Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1972 [PAGE 141]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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source when the signals are arriving via the sky wave paths, and consists of the additional data accumulating and analyzing equipment necessary to accomplish this range determination. T h e basis of the system, that is, the principle, is in the fact that there is a random fluctuation in the direction of arrival data as measured by any H F / D F that has a quasi-period of approximately twenty minutes and has a maximum amplitude that varies inversely with range. It is due to the effective tilting of the ionospheric region that supports and reflects the propagating mode. The Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be transferred to the sponsoring agency which has shown an interest in this invention and is now preparing a patent application. 3. Omni angle rotary table — John Franklin Bauerle, Instrument Maker in the Department of Geology, Urbana, inventor. This device is used to coat irregular specimens with a uniform carbon or metallic coating in a vacuum evaporator, for subsequent observation in a scanning electron microscope. It may have other applications. It functions in a manner that sweeps the specimen back and forth through a 60° arc several times per rotation. This motion presents the specimen to the metal vapor being deposited at all angles. The design has enabled the laboratory to obtain higher resolution photographs with the electron microscope than possible with other methods because of the uniformity of the evaporated layer in all the surface irregularities of the specimen. The Committee recommends that, because of a limited market and doubtful patentability, the rights of the University in this invention be released to the inventor. I concur in the above recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Clement, these recommendations were approved. On motion of Mr. Clement, the Board adjourned.

EARL W. PORTER EARL M. HUGHES

Secretary

President