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| Patent No. | Title/ Description |
Inventor/Organization/ Phone No. |
Date of Patent |
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| 6,470,730 | Dry transfer method for the preparation of explosives test samples | Robert T. Chamberlain, Transportation Security Laboratory, FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 08405 | October 29, 2002 |
| A method of preparing samples for testing explosives and drug detectors of the type that search for particles in air. | |||
| 6,467,950 | Device and Method to Measure Mass Loss Rate of an Electrically Heated Sample | Robert A. Filipczak, Airport and Aircraft Safety R&D Division, Fire Safety R&D Branch, AAR-440, (609) 485-4529 | October 22, 2002 |
| A device and a method for measuring the mass loss rate of a sample of combustible material placed on a mass-sensitive platform. | |||
| 6,464,391 | Heat Release Rate Calorimeter for Milligram Samples | Richard E. Lyon, Airport and Aircraft Safety R&D Division, Fire Safety R&D Branch, AAR-440, (609) 485-6076 | October 15, 2002 |
| A calorimeter that measures heat release rates of very small samples (on the order of one to 10 milligrams) without the need to separately and simultaneously measure the mass loss rate of the sample and the heat of combustion of the fuel gases produced during the fuel generation process. | |||
| 6,116,049 | Adiabatic Expansion Nozzle |
Robert A. Filipczak, Airport and Aircraft Safety R&D Division, Fire Safety R&D Branch, AAR-440, (609) 485-4529 | September 12, 2000 |
| A nozzle for producing a continuous gas/solid or gas/aerosol stream from a liquid having a high room temperature vapor pressure. | |||
| 5,983,945 | Wing Tank Liner | Robert F. Salmon | November 16, 1999 |
| A liner for aircraft fuel tanks which limits the amount of fuel that can be spilled in the event of a crash. | |||
| 5,981,290 | Microscale Combustion Calorimeter | Richard E. Lyon; Richard N. Walters, Airport and Aircraft Safety R&D Division, Fire Safety R&D Branch, AAR-440, (609) 485-6076; (609) 485-4328 | November 9, 1999 |
| A calorimeter for measuring flammability parameters of materials using only milligram sample quantities. | |||
| 5,697,580 | Infant Transporting Means for Airplanes | John W. Reinhardt, Airport and Aircraft Safety R&D Division, Airport Technology R&D Branch, AAR-410, (609) 485-5034 | December 16, 1997 |
| A means for transporting an infant on an airplane wherein the infant is placed in an infant supporting device or carrier which is then placed in a modified overhead bin. | |||
| 5,528,522 | Portable Radar or Beacon Emulator | Vincent J. Delguercio, Office of Innovations and Solutions, Maintenance Services, ACB-710, (609) 485-7735 | June 18, 1996 |
| An emulator for a radar set which utilizes a conventional personal computer rather than specialized equipment. | |||
| 5,312,072 | Minimum Area Smoke Evacuation Nozzle | Thor I. Eklund | May 17, 1994 |
| A smoke evacuation nozzle for an airplane having minimum diameter at the fuselage pressure hull exit for minimum structural integrity disruption. | |||
| 4,994,092 | Helium Smoke Generator | Thor I. Eklund; James Demaree; William Neese | February 19, 1991 |
| A smoke generator which generates smoke having the buoyant properties of smoke produced by a fire. | |||
| 4,529,985 | Moving Target Indicator Velocity Discriminator | Larry Sawyer; Harry Boler | July 16, 1985 |
| A digital Moving Target Indicator (MTI) radar system for rejection of low velocity "clutter" by utilizing techniques to identify those radar echo returns from targets having radial velocities lower than fixed predetermined values. | |||
| 4,402,215 | Rheological Testing Method | Thomas G. Guastavino | September 6, 1983 |
| A method of testing the potential anti-misting and/or the drag reducing properties of a polymer modified fluid by testing its rheological behavior under increasing pressure. | |||
| 4,301,455 | Groundspeed Measurement System | Forrest G. Yetter | November 17, 1981 |
| A measurement system for determining the groundspeed of an aircraft during final approach and landing, by measuring at the aircraft the Doppler shift of a radio signal, and/or its modulation components, transmitted by a fixed ground station. |