Abstract:
A propeller related vehicle in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention is described as a helicopter having an airframe housing a pneumatic motor mechanism for powering a main propeller attached to a main drive shaft. The helicopter further includes a horizontal stabilizing means attached between the main propeller and the main drive shaft, which permits the main propeller to freely pivot about the main drive shaft independently from the airframe. As such when the main propeller is rotating and the main propeller begins to pitch, the rotating main propeller has a centrifugal force created by the rotation thereof and will tend to pivot about the horizontal stabilizing means in a manner that offsets the pitch such that the helicopter remains in a substantially horizontal position.
Abstract:
A propeller related vehicle in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention is described as a helicopter having an airframe housing a motor mechanism for powering a main propeller attached to a main drive shaft that extends vertically through the airframe and for powering a tail rotor. The helicopter further includes a horizontal stabilizing mechanism attached between the main propeller and the main drive shaft, which permits the main propeller to freely pivot about the main drive shaft independently from the airframe. As such when the main propeller is rotating and the main propeller begins to pitch, the rotating main propeller has a centrifugal force created by the rotation thereof and will tend to pivot about the horizontal stabilizing mechanism in a manner that offsets the pitch such that the helicopter remains in a substantially horizontal position. In addition various main propeller configurations may be employed that provide additional self-stabilization.
Abstract:
The thickness of a first sheet fed from each tray of the multi-tray sheet feeder is detected by a first sensor and a thickness value is placed in memory for that tray. Each sheet subsequently fed from the same tray is detected by the same sensor and the thickness value sensed is placed in memory and compared with the thickness value in memory for that tray. When a tray is reloaded, the thickness value in memory for the sheets previously loaded in the tray is erased and the first sheet fed from the reloaded tray is sensed and a thickness value for that sheet is placed in memory for the reloaded tray. After the thickness value of a sheet is sensed by the first sensor, the sheets enter into the intermediate tray. The thickness value of a sheet is detected by an outlet sensor as it leaves the intermediate sheet tray and that value is compared to the thickness value in memory which was detected for the same sheet by the first sensor. During the comparison steps, if the values match, then only one sheet has passed through a sensor. If the thickness value sensed is more that the thickness value in memory, then that indicates that more than one sheet has passed through the sensor and the system is shut down to enable an operator to correct the situation or the offending sheets can be sent to a purge tray at the printer without shutting down the system.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for reducing the effects of relative intensity noise in a diode laser system by sensing the light output of diode laser system and producing an electrical feedback signal; amplifying the feedback signal over at least two different parts of a frequency band that includes the Relaxation Oscillation Frequency of the laser system; shifting the phase of each of the amplified feedback signals over the frequency band; and superimposing onto the current supplied to the laser diode a current signal that is a function of each of the phase shifted and amplified feedback signals.
Abstract:
A feedback circuit, comprising: means for producing from a laser light output a feedback signal which is representative of the noise and frequency dependent output intensity of the laser light output; means for applying a phase shift to the feedback signal; means for converting the feedback signal to a level signal which is representative of the noise in the laser light output; amplifying means for amplifying the phase shifted feedback signal as a function of the level signal to produce a current gain signal; and means for superimposing the current gain signal on the current flowing through the laser diode.
Abstract:
A fuel-fired furnace for melting metal in a more efficient manner, the furnace having a burner with its combustion air being preheated by passage through an air chamber between spaced inner and outer walls of the furnace jacket and by passage through a heat exchanger through which waste combustion products pass. The jacket is double insulated and the burner is cooled by a special arrangement.