Abstract:
A video tape recording/reproducing apparatus for reproducing video signals recorded in successive parallel tracks on a magnetic tape includes a magnetic head for scanning the tracks to reproduce the signals recorded therein; a bi-morph leaf for deflecting the head in a direction transverse to the direction along the tracks; a controllable oscillator for supplying a wobbling signal to the bi-morph leaf so as to cause the latter to deflect the head to oscillate in a transverse direction with respect to the tracks, whereby the signals reproduced by the head are amplitude modulated at the frequency of the wobbling signal; a tracking error detecting loop for supplying a tracking error signal, corresponding to deviation of the head from the respective track being scanned, to the bi-morph leaf so as to control the latter to correct the deviation; and a signal detecting loop for detecting the fundamental and second harmonic components of the amplitude modulated signals reproduced by the head and for controlling the amplitude of the wobbling signal from the controllable oscillator in response to a ratio of the levels of the second and fundamental harmonic components so as to reduce the amplitude of the wobbling signal for small tracking errors and to increase the amplitude of the wobbling signal for large tracking errors.
Abstract:
A video tape recording/reproducing apparatus for reproducing video signals recorded in successive parallel tracks on a magnetic tape includes a magnetic head for scanning the tracks to reproduce signals recorded therein; a bi-morph leaf for deflecting the head in a direction transverse to the direction along the tracks; a synchronizing signal forming circuit for producing substitute vertical synchronizing signals having correct vertical phase continuity for any of different reproducing modes, regardless of any phase discontinuity in the reproduced vertical synchronizing signals included with the video signals, the substitute vertical synchronizing signals being produced in response to either the reproduced vertical synchronizing signals or a speed ratio signal corresponding to the ratio of the speed of advancement of the tape in the reproducing mode to that in the recording mode, with the speed ratio signal being produced in response to the reproduced horizontal synchronizing signals included with the video signals; and a drive signal circuit for producing a drive signal which includes a head jump signal component and supplying the drive signal to the bi-morph leaf so as to control the latter to deflect the head to accurately scan the tracks, the drive signal circuit including a phase difference detecting circuit for producing a phase difference signal in response to the phase difference between the substitute vertical synchronizing signals and a reference vertical synchronizing signal, and a jump signal forming circuit producing the head jump signal component in response to the phase difference signal and the speed ratio signal.
Abstract:
In apparatus for supporting a magnetic transducer or head in a video tape recorder and which includes a cantilevered support member mounted at one end, for example, on a rotary portion of a tape guide drum, with the head secured on the opposite or free end of the support member in transducing relation to the tape wound about the drum; at least a part of the support member extending from its mounted end is constituted by a bi-morph leaf, and conductive layers are bonded to opposite surfaces of the bi-morph leaf and are absent from at least the free end portion of the support member so that flexing of the bi-morph leaf occurs between the conductive layers in response to the application of a drive signal to the conductive layers for deflecting the head laterally in respect to the plane of movement of the head with the rotary drum portion, and such flexing is excluded from at least the free end portion of the support member for facilitating the secure attachment of the head thereto and for minimizing the angular deviation of the active face of the head from the tape that accompanies the lateral deflecting of the head.
Abstract:
In an apparatus for reproducing video or other information signals recorded in successive parallel tracks extending obliquely on a magnetic tape or other record medium which is adapted to be longitudinally advanced, and with each of the tracks containing a positional signal, for example, constituted by a vertical synchronizing signal, at a predetermined position along the respective track, a magnetic head or transducer is movable in the direction generally along the tracks for reproducing the information and positional signals recorded therein and is mounted or supported by a bi-morph leaf or other transducer deflecting device which is operative, in response to the reception of an electrical drive signal, for deflecting the transducer or head in a direction transverse to the direction along the tracks, a circuit detects a time base error of the positional signal reproduced from each of the tracks, and a control circuit for providing the electrical drive signal to the transducer deflecting device is effective to vary such drive signal in accordance with the detected time base error. A time base variation of the reproduced signals is further detected, for example, in respect to the successive horizontal synchronizing signals of the reproduced video signals, and the electrical drive signal for the transducer deflecting device is also varied in accordance with such detected time base variation.
Abstract:
A circuit for forming a vertical synchronizing pulse at the end of a field of a composite video signal utilizes the characteristic of the video signal that the equalizing pulses in the vertical blanking interval have a pulse width one-half that of the horizontal synchronizing pulses in the composite video signal. Accordingly, the circuit includes a discriminating pulse generator which generates a discriminating pulse whose duration ends before the trailing edge of a horizontal synchronizing pulse, but after the trailing edge of an equalizing pulse; a comparator, such as a D-type flip-flop, for comparing the timing of the discriminating pulses with that of the equalizing and horizontal synchronizing pulses to discriminate the equalizing pulses on the basis of such comparison; and a generator for generating the vertical synchronizing pulse in response to the discrimination of the equalizing pulses.
Abstract:
Color video signal recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising a first circuit for generating a first signal having the same frequency as the field frequency of the color video signal, and a second circuit for generating a second signal that indicates a field interval having a predetermined phase relationship between a horizontal synchronizing signal and a color subcarrier signal. The first and second signals are combined to form a composite control signal, which is then recorded in a control track on a magnetic tape in the conventional manner. A comparison circuit is included for comparing the composite control signal reproduced from the tape with a reference control signal, the reference control signal being composed of a third signal having a frequency equal to the field frequency and a fourth signal indicating a field interval, in which a phase relationship between a reference horizontal synchronizing signal and a reference color subcarrier signal is equal to the predetermined phase relationship. Thus, during playback the movement of the magnetic tape is controlled in response to the output of the comparison circuit so that the phase of the composite control signal reproduced from the tape coincides with that of the reference control signal.
Abstract:
A heat-treating furnace has: a rotary shaft; a rotary bottom surface pivotally supported by the rotary shaft and rotates; a plurality of workpiece storage chambers arranged on the rotary bottom surface in a multi-stage torus configuration around an axis of the rotary shaft as a center; a hollow bell-shaped hot-blast guide disposed in a center of the torus configuration on the rotary bottom surface around the axis of the rotary shaft as a center so as to decrease a volumetric capacity in the furnace and to adjust a quantity of a hot blast fed in from above itself into the workpiece storage chamber on each stage; a furnace body bottom surface spaced away from the rotary bottom surface; and a furnace body lateral surface disposed on the furnace body bottom surface.
Abstract:
A heat-treating furnace has: a rotary shaft; a rotary bottom surface pivotally supported by the rotary shaft and rotates; a plurality of workpiece storage chambers arranged on the rotary bottom surface in a multi-stage torus configuration around an axis of the rotary shaft as a center; a hollow bell-shaped hot-blast guide disposed in a center of the torus configuration on the rotary bottom surface around the axis of the rotary shaft as a center so as to decrease a volumetric capacity in the furnace and to adjust a quantity of a hot blast fed in from above itself into the workpiece storage chamber on each stage; a furnace body bottom surface spaced away from the rotary bottom surface; and a furnace body lateral surface disposed on the furnace body bottom surface.
Abstract:
A phase change cooler of the present invention includes: a plurality of heat receiving units that cause a refrigerant to change phase from liquid to gas by heat received from a heat generating body; one heat radiating unit that causes the refrigerant to change phase from gas to liquid by radiating heat to surrounding area; a plurality of vapor tubes that respectively transport the refrigerant in a vapor state from each of the heat receiving units to the heat radiating unit; a liquid tube that respectively circulates the refrigerant in a liquid state from the heat radiating unit to each of the heat receiving units; and a bypass tube that connects each of the heat receiving units to each other.
Abstract:
A cooling structure is provided which includes: an evaporation chamber defined by a base plate having a boiling surface, a ceiling plate and a side wall; a plurality of plate-shaped fins arranged in parallel on the boiling surface, defining a plurality of coolant passages in the evaporation chamber, a liquid phase coolant flows through the coolant passages in one direction from one end portion thereof toward another end portion; a liquid return port formed in the side wall facing the one end portion of coolant passages; and a vapor port formed in the ceiling plate facing the other end portion of coolant passages, wherein space is formed between the ceiling plate and an upper end portion of the plurality of plate-shaped fins, the space expanding gradually from a liquid return port side of the side wall toward the vapor port.