Abstract:
A plurality of public-transport surface vehicles such as buses, each identified by an individual number, are equipped with transmitters for sending out that identification number together with heading and positional data conveying information on direction of travel and momentary distance from a point of departure; the transmitted information may also indicate the state of occupancy of the vehicle. This information is received at transit points along the route, each transit point including circuits for determining from the directional and distance data the distance of an approaching vehicle from that point. If the transit point is a passenger station, the shortest vehiclular distance or distances are registered with the accompanying identification and occupancy data in one or more stores for display to waiting passengers. The directional and distance data can also be intercepted by a traffic-control post to detect the approach of vehicles at an intersection as an aid in the operation of traffic lights. The data-evaluating equipment at any such transit point includes a comparator determining whether a newly arriving signal is from a vehicle whose data have already been registered in a store thereof, i.e. whether the transmitting vehicle is among those closest to that point at the instant of reception.
Abstract:
A memory device including a piezoelectric delay line along the surface of which travels acoustic waves to be put into memory; an electron gun which sweeps the work surface of the line with a beam of electrons for recording or reading out the wave; and in which this work surface is covered at least in part by a layer of a highly resistive material.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to speech synthesis system wherein the acoustic message items are optically stored. The system according to the invention comprises: an optical store including a plurality of diffractive elements pertaining to the holographic technique. Each element is constructed for selectively projecting images carrying acoustic information in optical form; each projected image being coverted into electrical speech signals through an image converter tube associated with a loudspeaker. The image selection and its analysis are controlled by adresses supplied from a computer.
Abstract:
Vehicles traveling along a predetermined route are equipped with mobile receivers picking up traffic information from a radiating transmission line extending along the route, this information being modulated upon a first carrier F1 for vehicles traveling in one direction and upon a second carrier F2 for vehicles traveling in the opposite direction. Two ancillary short-range transmission stations, located at opposite ends of the line, radiate amplitude-modulated carrier waves directly to vehicles in the vicinity thereof whose receivers are tuned to either of the two carriers F1, F2. The first ancillary station emits the two carriers both modulated with a low-frequency signal f1 whereas the second ancillary station emits the same carriers modulated with a different low-frequency signal f2. A discriminating circuit aboard each vehicle, upon the reception of an amplitudemodulated carrier, tunes the receiver thereof either to the carrier F1 in response to a detected signal f1 or to the carrier F2 in response to a detected signal f2.
Abstract:
A display instrument using optical collimation for projecting data into the line of sight of an observer, comprising an optical lens which projects images of luminous objects focused at infinity onto a transparent combining glass. The luminous objects corresponding to data be displayed are positioned in the focal zone of the lens. The images are reflected by the glass into the observer''s line of sight. A reflectively deflective prism placed in the optical path between the optical zone and the luminous objects, enables the use of an optical lens of greater diameter whereby the operational characteristics of the equipment are improved.
Abstract:
A device for focussing an electron beam in an electronic tube, using an axial magnetic field. It is constituted by a stack of permanent magnets, disposed in an annular fashion around the electronic tube; said magnets consist of washers, whose magnetisation is normal to their faces.
Abstract:
A novel method of manufacturing ''''printed circuits'''' arrangements, with one or several layers of conductors, is provided. By successive operations of photogravure and metal deposition using electrolysis, there is constructed, without any mechanical procedure, a structure comprising a temporary skeleton and conductors arranged at different layers and interconnected by conductive eyelets. The metal constituting the temporary structure is selectively attacked and replaced by resin to constitute a new insulating structure.
Abstract:
The electrical coupling of two components A and B, which execute a relative motion to one another, is achieved by means of one or more curved conductive blades operating below their elastic limit, and guided along surfaces over which they roll without slip, with a substantially constant radius of curvature; the blades are inserted at their ends to the conductive portions of said surfaces.
Abstract:
A safety system for switching off an irradiation system when the desired irradiation dose has been exceeded, comprises two ionisation chambers through which a particle beam issued from the radiation source propagates, each chamber supplying a radiation monitor. Those monitors supply two parallel connected comparators which operate contact breakers connected in series in a safety circuit controlling the irradiation system.
Abstract:
An electronic apparatus for the mass production of masks for integrated circuits, comprises a master mask arranged in an evacuated chamber. In response to diffuse ultra-violet radiation, it emits from its transparent areas electrons which are focussed by uniform electric and magnetic fields which are parallel to one another. The master mask is positioned in relation to the wafer being printed, by means of piezoelectric elements which receive supply voltage increments produced following the illumination of two pairs of markers respectively arranged on the master mask and the wafer.