Abstract:
A playback system has a rotatably driven turntable for controlling the operation of a playback stylus device with a video disc record disposed on the turntable. The video information, which is recorded in the form of geometric variations in a spiral groove of the record, is recovered by sensing the capacitance between the stylus playback device and the record surface. The stylus is supported in a housing which is movable in a manner to provide travel of the stylus radially over the record. A stylus control device provides movement of the stylus relative to the housing into and out of engagement with the record surface. Two drive arrangements are provided to be operable in alternative manner to drive the stylus housing over the record. A movable pointer is provided to indicate the position of the stylus along the record. Each of first and second drive means have motion coupling devices, which are controllably engageable in alternative manner to a driving shaft of the turntable. A movable drive change assembly is intercoupled with the respective drive arrangements and the stylus control apparatus, to selectively energize the drive and stylus control apparatuses. The system includes a manual selector arm for positioning a portion of control mechanism, which is instrumental in establishing drive control of the stylus housing and positioning of the stylus. The selector positions one of a pair of electrical contacts in a given initial spaced relation. The second electrical contact is positioned by a portion of the drive means to cause the contacts to engage at a desired position of the stylus over the record. An electrical circuit completed thereby is operative through electro-mechanical means to control the drive and positioning of the stylus with respect to the record. A manually actuatable lever arrangement is coupled to the drive and stylus control mechanism. This mechanism when actuated is operative to disengage drive of the stylus housing over the record and remove the stylus from the record, while maintaining the position of the stylus with respect to the center of the record.
Abstract:
A relatively small value of current is obtained in an integrated circuit by separating a larger current into two or more parts. The circuit includes two transistors and at least two strings of the same number of series connected diodes. Currents in a fixed ratio to one another are applied in the forward direction to the two strings of diodes and the voltages thereby obtained are applied to the respective base electrodes of the transistors. The larger current is applied in parallel to the emitter-to-collector paths of the two transistors and that part of this current which passes through the one of the transistors drawing the smaller of the two currents, is the current of interest.
Abstract:
Acousto-optic devices comprising a transducer bonded to an acousto-optic medium having improved bonds are made by a process whereby the surfaces to be joined are first roughened, a primer metal layer is coated onto the acousto-optic medium, which primer metal is the metal which is chemically bonded to oxygen in the acousto-optic medium, the primer layer is cooled, a layer of a conductive metal and a layer of indium are deposited onto both surfaces to be bonded and the indium layers pressed together in a vacuum.
Abstract:
A film of a single crystal lithium niobate film on a platinum coated lithium tantalate crystal can be prepared by depositing a thin layer of platinum on a polished lithium tantalate crystal surface, depositing a layer of finely divided lithium niobate on the platinum and fusing the lithium niobate. Such films are useful in optical waveguide electro-optic modulators and acoustic surface wave devices.
Abstract:
A four-port waveguide circulator includes a pair of rectangular waveguides which extend perpendicular to each other to form a junction having a pair of parallel boundary walls. A post of gyromagnetic material of a first diameter extends from one wall and a post of conductive material of a diameter greater than the first diameter extends from the other wall so as to contact the post of gyromagnetic material. The dimensions of the post of gyromagnetic material and of the post of conductive material are determined, with the strength of a magnetic field directed axially of the gyromagnetic post being selected, to produce a circulator action.
Abstract:
A system wherein orbit-adjust thrusters of a Pitch Momentum Bias spacecraft are used to perform both orbital inclination adjustment and roll and/or yaw attitude control. A strapdown inertial reference system comprising two rate gyros is operated in conjunction with an on-board computer to derive the shortest angle through which the total angular momentum vector of the spacecraft must be rotated to bring it into alignment with the orbit normal vector and the ideal torque to produce this rotation of the total angular momentum vector. The computer is then operated to select a combination of orbit adjust thrusters which produce a torque which best approximates the ideal torque and to control their firing to achieve the alignment of the total angular momentum vector with the orbit normal vector. Thereafter, the computer is operated to select the combination of orbit adjust thrusters which produce a torque to reduce the roll and/or yaw angular attitude error rates of the spacecraft. In one operation, both orbit inclination adjustment and attitude control are performed simultaneously.
Abstract:
A detector for repetitive cyclically permutable digital codes. The detector utilizes two shift registers, serially connected to provide two delayed versions of a repetitive code. A majority vote circuit responsive to the undelayed code and two delayed codes is used for forward error reduction. A run length counter responsive to the majority vote signal increments a count each time corresponding bits from the majority signal and a delayed version thereof agree. At a specified count, the code is read out with a high probability of accuracy.
Abstract:
Synchronous video detection in a television receiver provides increased detection linearity and better signal-to-noise ratio for weak signals than does envelope video detection. Impulse noise, which produces generally unobtrusive black-going noise components in a picture reproduced in response to a video signal recovered by envelope detection from a negatively modulated carrier also produces obtrusive white-going noise components in a picture reproduced in a response to a video signal recovered by synchronous detection. Common signal processing means, responsive to the envelope of the video signal modulated intermediate frequency carrier, inverts the white-going noise impulses to produce black-going components so that substantially all noise impulses appear black-going in the recovered signal.
Abstract:
A remotely controlled shaft rotator is described wherein a local indicator-control device is driven by a regulated local reversible motor. The local motor is initially responsive to a pulse derived at the remote drive unit for driving the indicatorcontrol device a given amount as controlled by a cam operated switch.