摘要:
An electronic chime alarm includes a Hartley oscillator having a center-tapped coil which is electromagnetically coupled to a magnetic reed. The reed is supported at one end thereof by a yoke arrangement. By design, the oscillator may pulse the reed at a frequency lower than the reed''s resonant frequency. The resultant reed vibrations, which include harmonics dependent upon reed structure, of which a number of examples are shown, may be coupled to an amplifier and a speaker by either a nonmagnetic transducer or by a filter circuit connected across the coil. In addition, various examples of an oscillator unit structure including the reed, yoke, coil and transducer are illustrated. Finally, various switching arrangements which enable the chime alarm to be used with standard synchronous motor clocks or with clock-radios are described.