Abstract:
Non-Imaging beam conditioning optical elements are disclosed which allow nearly full power usage from a light source, in a beam scanning information readout device such as a bar code reader. Light which would have been otherwise wasted by using stop apertures as in prior art scanning devices, is utilized efficiently by apportioning a greater amount of the light to the far out targets and less to the close in targets, effectively solving the problem of signal amplitude variation over a long working range. At the same time the novel optical elements provide multiple focal ranges which may be made to overlap thereby providing small beam cross sections for near and distant targets, significantly extending the depth of scanning range over prior art scanners. Amplification and signal processing of received light signals is simplified thereby eliminating the need for complex and fussy AGC amplifiers and limiters to deal with both strong and weak signals from close and distant targets respectively. Novel signal processing circuitry is also disclosed for adaptively processing received signals and for reducing variation associated with laser diodes, optical elements, and target related variables such as such as distance, reflectivity and contrast.
Abstract:
A P.M. d.c. motor in which the permanent magnets thereof are provided as arcuate segments of predetermined length which rotate about a circular locus of core component defining pole assemblies. The paired permanent magnets are magnetized in a radial polar sense and interact in radial fashion with three core components of each pole assembly which include a centrally disposed core component extending within a channel between the magnet pairs and to adjacent inwardly and outwardly disposed core components also interacting with the permanent magnet radially disposed surfaces. With the arrangement, localized rotor balancing is achieved and, additionally, discrete or localized magnetic circuits are developed with respect to the association of each permanent magnet pair with a pole assembly.
Abstract:
An electric motor has an annular permanent magnetic rotor having rotor poles of alternating polarity around its circumference. The motor has an outer stator disposed concentrically around the outer periphery of the rotor which has an annular configuration and a plurality of axially extending salient magnetic poles of opposite polarity alternating around the outer stator's inner periphery. The motor also has an inner stator disposed concentrically within the inner periphery of the rotor which has an annular configuration and a plurality of axially extending salient magnetic poles of opposite polarity alternating around the inner stator's periphery. A separately energizable annular coil of wire disposed inside each stator energizes that stator's magnetic poles in response to sequential energization of each coil with electricity in different phase relationship with each other.
Abstract:
In a stepping motor comprising a stator including a plurality of stator plates, and a rotor made of a permanent magnet, a coating layer made of a nonmagnetic material is applied to the stator plates, and the rotor is rotated within the stator plates while the rotor is maintained in a closely adjacent relation contactable with the coating layer of the stator plates.
Abstract:
A magnetic pole core for an electrorotary machine comprises a pair of circular base board sections holding a coil therebetween wound concentrically on a shaft, and a plurality of magnetic pole sections extending from the edge of each base board section over the outer circular face of the coil so as to be disposed alternately from the two base board sections. Each magnetic pole section is divided circumferentially into first and second magnetic pole pieces, one of which has a circumferentially extended section. A third magnetic pole piece may be provided between the first and second magnetic pole pieces.
Abstract:
A self-starting unidirectional rotating machine, suitable for use as a stepping motor, has a permanent magnet rotor and a pair of finger-like pole pieces extending axially alongside the rotor. These pole pieces are disposed asymmetrically so that, for example, the center of one pole piece is substantially diametrically aligned with an edge of the other pole piece. Bias magnets create a bias flux flowing through the pole pieces. A helical coil, when energized, provides a main rotor flux opposite to the bias flux and sufficient to overcome it. Upon energization, the rotor turns 180 electrical degrees in a preferred direction from a quiescent position to a second position. Then, upon deenergization, the rotor turns 180 electrical degrees from its second position to its quiescent position.
Abstract:
A synchronous motor wherein a field coil is positioned adjacent to a rotor and stator assembly in a side-by-side relationship has a stator pole arrangement to compensate for flux phase differences caused by the side-by-side arrangement.
Abstract:
A vehicle transmission mounted pulse generator module having a through drive shaft for driving a conventional speedometer cable, a rotor permanent magnet driven by the shaft with predetermined angular freedom therebetween for magnetically indexing the rotor magnet for useable signal generation at low speeds and a coaxial pickup coil assembly encircling the shaft and axially offset from the rotor magnet and compactly mounted with the rotor magnet within a housing sleeve inserted within a transmission housing bore to be driven for generating a pulse for each predetermined increment of travel of the associated vehicle.
Abstract:
An apparatus for rotatively driving a turn table comprising a motor including a rotor having an arrangement of a plurality of permanent magnet poles such that north and the south poles are alternately disposed in a circle on the turn table and a stator provided to be opposed to the arrangement of the permanent magnet poles and including three stator pole means for electromagnetically driving the rotor, three saturable core coils provided to be opposed to the rotor and disposed to bring about a phase difference of 120.degree. from each other with respect to the arrangement of the rotor magnet poles, an oscillator for providing a predetermined frequency signal, three amplitude modulators for amplitude modulating the oscillator signal as a function of the inductance value of the corresponding saturable core coils which varies in association with the revolution of the turn table, a diode for demodulating the amplitude modulated outputs of each of the modulators, an amplifier for amplifying each of the corresponding amplitude demodulated signals and supplying the same to one end of the corresponding drive coils of the stator pole means, and a feedback resistor coupled to the other end of each of the drive coils of the stator pole means, the other end of each of the feedback resistors being commonly connected.
Abstract:
A sub-fractional A.C. signal generator incorporating a stator assembly comprising a coil wound upon an annular bobbin of molded insulator material, a pair of annular magnetically premeable stator members having alignment apertures snap-fit onto integral bosses projecting from the bobbin, in concentric relation in a stator sub-assembly, the two stator members affording a multiplicity of individual pole pieces interleaved one-for-one around the outer periphery of the coil. The sub-assembly and an insulator barrier are press fit onto opposite ends of a cylindrical stator support member within which a sleeve bearing is mounted to provide a complete stator assembly. A drive shaft is journalled in the stator bearing and carries an annular permanent magnet which encompasses the stator members but is spaced therefrom by a uniform radial air gap. A housing affixed to the insulator barrier encompasses rotor and stator assemblies.