Patents by Inventor Charles E. Paras

Charles E. Paras has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4369811
    Abstract: A trim circuit for compensating for null offset of the jet stream in a flic transducer, such as an amplifier or jet deflection sensor, includes a flow bias control circuit and a supply sensitive difference flow control circuit. The flow bias control circuit supplies fluid pressure to a pair of symetrically disposed control channels at the input end of the transducer. This fluid pressure tends to decrease the amount of null offset of the jet stream from a central axis of the transducer which intersects a pair of symetrically disposed output channels. The supply sensitive difference flow control circuit removes the null offset remaining after correction by the flow bias control circuit. The supply sensitive difference flow control circuit may be disposed in one of the later stages of a cascaded fluidic amplifier chain or at the control inputs of a single stage transducer or amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1983
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Francis M. Manion, Charles E. Paras
  • Patent number: 4196626
    Abstract: The temperature sensors shown utilize a constant frequency fluidic oscillr to excite resonance tubes, whose frequency response is a function of temperature. The outputs of these sensors control a fluidic amplifier, whose output is rectified and filtered to produce a D.C. fluid signal which is a function of the sensed temperature. Different embodiments utilize resonance tubes excited in phase or 180.degree. out of phase to sense the difference between two temperatures or to provide increased sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1980
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Francis M. Manion, Tadeusz M. Drzewiecki, Richard M. Phillippi, Charles E. Paras