摘要:
A device for controlling the D.C. drive motor of a battery powered motor vehicle having an on-board storage battery, which motor has an armature and a separately excited field winding. This control device includes means for sensing the current flow (122) through the armature, means for creating an armature current signal indicative of the sensed armature current (124), means for creating a reference signal indicative of a desired speed of the vehicle (110), comparison means for creating an error signal indicative of the relationship between the armature current signal and the reference signal (120), means for controlling the voltage applied across the armature in accordance with the error signal (140) and means responsive to the error signal for varying the voltage across the field winding in accordance with the error signal when the error signal exceeds a preselected value (172). In this device there is provided an improvement including means for controlling the voltage across the field winding in accordance with the reference signal at least during a period that the error signal is below a preselected value. In this manner, the voltage applied across the field winding of the control device is controlled by the reference signal such as created by the position of the acceleration pedal in the motor vehicle.
摘要:
An electrical switching circuit for a multi-phase a.c. supply uses semiconductor rectifier switches SCR1 to 5 to reversibly switch power to a multi-phase electric motor so that the motor can be run in a forward or a reverse direction. The SCRs are provided in two sets, one for switching power to forward run the motor, and the other set for reverse running of the motor. Inductor elements AL are connected in series with the SCRs. The inductor elements comprise coils which include a non-linear permeability core, for example of ferrite or permalloy, which are operative to suppress voltage transients at switch on of the motor. These transients would otherwise produce spurious firing of the SCRs and could produce a short circuit across the input phases of the a.c. supply. The circuit is used in a valve actuator. Improved torque limit switches and position limit switches are disclosed, which operate a low voltage and which use Reed and Hall effect switches.
摘要:
An impedance transforming coupler (27,28) is disclosed which may be used as a power divider or power combiner at microwave frequencies. The power division or power combination ratio is arbitrary, and the impedance transformation ratio is arbitrary. These couplers may be used in a circuit to power-combine amplifiers (11, 12). The insertion loss of the circuit is low and the bandwidth is improved by an order to two to one over prior art systems which had separate circuits for matching the impedance and providing power combining. The coupler is optimally a branch line coupler having four curved branches a quarter wavelength long at the center frequency. The output ports are 90° out of phase. Simple formulas are given relating the desired admittances of each of the four branches to k, the desired power coupling ratio, and Y, the desired admittance transformation ratio.
摘要:
Metal detection apparatus includes an oscillator coil 101 driven by an oscillator 101, which induces in detector coils 103, 104 equal and opposite E.M.F.s such that a nominally zero output is produced at terminals D.E. When metal is detected the E.M.F.s in coils 103,4 move out balance to produce a voltage at D.E., which is detected by circuit IC11 and fed to output circuits 111. Drifts in the nominally zero output at D.E. are corrected by combining quadraphase balancing signals on lines 109, 110 with the detector coil output by means of amplifier IC10. The combined signal from IC10 is fed to phase sensitive detectors IC1,2 which respectively detect the quadraphase components of the combined signal from IC10. The outputs of IC1,2 are stored by capacitor circuits 112, 113 and used to adjust variable capacity diode bridges 106,7 which adjust the amplitude of the balancing signals to maintain a nominally zero output from IC10 when metal is not being detected. The capacitor circuits 112, 113 have a long time constant so that the balacing signals are not adjusted to cancel out the detection of metal, but circuits IC5,6,13 switches the stores 112, 113 to provide a shorter time constant after metal has been detected in order to restore the circuit rapidly to a balanced condition. Additionally, the circuits IC5,6,13 disconnect the capacitor circuits from the phase sensitive detectors IC1, IC2 for a given time when metal is detected so as to restore the circuit rapidly to a balanced condition after detection of the metal.
摘要:
An automatic gain control system has a multiplying circuit (10) for multiplying levels of input and feedback signals. Such control system is provided with a closed loop homomorphic network connected between the output terminal of the control system and the feedback terminal of the multiplying circuit. Such homomorphic network maintains a compressed output signal level at the system's output terminal, inhibits oscillation and latching up of the main system in which this AGC system is a component, and provides low distortion and noise levels of signals processed by this AGC system; and the network includes a logarithmic amplifier (20) a convolver (30) and an exponentiator (40) which operate on the output Vo of the multiplier circuit (10) to provide a signal (V3) to be fed back to the multiplier circuit and by which an input signal Vi is multiplied to achieve the output Vo.
摘要:
An improved deformable flexure element (10) for use in strain gage transducers and a process for making the element are disclosed. By appropriate selection of materials and gage geometries in accordance with the invention, the zero and span temperature coefficients of the transducer are reduced substantially to zero. Improved processes for producing such flexure elements are disclosed.
摘要:
A blow-out guard is disclosed for use with high-pressure conduits. A double layer, wire sheath is fixedly attached over the end portion of the hose. If the hose should burst, the medium escapes through the interstices of the sheath and is thereby reduced to a dispersed effluent or a fine spray, thus protecting the operator.
摘要:
The present invention relates to laminar light guides which are particularly suitable for providing illumination from one or more light sources to a plurality of instruments and other display devices as in a vehicle instrument panel. The guide makes efficient use of the light available from the light sources. The guide comprises a transparent lamina (2,3,4) having at least one integrally formed light input socket (4) for receiving a light source (14). The socket (4) is formed with lens means (13) and reflecting means (15) for directing light from the source into the plane of the lamina where it is internally reflected until encountering extracting means including roughened surfaces (6,7,8,9) for reflecting light diffusely out of the plane ofthe lamina or conical apertures (5) for reflecting light into a beam transverse to the plane of the lamina. The light is extracted to illuminate display characters (16) or areas in an otherwise opaque screen (17), or to direct light into pointers of instruments, for example clocks, speedometers etc.
摘要:
A d.c. to d.c. converter which produces from a low voltage battery supply a high voltage d.c. output. The converter comprises a step up transformer the primary (Lp) of which receives current pulses under the control of an oscillator (5). For each current pulse, the current builds up steadily and is then abruptly cut off so as to induce a high voltage pulse in a secondary (L s ) of the transformer. The high voltage pulses pass along a voltage multiplier (6) to provide the high voltage d.c. output. Each high voltage pulse has associated with it a low voltage pulse in the primary (Lp) which is used to control the rate of the oscillator (5). The oscillator (5) is also controlled as a function of the peak current in the primary (Lp) by a transistor TR3, and the oscillator is further controlled to limit its maximum rate when the output current exceeds a given level, by means of a feedback loop (R3, C4, R4, IC4, TR3).