摘要:
A high DC voltage power supply includes a three-phase autotransformer and a three-phase full-wave rectifier applied to the usual motor vehicle electrical system of the low DC voltage type. The low three-phase AC voltage of the usual system is transformed by the autotransformer to obtain a high three-phase AC voltage which is then rectified by the rectifier to provide a high DC voltage. The load energized by the high DC voltage is ungrounded to reduce the voltage available for inadvertent discharge from either load terminal to ground. Switching apparatus is provided for selectively applying the low three-phase AC voltage to the autotransformer only when it is desired to energize the load thereby avoiding at all other times the energy losses that would otherwise be associated with energization of the autotransformer. In one embodiment, the load is a windshield heater element and the autotransformer has multiple sets of input taps to provide deice and defog modes of operation, respectively. The tapping of the autotransformer on the input or primary side yields efficiencies in the construction and operation of the autotransformer. The engine driven generator of the vehicle electrical system is excited from a voltage source independent of the low three-phase AC voltage put out by the generator, at least during any period that the generator is overloaded, thereby to prevent a degenerative collapse in the generator output voltage.
摘要:
A windshield heater element for an automotive vehicle is controlled to provide a maximum power deice mode of operation and a reduced power defog mode of operation. The deice mode of operation is initiated in response to an operator actuated deice command and is terminated in response to the first to occur of expiration of a predetermined time period after initiation, or an operator actuated off command. The defog mode of operation is initiated in response to termination of a preceding deice mode of operation provided that such termination was not in response to an operator actuated off command, or an operator actuated defog command. The defog mode of operation is terminated in response to the first to occur of expiration of a predetermined time period after initiation provided that such initiation was not in response to an operator actuated defog command, or an operator actuated off command. Further, the deice mode of operation is permitted only when the vehicle transmission is in the park or neutral state, and the idle speed of the engine is raised above the normal idle speed to ensure that the power produced by the engine driven generator is adequate to meet the combined power requirement of the windshield heater element and other vehicle loads during the deice mode of operation. Additionally, the energization of the heater element is terminated or prohibited in response to detection of an abnormally high windshield temperature condition, an abnormally low battery voltage condition, an abnormally low heater current condition, or vehicle ignition shut-off.
摘要:
A high DC voltage power supply includes a three-phase autotransformer and a three-phase full-wave rectifier applied to the usual motor vehicle electrical system of the low DC voltage type. The low three-phase AC voltage of the usual system is transformed by the autotransformer to obtain a high three-phase AC voltage which is then rectified by the rectifier to provide a high DC voltage. The load energized by the high DC voltage is ungrounded to reduce the voltage available for inadvertent discharge from either load terminal to ground. Switching apparatus is provided for selectively applying the low three-phase AC voltage to the autotransformer only when it is desired to energize the load thereby avoiding at all other times the energy losses that would otherwise be associated with energization of the autotransformer. In one embodiment, the load is windshield heater element and the autotransformer has multiple sets of input taps to provide deice and defog modes of operation, respectively. The tapping of the autotransformer on the input or primary side yields efficiencies in the construction and operation of the autotransformer. In another embodiment, a current transformer is provided for measuring the AC current through one of the input and output leads of the autotransformer as an indication of the DC current through the load thereby to detect an abnormally low load current condition.
摘要:
A multivoltage electrical system for a motor vehicle that has a pair of storage batteries which, in a first charging mode are charged in series from the direct voltage output terminals of a bridge rectifier connected to an alternating current generator. In a second charging mode, only one of the batteries is charged and this takes place when a plurality of controlled rectifiers connecting the generator and a common junction of the batteries are gated conductive. The switching between modes is a function of the voltage of one of the batteries and the voltage of a triangular voltage waveform generator operating at a fixed frequency. The system is maintained in the second mode when generator speed is below a predetermined value.
摘要:
A theft-resistant assembly for screw base compact fluorescent lamps of the type having at least one U-tube integrated with and extending from an adapter member. The adapter member has a threaded portion for engagement with a lamp socket. The assembly includes a ring for disposition around a protrusion of the lamp socket protrusion, arms upstanding from the ring with each of the arms having an arm connector thereon, a collar for disposition around the U-tube and for engagement with a top surface of the adapter member, and legs depending from the collar with each of the legs having a leg connector thereon. The leg connectors are lockingly engageable with the arm connectors, respectively, to lock the collar to the ring, whereby to lock the adapter member to the socket.
摘要:
Sulfur cement-aggregate compositions comprising a sulfur cement and an aggregate containing an expansive clay and processes for preparing such compositions. The processes, and resulting compositions, are characterized by the addition of certain organosilanes in the composition prior to solidifying (cooling) the composition. The resulting solidified composition has improved water stability.The compositions can be used as mortars or concretes depending on the particle size of the principal aggregate component.
摘要:
Aromatic sulfide/sulfone polymers are prepared by initially contacting a dihaloaromatic sulfone, an alkali metal sulfide, an organic amide, and, optionally, an alkali metal carboxylate under polymerization conditions and subsequently at or near completion of the polymerization reaction, adding an end-capping agent comprising additional dihaloaromatic sulfone to the reaction mixture producing a polymer exhibiting improved physical properties including melt flow stability. The resulting polymers have utility as coatings, films, molded objects, filaments, fibers, and the like.
摘要:
The strength of portland cement concrete structures which incorporate alkali metal or alkaline earth polysulfides is increased by heating the structures at temperatures above 110.degree. C.
摘要:
A process for applying a smooth coating of a plasticized-sulfur composition which comprises:(1) conducting a continuous stream of a molten plasticized-sulfur coating composition through a flexible conduit to a spray nozzle;(2) injecting a substantially inert pressurized gas into the conduit proximate to the nozzle at a flow rate such that the ratio of the flow rate of the coating composition in cubic feet per minute to the flow rate of the gas in cubic feet per minute is about 0.02/1 to about 1/1; and(3) spraying the coating composition and the gas from the conduit through the nozzle onto the surface to be coated.
摘要:
Normally solid, moldable polyamides having diamine-derived structural units of the formula ##STR1## wherein each A is individually selected from the group consisting of 5-methylnonamethylene, 2,4-dimethyloctamethylene, 2,4,6-trimethylheptamethylene, and 4-isopropylheptamethylene; first diacid-derived structural units of the formula ##STR2## and second diacid-derived structural units of the formula ##STR3## wherein X is a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon radical containing from 14 to 46 carbon atoms. Minor amounts of other polyamide-forming materials can be included in the copolyamide to provide up to 30 percent of the nitrogen atoms and up to 30 percent of the carbonyl groups. When used as adhesives, these copolyamides possess very good initial T-peel strength.