摘要:
What is proposed by the invention is a fin deployment mechanism for missiles in which a fin member can be extended from or retracted to the contour of a missile by means of a rotary to linear motion transmission system employing a rotatable screw shaft having respective adjacent portions embodying a left hand and a right hand thread for supporting respective ones of a pair of screw nuts, each of which are provided with a cam slot for receiving a cam follower mounted on the fin member, or fin supporting member, so that when the screw shaft rotates the screw nuts are caused to move therealong in mutually opposite directions and via the cooperation between the cam slots and the cam followers the fin is caused to rotate through a given angle. In each of the extreme positions of the fin member a locking engagement is effected for retaining such positions in a locked condition.
摘要:
An AC signal source having constant frequency-amplitude product is also easily realizable in hybrid microcircuit form. A square wave oscillator output is rectified and clamped to a feedback control voltage. The resulting controlled amplitude square wave is low-pass filtered to produce a sinusoidal output signal which is typically amplified and applied to a variable-impedance load. The sinusoidal signal is also applied to a similar but simulated load of fixed impedance value and the current flowing through the simulated load is summed with a temperature-compensated reference current producing an error current which is then integrated to produce the feedback control voltage which controls the amplitude of the sinusoidal signal so as to maintain a constant frequency amplitude product.
摘要:
A capacitance type fuel quantity gauge for a fuel tank which includes a probe capacitor in the fuel tank having a capacitance which varies in accordance with the fuel level and connected by one conductor to the output of a Lo-Z oscillator, two oppositely polled diodes connected together and to the capacitor, the positive diodes connected by another conductor to a signal conditioner and the negative diode connected to the one conductor by an inductance, the one conductor connected to the oscillator output and to the signal conditioner by a capacitor and inductance, respectively, so that the one conductor carries both the Lo-Z signal and the DC negative signal.
摘要:
A capacitive proximity sensor for use in hostile environments comprises a ceramic substrate, and two conductive regions formed on the substrate and having opposed edges defining a narrow gap therebetween. The gap configuration is such as to maximize the fringing of electric flux lines outwards from the substrate when one conductive region is energized from a high frequency source. The other conductive region is connected to remotely located signal conditioner operative to maintain said other region at virtual ground and thereby eliminate signal error due to cabling capacitances. On approach of a flux-shielding body to the sensor, the sensor output current to the signal conditioner will decrease as a function of the proximity of the body. The sensor can be used as a simple proximity sensor or incorporated in a shaft torque measurement system operative down to zero r.p.m.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for measuring liquid level. A generated broad-band swept-frequency C.W. microwave signal (2-4 GHz) is upverted to a high frequency band signal (34-36 GHz), which is transmitted towards, and reflected from, a liquid surface. The reflected signal is downverted to the frequency band of the original generated signal, and then the phase difference between the original and downverted signals is measured by a microwave phase discriminator and a quantizer, which generates video pulses proportional to the total phase shift across the swept C.W. band. During an adjacent sweep in the same direction, the original signal is compared with a signal transmitted through a calibration cable equivalent to a known free-space path length. The unknown signal path to and from the liquid surface, can then be calculated by comparison of the video pulse train outputs during the CALIBRATE and OPERATE modes of operation, either by the ratio of the number of pulses, or the average time between pulses during each sweep.Alternately, the mode of operation can be switched several hundred times during a single sweep across the bandwidth, and the unknown signal path corresponding to a particular liquid level can be calculated by comparison of the spacing during adjacent CALIBRATE and OPERATE modes to give several hundred measurements at different frequencies. Deviate measurements can then be eliminated, and the remaining measurements can be averaged to give a highly accurate true average measurement by known methods.
摘要:
A flat scale indicating device for use with servo units having feedback loops, having an indicator arm pivotally mounted to a sector gear, the latter being in meshing engagement with a rotary pinion for transmitting rotary motion of the pinion to a straight line translatory motion at the pointer end of the indicating arm. The indicator arm further functions as a potentiometer wiper and an electrical connection is provided between the arm and a suitable amplifier bridge circuit.
摘要:
IN A PHASE DISPLACEMENT TORQUE MEASURING SYSTEM UTILIZING A PAIR OF EXCITER WHEELS MOUNTED IN SPACE RELATIONSHIP ON SHAFT AND HAVING A PAIR OF TRANSDUCERS MOUNTED ADJACENT EACH WHEEL FOR GENERATING ALTERNATING SIGNALS HAVING A PHASE DISPLACEMENT INDICATIVE OF THE TORSIONAL DEFLECTION OF THE SHAFT. COMPENSATION FOR SHAFT MISALIGNMENT IS ACHIEVED BY ARRANGING THE TRANSDUCERS FOR EACH EXCITER WHEEL 180* APART SUCH THAT ANY MISALIGNMENT IN THE SHAFT PROVIDES ELECTRICAL PHASE SHIFTS OF EQUAL AND OPPOSITE MAGNITUDE IN THE ALIGNED TRANSDUCERS FOR THE TWO EXCITER WHEELS.
摘要:
A linear variable capacitance transducer to monitor the axial position of an object by varying the capacitance of the transducer corresponding to the position of the object. When fed an AC signal, the position of the object being monitored corresponds to the proportional AC signal emitted therefrom.