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Capactive power circuit
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-12-22)
A circuit for controlling power to a capacitive load includes a DC power source coupled in series with an inductor and the capacitive load. The inductor provides for resonant charging of the capacitive load from the DC ...
Collision performance side impact (automobile penetration guard)
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-08-11)
Apparatus and methods are described for preventing the penetration of vehicles by narrow objects such as guardrail ends or portions of a guardrail end treatment during a collision. In one embodiment, portions of an ET-2000 ...
Expansion clamp
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-01-27)
An expandable clamp of the type that is used within a channel to compress a planar member within that channel against a wall of that channel. The clamp has an expandable bladder of an elongated cylindrical shape and a valve ...
Process for forming self-assembled polymer layers on a metal surface
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-03-17)
A new process is provided for the formation of self assembled polymer layers on a pretreated metallic substrate. The polymers used for forming such self assembled layers are homo, co and terpolymers of styrene and styrenic ...
Modulated pressure damper seal
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-01-13)
A damper seal (310) and method of sealing and damping a rotating shaft (312) are disclosed. The damper seal (310) includes a stator housing (314), a plurality of cavities (C1, C2, C3, C4), a first sealing blade (316) for ...
Potyvirus vectors for the expression of foreign genes
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-06-16)
The present invention provides an expression vector adapted for expressing heterologous proteins in plants susceptible to a polyprotein-producing plant virus. The vector utilizes the unique ability of viral polyprotein ...
Layered vanadium oxide compositions
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-02-10)
A number of layered vanadium oxide crystalline compositions are prepared by simple hydrothermal reactions. Generally, the compositions comprise parallel layers of mixed valence vanadium oxides with guest cations intercalated ...
Decorin binding protein compositions and methods of use
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-12-29)
Disclosed are the dbp gene and dbp-derived nucleic acid segments from Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of Lyme disease, and DNA segments encoding dbp from related borrelias. Also disclosed are decorin binding ...
Ion source for compact mass spectrometer and method of mass analyzing a sample
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-12-22)
A mass spectrometer 20 includes an electron multiplier 30 for producing an electron avalanche 58 directed toward an ionization region 38. A sample 40 enters the ionization region 38 through a sample inlet 68. In the ...
Method of inhibiting mycotoxin production in seed crops by modifying lipoxygenase pathway genes
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998-12-01)
A method of inhibiting the production of mycotoxins of fungus, such as aflatoxin-producing and sterigmatocystin-producing fungi, in plants susceptible to contamination by such mycotoxins consists of introducing into the ...