Abstract: A torque calibrator which has a pair of torque beams with hydraulic cylins for exerting forces on opposite ends of the torque beams and with load cells mounted at opposite ends of the beams for measuring the forces applied to the beams with the beams being designed for a torque cell to be mounted between the beams for having torque applied to the torque cell to calibrate the torque cell.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 2, 1988
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
Abstract: A perforated plate-spacer ring type of crossflow heat exchanger adapted for improved cryogenic operation. Plastic spacer rings have been eliminated and replaced by metallic spacer rings whose convoluted cross section provides good thermal isolation between adjacent perforated plates.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 22, 1988
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
Inventors:
Robert W. Breckenridge, Thomas P. Hosmer
Abstract: A process for making uranium metal from uranium oxide by first fluorinating uranium oxide to form uranium tetrafluoride and next electrolytically reducing the uranium tetrafluoride with a carbon anode to form uranium metal and CF.sub.4. The CF.sub.4 is reused in the fluorination reaction rather than being disposed of as a hazardous waste.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 6, 1989
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
Abstract: A composition and method for fixation or immobilization of aqueous hazardous waste material in cement-based materials (grout) is disclosed. The amount of drainable water in the cured grout is reduced by the addition of an ionic aluminum compound to either the waste material or the mixture of waste material and dry-solid cement-based material. This reduction in drainable water in the cured grout obviates the need for large, expensive amounts of geling clays in grout materials and also results in improved consistency and properties of these cement-based waste disposal materials.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 1, 1987
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
Inventors:
Othar K. Tallent, Karen E. Dodson, Earl W. McDaniel
Abstract: A corrosion resistant structure for a sodium-sulfur cell is described which comprises a container structure for the sulfur cathode including an outer metallic container having an inner surface defining a volume for containing the cathode, a layer of glass on the inner surface of the container, and a current collector of metallic foil disposed within the container adjacent the glass layer for containing the cathode. A preferred embodiment includes stainless steel as the container material and molybdenum foil as the current collector material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 24, 1987
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
Abstract: In a process for producing a silver halide emulsion through mixing a halide solution and a silver nitrate solution in the presence of a hydrophilic colloid, the improvement is disclosed wherein any part of the equipment that is employed in the process starting with the initiation of silver halide formation and ending with the coating of the emulsion on a support and with which the reaction solution will come in contact is made of a stainless steel having a molybdenum content of 2.2-5.0 wt %.
Abstract: A probe head of substantially rectangular construction for use in the testing of chips. The probe head has a body disposed about the perimeter of a substantially transparent fused silica window, probe points extending in a high-density fixed configuration through the fused silica window, and probe leads at one end of which the probe points are formed. The probe leads are disposed in a plurality of layers, such that interior surface, as well as perimeter, probing and testing of chips is facilitated. The probe head also includes a depth-limit plate extending over the edge of the fused silica window and connecting to the probe head body.
Abstract: A tuned cavity with a number of coaxial circuit microwave sources spaced about the cavity and disposed oppositely of the cavity from flat loads which suppress oscillations of the sources at undesired frequencies, the loads being adjacent to the cavity to provide wide bandwidth and a compact structure and yet spaced from the cavity a distance substantially less than the wavelengths of the operating frequencies so as to not interfere significantly with the electromagnetic fields in the cavity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 21, 1989
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
Abstract: A high voltage silicon device with a resistive field shield comprising semi-insulating silicon nitride (sin-SiN). The N/Si ratio is controlled to provide the resistive field shield with the desired conductivity. This resistive field shield material may also serve as an outer protection layer for the device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 19, 1987
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
Abstract: Insulating material is used to attach a conducting foil patch to conductive urface of motor case. The patch is a part of an open electrical circuit, along with a power source, timer and connecting wires until impact which causes the patch to collapse and come in contact with the motor surface, thus closing the circuit. When the circuit is closed and voltage is present, the timer records the time of impact and continues to count. A piezo-electric pin attached to motor case and connected to the timer creates voltage pulse upon detonation of motor case and this pulse stops the timer. Thus, accurate measurements of time lapse between impact and detonation can be made.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 13, 1989
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
Abstract: A new and distinct variety of apple tree is provided which originated as a limb mutation of the Tenroy variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,121). The new variety produces attractive fruit having a solid cherry red coloration unlike that of the Tenroy variety. More specifically, the new variety possesses a solid intense cherry red coloration with often indistinct darker red overstriping. The red coloration of the new variety is present over the entire surface of the fruit and develops earlier than the coloration of the Tenroy variety.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 24, 1988
Date of Patent:
August 1, 1989
Assignee:
Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Company
Abstract: An ornamental tetraploid flowering crabapple tree named Satin Cloud, having a ball-shaped, wide compact, billowy and rounded habit. Dark rose buds open to cinnamon fragrant satiny white blossoms with occasional pink tinging. Its waxy spring leaves are green with amber blushes, and the summer-long, disease resistant foliage is leathery and dark green. This low maintenance, closely internoded cultivar displays an autumn leaf color of burnt red, with gold leaves in the center shade part of the canopy.