摘要:
A system for measuring momentum flux in a turbulently flowing fluid including a sensing apparatus for dynamically sensing the mainstream and the cross velocity components of the fluid, a transducer operative to provide two electrical output signals representative of the velocity components in the mainstream and in the cross direction, and signal processors to derive the Reynolds stress wave and the Reynolds stress.
摘要:
An apparatus is disclosed for holding a plurality of modular components against a surface. A fixture prepositions the components and a vacuum develops a uniform pressure which presses and holds the fixture and objects against a surface. The surface may be curved, vertical, or overhead and since local load concentrations are avoided, fragile ceramic tiles may be installed using the apparatus.
摘要:
A continuous HCl in-air indicator consists of a tube-like element with an inlet end through which a continuous stream of air, containing HCl, enters. The air flows downstream from the inlet end and exits the element's outlet end. Positioned between the element's inlet and outlet ends are first and second spaced apart photoelectric units, which are preferably positioned adjacent the inlet and outlet ends, respectively. Ammonia gas is injected into the air, flowing through the element, at a position between the two photoelectric units. The ammonia gas reacts with the HCl in the air to form ammonium chloride particles. The difference between the outputs of the two photoelectric units is an indication of the amount of HCl in the air stream.
摘要:
For use in a waveguide gas laser a capillary tube of glass or ceramic has an inner surface defining a longitudinal capillary opening through which the laser gas flows. At least a portion of the inner surface is corrugated with corrugations or channels with a periodicity .LAMBDA. where .LAMBDA. = 1/2.lambda., .lambda. being the laser gas wavelength. The tube includes a diffused region extending outwardly from the opening. The diffused region of a depth d on the order of 1.lambda. to 3.lambda. acts as a waveguide for the waves, with the corrugations producing distributed feedback. The evanescent component of the waves travelling in the diffused region interact with the laser gas in the opening, gaining energy therefrom, and thereby amplifying the waves travelling in the diffused region, which exit the diffused region, surrounding the opening, as a beam of wavelength .lambda..
摘要:
An analog-to-digital converter, finding particular application in a multichannel pulse height analyzer, includes means for digitizing the analog input in two conversion steps. To digitize the input to 13 bits, a 7-bit digital to analog converter (DAC) with a 7-bit up-down counter is used. During the first conversion step which is a coarse conversion, the input, V.sub.I, is compared with the DAC output, V.sub.L and the 7-bits of the counter are set by successive approximation. Thereafter, after settling, the DAC output is driven twice toward V.sub.I. The output of an amplifier of a gain 2.sup.7 is stored after each change of the DAC in one of two storage and hold circuits, depending on the polarity of the amplifier output. Then, the content of the 7-bit counter is transferred to the 7 higher order bits of a 14-bit buffer counter. Then, the fine conversion step is performed by successive approximation. In it the voltage in one of the storage and hold circuits is applied as the input and the difference of the voltages in the two storage and hold circuits is applied to a resistor ladder of the DAC. Then, the 7 bits of the counter are transferred to the 7 lower bits of the buffer counter. Thereafter, it is incremented by one and truncated by one, so that only its 13 higher order bits are read out, as the 13 bit output.
摘要:
A method of diffusion bonding and fluxless brazing of aluminum containing components, including a method of preparing aluminum containing surfaces for such welding techniques wherein the aluminum surfaces are freed of any aluminum oxide coating and are coated with a polymeric sealer which can be thermally removed leaving essentially no residue, the polymeric sealer being removed in a substantially oxygen-free environment and the aluminum components then being brazed or diffusion bonded without the use of a flux to remove oxide coating.
摘要:
A miniature transducer for sensing muscle displacement substantially consists of a curved beam of high elastic compliance connected at its ends to two prongs. The prongs have sharpened tips which are insertable into the muscle under observation. A sensitive strain gauge is bonded to the beam preferably at the point of greatest curvature. The strain gauge output is directly related to changes in the beam curvature. As the muscle under observation expands the spacing between the prongs increases which decreases the beam curvature. On the other hand, when the muscle contracts the prongs' spacing decreases, thereby increasing the beam curvature.
摘要:
A fixed, linear, ground-based primary reflector having an extended curved sawtooth-contoured surface covered with a metalized polymeric reflecting material, reflects solar energy to a movably supported collector that is kept at the concentrated line focus of the reflector primary. The primary reflector may be constructed by a process utilizing well-known freeway paving machinery.
摘要:
A fixed, linear, ground-based primary reflector having an extended curved sawtooth-contoured surface covered with a metalized polymeric reflecting material, reflects solar energy to a movably supported collector that is kept at the concentrated line focus of the reflector primary. The primary reflector may be constructed by a process utilizing well-known freeway paving machinery. The solar energy absorber is preferably a fluid-transporting pipe. Efficient utilization leading to high temperatures from the reflected solar energy is obtained by cylindrical shaped secondary reflectors that direct off-angle energy to the absorber pipe. To obtain higher temperature levels, refocusing secondary reflectors, that cause a series of discrete spots of highly concentrated solar energy to fall on the fluid-transporting pipe, are utilized. A seriatim arrangement of cylindrical secondary reflector stages and spot-forming reflector stages produces a high temperature solar energy collection system of greater efficiency.
摘要:
The abrasion resistance of plastic surfaces coated with polymerized organosilanes can be significantly improved by post-treatment of the polymerized silane in an oxygen plasma. For optical purposes, the advantages of this post-treatment are developed with a transparent polycarbonate resin substrate coated with plasma polymerized vinyltrimethoxysilane.