Abstract:
An input buffer circuit of a semiconductor memory capable of controlling a logic threshold voltage of the circuit according to a change in an external supply voltage, which includes an external supply voltage detecting unit for dividing the external supply voltage into a plurality of regions by comparing a plurality of voltages, which have been divided by different ratios of the entire external supply voltage, with a standard voltage; and a converting unit including a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit, for converting input signals of TTL level into signals of CMOS level, according to the regions of the external supply voltage obtained by the external supply voltage detecting unit. The input buffer has an advantage in that margins for a logical high input range and logical low input range are improved when converting voltages of TTL level into voltages of CMOS level, by controlling the logic threshold voltage so as to lower the logic threshold voltage when the external supply voltage level is high and raise the logic threshold voltage when the external supply voltage level is low.
Abstract:
An automotive sensor arrangement including an automotive sensor coupled via first and second wires to signal sensor evaluation means, a signal conditioning circuit comprising a first gate means connected to provide a bias operating voltage signal on said first wire to the sensor, a second gate means of similar construction to the first gate means and mounted in the same environment and first gate means, the second gate means being coupled to the second wire of the leas means for receive the voltage signal bears a predetermined relationship to the switching point voltage of the second gate means.
Abstract:
A multiple redundant clock system comprises at least n=4 clocks and is self-synchronizing and fault tolerant against the failure of at the most 1/2(n-1) clocks. Each clock comprises an oscillator circuit which activates a dividing circuit at the end of each period in order to form its own clock signal on the output of the dividing circuit. Each clock furthermore comprises a deviation-determining device which compares the own clock signal with the clock signals originating from the other clocks in the system. When an excessively large number of the other clock signals deviate during the first half of the (own) period, the own oscillator circuit is decelerated. When an excessively large number of the other clock signals deviate during the second half of the own period, the own oscillator circuit is accelerated.
Abstract:
A circuit for preventing retarding field oscillations in electron switching tubes, includes a feeding diode connected to the plate of the switching tube, and a power supply for generating the retarding field voltage, the power supply being connected in parallel with the switching tube through the feeding diode.
Abstract:
A circuit for providing redundancy of key system components simply and economically with slightly degraded performance. In normal operation, two active devices such as amplifiers supply power to a single load or to a pair of loads. Upon failure of one of the active devices, the circuit apportions the power from the remaining operational device to the load or loads for continued operation.
Abstract:
A method of, and apparatus for, adjusting an electronic yarn cleaner having a yarn feeler mechanism for generating a scanning signal dependent upon the cross-section of a yarn or the like to be cleaned and at least one controllable channel connected with the yarn feeler mechanism for evaluation of the scanning signal and for triggering a yarn cutter mechanism in the event there is present a defective yarn cross-section. For the purpose of automatically adjusting or setting at least one evaluation channel during travel of the yarn there is derived a thickness signal from the scanning signal, the magnitude of which thickness signal represents the yarn thickness determined over a larger section of the yarn. While taking into account the relative cleaning boundary of the evaluation channel this thickness signal is processed into a control signal for the evaluation channel in order to adjust its response threshold in the same sense as the magnitude of the thickness signal.
Abstract:
1. In combination, an amplifier for amplifying applied signals comprising an amplifier tube having an anode, a cathode, and at least one control grid, an anode resistor through which an operating voltage is applied to said anode, means for biasing said tube so that it has good transconductance, whereby there is subbstantial anode current flow in the absence of applied signals, said tube having an input circuit through which signal may be applied to said tube with its polarity in the direction to increase the flow of anode current in said tube, said tube having a blanking circuit through which a blanking pulse may be applied to drive said tube to anode current cut-off, means for applying said blanking pulse to said blanking circuit, said anode being at a certain potential in the absence of applied input signal and applied blanking pulses, and an un-bypassed unidirectional conducting device that in direct-current connected between said anode and a point of substantially the same potential as said certain potential, said device having an anode that is connected to the anode of said amplifier tube to permit current flow from said anode to said point.
Abstract:
The present disclosure involves methods and apparatus for continually replacing the adsorbed gas layer stripped from highcurrent field-emission cold cathodes by the effects of highvoltage pulsing the cathode.