light of the signal channel wavelength in the medium is high and having a reference channel where attenuation of light of the reference channel wavelength in the medium is high. The signal processor ensures that the reflected light at both signal and reference wavelengths are of similar intensity and geometric distribution. A subtractor provides a difference output in which the signal and reference channels are subtracted, removing the effect of reflected light.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 9, 1989
Date of Patent:
March 9, 1999
Assignee:
The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Goverment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Abstract: A relatively fast process for producing HNS from trinitrotoluene (TNT) in high yield consists of oxidizing TNT with an oxidizing transition metal compound within a polar aprotic solvent having a weak base, such as an alkali metal carboxylate, dissolved therein. The amount of transition metal compound used is typically at least one mole per mole of TNT. An especially preferred transition metal compound for use in the present process is cupric chloride.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 4, 1990
Date of Patent:
June 11, 1991
Assignee:
The Secretary of State for Defence in her Britannic Majesty's Goverment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Inventors:
Peter Golding, Asoka M. Jayaweera-Bandara, Henry Duffin