摘要:
A position detecting and control system for a vehicle includes a low frequency transmitter and associated antenna and a receiver and associated antenna, one of the antennas being mounted on the vehicle so the distance between the antenna carried by the vehicle and the other antenna is determined by the amplitude of the signal induced in the receiving antenna. The frequency of the transmitter is such that the distances to be monitored are a small fraction of the wavelength of the frequency involved, and any significant signal variations due to signal reflections which can reinforce or cancel the received signal are avoided. The system monitors at least two different spacings between the transmitting and receiving antennas where the signals received at the receiving antenna are of widely different orders of magnitude. Separate range detecting circuits are coupled to a common point of the receiver, each of which includes an attenuator at the input thereof for adjusting the level of the signal to be fed to an associated signal level detector which operates a control device when the signal at the receiver output point involved reaches a level indicating the associated spacing to be monitored.
摘要:
An antenna internally contained within a housing of a cordless telephone is configured generally as a plate disposed opposite the earphone transducer, and away from the user's face in position for normal use. The antenna is disposed to lie generally vertically, and is counterpoised against a generally vertically disposed circuit board. Configuring the antenna generally as a plate and placing it outboard away from the user's face minimizes detuning effects during normal handling in use. Optional side extensions to the plate increase the antenna capacitance. An optional counterpoising shield may be interposed between the receiver-transducer and the antenna plate to further minimize detuning effects. Mode switches are disposed in a position on the handset remote from the antenna to further minimize detuning effects during switching operations. A similar antenna may be disposed within the cordless telephone base unit with the antenna disposed remote from the surface on which the base unit is mounted, and further having its associated mode switch disposed at a location remote from the antenna so as to minimize detuning effects from proximity to metallic surfaces and mode switching.
摘要:
An electrical controller, such as a controller timer for a home lighting circut, is connected so that a power switch like a triac controlled thereby replaces a conventional toggle switch operating in conjunction with another toggle switch in series therewith which can operate the controller. The timer is continuously coupled to the AC power system by permanent connections between the movable pole of the remaining toggle switch station and the load terminal of the triac of the controller and the power system. A stationary contact of the switch forms a control signal terminal which extends to a control input terminal of the controller. The controller may also include a depressible pushbutton or other on-off control switch which when successively operated generates pulses which toggle a control circuit to alternately render the triac conductive and non-conductive, and to program a controller-timer. The controller includes a voltage change pulser circuit whose input is coupled through the control input terminal of the timer to the stationary control contact of the single-pole switch, and which preferably generates the identical signal as is generated by depression of the pushbutton, when the signal condition on the stationary control contact either changes from a no-signal to a signal condition, or from a signal to a no-signal condition.
摘要:
A timer system includes a power switch operable to power circuit closing and opening conditions, timing means for identifying various timing segments over a 24-hour period and marker storage means having respective power turn on and off marker storage locations assigned to the time intervals encompassing a 24-hour period. An on-off push button or other on-off control operates the power switch and may act as an aid in setting the markers in the storage means. The timer system may also include a rotatable present time setting dial, also adjustable to different positions representing the different time intervals, and a manually operable timer on-off setting member. For real time programming, control means respond to normal operation of the on-off control during a first 24-hour period, initially to set said markers in the storage locations. For fast programming, the control means responds to the successive advancement of said dial from a present time setting through said various positions and the selective operation of the push button or other on-off control to set the markers in the storage locations assigned to the time interval involved, which markers automatically control the operation of the power switch when the timer on-off setting member is in its timer-on position, except when overriden by operation of the on-off control.
摘要:
A transistor test circuit provides for the selection of preferably three widely differing test frequencies for testing transistors normally having respectively relatively small, intermediate and large frequency gain-bandwidth product characteristics. These test frequencies are each much greater than the assumed normal cut-off frequency of the transistors to be tested thereby, and preferably only a fraction of the frequency at which the current gain of normal transistors would decrease to one. The test circuit is designed to form a linear amplifier circuit with the transistor under test and is provided with an automatic base drive control circuit which provides a substantially fixed predetermined DC collector current, despite wide variations in the current gain between different transistors being tested. The circuit further includes an indicating means for displaying the product of the selected test frequency and the current gain of the transistor under test, as indicated by the amplitude of the amplified test frequency signal in the collector circuit of the transistor under test.
摘要:
The circuit includes sources of periodic, low duty cycle, load terminal energizing and control terminal driving pulse waveforms. During each cycle, the waveforms occur only during successive test intervals occupying only a small portion of each cycle. During each test interval a load terminal energizing pulse is generated to energize a transistor or FET device of a different conductivity type and a control terminal drive voltage is penetrated which initially is of a polarity which would render a transistor or FET device of the associated conductivity type non-conductive, and then switches to a voltage of opposite polarity to render such device fully conductive. There is provided means for selectively varying the control terminal driving current which flows in an operating device from a relatively high to a relatively low level. Signals are derived showing the transition in the conductive states of the devices under test during the polarity transition of the control terminal drive voltage waveform. A first detecting and storage circuit is provided which detects and stores the occurrence of a current transition during the first test interval showing a possibly properly operating device of one conductivity type, and a second detecting and storage circuit is provided which detects and stores the occurrences of a current transition during the second test interval showing a possibly properly operating device of the opposite conductivity type. The storage circuit sets a leakage and material type test voltage producing circuit to produce a test voltage of proper polarity, depending upon whether the possibly properly operating device is of one or the other conductivity type.
摘要:
The emission of the various electron guns of a color cathode ray tube are measured and indicated preferably by a time sharing multiplexing technique where bright intensity producing emission generating voltages are fed between th cathode and control or accelerator electrodes of the various electron guns preferably in rapidly repeated sequence. The switching rate is preferably many times per second so the emission current values are displayed as steady indications on the faces of current meters with meter movements which respond to the average emission curent of the associated electron gun. A quick and convenient means for determining whether or not the ratio of the highest and lowest emission measurements fall within an acceptable range is provided by means which proportionately reduce the conduction periods of the electron guns, so the highest or lowest emission measurement falls along one margin of a band on the scale of the associated meter face whose opposite margin is at a value which indicates the limit of an acceptable highest to lowest emission ratio.
摘要:
A cordless telephone and an answering machine of the remote-pickup type are provided as an integrated unit having the answering machine and telephone base unit integrated into a common housing. The remote handset contains circuitry for generating a command signal condition at the user's option which will operate the base unit to a "screening mode" wherein the activity on the telephone lines during the playback and record period is transmitted to the remote unit, but wherein audio pass-through from the base unit radio receiver is disabled. In the preferred form of the invention the command signal condition is in the form of a pilot tone of a given frequency, receipt of which by the base unit receiver disables audio pass-through. To enter two-way "talk" mode, a pilot tone of different frequency is also sent by the remote unit, loss of this tone being being to cause the base unit to cease transmitting to the remote unit.
摘要:
A manually operable pulse generating apparatus comprises a dial knob assembly having a outer grippable knob member rotatably mounted around an inner knob member connected to an operating shaft carrying a ratchet wheel-forming cam having saw-toothed ratchet teeth-forming lobes. Each lobe has a gradually rising leading side and a sharply dropping trailing side. The outer knob member is connected to the inner knob member through a one-way clutch so that the outer knob member can be rotated in one direction without rotating the inner knob member, the inner knob member rotating with the outer knob member when rotated in the opposite direction. Where the outer knob member is opaque, it contains numbered markings for identifying the degree of rotation imparted thereto relative to a stationary index mark on a control panel over which the dial knob assembly is mounted. For some applications, the outer knob member may be transparent in which case the numbered markings referred to are on the inner knob member. A pawl-forming, force-transmitting spring or spring-urged member normally rests in the crotch between successive ratchet teeth-forming lobes of the cam where it is in a partially tensed condition to form a detent for the shaft. The rotation of the outer knob member in said other direction rotates the cam and causes the pawl to ride up the gradually rising side of a cam lobe so that the tension in the pawl initially slowly increases. The tension on the spring or spring-urged member is coupled to a piezo-electric element which generates a damped sine waveform as the tension thereon is suddenly relieved as the end of the pawl falls into the crotch between a pair of cam lobes.
摘要:
In combination with a meter movement having a pointer movable over a variable value indicating scale having numbered variable value indicating marks forming respective scale segments having substantially different compression or expansion ratios and representing progressively increasing variable values over the entire extent of said segments, a meter control circuit comprising respective amplifiers for controlling the variation of pointer movement over said respective segments of said scale, each of the amplifiers being capable of producing an output which reaches a maximum possible output level when the signal fed to the input thereof is of a value which is to move the pointer of said meter movement to the uppermost point of the associated segment of the scale, means for summing the outputs of said respective amplifiers and feeding the same to said meter movement. Signal directing means are provided for respectively directing to said amplifiers signals resulting from the flow of respective incremental ranges of current values in said input circuits to the amplifiers to cause the meter movement pointer to traverse said respective segments of said scale. The signal directing means directs said signals to the amplifier associated with the next highest scale segment of said meter movement scale only after the output of the amplifier associated with the next lowest segment of the scale has reached its maximum output value.