Abstract: The ram air parachute has restrictions on the inlets to the cells to reduce drag during flight and to reduce opening forces. The restrictions include triangular sections blocking portions of the inlets. The triangular sections may be positioned at loaded and non-loaded ribs. Furthermore, the triangular sections are dimensioned to tension the top skin between the loaded ribs and non-loaded ribs to preserve an aerodynamic shape during flight without cross-bracing. The loaded ribs may be shortened to create a zig-zag pattern at the front edge of the bottom skin for improved deployment with reduce drag during flight.

Abstract: Network delay is determined in order to synchronize a clock in a mobile station with a reference clock. Tone are generated that represent a sequence of bits in a synchronization flag. The tones are sampled beginning at a selected sample start time. The sampled tones are demodulated to identify the bit values in the synchronization flag. The demodulator is synchronized with the sampled tones in the synchronization flag by shifting the sample start time until the samples generate an optimum synchronization value. A reference time is then identified according to the optimum sample start time.

Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH5D6, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH5D6, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH5D6 with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH5D6 with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH5D6, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH5D6 and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.

Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH3GK, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH3GK, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH3GK with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH3GK with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH3GK and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.

Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH1NF, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH1NF, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH1NF with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH1NF with another maize line or plant.

Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH3GR, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH3GR, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH3GR with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH3GR with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH3GR and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.

Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH03D, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH03D, methods for producing a maize plant produced by crossing the inbred line PH03D with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH03D with another maize line or plant.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a hybrid maize plant, designated as 32H39, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. This invention relates to the hybrid seed 32H39, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications of hybrid 32H39.

Abstract: A fiber optic sign and method of making the same are disclosed. A plurality of fibers are arranged to form a design, preferably by a template, and are then bonded together into a block of glue, epoxy, rubber, or other castable liquid. Arrangement of the fibers is accomplished by placing them on a template and vibrating them until they fall through holes in the template.

Abstract: An improved design and method and of manufacturing a luminous tube electrode comprises the steps of placing an electrode shell in an outer tube and allowing conductors connected to the electrode shell to emanate from an open end of the outer tube. A tubulation with a flared end is then butted up against the end of the outer tube, thereby sandwiching the conductors between the flared end of the tubulation and the outer tube. The flared end of the tubulation are then fused to one another forming a hermetic seal between each other and the conductors, resulting in the finished electrode. A further provision is made to blow a bubble in the tubulation.

Abstract: An improved design and method and of manufacturing a luminous tube electrode comprises the steps of placing an electrode shell in an outer tube and allowing conductors connected to the electrode shell to emanate from an open end of the outer tube. A tubulation with a flared end is then butted up against the end of the outer tube, thereby sandwiching the conductors between the flared end of the tubulation and the outer tube. The flared end of the tubulation are then fused to one another forming a hermetic seal between each other and the conductors, resulting in the finished electrode. A further provision is made to blow a bubble in the tubulation.