Abstract:
A control circuit for adjusting and regulating the speed of a brushless direct current motor having three ''''wye'''' connected armature coils, a permanent magnet field and a rotatable shaft. Each motor armature coil is connected in series with the collector-emitter electrodes of a respective switching transistor across a source of direct current supply potential, the baseemitter electrodes of each switching transistor being connected across the source of direct current supply potential through a respective photosensitive electrical switching device and the collector-emitter electrodes of a control transistor. A selectively variable magnitude of a direct current control potential is applied across the base-emitter electrodes of the control transistor and the photosensitive electrical switching devices are sequentially illuminated as the shaft rotates to sequentially establish the switching transistor base-emitter drive circuits. A direct current regulating potential generated in the motor armature coils as they are ''''cut'''' by the flux produced by the permanent magnet field is of a magnitude proportional to the speed of the motor and is applied in a reverse polarity relationship to the control potential for regulating the speed of the motor.
Abstract:
IN PREFERRED FORM, AN AUTOMATIC VEHILE LEVELING SYSTEM INCLUDING A FLUID SPRING BETWEEN THE CHASSIS AND THE AXLE ASSEMBLY THAT IS SELECTIVELY CONNECTED TO A PRECHARGED PRESSURE TANK THROUGH A CLOSED LOOP SUPPLY SYSTEM INCLUDING A HEIGHT CONTROLLER HAVING THREE POSITION VALVE MEANS. AN ELECTRICALLY OPERATED COMPRESOR WITHIN THE STORAGE TANK IN COOPERATION WITH THE MULTI-POSITION HEIGHT CONTROLER PRODUCES A RAPID PUMP DOWN OF THE FLUID SPRING WHEN STATIC LOAD IS REMOVED. CONCURRENTLY THE COMPRESSOR WILL PRECHARGE THE TANK FOR SUBSEQUENT LEVELING USE WHEN THE VEHICLE CHASSIS IS LOADED.
Abstract:
An energy absorbing bumper system for automotive vehicles includes a pair of fluid-filled telescopic cylinder units at respective ends of the bumper mounting the same to the vehicle chassis. Variable volume fluid chambers within each unit have the fluid flow therebetween controlled by a floating orifice and metering rod and one of the chambers is bounded by a gas piston urged by a body of compressed gas to force the telescopic mounting unit to a definite extended or normal position wherein the cylinders of the unit are snugly interengaged to resist relative radial displacement in rough road conditions and the like.