摘要:
A system selectively completes a horn circuit through which electrical power is provided to a horn in an automobile. A relay is connected to a power supply and completes the horn circuit when a current signal passing through the relay has at least a threshold magnitude. A relay driver is selectively activated by processing circuitry. When it is activated, the relay driver is in a conductive state, and when it is not activated, the relay driver is in a high impendance state. When the relay driver is in the conductive state, it places the relay in series with a low potential conductor thereby establishing the current signal at at least the threshold magnitude. The processing circuitry is electrically connected to a manually actuated sensor, which may be a flexible potentiometer. The processing circuitry activates the relay driver when the manually actuated sensor is actuated. The processing circuitry receives electrical power from the relay when the relay driver is in the high impendance state, but receives essentially no electrical power from the relay when the relay driver is in the conductive state. While the processing circuitry receives essentially no electrical power from the relay, the processing circuitry momentarily places the relay driver in the high impendance state so that the processing circuitry may receive electrical power from the relay and determine whether the manually actuated sensor is still actuated. An auxiliary power supply provides electrical power to the processing circuitry while electrical power is not received from the relay.
摘要:
A multi-function control system to control a variety of operations associated with a powered surgical device such as an arthroscopic surgical shaver. The system has an ergonomically designed foot switch which has a plurality of discrete force sensitive transducers arranged in an arcuate pattern. The transducers have no moving parts and have a force sensitive element which produces a variable output which is a function of the force applied by a user. The foot switch is used in conjunction with a control console which enables a user to adjust the force sensitivity threshold of the transducers. The foot switch additionally has physically discrete and tactilely sensible areas enabling a user to activate selected functions with a minimal amount of foot movement.
摘要:
A sensor for detecting physical amount in which a gauge resistance value is made not to change even when a wiring material presents a yield phenomenon by wiring a wiring material Such as aluminum presenting a yield phenomenon by thermal stress in a stress insensitive direction of a piezogauge.
摘要:
A foot switch includes a base member having an upwardly facing surface, a force sensing resistor disposed on the surface and coupled electrically to a sensing circuit, and an actuating layer disposed on the force sensing resistor and the base member surface. The actuating layer has an elevated portion which is substantially centered over the force sensing resistor, the elevated portion having a convex upper surface which is a portion of a spherical surface. The sensing circuit includes a constant current source connected in series with the force sensing resistor between ground and a predetermined voltage.
摘要:
A trimmable resistor which is prepared with additional electrical contacts between the resistor and the substrate. These contacts are usually not connected electrically to the electronic circuit. Moreover, they do not extend across the entire width of the resistor. If the resistor is over trimmed, its resistance can be reduced by wire bonding a selected one of the additional electrical contacts to an end contact of the resistor. Multiple contacts may be placed along the substrate, both on the side of the resistor where trimming is to take place and on an opposite side.
摘要:
A method of making a foil-type electrical resistance strain gage having a gage factor of at least 4. A PtW foil is adhesively bonded to a polyimide substrate with an FEP adhesive cured under heat and pressure. The foil is spin-coated with a positive photoresist, masked, and exposed to ultraviolet light. The exposed photoresist is then developed, permitting wet etching of the foil to form a gage pattern on the substrate, which is then preferably cured.
摘要:
The invention relates to a pressure-sensitive conductive elastomer compound which exhibits high resistance (insulating performance) when it is in non-pressed condition and the resistance of which, as the compound is pressed, varies according to the magnitude of the pressure. The compound comprises a matrix material having insulating and elastomeric properties and baked and carbonized conductive spherical particles of a macromolecular material incorporated and dispersed into the matrix material. The conductivity of the conductive particles varies according to the degree of their carbonization.
摘要:
A pressure responsive potentiometer, including an elastic body which includes a silicone mass mixed with a carbon fraction in a quantity such that the electrical resistance across the body is changed when a force is applied to the body, which body has electrically conductive contact tabs or plates or like elements connected thereto in mutually spaced relationship. The invention is characterized in that the body (1) is composed of a mixture including a silicone mass, silicone oil and carbon grains, where the weight ratio of silicone mass to silicone oil is about 1:0.3 to 1:0.5, preferably about 1:0.4, and where the carbon grains have a size which is greater than a size corresponding to a 50 mesh sieve (50 meshes per inch) and a size which is smaller than the smallest dimension of the body (1).
摘要:
A process consisting in preparing a homogeneous system comprising particles of a first electrically conductive material arranged in substantially uniform manner inside a mass of a second liquid material which, when solidified, is both flexible and electrically insulating; and in solidifying the aforementioned mass of the aforementioned second liquid material, so as to form a matrix for supporting the aforementioned particles; throughout solidification of the aforementioned second material, a given pressure being applied on the system for the purpose of producing triaxial precompression of the aforementioned second material when solidified.
摘要:
There is disclosed an electromechanical semiconductor transducer which is composed of a substrate of a first compound semiconductor and layers of second to fifth compound semiconductors grown on the substrate. The compound semiconductor contains at least one element such as aluminum, gallium, and arsenic selected from Groups III and V of the periodic table. The transducer converts mechanical strain into electrical signals.