Abstract:
A power control circuit comprises a signal input, a controllable attenuator, an amplifier, an output, a power detector, a reference circuit, a comparator, an external control input, an error detector, and a controller. The comparator, error detector, and controller are digital circuits realized by a microprocessor. The attenuator is between the signal input and the input to the amplifier to regulate the amplifier's output. The power detector couples to the amplifier output to generate a measurement signal representing the power at the output. The reference circuit generates a reference signal representing a predetermined minimum output when the signal input is nonzero. The comparator compares the measurement and reference signals and generates a decision signal indicating if the signal input is nonzero. The external control input receives an external control signal. The error detector is coupled to the power detector and the external control input and computes the difference between the external control signal and the measurement signal. When the measurement signal is at or above the minimum power, the controller provides an integral of the computed difference to control the variable attenuator. When the measurement signal is below the minimum power, the controller keeps the attenuator at a prior constant value.
Abstract:
A radiation quantum-counting method and apparatus for producing high resolution radiographic images capable of discriminating soft tissue cancer having a lcm size. The high resolution image is generated by a plurality of radiation sensitive elements, each element including a semiconductor material having a pair of electrodes mounted on opposite faces thereof. Each element is highly sensitive and produces a rapid pulse count since the thickness of the semiconductor material is substantially 0.1-0.5 mm, and the semiconductor material has an effective atomic number greater than 30 and an energy band gap greater than 1.3 eV. As a plurality of radiation quanta emanate from the radiation source, they are received by the plurality of radiation sensitive elements which detect individual radiation quantum and produce a pulse signal for each detected quantum. Coupled to each radiation sensitive element is a pulse amplifier for amplifying the pulse signals. The amplified pulse signals are counted and used to produce radiographic image signals containing details of image gradation. The pulse count may also be stored in a memory and used to provide two-dimensional information when combined with other pulse count data derived when the spatial orientation between the objective body and the radiation source is changed.
Abstract:
An interferometric semiconductor laser device having a built-in effective refraction index difference, based on the absorption of light by a substrate, between the portion of the active layer corresponding to the inside area of a striped channel formed on the surface of said substrate and the portion of the active layer corresponding to the outside area of said striped channel, wherein regions, which are positioned between the active layer and the substrate in the outside area of said channel along a waveguide formed in the active layer corresponding to said channel, are different from each other in the distance between the active layer and the substrate, thereby creating a difference in the effective refraction index between the portions of the active layer corresponding to said regions.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser apparatus comprising: a semiconductor laser chip with a first light-emitting facet and a second light-emitting facet containing an interference effect-creating means therein for creating an interference effect within the resonator(s) thereof, a laser light-reflecting means for returning a part of the laser light emitted from the first light-emitting facet of said semiconductor laser chip to the first light-emitting facet, and a mounting base on which said semiconductor laser chip and said laser light-reflecting means are fixed in a parallel manner.
Abstract:
A hub assembly for use in a recording tape cartridge is composed of an inner body and an outer ring formed around the inner body so as to decrease distortion on the out-of roundness and the verticality of the outer cylindrical surface of the hub assembly.
Abstract:
An optical fiber which is able to transmit high power infrared energy, and is flexible and long in life is described. The fiber consists essentially of a mixed crystal of 40 to 45 wt % of thallium bromide and the balance of thallium iodide, each having a purity not less than 99.9%. The fiber is free of any particles having a size not smaller than 1 .mu.m.
Abstract:
An apparatus for measuring the reflectivities of the resonator facets of a semiconductor laser when the facets are covered with a protective coating of dielectric material or the like, which comprises photodetector means for individually measuring the laser light powers from both facets of the resonator, reflector means for reflecting the laser light from one of the facets back to the laser, shutter means openable or closable at a position to block the laser light reflected from the reflector means, and photodetector means for measuring the power of the reflected laser light.
Abstract:
A steering system for a vehicle with a front wheel and a rear wheel, in which the rear wheel is steerable in relation to a steering operation of the front wheel, such that a ratio control of a steered angle ratio of the rear wheel to the front wheel is effected to be variable in accordance with a travelling speed of the vehicle. The steering system is provided with a mode selecting unit adapted to be manually operable for exclusively setting an arbitrary one of a plurality of control modes of the ratio control. The steering system may be further provided with a time-delay unit for gradually effecting the ratio control, when changing one of the control modes to another thereof.
Abstract:
In energy separated quantum-counting radiography according to the present invention, radiation penetrating the subject being examined is detected as pulses. The pulses are counted for each radiation energy group, each comprising a separate pulse height group, to thereby speedily obtain a high resolution radiation image of the various materials of the subject.
Abstract:
An electric can opener comprising an opener body and a body support. The opener body includes a cutter and a toothed wheel adapted to be rotated by an electric motor. A can to be opened is placed on the wheel at its upper projecting edge, and rotated by the wheel as operated by the motor. During rotation the top of can is cut by the cutter. For usual use, the opener support can be placed on the upper surface of an object such as a kitchen table with its bottom in contact with the upper surface. For use in suspension, the support can be secured to the lower surface of a fixed object such as a hanged sideboard by installing its bottom to the lower surface. For usual use, the base of the support is located below the opener body. For use in suspension, the base of the support is located above the body.