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Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Honigsbaum, Richard F.

Richard F Honigsbaum

Robert J Hammersmith

Albert S Khouri

Richard S Grewette

Bifurcated haptic aligner actuators (BHAAs) have an anterior and a posterior lens support ring to each of which is pivotively attached a plurality of center-pivoted struts, at least two of which comprise an opposing pair, and to each of the opposing pair of struts is pivotably attached a bifurcated haptic, one haptic branch being pivotably attached to the anterior part of a strut, the other branch of the same haptic being similarly attached to the posterior part of the same strut.

Bifurcated haptic aligner-actuators for accommodative intraocular lenses and exemplary AIOLS aligned and actuated thereby

Eye surgery methods which isolate segments of the eye capsule to which the relevant zonules are attached via a specially contoured capsulorhexis, and shrink-wrap these segments to the haptics of an AIOL to disaccommodatively actuate the latter, accommodative actuation of the AIOL being effected by an accommodative bias built into the AIOL, a tensioning ring, or both.

Shrink-wrap anchored and shrink-wrapped actuated accommodative intraocular lenses and methods for implantation thereof

An accommodative hydraulic intraocular lens system (AHIOL) has a cylindrical actuator contained within which is a hydraulic lens assembly. The hydraulic lens assembly has a transparent elastically reconfigurable membrane coupled to a fixed focus lens by a bellows and a refractive hydraulic fluid contained in the space defined by the membrane, the bellows and the lens, and is maintained at the upper range of its diopter power by the elastic properties of the bellows, springs, or both.

Anterior-posterior-capsule-actuated hydraulic accommodative intraocular lenses and lens systems

A tensioning device for attaching to the anterior capsule of an eye, and accommodative intraocular lens systems employing the device. The tensioning device includes a biocompatible, elastically reconfigurable ring for restoring at least a portion of the anterior capsule centripetal forces lost by capsulorhexis. The tensioning device also includes a plurality of penetrators configured for attaching the ring to the anterior capsule. The plurality of penetrators is biocompatible with the eye and partially embedded in a part of the ring configured for facing the anterior capsule.

Tensioning rings for anterior capsules and accommodative intraocular lenses for use therewith

This invention uses a family of exit-finding aids to enable occupants of rooms or workspaces in buildings, cabins in ships, seats in aircraft cabins, auditoriums, theaters, etc. to know the distance and direction to the nearest exit in each direction by touch as well as by sight; to know so before leaving those spaces; to similarly know the escape paths to each of those exits; to similarly know the distance and direction to alternate exits along the escape path; to similarly confirm arrival at an exit; and to similarly know the distance and direction to alternates to exits that are unusable.

Tactiovisual distance-to-exit exit-finding system

Stealthcraft are detected by illuminating backgrounds with narrow radar or sonar beams and monitoring this background illumination for the changes that result when these beams are absorbed by such targets, and are ranged by triangulation using two such beams.

Process and apparatus for finding stealthcraft

Water saver fire hydrants save water by delivering their initial flow from a pilot valve to a collection of holes in the gasket faces of their hose and pumper outlet nozzles. These holes are normally closed off by the gaskets in caps and hoses, and the water that flows from those holes in the absence of those caps or hoses activates a mechanism inside the hydrant that either blocks attempts to obtain full flow from the hydrant or powers a hydraulic motor that closes the hydrant valves.

Water saver fire hydrant

A weapon transport device transports along a path toward a target in hostile territory, (1) a target-intended weapon and (2) biological, chemical and/or radioactive agents for attacking the occupants of such territory should they execute countermeasures against the weapon transport device. Separation of the biological, chemical and/or radioactive agents is initiated or, where appropriate, inhibited, by signals from either the guidance system of the transport device or from on-board Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers when the transport device strays by more than a predetermined distance from the path, the sensor is blinded, or the transport device passes beyond a predetermined point while en route to the target.

Process and apparatus for discouraging countermeasures against a weapon

A cable is provided for attacking rotating wing aircraft by breaking and/or fouling rotor blades and/or blade pitch adjusting mechanisms. The cable comprises a stretchable core and shallow helix angle outer strands. A high hysteresis rubber or rubber-like material occupies the spaces between the strands and the core. The high hysteresis material prevents the cable from bouncing off the rotor blades when coming into contact therewith.

Apparatus for attacking rotating wing aircraft

A tactiovisual exit finding system is provided with a collection of tactiley and visually recognizable vees to direct occupants of structures, such as aircraft and public buildings, to the nearest appropriate exits. Since these vees are recognizable by touch and sight, they are effective at any level of visibility including the smoke-compromised equivalent of total darkness. These vees are incorporated into the main aisle and exit passageway floors of such structures where they are tactiovisually addressable by persons walking, crawling, or anything in between. The system also utilizes tactiovisually distinctive upholstery on the seats that flank exit passageways to further identify such passageways.

Tactiovisual exit finding system for aircraft cabins and the like

The risk of electrocution by first contact with a hovercraft is eliminated by first establishing an alternate path for electric charge between the hovercraft and earth ground via an electrically conducting liquid stream.

Process and apparatus for reducing the difference in electric potential

The missiles of the present invention are guided toward the rotating wing aircraft that are their targets by acoustic guidance and control systems that home in on the acoustic signatures of their targets, and that do so despite echoes, the acoustic signatures of other weapons, targets hidden by the terrain during nap-of-earth flight, etc., and attack their targets by deploying cables that are impacted by the rotor blades of these rotating wing aircraft. These cables are deployed close enough to their targets to defect maneuvers intended to avoid them by deployment initiated by the change in intensity of the perceived acoustic signatures of the targets. The missiles of this invention can also be made self-launching, and when the launch triggers that make them so are responsive to the acoustic signatures of their targets, those protected from line-of-sight weapons by the terrain become vulnerable to these 'mines'.

Process and apparatus for attacking rotating wing aircraft

The antitank-antipersonnel weapons of this invention are synergistic combinations of lens-compromising agents, radar-compromising agents, and human irritants. The lens-compromising agents opaque the external lenses of tank periscopes and gunsights, and the radar-compromising agents block radar signals, forcing tank crews to navigate tanks and aim weapons by direct observation through open hatches, and to don 'gas' masks for protection against the human irritants. The lenses of protective masks are also opaqued by the weapons of this invention, and when they are, tanks, tank crews, and other personnel are functionally blind and unable to fight.

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Passaic, NJ, United States of America

Richard F Honigsbaum