PREFACE NASA FOREIGN PATENT LICENSING PROGRAM GENERAL The foreign licensing program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration serves to promote and utilize foreign patent rights vested in the Administration. The objective of this program is to extend the patent coverage on valuable NASA-owned inventions to various foreign countries in order to further the interests of United States industry in foreign commerce, to enhance the economic interests of the United States, and to advance the international relationships of the United States. WHERE TO DIRECT INQUIRIES REGARDING INVENTIONS Listed in this booklet are abstracts of various NASA-owned inventions which are available for foreign licensing in the identified countries in accordance with the NASA Patent Licensing Regulations, effective July 1, 1981 and published in Vol. 46, No. 211 of the Federal Register 54328-54331, now 14 CFR 1245 et seq., and are reproduced on page 1. Requests for additional information of the invention or information regarding applications for license. for a specific invention should be directed to the NASA field installation address printed on the page on which the invention. appears. Please be sure to include the title and NASA Case Number of the invention when making your inquiries. Application for a foreign license should be made by following the instructions and completing the questions in the NASA Patent Licensing Regulations. NEGOTIATION OF LICENSES Licenses will be individually negotiated and may be granted to any applicant, foreign or domestic, on a nonexclusive or exclusive basis for royalties or other considerations and on such other terms and conditions as are deemed appropriate to the interests of the United States. Preference in the granting of foreign license rights will be For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 shown to those applicants who have previously been granted a license under the corresponding U.S. patent or patent application. TO OBTAIN COPIES OF PATENTS This publication includes abstracts of those inventions in which NASA owns the principal or exclusive rights and which have been made available for patent licensing in the countres indicated. The corresponding U.S. patent number is also listed. Copies of the U.S. patents may be purchased directly from the U.S. Patent Office, Washington, D.C. 20231 for fifty cents a copy. Some of these inventions have been licensed by NASA in one or more of the indicated countries. CONTENTS NASA PATENT LICENSING REGULATIONS NASA DOMESTIC PATENT NUMBER INDEX Page SPACE FLIGHT AND SATELLITES APPARATUS PROVIDING A DIRECTIVE FIELD 1 WATER PURIFICATION MEMBRANES AND METHOD CHEMISTRY, POLYMERS AND MATERIALS FIRE RESISTENT COATING COMPOSITION (GSC-10072) INTUMESCENT PAINTS (ARC-10099) 256 MODIFIED POLYISOCYANURATE POLYMER FOAM POLYMERIC VEHICLES AS CARRIERS FOR SULFONIC POTASSIUM SILICATE-ZINC COATINGS (GSC-10361) 13 14 17 21 FIBER MODIFIED POLYURETHANE FOAM FOR BALLISTIC PROTECTION (ARC-10714) PREPARATION OF DIELECTRIC COATINGS OF VARIABLE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT BY PLASMA POLYMERICATION (ARC-10892) ABRASION RESISTENT COATINGS FOR PLASTIC SURFACES (ARC-10915) 27 31 32 FIBOUS REFRACTORY COMPOSITE INSULATION TWISTED MULTIFILAMENT SUPERCONDUCTOR (LEW-11726) A REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE OF HIGH UREA (ARC-11169-1) 35 45 48 62 CATALYTIC TRIMERIZATION OF AROMATIC NITRILES 69 73 METHOD OF IMPROVING IMPACT RESISTANCE OF 75 LOW INTENSITY X-RAY AND GAMMA-RAY 86 LIGHTWEIGHT ELECTRICALLY-POWERED FLEXIBLE 88 IMAGING X-RAY SPECTROMETER (GSC-12.682-1) 89 PROCESS FOR PREPARING HIGH TEMPERATURE 92 MAKING (LEW-13.171-1) HYDROGEN RICH GAS GENERATOR (NPO-123342) A MULTITARGET SEQUENTIAL SPUTTERING 98 100 101 SMALL, POROUS, POLYACRYLATE BEADS (NPO-13383) 102 SYSTEM FOR MINIMIZING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE POLLUTION EMISSION (NPO-13402) IMPROVED HYDROGEN-RICH GAS GENERATOR (NPO-13464) ANTI-FOG COMPOSITION (MSC-13530-2) HYDROGEN RICH GAS GENERATOR (NPO-13.560-1) CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS (NPO-13690) |