Abstract: A control device for the motor of a watch including first and second zero detectors and a delay device for providing gating signals to an AND gate to enable transmission of driving in phase with the a.c. voltage induced in the coil.

Abstract: A control system for a cutting machine is disclosed in which the relative motion between a cutting tool, supported by a cutting motor, and the material to be cut is controlled by a feed motor. The cutting motor load level is continuously monitored and used to derive a load level signal which is related to the cutting motor load level and a desired cutting load level. The feed motor's forward speed is controlled to increase at a selected fixed rate until the cutting motor load level is substantially equal to the desired cutting load level. Whenever the cutting motor load level increases above the desired cutting load level, representing an overload condition, the speed of the feed motor in the forward direction is reduced at the rate of increase of the overload condition.

Abstract: A detection device for sensing malfunctions in a wide band power amplifier, driving the take-up spool motor of a reel-to-reel tape transport system, is disclosed. A feedback loop is connected from the output of the amplifier to a malfunction junction positioned at the input of the amplifier. The signal at the malfunction junction is monitored and compared with a predetermined range of standard reference signals. Whenever the malfunction junction signal is out of the predetermined range, the power amplifier is turned off thereby preventing damage to the tape. A filter means is positioned so as to desensitize the compare means until the amplifier is operating at steady state.

Abstract: A flip-flop is arranged to be set by a first comparator and reset by a second comparitor. A first capacitor and a first resistor are connected between the input terminals of the circuit with the first comparator connected across the first resistor and the second comparator connected across the second resistor. The flip-flop is set and reset with time delays determined by the charging times of their respective associated capacitors. No external bias supply is required.

Abstract: A DC motor having a permanent magnet rotor and two Hall effect elements relatively displaced 90.degree. for switching the currents in the stator windings as a function of the rotor position. The stator includes at least two windings. An output transistor for each winding controls the current flow therein and the base currents thereof are supplied from a common source of constant current. First and second control transistors have their base electrodes connected to the output terminals of the Hall elements and their output electrodes coupled to the base electrodes of the output transistors. In any position of the rotor only one output transistor can conduct and each winding can be fully energized at most over an angle of 120.degree..

Abstract: Detecting device for detecting the position of a mobile object movable in at least one given path. It comprises a distance sensor fixed to the object and a distance information support extending along said path so that it can be scanned by the sensor. The sensor comprises means for producing distance signals pertaining to the instantaneous position of the mobile object.A positioning device for said mobile object employs the detecting device and includes a circuit for treating the electric signal furnished by the detecting device.

Abstract: A motion control system in which motion is set by the number of whole steps to be produced in consecutive time intervals where the selection for each time interval is from a plurality of different numbers arranged in a sequential progressive order with a manual control causing the system to select numbers for consecutive time intervals from its last selected number sequentially through the order to one alternating repeating number for the lowest speed and a higher number for a maximum speed, in either direction. The system further enables the operator to adjust the rate of the steps in a time interval and the duration thereof, thereby altering motor speed without changing the number of steps in a time interval. When the operator releases control, the system automatically makes the motor assume its stopped, non-moving state.

Abstract: A control circuit, such as a motor control circuit, includes a capacitance connected at one side with a timing resistance to the gate of a field effect transistor (FET) which inhibits energization of a load, such as a motor. The FED controls a semiconductor switch which is connected by a diode to the other side of the capacitance to prevent reactuation of the circuit during a time delay determined by the rate of current flow through a timing resistance to the one side of the capacitance.

Abstract: The invention discloses a digital position instruction signal modification device for use with a memory controlled manipulator apparatus of the type in which, during a teaching operation, a desired position of manipulator arm means is stored in memory means, and the stored position is read out during repetitive work cycles to cause the manipulator apparatus to reproduce a series of motions taught during the teaching operation. The digital position instruction or command read out from the memory means may be modified by a modifying value entered by a modifying value setting device so that all or desired digital position command or instruction signals stored in the memory means may be modified without repeating the teaching operation.

Abstract: Adaptive control circuit for a stepping motor in which each motor displacement from a present position to a target position is monitored and the proportion of acceleration signals to deceleration signals is modified as necessary to obtain minimal elapsed time during motor movement. Each designated motor displacement is assigned a corresponding number of acceleration signals which are applied to move the motor. Then during a subsequent homing of the motor, the motor displacement is monitored and the number of acceleration signals previously applied is either altered or left unchanged as a result of comparison between this displacement and a standard. The adaptive control circuit is shown as applied to printing apparatus in which a print disk is variously rotated by a first stepping motor mounted on a carrier and the carrier is moved along a print line by a second stepping motor.

Abstract: An absolute positioning servo for positioning a shaft in response to a digital command input which utilizes a resolver, for providing an analog position indication of the shaft, an analog to digital converter, which provides a digital indication of the shaft position, a comparator for comparing the digital command input signal with the digital indication signal and providing a differential digital error signal which is converted to an analog signal and fed back to position the shaft so that the differential digital error is 0. An analog fine control positioning means is provided which positions and maintains the shaft near the center point of the position represented by the digital command input signal when the digital differential error is 0. A signal representing the difference between the exact analog position of the shaft and the digital approximate position of the shaft is provided at the output of the translator.

Abstract: An article handler or positioner includes an X-Y table driven by reversible stepping motors. Zero position sensors function to provide an output signal when the X-Y table moves into a zero or home or reference position. The sensors are electro-optical devices having two beams of light one of which is gradually interrupted while the other one is gradually uninterrupted as the table moves into the zero position. Photo detectors provide output signals one of which increases and the other of which decreases as the table moves into the zero position and, at the point of crossover of the respective output signals, another output signal is generated indicating the home position is reached. This signal is then used to inhibit further operation of the driving motors.

Abstract: A reactionless drive system is disclosed comprising in combination a base, a torquer mechanism, the stator portion of which is affixed to the counter-rotational inertia member and accepting control signals from sources external to the system. A rotatable member, coupled to the torquer, is driven in a first direction. A torque compensator consisting of stator and rotor members is coupled between the base and the first mentioned rotatable member in one instance, and to an oppositely rotating member in another instance. All the foregoing components act together to maintain angular momentum of the system during its operative mode to a value of substantially zero. An electronic subsystem is provided which senses the angular velocities of the rotating members and provides a feedback signal to the torque compensator.

Abstract: A digital electronic control system is provided for tracking a target and for directing an aiming system such as a gun. The control system comprises digital circuitry for determining the aiming angle required to aim the gun directly at the target and for determining an aiming angle correction which provides for leading the target by an amount such that a projectile fired by the gun will strike the target. The control system further includes a pair of motors controlled by the digital circuitry, one of which positions the gun to lead the target by a calculated aiming angle correction and the other of which positions, in a generic sense, the telescope an angular amount equal to the aiming angle correction behind the gun. In a preferred embodiment, an input is received by the control system from a tracking system which is positioned along with the gun and which can include, for example, a telescope which has an independently positionable optical axis.

Abstract: A motor protection circuit includes a capacitance and resistance timing circuit together with temperature sensing facilities which are energized upon motor startup to terminate operation of a motor in the event of insufficient oil pressure or excessive heat. An oil pressure sensing switch is connected to the timing circuit to prevent its operation so long as sufficient oil pressure is sensed.

Abstract: A motor control system of the type employing phase controlled rectifiers for controlling the power supplied from a polyphase alternating current source to a direct current motor includes circuitry to detect the existence of a rectifier which is conducting at an improper time and to provide appropriate corrective action to terminate such improper conduction.

Abstract: A circuit for varying the rate of velocity changes of a digital motor wherein the motor produces movement that is commanded by successive lengths with each length having an extent defined by a whole number of steps and in which each length by its extent sets its own velocity whereby non-linear velocity changes in accordance with motor speed are obtained from a command that includes just length extent information.

Abstract: A sensor including means for operating the sensor in angular rate measuring and stabilization or rate integrating modes. When operating in the rate measuring mode, a loop is closed through an amplifier and torquer to null the sensor and when operating in the stabilization mode said loop is open and another loop is closed through a load to maintain the sensor at null. In the stabilization mode, the amplifier is used to apply command rate and drift correction signals to the sensor.

Abstract: A level detection system and a servo system employing the level detection system are disclosed. The level detection and servo system employs the use of a reasonably broad band-pass characteristic to avoid criticality in narrow band-pass systems. The level detection system includes an input level comparison circuit responsive to an input signal having a recurrent frequency and a reference signal. A filter having a band-pass characteristic which will pass the recurrent frequency of the input signal and its side-bands is responsive to the input level comparison circuit. The output of the filter is coupled to a second comparison circuit. The second comparison circuit is employed as a control means to drive the servo motor in the servo system.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the speed of a rotary cutter driven by an electro-hydraulic pulse motor for cutting to length a sheet material continuously supplied to the rotary cutter. Means are provided for applying to the electro-hydraulic pulse motor a pulse train synchronous with the feed rate of the sheet material when the blades of the rotary cutter pass the cutting position, means for progressively decreasing the number of pulses applied to the electro-hydraulic pulse motor, the decrease in the number of pulses beginning at a predetermined position beyond the cutting position and being effected at a rate following a first pattern, means for progressively lowering the rate of the decrease in accordance with a second pattern when the number by which the pulses are decreased reaches a first predetermined value, and means for suspending the decrease when the number by which the pulses are decreased reaches a second predetermined value.