Abstract:
An electrical apparatus is provided in which in the situation as shown in FIGS. 1-4 in which power inlet pins are exposed, a user can use the electric appliance by connecting A.C. cord 20 to power inlet pins 5 without danger that a user might touch slide plugs 4 because they are completely covered by slide cover 7. In this situation, if a user pushes finger actuating portion 8 of slide cover 7 in the direction as shown by an arrow in FIG. 4, power inlet pins 5 are covered by slide cover 7 and slide plugs 4 protrude out of plug slits 32 by rotation of pinion gear portion 3 which engage with rack gear 17 and 18 as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. In this situation, the electric appliance can be charged with slide plugs 4, while power inlet pins 5 are covered by slide cover 7, so that there is no danger that a user might touch power inlet pins 5.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a circuit suitable for use in an intelligent power switch include an insulated gate field effect transistor (IGFET) (T2) and a power semiconductor switch (T1). The insulated gate field transistor IGFET (T2) is provided by a semiconductor body (6) which has a first region (7) of one conductivity type adjacent a given surface (6a) of the semiconductor body with the first region (7) forming at least part of a conductive path to a first main electrode of the power semiconductor switch. A second region (8) of the opposite conductivity type is provided within the first region adjacent the given surface (6a) and a third region (11) of the one conductivity type is provided adjacent the given surface (6a) within the second region (8), an area of the second region (8) underlying an insulated gate (14) provided on the given surface (6a) for defining a conduction channel (15) providing a gateable connection between the third region (11) and a fourth region (12) of the one conductivity type. The third and fourth regions (11 and 12) forming the source and drain regions of the IGFET and the second and third regions (8 and 11) together provide a zener diode, a conductive path being provided to the second region remote from the area underlying the insulated gate for reverse-biassing the zener diode. The IGFET may include a synchronous rectifier of a charge pump for providing a gate voltage signal to the power semiconductor switch which may be a power MOSFET (T2).
Abstract:
When information is recorded on a record carrier (1) of the thermomagnetic type, the thermomagnetic recording layer (4) is scanned by a magnetic field generated by a magnetic-field modulator (7). The magnetic field is modulated depending on an information signal (Vi). Moreover, the scanned portion of the record carrier (1) is at the same time locally heated by radiation pulses (10) generated by an optical scanning device (5). By means of radiation pulses (10) the record carrier is heated above a write temperature (Ts), above which temperature the magnetization of the record carrier assumes the direction dictated by the magnetic field. A synchronizing circuit (9) generates the control signal (Vm) for modulating the magnetic field and the control signal (Vr) for generating the radiation pulses, in such a way that at the end of the radiation pulses the field strength is sufficiently high for the heated area of the record carrier to be magnetized in the directio dictated by the magnetic field.
Abstract:
A switching mechanism is provided including a control member and a switching element which is coupled to the control member and by means of a coupling element can be moved between a first and a second position. The switching mechanism includes two coupling elements which are arranged in series in the switching direction, each coupling element being constituted by a hinging V-shaped member, a point of intersection of a V-shaped member being alternately located within range for action thereon by the control member.
Abstract:
Increasing the storage capacity of high-performance signal processors while maintaining the original RAM cell necessitates modification of the entire lay-out of the circuit. The invention relates to the once-only design of peripheral circuitry which provides control of blocks of 4 full CMOS RAM cells (easy to process) or 9 double-layer polysilicon cells (more difficult to process, but having smaller dimensions). It is defined in the RAM peripheral circuitry whether all 9 cells can be accessed (memory capacity from 2.sup.xx n to (2.sup.xx (n+1)+2.sup.xx (n-2)) or 8 cells can be accessed (memory capacity from 2.sup.x n to 2.sup.xx (n+1).
Abstract:
An arrangement for determining on approximation the equivalent circuit diagram of an electrical or electronic element at high frequencies includes a measuring apparatus (4), to which the element to be represented as a two-port element (59) or a one-port element (1) is connected through connection members (2; 57, 58, 60) and which measures over a preselected frequency range the parameters of the stray matrix of the two-port element of the impedance or the reflection factor of the one-port element with the connection members. To the measuring apparatus (4) is connected an evaluation circuit (7), which corrects the measurement result by inclusion of two-port parameters of the connection member(s) determined before the measurement and which calculates for a preselected equivalent circuit diagram of the element from the corrected measurement result values of the equivalent circuit diagram elements by means of an optimization strategy.
Abstract:
A shaving apparatus is provided having at least one cutting unit comprising an external cutting member and an internal cutting member which is rotatable relative to the external cutting member, the external cutting member being formed with elongate hair-entry apertures, the longitudinal bounding walls of an aperture being substantially parallel. In order to improve the shaving performance the bounding walls of a hair-entry aperture are inclined from the outside towards the inside in the driving direction.
Abstract:
Circuit includes an (E)EPROM and a programming voltage generator. This generator has a charge pump, a programming voltage controller and an edge controller which limits the increase of the programming voltage per unit of time. In the memory circuit, the controllers are fed back to the charge pump in order to switch the charge pump on or off in dependence on the programming voltage variation.
Abstract:
A heat-actuated valve is inserted between a first vacuum space and a further vacuum space in a particle beam apparatus. The valve is preferably activatable by the temperature required for evacuating first vacuum chamber by heating. Preferably, the valve device itself is also evacuatable by heating; this can be readily realized by avoiding the use of non-metal valve members when the valve is inserted between two spaces wherebetween a compartively small absolute difference in pressure exists, in the closed condition of the valve.
Abstract:
A data processing system buffers sequential data for the duration of cyclically recurrent delay times. Memory location allocation is performed in such a way, that the memory is used efficiently without data-shifting after a read-out, and that the address generator is fairly simple.