Patents by Inventor Ronnie Lewis Hilliard

Ronnie Lewis Hilliard 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: 6628383
    Abstract: The Ebert-type mounting is modified for use as a multiorder spectrograph, by replacing the spherical primary mirror of the Ebert with a paraboloidal mirror to eliminate the astigmatism and spherical aberration of the Ebert mounting, and by replacing the Ebert's rotating plane grating, normally blazed for use in the first order, with a fixed low-blaze-angle grating blazed at a longer wavelength such that the radiation at the shorter wavelengths, for which the grating will be used, will be most efficiently dispersed into a multiplicity of higher spectral orders. In a preferred embodiment of this invention, these spectral orders are separated using a twice-through cross-dispersing prism mounted near the grating surface, with the grating and prism mounted and aligned together in a crossed-dispersion assembly that is interchangeable with other crossed-dispersion assemblies containing other grating and prism combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Inventor: Ronnie Lewis Hilliard