Aperture card plotter
    1.
    发明授权
    Aperture card plotter 失效
    光圈卡片绘图机

    公开(公告)号:US4777495A

    公开(公告)日:1988-10-11

    申请号:US042210

    申请日:1987-04-24

    CPC分类号: G06K17/00 G06K1/126

    摘要: A plotter for recording data from a modulated laser beam onto a recording medium mounted covering the aperture of an aperture card wherein the aperture is located toward one end of the aperture card with a blank margin on either side of the aperture, the plotter including an aperture card supply module for supplying the aperture card from a plurality of aperture cards, a carriage module having a recording station and a platen member for stepping the aperture card past the recording station, a laser scanning module for scanning a row of data from the modulated laser beam laterally across the recording medium through the recording station as the recording medium is stepped past the recording station by the platen member, a dry developer module for developing the data recorded on the recording medium by the laser scanning module, a feed path from the aperture card supply module through the carriage module and the dry developer module, and transport apparatus for transporting the aperture card along the feed path from the aperture card supply module, through the carriage module and the dry developer module. The plotter also includes a printer module along the feed path for printing titling information on the aperture card.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于将数据从调制的激光束记录到安装在覆盖光圈卡片孔径上的记录介质上的绘图仪,其中孔径位于光圈卡片的一端,孔径两侧具有空白边缘, 用于从多个光圈卡提供光圈卡的卡片供应模块,具有记录站的滑架模块和用于使孔径卡通过记录站的压板部件,用于从调制激光器扫描数据行的激光扫描模块 当记录介质通过压板构件跨过记录站时横过记录介质横过记录介质;用于通过激光扫描模块显影记录在记录介质上的数据的干式显影剂模块, 卡片供应模块通过滑架模块和干式显影剂模块,以及用于传送孔的输送装置 卡片沿着光圈卡供应模块的馈送路径,通过滑架模块和干式显影剂模块。 绘图仪还包括沿着馈送路径的打印机模块,用于在孔卡上打印标题信息。

    Gimbal apparatus for translating rotational motion to accurate linear
motion
    2.
    发明授权
    Gimbal apparatus for translating rotational motion to accurate linear motion 失效
    用于将旋转运动转换为准确的线性运动的平衡器装置

    公开(公告)号:US4779473A

    公开(公告)日:1988-10-25

    申请号:US56170

    申请日:1987-06-01

    摘要: A lead screw driven by a motor has a drive nut threadably connected to the lead screw for reciprocation therealong. The drive nut is rotationally restrained thereby limiting its movement along the axis of the lead screw. Three disk members each having an opening through their centers are positioned on the lead screw. The two outer disk members each have at least a pair of bearing members, such as ball bearings, positioned along a diameter of the disk on adjacent sides of the opening. A keeper member is positioned on the lead screw to sandwich the three disk members between the drive nut and the keeper member. Indexing members are positioned on the drive nut and the keeper member to maintain the diameters of the two outer disks, having the bearings mounted therein, orthogonal with respect to each other. A linear motion device is rigidly coupled to the keeper member such that rotary motion of the lead screw is translated to the linear motion device without flexure, eccentricities, or other undesirable movement of the lead screw being transmitted to the linear motion device.

    摘要翻译: 由电动机驱动的导螺杆具有螺纹连接到导螺杆的驱动螺母,用于在其上往复运动。 旋转地限制驱动螺母,从而限制其沿着导螺杆的轴线的运动。 每个具有通过其中心的开口的三个盘构件定位在导螺杆上。 两个外盘构件各自具有至少一对轴承构件,例如球轴承,其沿着开口的相邻侧上的盘的直径定位。 保持器构件定位在导螺杆上以将三个盘构件夹在驱动螺母和保持构件之间。 分度构件定位在驱动螺母和保持构件上以保持其中安装有轴承的两个外盘的直径相对于彼此正交。 直线运动装置刚性地联接到保持器构件,使得导螺杆的旋转运动被转换成直线运动装置,而不会弯曲,偏心或传递到线性运动装置的丝杆的其它不希望的运动。

    Intensity controller for an aperture card plotter
    3.
    发明授权
    Intensity controller for an aperture card plotter 失效
    光圈卡片仪的强度控制器

    公开(公告)号:US4764778A

    公开(公告)日:1988-08-16

    申请号:US42406

    申请日:1987-04-24

    摘要: A system for controlling the intensity of a scanning laser beam used to plot a computer-output microfilm image on an aperture card. The intensity of the beam is controlled by an acousto-optic modulator, which varies the light contained in various components of the modulated output. The first order beam is used for scanning the microfilm because it can be varied from its maximum intensity down to essentially cut-off without requiring large amounts of modulator drive. The intensity control is accomplished in two stages. First, before each scan across the microfilm, a known fraction of the first order beam is split off and sensed for intensity level. This level is directly proportional to the scan beam intensity. The sensed level is then compared to a preset voltage representing the proper exposure operating point for that manufacturer's microfilm characteristics. An error signal is produced by the comparison and is fed into a hold circuit. During this non-microfilm scanning portion of the cycle, the error signal updates the modulator drive level to continuously vary the modulated beam intensity in a way to minimize the error signal, thus, in closed-loop fashion the scan beam intensity is controlled to the proper exposure operating point. Second, as each scan line of the microfilm begins, the hold circuit is switched to "hold" mode so the intensity level sensed before the scan is the level that is held during the subsequent scan. During the scan, pixel data is modulated to the "held" intensity level in order to control the modulation of the scan beam intensity to the operating level. By modulating the beam in a purely binary fashion according to pixel data as it scans across the microfilm, a microfilm image is reproduced.

    摘要翻译: 用于控制用于在孔卡上绘制计算机输出的微缩胶片图像的扫描激光束的强度的系统。 光束的强度由声光调制器控制,声光调制器改变调制输出的各种分量中包含的光。 第一级光束用于扫描微缩胶片,因为它可以从其最大强度下降到基本截止,而不需要大量的调制器驱动。 强度控制分两个阶段完成。 首先,在微缩胶片的每次扫描之前,将第一级光束的已知部分分离并感测强度级别。 该电平与扫描光束强度成正比。 然后将感测到的电平与表示该制造商的微缩胶片特性的适当曝光工作点的预设电压进行比较。 通过比较产生误差信号,并将其馈送到保持电路。 在该周期的非微缩胶片扫描部分期间,误差信号更新调制器驱动电平,以便以最小化误差信号的方式连续地改变调制的光束强度,因此以闭环方式将扫描光束强度控制到 适当的曝光作业点。 第二,当微缩胶卷的每个扫描线开始时,保持电路被切换到“保持”模式,使得在扫描之前感测的强度水平是在随后的扫描期间保持的电平。 在扫描期间,将像素数据调制到“保持的”强度水平,以便将扫描光束强度的调制控制到操作水平。 通过在扫描微缩胶片时根据像素数据以纯粹的二进制方式调制光束,再现微缩胶卷图像。

    Dry film developer for an aperture card printer
    4.
    发明授权
    Dry film developer for an aperture card printer 失效
    用于孔卡打印机的干膜显影剂

    公开(公告)号:US4794224A

    公开(公告)日:1988-12-27

    申请号:US36517

    申请日:1987-04-09

    IPC分类号: G03D13/00 H05B3/20

    CPC分类号: G03D13/002

    摘要: An improved dry film developer for use with a machine of the type that processes aperture cards which developer incorporates a holding mechanism for holding and stretching the aperture card while a heating block having an arcuate projecting surface is urged against the undeveloped dry film, mounted in the aperture card, to slightly stretch the film so as to insure a uniform contact of the undeveloped film with the heating block for a period of time sufficient to develop the film.

    摘要翻译: 一种改进的干膜显影剂,用于处理孔卡的类型的机器,显影剂结合有用于保持和拉伸孔卡的保持机构,同时具有弓形突出表面的加热块被推靠在未开发的干膜中,安装在 光阑卡,以稍微拉伸薄膜,以确保未显影的薄膜与加热块的均匀接触一段足以使薄膜显影的时间。

    Dry film development process for an aperture card printer
    5.
    发明授权
    Dry film development process for an aperture card printer 失效
    光圈卡片打印机的干膜开发过程

    公开(公告)号:US4841343A

    公开(公告)日:1989-06-20

    申请号:US173214

    申请日:1988-03-25

    IPC分类号: G03D13/00

    CPC分类号: G03D13/002

    摘要: Line broadening is eliminated in dry heat-developed films by using a development temperature which is higher than the manufacturer-recommended standard temperature, so that a much shorter development time can be used, and masking the edges of the film to prevent exposure thereof. The hot/short development cycle and the masking of the film edges substantially eliminate image smearing caused by emulsion shrinkage and migration.

    摘要翻译: 通过使用高于制造商推荐的标准温度的显影温度,在干热显影膜中消除线展宽,从而可以使用更短的显影时间,并且掩盖膜的边缘以防止其暴露。 热/短显影循环和胶片边缘的掩蔽基本上消除了由乳液收缩和迁移引起的图像污迹。

    Single step stepping motor controller
    6.
    发明授权
    Single step stepping motor controller 失效
    单步步进电机控制器

    公开(公告)号:US4757247A

    公开(公告)日:1988-07-12

    申请号:US41167

    申请日:1987-04-22

    申请人: Michael H. Ranger

    发明人: Michael H. Ranger

    IPC分类号: H02P8/14 H02P8/32

    CPC分类号: H02P8/32

    摘要: A nonoscillatory single step operation of a stepping motor is obtained by using normal driving circuitry and voltage to start the stepping operation in the desired stepping direction and by simultaneously starting a timer which is adjusted in duration to correspond to the time it takes for the rotor to almost reach the null position. At that time an increased voltage, of the same polarity as the normal stepping voltage, is applied, so as to strongly lock the rotor to the null position with minimum oscillation.

    摘要翻译: 通过使用普通驱动电路和电压来以期望的步进方向开始步进操作并通过同时启动在持续时间内调整的定时器来对应于转子所花费的时间来获得步进电机的非振荡性单步操作 几乎达到零位。 此时,施加与正常步进电压相同极性的增加的电压,以便以最小的振荡将转子牢固地锁定到零位置。

    Low jitter phase-locked loop
    7.
    发明授权
    Low jitter phase-locked loop 失效
    低抖动锁相环

    公开(公告)号:US4818950A

    公开(公告)日:1989-04-04

    申请号:US41907

    申请日:1987-04-24

    申请人: Michael H. Ranger

    发明人: Michael H. Ranger

    CPC分类号: H03L7/0891

    摘要: In the preferred embodiment of the invention the jitter in the output signal of a phase-lock loop is minimized by driving a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with the average voltage level that appears across a capacitor. The voltage level is maintained by selectively pumping a charge into the capacitor as a function of the deviation of the output signal, from the VCO, from a desired output in a first direction. The charge on the capacitor is allowed to partially bleed off to ground through a variable resistance such that the charge on the capacitor is maintained at levels that cause a slight phase lag in the operation of the voltage controlled oscillator. The phase-locked loop more specifically utilizes an error detector for receiving an incoming digital signal to which the phase-locked loop is to lock and a reference signal corresponding to a divided output signal from the phase-locked loop. The error detector provides signals indicative of the magnitude and the direction of the difference between the incoming digital signal and the reference signal. The difference signals are coupled to a pulse driver circuit for providing pulse charges as a function of the difference signals. A low pass filter having a capacitor receives the pulse charges for charging the capacitor. The low pass filter also incldues means for controllably discharging the capacitor. A voltage controlled oscillator provides an output signal having a phase that is a function of the magnitude of the charge on the capacitor. A divider circuit divides the output signal by selected integers to provide to the error detector the reference signal.

    摘要翻译: 在本发明的优选实施例中,通过用电容器上出现的平均电压电平驱动压控振荡器(VCO)来使锁相环输出信号中的抖动最小化。 通过根据来自VCO的输出信号与第一方向上的期望输出的偏差来选择性地将电荷泵送到电容器中来维持电压电平。 允许电容器上的电荷通过可变电阻部分地泄漏到地,使得电容器上的电荷保持在压控振荡器的操作中导致轻微的相位滞后的水平。 锁相环更具体地利用误差检测器来接收锁相环所锁定的输入数字信号,以及对应于来自锁相环的分频输出信号的参考信号。 误差检测器提供指示输入数字信号和参考信号之间的差值的大小和方向的信号。 差分信号耦合到脉冲驱动器电路,用于作为差分信号的函数提供脉冲电荷。 具有电容器的低通滤波器接收用于对电容器充电的脉冲电荷。 低通滤波器还包括用于可控地放电电容器的装置。 压控振荡器提供具有作为电容器上的电荷的大小的函数的相位的输出信号。 分频器电路将输出信号除以选定的整数,以向误差检测器提供参考信号。