摘要:
A fully-closing iris diaphragm is disclosed which consists of a substantially conventional iris diaphragm with the addition of a capping section to one leaf, which is positioned to obscure the minimum aperture obtainable without ''''scissoring'''' distortion of the leaves.
摘要:
In place of earlier known sphericity testing techniques using accurate reference surfaces which are compared with a surface under test, this invention provides an absolute test of sphericity by making use, in effect, of the spherical wavefronts emanting from or converging to a point. A hologram plate is illuminated with coherent light from a laser to establish a first beam which forms a virtual image at the same point as that at which a beam illuminating the surface under test is focused, the illuminating beam being reflected at the surface and forming with the first beam observable interference fringes indicative of departures of the surface under test from true sphericity.
摘要:
An audio-transducer incorporates a diaphragm carrying a current conductor and a plurality of permanent magnets constituting a magnet unit disposed in spaced relationship to the conductor. The magnets are formed of a material consisting of magnetizable particles embedded in a matrix of non-magnetic material. The diaphragm may be curved and/or corrugated.
摘要:
In a velocity-controlled servomechanism having also a position sensor such as a potentiometer, the invention provides an input circuit responsive to the reaching of a predetermined position for applying a fixed voltage source as the input to the velocity servo to cause the servo actuator to decelerate, suitably as it approaches the limits of its travel.
摘要:
This invention is concerned with shadow or contact printing as employed, for example in the photo-etching of substrates. An extended source of printing radiation, either in the form of an effectively annular fixed source or an orbiting source, is used to illuminate the mask under conditions of transitional FresnelFraunhofer diffraction, the effective illumination condition of the mask during an exposure causing diffraction patterns which tend to cancel each other, producing a sharply defined shadow of the mask.
摘要:
Apparatus for avoiding ambiguity in a quantised signal representing a pattern which is scanned by an optical detector. The apparatus operates to scan the pattern to be represented and to produce a quantised signal each quantum of which represents the major colour in each scanning element of the pattern scanned. Sampling means are provided which sample the binary signal produced by the scanning means at a rate higher than the rate at which the signal is ultimately to be quantised and the output from the sampling means controls a gating circuit which operates to prevent the signal representing the pattern from changing from a representation of one colour to a representation of another unless a predetermined number of the samples all represent one colour. This avoids any indeterminacy in the quantised signal at colour junctions where there are two or more colours present in an element being scanned, and no colour is sufficiently predominant for the detectors to unambiguously provide an output representing only that colour.
摘要:
A cryogenic device incorporates a liquid storage vessel from near the bottom of which a transfer passage leads to a closed cryogenic chamber having an exhaust passage closable by a liquid level sensitive device in the closed chamber. A heat sink is in heat-exchanging relation with the transfer passage. A by-pass pipe in which a shut-off valve is intercalated connects the upper part of the liquid storage vessel to the transfer passage.
摘要:
An anti-reflection multiple layer coating is formed on a transparent substrate by successive deposition of an inner layer, at least three intermediate layers and an outer layer, the optical thicknesses of the inner and outer layers being approximately lambda /4 and the overall optical thickness of the coating being approximately lambda , where lambda is a reference wavelength within the band of wavelengths over which reflection is to be reduced. The intermediate layers are formed with progressively decreasing refractive indices from the innermost to the outermost intermediate layers, either as a number of separate layers or as a single layer of graded refractive index.
摘要:
A servo control system comprises an actuator such as an electric motor which is operated in response to a demand signal and to a feedback signal representative of the actual actuator response. The feedback signal is derived by way of respective filters from two component signals representative of the actual response of the actuator and derived respectively from a transducer such as a tachometer generator coupled directly to the actuator and from the actuator itself. The filters are arranged so that the feedback signal contains a greater proportion of the component signal from the actuator within any frequency ranges in which mechanical resonance occurs in the system and a greater proportion of the component signal from the transducer within frequency ranges devoid of such mechanical resonance, so that the component signals substantially compensate each other at resonance and the resulting feedback signal is substantially free of resonance components.
摘要:
A pickup device such as a camera or a microphone is adjustably mounted on a movable support. Signal-generating means on the support provide signals representing the movement of the support with respect to a subject of the pickup device and these signals are combined to provide a vector displacement signal. A control system mounted on the support receives the vector displacement signal and uses it to adjust the pickup device so that a predetermined relationship between the pickup device and the subject is maintained irrespective of movement of the support or the subject.