Abstract:
A non-dispersive infra-red gas analyzer capable of measuring concentrations of more than one component of a sample gas mixture. Beam chopper means synchronously diverts IR along separate paths each of which terminates in the same sample gas cell. A filter cell capable of absorbing all IR in the absorption band of one component but transmitting IR absorbable by other components is placed in each separate path. Beams in the separate paths alternately act as reference and sample beams. The output from detectors sensible to IR absorbable by each component is synchronously demodulated to give separate indications of the concentrations of the components.
Abstract:
A device for printing coded labels that comprises a motor rotated printer. The printer has a series of printing elements in the form of electromagnets that are adjusted to operate at its resonant frequency and that are arranged in sets or banks on opposite sides of the rotational axis and in a row that extends through the rotational axis. Upon command that selected information be printed in code form, the reversible motor is started to rotate in one of its opposite directions and then a print cycle is initiated during which one set of the printing elements is continuously enabled whereas the other set is enabled in accordance with the information to be coded. The printer thereby develops during 180* of its rotation on half of a series of rings that are all of the same width and during the subsequent 180* of its rotation the remainder of the rings with widths determined by the coded information. Thus, logic ONES and logic ZEROS are developed which are also referred to as digital pairs. When a subsequent label is printed with the same or different coded information, rotation of the printer by the motor is in the opposite direction. Thus, the direction of rotation is changed after each label is printed. A sensor is drive connected to the printer so as to determine the print cycle and direction of rotation of the motor.
Abstract:
An adaptive braking system for an automotive vehicle is disclosed which includes a single comparator which compares a deceleration signal representative of wheel deceleration with a pair of reference levels. When wheel deceleration exceeds the first reference level, the comparator generates an output signal which activates an adaptive braking valve and which also activates a timer which produces an output signal for a predetermined time period after activation of the timer. The output signal from the timer switches the comparator to the second reference level which is lower than the first reference level, maintaining the adaptive braking valve on as long as wheel deceleration exceeds the second reference level. When the timer period expires, the comparator is switched back to the first reference level, to turn off the adaptive braking valve if wheel deceleration is less than the first reference level. A mercury switch which is responsive to vehicle deceleration is provided. When the mercury switch senses vehicle braking on a low coefficient surface both of the comparator reference levels are changed by a predetermined amount, although the difference between the reference levels remains the same.
Abstract:
A method of forming a universal flexural assembly having resiliency apertures disposed coincident with perpendicular axes of universal motion and freedom of motion spaces respectively disposed about and concentric with said apertures comprising the steps of providing an integral body with freedom of motion chambers and said resiliency apertures therein, inserting resilient coupling members within said resiliency apertures, and removing excess material from said body to transform said freedom of motion chambers into said freedom of motion spaces. The flexural assembly made according to the method disclosed herein is capable of executing virtually loss-free rotational universal movement about two perpendicularly disposed axes while torque may be simultaneously and uninhibitedly transmitted through the assembly.
Abstract:
A high strength, lightweight electrical cable having a center strength wire rope member and a plurality of shielded and insulated conducting wires arranged around the center strength member is disclosed, the conducting wires being shielded through the use of a spirally wound layer of conducting material and being cushioned through the use of a soft insulation layer and a plastic filler interposed between the center strength member and the conductors. The conducting wires are formed in bundles and are spirally wound around the center insulator and strength member. A sheath consisting of an open braid of nylon strands secures the conductor bundle, and the entire assembly is jacketed by means of an extruded layer of polyurethane which penetrates into the nylon braid, thereby providing a strong waterproof shield for the conductors. The center strength member is torquebalanced to avoid twisting and imparting rotational movement to a suspended load member.
Abstract:
A pair of removable, replaceable spring clips retain the caliper of a disc brake assembly on the torque member thereof. Each of the clips includes an arcuate portion having an inner circumferential surface which embraces the outer circumferential surface of torque-carrying pins carried by the caliper and therefore serve as a removable, replaceable torque-taking seat for the pins. The arcuate portions of the clips are received in corresponding recesses provided on opposite edges of the torquetaking member and therefore retain the pins on the member. An armlike portion extends from the arcuate portion of the clips, and a bolt fastens the arm portions to corresponding edges of the torque-taking member. The clips are made of a resilient material and are stressed when the caliper is mounted on the torque-taking member so that the clips prevent rattling of the caliper on the torque-taking member.
Abstract:
A disc brake is disclosed which includes a rotor having a pair of friction faces, friction elements opposed adjacent each of said friction faces, and caliper for urging the friction elements into frictional engagement with the corresponding friction faces when a brake application is effected. The caliper is mounted on a torque member which is mounted on a non-rotatable part of the vehicle. The torque member includes a pair of circumferentially spaced arms. Each of the arms is generally T-shaped to present a first portion extending generally parallel to the plane of the rotor and a second portion at the end of the first portion extending generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor. The second sections are provided with elongated, axially extending bearing surfaces that slidably support corresponding bearing surfaces provided on the caliper. The second sections of the arms not only slidably support the caliper for axial movement with respect to the rotor, but also resist twisting of the caliper with respect to the torque member when a brake application is effected.
Abstract:
A fitting adapted to be secured in force transmitting relationship to a filament composite or filament reinforced matrix bound tube. A portion of the tube between the ends thereof is provided with two integral conical sections. An annular lug member having a cone or funnel shaped wall is adapted to bear against one of the conical sections. A tapered ring is interposed between a spanner nut and the second of the conical sections which spanner nut is threadedly engaged with the lug member. The spanner nut is tightened to draw the ring and lug member against the respective conical sections, thereby fixedly securing the fitting in position on the filament composite tube. A suitable adhesive may be applied between mating surfaces of the tube, lug member, and ring to provice additional bond therebetween. The cone or funnel shaped wall may be constructed to permit the lug member to telescope on the tube relative to the conical sections thereof in which case a split annular collet or sleeve is interposed between the funnel shaped wall and adjacent conical section to compensate for the diametrical difference between the same. Another embodiment of the subject fitting suggests a split annular collet or sleeve interposed between the tube and lug member as well as the ring member and provided with conical inner and outer wall portions which mate with the respective conical walls of the tube, lug member, and ring member.
Abstract:
An infeed control system for a grinding machine is disclosed which includes a distance transducer generating trains of electrical pulses in response to wheelhead movement in either direction on the infeed slide, and a first and second up-down counter receiving and counting these electrical pulses generated, the first of these counters counting up in response to pulses generated by grinding infeed movement, the second counting up in response to pulses generated in response to dressing infeed movement. A series of comparator networks compares these counts with preset values set in the series of comparators, and generates sequencing control signals there from at points in the infeed motions of the wheelhead corresponding to the preset values. To compensate for the effect of the changes in wheel diameter due to dressing operations, an arrangement is provided which inhibits the counting up of the counter responding to electrical pulses generated by grinding infeed motion occurring after each dressing operation for a count total equal to the dressing depth.
Abstract:
A high power, high efficiency transistor amplifier is disclosed having an input drive signal in the form of a square wave with a square wave or saturated voltage output. This amplifier drives a tuned or reactive load with the result that the output current wave form is sinusoidal or some form other than a square wave. A current transformer or other current sensing device is connected into the output circuit, and a portion of the output current is fed back to the input in such sense that resulting sinusoidal voltage pulses are added to each square wave input pulse. Where the output transistors are connected in push-pull in a grounded emitter configuration, resistors are normally connected in the emitter circuit. A sinusoidal voltage is developed across these resistors which subtracts from the input drive square wave voltage pulses. This results in a degradation in the drive signal which may cause the output transistors to drop out of saturation which then causes them to try to deliver excessive power with resulting danger of burning them out. By feeding back a sinusoidal voltage which is added to the base drive, saturation is maintained throughout the length of the drive pulse. In another embodiment a plurality of identical amplifiers are connected into a common output such that their square wave voltage output signals are displaced slightly in time and algebraically added to produce a sine wave synthesis output signal across the load which, in this case, may be either reactive or resistive. A similar current sensing or voltage sensing device connected into the load circuit provides a similar feedback signal to each amplifier to assure saturation.