Abstract: Mutual coupling between radiative elements (210, FIG. 2) in a phased array antenna (110, FIG. 1) is employed to extend the effective aperture dimension of a radiative element. Mutual coupling is used to force selected modal resonances to occur in the radiative elements (210). The forced modal resonances create zeroes of transmission which are employed to improve the roll-off characteristics of the radiative element's radiation pattern.

Abstract: A portable grill easily carried as components, which may be stacked as generally flat parts, to be carried in a compact container, and may be easily assembled without tools and used in various modes. Upper and lower reflectors which are flat rectangular parts when disassembled, are flexed and held in arcuate shapes upon assembly, to form the cooker lid and body, respectively, by rods that engage the edges of the reflectors and mount in holes in the legs. After use, the cooker may be disassembled and transported again. By installing, removing and substituting various parts, the cooking unit may be used as, for example, a grill, a baker, a boiler, a smoker, a steamer, a deep fryer and the like. Provision is made for propane as well as charcoal, wood and other consumable fuels.

Abstract: A switch (10) having a beam-forming network (12) generates independently steerable beams (26). One or more of the independently steerable beams couple in radiating communication with selected ones of M beam ports (18). A feeder array (11) or second beam-former (13) provides signals to radiating elements 19 to form multiple antenna beams for communication.

Abstract: A metallized uniaxially heat-shrinkable, biaxially oriented, multilayer film having a polypropylene-containing core layer comprising at least 70 wt. % of said multilayer film and at least one polyolefin-containing skin layer adjacent said core layer is prepared by biaxially orienting a coextrudate and thereafter orienting said coextrudate by stretching 10 to 40% in the machine direction. The core layer contains isotactic polypropylene and a modifier which reduces the crystallinity of the polypropylene by increasing chain imperfections or reducing isotacticity of the polypropylene-containing core. Such modifiers can be selected from the group consisting of atactic polypropylene, syndiotactic polypropylene, ethylene-propylene copolymer, propylene-butene-1 copolymer, ethylene-propylene-butene-1 terpolymer, and linear low density polyethylene. The skin layer can be high density polyethylene or ethylene-propylene-butene-1 terpolymer.

Abstract: A binder polymer is a styrene/maleic anhydride copolymer in which the maleic anhydride residues are mono-esterified to between about 50 and about 65 mole percent of an alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl, alkaryl, or arylalkyl alcohol having a molecular weight greater than 100, to between about 15 and about 50 mole percent of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 -alkyl alcohol, and to at least about 80 mole percent total. The polymer has between about 45 and about 65 mole percent styrene residues and between about 35 and about 55 mole percent maleic anhydride residues, a weight average molecular weight of between about 80,000 and about 200,000, and an acid number of between about 170 and about 220.

Abstract: A dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having on the front side thereof, in order, a biaxially-oriented composite film laminated thereto and a dye image-receiving layer, the composite film comprising a microvoided thermoplastic core layer and at least one substantially void-free thermoplastic surface layer, the support having on the back side thereof, in order, a biaxially-oriented film laminated thereto, a subbing layer and an antistatic layer, the subbing layer comprising an acrylic monomer, an acrylic homopolymer, an acrylic copolymer, a mixture of polyethylenes and a copolymer or terpolymer of polypropylene, or polypropylene having at least 0.1 g/m.sup.2 of titanium dioxide, the ratio of thickness of the back side film to the composite film being from about 0.45 to about 1.0.

Abstract: A photoimageable composition, useful as a photoresist for forming a printed circuit board, is both alkaline aqueous developable but, subsequent to exposure and development, is processable in highly alkaline environments, such as additive plating baths and ammoniacal etchants. The photoimageable composition comprises A) between about 25 and about 75 wt % of a binder polymer, B) between about 20 and about 60 wt % of a photopolymerizeable material which is a multifunctional photopolymerizeable monomer or short chain oligomer, and C) between about 2 and about 20 wt % of a photoinitiator chemical system, the weight percentages being based on the total weight of components A)-C).

Abstract: A technique is disclosed for restoring the orthogonality of dual polarized signals in frequency reuse communications systems. The technique may be characterized as polarization coding at the transmitter and polarization decoding at the receiver. Coding and decoding is accomplished solely by means of phase shifters and sum and difference networks which are lossless in the dissipative sense. The required phase shifts are determined by defining the transmission media in terms of a transmission matrix. All depolarization effects including those attributable to antennas, feeds and media are lumped into this matrix. The transmission matrix may be determined empirically, and the phase shifts fixed for a given transmission media.