摘要:
An improved device for measuring the time of occurrence of a pulse centroid, particularly for irregularly shaped electrical pulses. An electrical pulse is fed to a first integrator whose output is fed to a summing network and a second inverting integrator. The output from the second integrator is also fed to the summing network. The output of the summing network is then fed to a zero crossing detector which provides an output related in time to the time of occurrence of the pulse centroid.
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Arrangement for and method of obtaining a first, second and following derivative of a titration curve with respect to time, particularly in automatic titration apparatus for quantitative chemical analysis. The arrangement of the invention comprises a low pass frequency filter followed by at least one derivator with an operational amplifier and the corresponding input and feedback impedances for obtaining a derivative of the titration curve with respect to time, said derivator may be connected behind an impedance converter for transfer of the input signal to the required voltage and power level. At corresponding places of the arrangement there are connected recording devices for recording the course of curves obtained and evaluation circuits for determination of the equivalent point.
摘要:
An integrator circuit has an operational amplifier with a capacitor in a feedback path. Also in the feedback path is a diode to provide a stable starting D.C. level for the integrator. A second diode can be used for thermal and threshold compensation.
摘要:
A centroid generator that computes X and Y centroids. Instantaneous values of X and Y are multiplied by instantaneous values of intensity and periodically integrated and divided by integrated values of intensity during the same interval. To synchronize the generator to compute a centroid at the end of each scan the Y input is differentiated, fed to a zero crossing detector, and then to a circuit that has an output with the same polarity regardless of the input polarity. This signal is fed to a single shot which forms the sample pulse. Another single shot generates the reset pulse.
摘要:
A known multirange integrator includes a multistep voltage divider (e.g., 1, 1/10, 1/100) for the input signal, an analogto-digital converter for generating counting pulses at a frequency proportional to the (divided) input voltage, a final counter for these pulses, and a multistep switching arrangement for effectively multiplying the ''''weighting'''' of the pulses by a factor (e.g., 1, 10, 100) to counteract the effect of the input voltage divider (as by supplying the pulses to different stages of a, say, decade counter). The analog-to-digital converter may be a resettable integrator which supplies a counting pulse when its output reaches a preset value, the integrator being simultaneously reset by supplying a reset signal (of standardized voltage and time) to its input. The improvement insures that range switching (of the input divider and output ''''weighting'''' switching arrangement) does not occur during the production of a counting pulse by the resettable integrator, which would cause the input signal to be (at least in part) integrated as divided by one factor and the resulting pulse later counted at a different weighting factor. In particular, although the range chosen is dependent on the amplitude of the input signal, actual switching to a new range occurs only when a counting pulse is generated, thereby occurring during the integration reset interval. This switching may be caused by flip-flops setting each range, which flip-flops are enabled by a logic circuit and limit switches reading the input level, but which actually change state only upon occurrence of a counting pulse.
摘要:
An integrator apparatus for measuring the area under peaks in an input signal includes a main integrator for measuring such peaks, and a slope detector for comparing the signal change during each of a regular sequence of short measuring time intervals (the beginning and end of each of which is controlled by a repetitive timing pulse generator or programmer) and resetting the integrator to zero if the input signal does not change by more than a significant (threshold) amount during such a measuring interval. Thus the integrator continues to accumulate the input signal during each peak, including that part found in the first measuring time interval in which the beginning of the peak is detected, but the integrator is reset to zero after all measuring time intervals in which no signal peak exists, including those in which a peak has ended and those in which only noise is present.
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The mean value of waiting time, Wm, for an elevator system on a certain floor can be obtained by detecting intervals of the elevator arrival T1, T2, T3, . . . , Ti at the floor and carrying out the operation:
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Apparatus and method for measuring particle concentration in a fluid suspension by obtaining signals from a sensing zone and relating the duration of time occupied by the particles in suspension while traversing the sensing zone to the total time. Concentration is proportional to the percentage of time particles are in the sensing zone. The apparatus includes means for measuring the duration of a predetermined portion of each particle pulse between two ascertainable points thereof, such as for example, at some fraction of its amplitude and deriving thereby a plurality of duration-measuring pulses. The direct current component of these duration-measuring pulses averaged over the time during which they occurred is obtained in a d.c. meter and is proportional to concentration. The meter indication may be calibrated in terms of concentration. The apparatus and method are particularly applicable in connection with a Coulter particle analyzing device in which the sensing zone is the aperture of the Coulter device.
摘要:
The apparatus includes (1) a Coulter type particle analyzing device for producing a particle pulse each time a particle is in a sensing zone, each particle pulse having poorly defined leading and trailing edges and a duration related to the time the particle is in the sensing zone, (2) electrical circuitry connected to the output of the particle analyzing device for producing, upon sensing each particle pulse above a predetermined threshold level, an output pulse having a selected clearly defined duration established between (a) a clearly defined leading edge of the output pulse occurring at a time substantially equal to the time of inflection of the slope of the leading edge of the particle pulse and (b) a clearly defined trailing edge of the output pulse occurring at substantially the same time that the instantaneous value of the trailing edge of the particle pulse falls below the level of the instantaneous value of the leading edge of the particle pulse at the time of inflection of the slope of the leading edge of the particle pulse, and (3) apparatus for measuring and displaying the duty factor of a train of the output pulses. The method includes the steps of: initiating an output pulse for each particle pulse at a time substantially equal to the time of inflection of the slope of the leading edge of the particle pulse, terminating each output pulse at substantially the same time that the instantaneous value of the trailing edge of the particle pulse falls below the level of the instantaneous value of the leading edge of the particle pulse at the time of inflection of the slope of the leading edge of the particle pulse, and measuring the duty factor of a train of the output pulses. This duty factor is closely proportional to particle concentration.
摘要:
A DIVIDING CIRCUIT COMPRISING A MONOSTABLE MULTI VIBRATOR WITH AN RC TYPE TIME-CONSTANT-DETERMINING CIRCUITRY, AND A CONSTANT D.C. VOLTAGE SOURCE AND TWO VARIABLE D.C. VOLTAGE SOURCES. IN A STABLE STATE, THE TIMECONSTANT-DETERMINING CAPACITANCE IS CHARGED FROM A FIRST VARIABLE D.C. VOLTAGE SOURCE CORRESPONDING TO A NUMERATOR, AND IN UNSTABLE STATE IT DISCHARGES THROUGH A LOOP INCLUDING A SECOND VARIABLE D.C. VOLTAGE SOURCE CORRESPONDING TO A DENOMINATOR.