Abstract:
A bell crank flexure useful in connection with a differential transducer whereby a differential force is translated through the bell crank flexure to a guided beam to permit the positioning of strain gauges to be oppositely stressed on the imposition of a differential force and transducers employing the same, for example, differential pressure gauges employing such flexures.
Abstract:
A dryer assembly particularly designed for use by photographers who do their own developing, comprising a closed system isolated from the ambient environment, containing a desiccant space and an article-containing space suitable to receive film strips, and means to circulate the air in closed cycles through the article space, and desiccant contained in said desiccant space.
Abstract:
An insulative hollow cylinder, whose internal bore is slightly larger than the external dimensions of the blood vessel on which it is to be mounted, has a longitudinal portion removed to form an access opening. A first magnetizing coil is formed about the exterior of the insulative cylinder and is looped to extend circumferentially about the cylinder at substantially 180* thereof. At each side of the first magnetizing coil there is provided at least one auxiliary winding whose field axis is directed through the blood vessel. The resultant magnetic field from the first magnetizing coil and auxiliary windings is highly uniform throughout the entire cross section of the blood vessel on which the probe is mounted.
Abstract:
This invention relates to thermodynamic cycles operating between two levels of subatmospheric temperature, whereby power is generated and/or refrigeration obtained, in which a heat transfer liquid is employed having a relatively high vapor pressure at atmospheric temperature.
Abstract:
This application relates to means for measuring and recording variations in frequency of repetitive events which may be subject to large changes in frequency and is particularly useful in connection with the measuring and recording of the frequency of ectopic heartbeats. This is accomplished by generating the train of pulses responsive to the frequency of the events of interest, establishing a potential responsive to the frequency of said train of pulses, generating a linear sawtooth pulse whose amplitude is responsive to the frequency of the applied pulses and comparing said amplitude of said sawtooth pulse with a reference potential, establishing the difference between the amplitude potential and said reference potential, means responsive to said difference to indicate the frequency of the pulses resulting in said difference whose magnitude varies from that resulting from a predetermined variation of the frequency of said repetitive events.
Abstract:
This application relates to means for measuring and recording the frequency of repetitive events which may be subject to large changes in frequency, and is particularly useful in connection with the measuring and recording of heartbeats. This is accomplished by generating a train of pulses responsive to events of interest, establishing a dc potential responsive to the frequency of said train of pulses, generating a linear sawtooth pulse whose amplitude is responsive to the frequency of the applied pulses and to said dc potential, comparing said amplitude of said sawtooth pulses with a reference voltage, and modifying said dc potential responsive to the difference between said reference voltage and said sawtooth pulse amplitude, and providing means responsive to the magnitude of said dc potential to indicate the frequency of the pulses of interest.
Abstract:
Transducer structure in the nature of a thin, laminated, flexural element having evaporated film strain gages on each of two opposite surfaces. Fabrication method involving simultaneously depositing by a single-vapor source plural films of a strain sensitive electroconductive material onto insulative front surface areas of two separate or separable parts of a sheet material, to form two substantially identical bridge arm means, then bonding the two parts together, back-to-back.
Abstract:
MINIATURIZED PRESSURE TRANSDUCER FOR INTRACARDIAC AND LIKE APPLICATIONS EMPLOYING A CYLINDRICAL HOUSING HAVING A SIDE PLACED RUBBER DIAPHRAGM, AND A BEAM TYPE FLEXURE MEMBER MOUNTING FILM TYPE ELECTROCONDUCTIVE STRAIN SENSING ELEMENTS, PLACED ON THE SINGLE SURFACE OF THE BEAM AND SUBJECT T BOTH TENSIVE AND COMPRESSIVE STRAIN UPON DEFLECTION OF THE BEAM. A PLURALITY OF LEADS CONNECT THE STRAIN SENSITIVE ELEMENTS INTO A CONVENTIONAL WHEATSTONE BRIDGE CIRCUIT. A LEVER ARM OR "PADDLE" IS FIXED TO THE LOADED END OF THE BEAM AND EXTENDS GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE BEAM AND A LINKAGE PIN INTERCONNECTS THE DIAPHRAGM AND THE LEVER ARM BELOW THE MIDPOINT OF THE FLEXURAL BEAM.