Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage assembly, a further portion that attaches with the fuselage assembly, and a propulsion assembly coupled with the further portion. The propulsion assembly is constructed and arranged to provide propulsion for the UAV. The fuselage assembly includes a fuselage body constructed and arranged to operate as a forward portion of the UAV, lateral stringers coupled with the fuselage body and extending laterally along the fuselage body, and a set of interchangeable covers to cover at least a portion of a payload bay opening defined by the fuselage body. Utilizing such a fuselage assembly offers a highly configurable mounting architecture to accommodate a wide variety of payloads.

Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage assembly, a further portion that attaches with the fuselage assembly, and a propulsion assembly coupled with the further portion. The propulsion assembly is constructed and arranged to provide propulsion for the UAV. The fuselage assembly includes a fuselage body constructed and arranged to operate as a forward portion of the UAV, lateral stringers coupled with the fuselage body and extending laterally along the fuselage body, and a set of interchangeable covers to cover at least a portion of a payload bay opening defined by the fuselage body. Utilizing such a fuselage assembly offers a highly configurable mounting architecture to accommodate a wide variety of payloads.

Abstract: The “Holiday Light Looper” is intended for utility in the holiday ornamental string light market. There currently are no apparatus available for hands-free hanging and storage of ornamental string lights. The reverse fish hook design of the Holiday Light Looper allows the string lights to be draped around the lower loop for easy, tangle-free hanging, while the upper reverse loop is used to hang the string lights from a ladder, gutter, trouser belt loop and for storage. The total design, as seen in (FIG. 1.), allows both hands to be available for attaching the string lights to the house, tree or bushes.

Abstract: A pulsed turbine rotary engine comprising a fixed section, an output shaft, a plurality of nozzle openings, an air supply system, a fuel supply system, and an ignition system. The fixed section defines a plurality of intake openings each defining an intake axis. The output shaft is supported by the fixed section for rotation about a shaft axis. The nozzle housings are operatively connected to the output shaft for rotation about the shaft axis. Each nozzle housing defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with a nozzle inlet and a nozzle outlet defining a thrust axis. The air and fuel supply systems direct air and fuel through the intake openings. The ignition system comprises spark plugs for igniting fuel within the nozzle chambers.

Abstract: A TO-style plug-in package for MMICs and associated antenna structure is comprised of a microwave circuit component carrier having a generally cylindrically shaped conductive header upon which one or more MMICs are supported. An aperture through the header contains a conductor pin supported within a glass seal interface, so as to form a hermetically sealed matched impedance transmission line through the package. The conductor pin is connected to a bonding pad of a microwave circuit component on the header. A generally cylindrical conductive cover engages the header and encloses a cavity within which the microwave circuit components are supported. A microstrip antenna is supported on a dielectric layer overlying an outer surface of the conductive cover and is connected to a further conductor pin that extends through a glass-sealed aperture in the cover and forms a matched impedance transmission line from the antenna to the header.

Abstract: A TO can-style plug-in package employs a pin/glass interface. In a first embodiment the pin/glass seal interface has a center pin of reduced diameter embedded in a smaller outer diameter, lower dielectric constant glass than a conventional TO-can. The glass is surrounded by a metal ferrule. The metallic header through which the pin/glass interfaces extend is provided with a ridge adjacent to the end of a respective pin. This increase in thickness of the header surrounding each glass-embedded center pin provides a prescribed capacitive reactance component for compensating the inductive reactance of the interiorly extending segment of the center pin and any connecting lead through which the microwave integrated component is coupled to the pin. In a second embodiment, the thickness of insulator glass that surrounds the center conductor is less than the thickness of the header.