Cincinnati Electronics Corporation

Nexicor LLC

Ultra Electronics Audiopack, Inc.

Zts, Inc.

Audiopack Technologies, Inc.

Aqua Check Systems, Inc

Gary L Claypoole

Elvin Duane Stepp

Adam Gregg Malofsky

John P Barber

Robert Carl Cravens, Ii

David R Pacholok

Greg Skillicorn

Edward Allen Riess

Charles A Kuecker

Joseph Birli

Bernard Miles Malofsky

David J Schneider

David E Zimmerman

Jonathan D Adams

Phillip David Zimmerman

Edward A Reiss

Johnny Michael Sandlin

Various types of wireless communication systems for masks or helmets can be mounted externally or internally on a mask. Different types of microphones can be employed, for example, a bone-conducting microphone or a directional microphone. Ear speakers mounted at various locations on the mask or helmet can be employed. Wireless communication is with a transceiver mounted in or on a lapel unit, a walkie-talkie, or at a remote location.

Wireless communication systems for masks or helmets

A system and method of providing a wireless heads-up display for displaying the amount of breathing gas remaining in an associated breathing gas supply is provided. The system has a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter has a pressure sensor and a controller for interpreting the sensed pressure into levels indicative of the amount of breathing gas remaining in the breathing gas supply. These levels are transmitted via radio frequency to the receiver. The receiver, which can be mounted in a breathing mask, includes a display for displaying the amount of breathing gas remaining in the associated breathing gas supply.

Wireless heads-up display for a self-contained breathing apparatus

An apparatus and method of determining remaining capacity in a battery, including the following steps: detecting the presence of a battery within one of a plurality of specified terminals; automatically initiating a timed pulse load test on the battery upon detection in a terminal; continuously passing current from the battery through a specified resistive load for the terminal; measuring a voltage of the battery while under the resistive load; comparing the measured voltage to a discharge voltage profile of the battery; and, computing the measured voltage as a percent of remaining battery capacity.

Apparatus and method for testing remaining capacity of a battery

An apparatus and system for using magnetic fields to heat magnetically susceptible materials within and/or adjacent to adhesives, resins, or composites so as to reversibly or irreversibly bond, bind, or fasten opaque or non-opaque solid materials to one another. The system makes use of the effect that alternating magnetic fields induce eddy currents and generate heat within susceptors, and the effect that alternating magnetic fields additionally induce magnetic hysteresis that occurs in magnetic materials and thereby generate heat. An induction heating tool is used to emit the magnetic field at its work coil, and an electronic controller measures the energy being used by a power converter that generates the alternating current driving the work coil which creates the magnetic field. The distance between the susceptor and work coil is repeatedly analyzed based upon the power converter's input energy, and the work coil is driven at a repeatedly corrected power level during the heating cycle. Once a sufficient accumulated energy has been delivered to the susceptor, the magnetic field is turned off automatically by the tool, thus preventing overheating of the susceptor.

Integral hand-held induction heating tool

Hand held induction tool with energy delivery scheme

Hand held induction tool

The disclosure of this invention relates to calorimeters and a process for operating a colorimeter. The colorimeter of the disclosure is controlled by a microprocessor which evaluates a predetermined radiation absorption curve for each sample. This is to be contrasted with the prior art wherein the test on a given sample evaluates only radiation absorption concentration points which are evaluated by the microprocessor. The colorimeter gives more accurate readings as a result of the fact that an absorption curve and its parameters are evaluated for each sample. The calorimeter uses multiple LEDs as a radiation source. The microprocessor further controls other functions of the colorimeter. A separate microprocessor may be used to control these other functions. The calorimeter and process of this invention are also useful in the analysis of samples for turbidity.

Colorimeter apparatus and related process

A carrier wave is frequency modulated to one of M different output frequencies that deviate from the carrier wave frequency by .+-.k.sub.1, .+-.k.sub.2 . . . .+-.k.sub.q. The carrier is modulated in response to a clocked digital signal having n data bits forming a data word, where M=2.sup.n. In response to the digital signal an n bit control signal is derived. M/2 clock frequencies synchronized with the clock data signal are simultaneously derived. An up-down counter responds to the control signal so that one bit of the control signal controls the counting direction of the counter and (n-1) of the bits control which one of the M/2 frequencies is applied to a clock input of the counter. In response to the count in the counter, orthogonal sinusoidal like waves at one of the frequencies k.sub.1, k.sub.2 . . . k.sub.q are derived. The M/2 clock frequencies are equal to k.sub.1 2.sup.P, k.sub.2 2.sup.P . . . k.sub.q 2.sup.P, where P is the number of clock frequency bits in the counter. The orthogonal sinusoidal like waves at the selected frequency are vectorially combined with the carrier wave to derive a constant amplitude wave that deviates from the carrier frequency by the selected frequency k.sub.1, k.sub.2 . . . k.sub.q in a direction controlled by the value of the one bit.

Frequency shift key modulator

A clock wave is synchronized to the frequency of serial binary data bits. Digital circuitry derives a clock wave by responding to the data bits to selectively (a) increment a reference frequency, (b) decrement the reference frequency, and (c) not change the reference frequency. The digital circuitry divides each data bit into an even number of sub-bits. The binary value associated with a first half of the divided sub-bits of a particular data bit is compared with the binary value associated with a second half of the divided sub-bits of the particular data bit. In response to the derived clock wave and the comparison, the reference frequency is derived, incremented or decremented. The frequency of the source is respectively incremented and decremented in response to first and second relations of the binary value associated with the first half relative to the binary value associated with the second half. The frequency of the source is not changed when the binary values associated with the first and second halves are equal.

Digital clock bit synchronizer

Positive feedback of an acoustic signal from a loud speaker to a microphone of a loud speaker system, i.e., howling, is prevented by randomly phase shifting an electric signal containing audio information supplied to the speaker. The random phase shifting is provided by variably delaying the electric signal in a serial analog register having a shift rate determined by an output signal of a pseudo random code generator.

Audio feedback suppressor

A frequency synthesizer or a circuit for deleting cycles from a wave source includes a dual modulus counter responsive to a reference frequency source of the synthesizer or waves of the source. The dual modulus counter selectively decreases the number of cycles of the source by the factors K.sub.2 and (K.sub.2 +1). A frequency divider divides the frequency of the source by a third factor L to derive an output wave. The dual modulus counter is activated so it divides by K.sub.2 +1, whereby the dual modulus counter derives an output signal having a frequency F.sub.0 =F.sub.in /K.sub.2 (1-1/L), where F.sub.in equals the frequency of the source, L is an integer and K.sub.2 is an integer greater than L.

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Gary L Claypoole