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Fiber optics apparatus and method for accurate current sensing
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1999-11-16)
The fiber optics sensor includes a polarization maintaining optic fiber forming an optical loop, and a sensing medium coupled to the optic fiber and disposed generally midway in the optical loop. First and second quarter ...
Flame jet impingement heat transfer system and method of operation using radial jet reattachment flames
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1999-12-28)
A system for transferring heat to an impingement surface includes a first radial jet reattachment combustion nozzle operable to direct a flame toward the impingement surface and comprising a central longitudinal axis. The ...
Method and system for estimating the tenderness of a meat product
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1999-12-14)
A method for estimating the tenderness of a meat product is provided. The method includes determining the stress relaxation coefficient of a meat sample. One or more physical parameters of the meat sample are then determined ...
Open loop signal processing circuit and method for a fiber optic interferometric sensor
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1999-11-02)
A signal processing circuit (10) for a fiber optic sensor (12) includes a d.c. block (14) coupled to the fiber optic sensor (12) for removing d.c. components from the fiber optic sensor output signal, and a low pass filter ...
Guardrail extruder terminal
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1992-01-07)
A guardrail extruder terminal for flattening a folded or W-beam guardrail and bending the guardrail to dissipate the energy of a vehicle impacting the end of the guardrail includes a feeder chute. The feeder chute is ...
Method and apparatus for vapor compression refrigeration and air conditioning using liquid recycle
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1992-03-24)
A high efficiency evaporative intercooler/compressor assembly in which compressed refrigerant vapors are desuperheated by the introduction of a selected liquid refrigerant is disclosed. Additionally, the present invention ...
Gate adjusted resonant tunnel diode device and method of manufacture
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1992-03-03)
A gated resonant tunneling diode has a semiconductor mesa formed on a semiconductor substrate, a tunneling barrier layer between the mesa and the substrate, and a gate layered over the substrate about the mesa and aligned ...
Superconducting coil and method of stress management in a superconducting coil
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1999-12-14)
A superconducting coil (12) having a plurality of superconducting layers (18) is provided. Each superconducting layer (18) may have at least one superconducting element (20) which produces an operational load. An outer ...
Protein foods and food ingredients and processes for producing them from defatted and undefatted oilseeds
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1992-02-04)
True oilseed protein curd products are produced from defatted and undefatted oilseeds and oilseed materials without inherent undesirable components responsible for poor taste, odor and color. The curds are produced through ...
Use of baculovirus early promoters for expression of foreign genes in stably transformed insect cells
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1991-12-31)
The present invention provides an alternative strategy for baculovirus-mediated foreign gene expression: the promoters from immediate-early or delayed-early baculovirus viral genes were used to obtain the continuous ...