摘要:
A multi-faceted reflector for a headlamp of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The motor vehicle headlamp has the desired optics, in the form of facets, placed entirely on the reflective surfaces of the reflector. The reflective surfaces are comprised of a plurality of discrete reflective surfaces having right (i.e., surfaces of a parabolic shape in the vertical plane and being linear or cylindrical in the horizontal plane) parabolical cylindrical surfaces (24) and discrete simple rotated parabolical surfaces (20). All of the reflective surfaces are located relative to the light source (12) of the headlamp. The parabolic cylindrical surfaces (24), serving as spreadng facets create a lateral spread of the light developed by the light source of the lamp, whereas, the simple rotated parabolic surfaces (20), serving as bending facets, create a shifting, relative to the light source, of the projected image of the light source. The shifted light forms the compact high intensity portion of the light output of the headlamp which cooperates with the lateral spread light to form a compact light output which serves the illumination needs of the motor vehicle.
摘要:
A dual-data-rate bus system employs a first data rate in a star bus system external to a data switch a higher data rate on a bus internal to the data switch. The internal data rate is selected high enough to permit simultaneous data communication between all suitable pairs of external nodes without data loss. In the preferred embodiment, external communication between the data switch and external nodes employs carrier-sense, multiple-access, with collision detection and the internal bus employs parallel communication with polling or token passing. The internal data rate is at least n/2 times the data rate of each external link, where n is the number of external links. In a further embodiment, the internal bus employs serial carrier-sense, multiple-access, with collision detection operating at a data rate at least 10 percent greater than n/2 times the data rate of each external link.
摘要:
A light box comprises a source of light (12), a reflector (14) and a Fresnel lens (38). The lens (38) provides nearly constant illumination of an object such as a liquid crystal cell (50) by collimating light parallel to a normal to the cell. Thus the cell (50) will exhibit a nearly uniform electro-optical response. The reflector (14) preferably is parabolic, while the light source (12) preferably is a line source such as a flourescent tube.
摘要:
Procédé et dispositif permettant de déposer un film polymère (35) sur un substrat de forme irrégulière à des températures relativement élevées. Le procédé et le dispositif ci-décrits permettent notamment de réaliser un système d'emballage de puces à circuits intégrés à très grande échelle (33). Le système ci-décrit résout notamment les problèmes posés par le traitement à haute température et par les surfaces très irrégulières qui en résultent. Le produit résultant peut être façonné de manière à obtenir des systèmes de puces à circuits intégrés pouvant être essayés indépendamment et pouvant être reconfigurés après le test, par l'élimination du film polymère.
摘要:
On utilise une couche amovible de recouvrement (50), avec son motif associé de métallisation pour obtenir de manière efficace l'intégration de plaquettes de circuits imprimés à l'échelle de la plaquette gauffrée. Ce procédé et cette configuration permettent de fabriquer et de contrôler des systèmes qui seraient autrement impossibles à contrôler. La présente invention permet également de contrôler des systèmes à circuits intégrés (15) dans leur configuration finale en termes de vitesse et d'environnement de travail, en éliminant de nombreux problèmes associés aux sondes de plaquettes simples ou gauffrées. L'invention utilise également des plaquettes spéciales de contrôle (14) fixées de manière temporaire ou permanente à un paquet de plaquettes de circuits imprimés.
摘要:
The junction temperature rise of a power MOSFET (12;202;402) serially connected to a lamp (32;204;404) whose resistance nonlinearly increases during turn-on is moderated by the use of control circuitry which initially sets up a relatively low essentially constant current flow through the lamp and transistor and then automatically after the lamp resistance reaches a preselected level, the lamp is allowed to draw significantly more current. Alternatively, there is initially an essentially constant flow of current to the MOSFET gate, causing a gradual turn-on, until the lamp resistance reaches the preselected level. The size and therefore cost of the power MOSFET is reduced significantly because the magnitude of the current spike generated by turning on the lamp is significantly reduced by the use of the novel control circuitry.
摘要:
There is provided a power source (124) for continuously energizing electrically isolated devices (110, 112) used to monitor the physiological state of a subject undergoing an examination in an NMR scanner having a magnet, RF and gradient coils. The power source (124) is made up of a first element (126) for generating energy of one type and a second element (128) for receiving this energy and converting it to a second energy type used to energized the electrically isolated devices. The first and second elements are operatively coupled to one another through an electrically isolated medium (130) to permit continuous transfer of energy from the first to the second element and to reject interference due to the NMR apparatus subsystems. In one embodiment the first element (126) may be an array of light-emitting diodes (138), while the second element (128) may be an array of photovoltaic cells (140). In another embodiment, the first and second elements may be ultrasonic transducers coupled through air or a ceramic substrate (146).
摘要:
In a resonant regulator power supply, a resonant circuit (10) is coupled to a source (S1,S2) of alternating input voltage that is controllable in operating frequency. A power transformer primary winding (W1) is coupled across the capacitive element (C O ) of the resonant circuit (10) for generating an output voltage across a secondary winding (W3). A control circuit (50) varies the operating frequency in a negative feedback loop to regulate the output voltage on the positive slope of the frequency characteristic curve. A frequency limiting circuit (60) prevents the operating frequency from passing through the resonance frequency of the resonant circuit.
摘要:
@ A contrast mask for a transparent photographic original may be formed by illuminating a photochromic body (11, 41) through the original with white light. Preferably the photochromic body (11,41) is optically neutral (grey) and contains a silver halide as a photochromically active substance. Preferably the mask-forming exposure is performed separately from the photographic exposure of a recording medium through the original and the mask, by a different light source (27). The optical contrast range of the mask can be varied in response to the optical contrast range of the original by varying the amount of the mask-forming exposure. This variation is preferably effected by varying the number of flashes of the light source (27). The photochromic body is preferably incorporated in the holder (1, 33) for the transparent original. Photographic reproduction apparatus may include an automatic densitometer, the output of which controls the amount of the mask-forming exposure.
摘要:
In a TV receiver, a line-rate gating pulse generator includes a source (50) of line-rate timing pulses of «backporch» timing relative to the horizontal blanking intervals of received TV signals. Normally, the time constant of a capacitor charging circuit (62, 63), enabled by the leading edge of each timing pulse, is determinative of a fixed, finite width for output gating pulses which are generated in response to the timing pulses (TP). However, during the appearance of a field-rate pulse (DP) (e.g., vertical drive pulse), the charging circuit is altered such as to establish a zero width for the output gating pulses, resulting in a desired field-rate blanking of the line-rate gating pulse output.