Victor R Amelino

56001398, Feb 4, 1997

Oct 10, 1995

8/540737

Gary Mladjan - Torrance CA
Anthony Cacioppo - La Palma CA
Victor Amelino - Redondo Beach CA

Hughes Electronics - Los Angeles CA

G01J 504

250330

A thermal imaging device (10) includes a housing (130) defining a battery compartment, and carrying a door portion (166) closable over this battery compartment to provide environmental protection. The battery compartment door (166) includes a spring-loaded latching device (170) which will maintain the door (166) sealingly closed under normal use conditions of the device (10). However, in the event that a battery (124) received in the compartment should vent gasses sufficient to pressurize the compartment to a selected level, the latching device (170) will yield to allow a slight opening of the door (166) and a controlled venting of these gasses to ambient. Controlled venting of the battery gasses additionally occurs at a location of the device (10) remote from the user, and the battery compartment door (166) is itself interposed between the user and the venting battery (124).

55705294, Nov 5, 1996

Jun 7, 1995

8/478149

Victor R. Amelino - Redondo Beach CA

Hughes Aircraft Company - Los Angeles CA

F41G 138

42101

A sight is affixed to a rail on a receiver of a weapon by a torque-limiting weapon mount. Force is applied to clamp the sight to the rail by the relative movement of two inclined ramps, one on a rotating knob and the other on a nut whose turning generates the clamping force. The torque, and thence the force, that can be applied in attaching the sight is limited by the selection of a spring and by steps at the ends of the two inclined ramps that prevent a clamping force greater than that permitted by the spring force when the knob is turned.