[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 85 (Friday, May 2, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23442-23443]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10923]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Government Owned Inventions Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of government owned inventions available for licensing.

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SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned in whole by the U.S. 
Government, as represented by the Department of Commerce. The 
inventions are available for licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 
and 37 CFR part 404 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results 
of Federally funded research and development.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Technical and licensing information on 
these inventions may be obtained by writing to: National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Office of Technology Partnerships, Attn: Mary 
Clague, Building 820, Room 213, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Information is 
also available via telephone: 301-975-4188, fax 301-869-2751, or e-
mail: [email protected]. Any request for information should include 
the NIST Docket number and title for the relevant invention as 
indicated below.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST may enter into a Cooperative Research 
and Development Agreement (``CRADA'') with the licensee to perform 
further research on the inventions for purposes of commercialization. 
The inventions available for licensing are:
    Docket No.: 99-021CIP.
    Title: Apparatus and Method Utilizing Bi-directional Relative 
Movement for Refreshable Tactile Display.
    Abstract: A refreshable Braille reader apparatus and method are 
disclosed, the apparatus preferably utilizing a rotating cylinder 
having endless rows of openings defined therethrough to a display 
surface with a pin held in each opening and freely movable therein. 
Static actuators at least equal in number to the rows of openings 
through the cylinder are maintained at a station adjacent to the 
surface of the cylinder, and are configured and positioned so that the 
pins are selectively contractable at either of their ends by different 
ones of the actuators during cylinder rotation in either forward or 
reverse direction thereby selectively positioning first ends of the 
pins relative to the surface of the cylinder to allow streaming of 
Braille text across a display area in either forward or backward order 
depending upon selected direction of cylinder rotation.

    Docket No.: 01-014US.
    Title: Method And Device For Avoiding Chatter During Machine Tool 
Operation.
    Abstract: The invention uses once-per-revolution sampling of the 
audio (or other appropriate sensor) signal during cutting to detect 
chatter i.e., unstable machining. The synchronously sampled audio (or 
other appropriate sensor) machining data is shown on a real-time LED 
display that allows the user (machinist) to visually detect the onset 
of chatter and adjust machining conditions. This method of chatter 
avoidance requires no knowledge of machine dynamics, process specific 
cutting energy coefficients, or chatter theory; all of which are the 
key impediments to the successful implementation of high-speed 
machining on the shop floor. The device

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described here requires no interface with the machine tool controller 
and could be added as an after market supplement. Additionally, it is 
shown that the use of this device allows determination of the well-
known stability lobe diagrams without direct knowledge of the tool 
point dynamic response or cutting energy coefficients.

    Dated: April 28, 2003.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 03-10923 Filed 5-1-03; 8:45 am]
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