Abstract:
A lift indicator for either fixed or rotary wing aircraft includes a nucleonic density gauge for deriving a density altitude indicating signal and means for deriving a temperature indicating signal. The signals are nonlinearly combined to derive the lift indication which can be correlated to the ability of a rotary wing aircraft to take off or land vertically or for a fixed wing aircraft to take off from a runway of known length. The density altitude indicating signal is combined with an indicated airspeed signal derived from a pitot tube to derive a true airspeed-indicating signal.
Abstract:
For monitoring the moisture content of strip material such as paper while it is being manufactured or wound, a dielectric gauge probe is provided including concentric, circular or spiral plates, adjacent circular plates or turns of spiral plates being of opposite polarity, the probe being arranged for edgewise presentment of the plates to the moving strip, a hood being provided about the plates. Negative air pressure maintaining apparatus is communicated to the interior of the hood, and through a passage in the probe to the strip of material for maintaining the probe in desired adjacency with a surface of the strip.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a digital spectrum analyzer wherein the spectral content at a plurality of frequencies wm is computed in response to Fourier transforms at each frequency of an analyzed signal at a plurality of discrete time intervals. The Fourier transforms over each interval are combined to indicate the Fourier transform over the entire interval being considered. A further disclosed feature relates to determining with a specific degree of certainty whether a frequency component is periodic. The determination is made by multiplying average power spectrum density over all the frequencies by a predetermined factor, dependent upon the degree of certainty desired. If the spectral density at a particular frequency is greater than the product, it can be assumed, with the predetermined degree of certainty, that the frequency is periodic. Another disclosed feature concerns automatically scaling the amplitudes of the spectral responses at a plurality of predetermined frequencies, whereby no off-scale readings are obtained.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a system for deriving a direct digital indication of the position of a penetrating radiation source, e.g., a gammaray of X-ray source. A detector array having multiple channels with the same field of view is irradiated by the source. Each channel includes a different number of radiation-receiving areas to derive the digital indication. The detector array, in certain embodiments, is shielded with a slit plate or shadow mask. In another embodiment, a single multiple detector channel is shielded with a shadow mask and step changes in illumination of each detector drive a position indicating counter.
Abstract:
A nucleonic measuring gauge for cigarette tubing in which a housing contains a radiation source and has an aperture controlled by a sliding shutter, in which a U-shaped spring steel shutter lock is positioned in the path of shutter movement and has leaves which are held in an open position by a quantity of meltable material permitting the shutter to move between the leaves, and in which the spring leaves are stressed to close together behind the shutter blocking the shutter in a closed position upon occurrence of an abnormally high ambient temperature with the melting of the material.