Abstract:
An electromechanical motor (1) has a driving element (20) comprising two electromechanical vibrators (22, 24). The two electromechanical vibrators (22, 24) are interconnected by a link member (26). The electromechanical vibrators (22, 24) are, at the ends (21, 23) connected to the link (26), attached to a backbone (12) of a stator (10) by a respective resilient joint member (14, 16). A mechanical connection to the backbone (12) is thus introduced essentially between the vibrator (22, 24) and the link (26). A vibration of one of the electromechanical vibrators (22, 24) is transferred into a tilting or torsion of one of the joint members (14, 16), and a similar vibration of the other electromechanical vibrator (22, 24) provides a tilting or torsion of the other joint member (14, 16). The liner (26), interconnecting the vibrators (22, 24) is subsequently caused to deform and move. Depending on the vibrations and their relative phases, an actuating portion (28) of the link (26) can be brought along a motion path and this can in turn be used to interact with a body to be moved.
Abstract:
In the discharge chamber (21) of a device for generating plasma, used in the space sector for ion propulsion or for the discharging of satellites and in applications on the ground, suitable ionizing radiation sources (47) are provided, capable of improving the performance of said device. The radiation emitted by the sources creates constant ionization of the gas with advantages both during the preionization phase, i.e. starting of the device, and during the operating phase, standardizing the performance thereof in particular in terms of continuity and regularity of operation.
Abstract:
A smoke detection apparatus is disclosed having a highly efficient ionization chamber. The ionization chamber is primarily formed by a wire mesh collector that readily admits products of combustion such as smoke into the chamber which has therein an alpha emitting, radioactive source and a selectable portion of a tuning screw. Two types of smoke detectors are shown utilizing the ionization chamber with one of the detectors operating from a conventional A.C. power source and the other being battery operated. The smoke detector utilizing the conventional A.C. power source requires no transformer and has the alarm indicating horn connected with the A.C. source with the horn being triggered by a silicon controlled rectifier connected with the radioactive source in the ionization chamber through a field effect transistor switch. A rectified and regulated D.C. voltage is provided to the wire mesh collector and to the field effect transistor switch. The battery operated smoke detector has the alarm indicating horn connected with batteries through a transistor horn drive circuit that is triggered by a field effect transistor switch connected to the radioactive source within the ionization chamber. A circuit is provided to indicate low battery voltage and a regulated D.C. voltage is supplied to the wire mesh collector of the ionization chamber, to the field effect transistor switch, and to the low voltage indicating circuit.
Abstract:
Apparatus for sensing overheated electrical insulation through the detection of thermoparticulates in a dynamoelectric machine's cooling gas system is disclosed. The cooling gas as it circulates will entrain thermoparticulates produced in the system when there is overheating. This gaseous carrier is then withdrawn and conducted to an ionization chamber where it is ionized. Downstream from the ionization chamber there is placed a first ion collector for collecting ions with relatively small radii. A second ion collector which is biased for collecting ions with relatively large radii is also placed downstream from the ionization chamber. By comparison of ion current from the first ion collector with ion current from the second ion collector it is possible to detect the presence of thermoparticulates in the cooling gas relatively independent of gas pressure, flow rate through the monitor, and effectiveness of the radiation source.
Abstract:
The detector comprises a chamber having at least one radiation source disposed therein. The chamber includes spaced collector plates which form a part of a detection circuit for sensing changes in the ionization current in the chamber. The radiation source in one embodiment is in the form of a wound wire or ribbon suitably supported in the chamber and preferably a source of beta particles. The chamber may also include an adjustable electrode and the source may function as an adjustable current source by forming the wire or ribbon in an eliptical shape and rotating the structure. In another embodiment the source has a random shape and is homogeneously disposed in the chamber.
Abstract:
An improved ionization type smoke detector which is specifically designed to be independent of variations in atmospheric pressure and to be highly sensitive to smoke. A number of factors are involved in choosing optimum design parameters for an ionization smoke detector which has minimum sensitivity to pressure and which also has a maximum sensitivity to the presence of smoke. Several equations are described which aid in the design.