Abstract: The invention relates to storage tubes having a dielectric target in which the writing is effected by a beam of slow electrons supplying the target with negative charges in an amount which is a function of the data to be written. The new method mainly consists in: causing each writing of a zone of the target to be followed by a sweeping of said zone with rapid electrons supplying at each written point a small quantity of positive restoring charges, whereby it is possible to reach an equilibrium potential within a finite and regulatable time while avoiding the phenomenon of integration.

Abstract: In wireless power transmission systems, in order to provide maximum possible efficiency in the transfer of power, the receiving element of the system must intercept the greatest possible portion of the transmitted energy beam. By having a planar array of receiver elements that are symmetrically located about a physical center, it becomes possible to determine the location on the array of the center of energy of the incident beam. This information is obtained as follows. Sum the output energy of all the receiver elements to the right and left of the vertical center of the array. Determine the difference and sum of these two amounts. Divide the difference by the sum. The result is an indication of the degrees that the center of the incident beam is off in azimuth. Sum the output energy of all the receiver elements above and below the horizontal center of the array. Determine the difference and sum of these two amounts. Divide the difference by the sum.

Abstract: A color televison display device including a cathode-ray tube whose neck supports a system of deflection coils which causes isotropic astigmatic errors upon deflection. This is eliminated with the aid of a quadripolar field to which end four windings are wound preferably as four toroid windings on the core of the deflection coil system at the area of the deflection plane. The windings are arranged pairwise opposite to each other and this in such a manner that two windings are exactly located in the gaps of the field deflection coils and the two other windings are shifted 90.degree. in the tangential direction. Parabola currents which may have the line frequency and/or the field frequency must flow through the four windings.

Abstract: A device for the non-destructive electrical read-out of a light image, using an electronic tube which comprises in particular a target for recording and read-out of the image and an electrongun for scanning the image. The read-out device is constituted by the tube and means which divide by a factor of n the electron beam current, thus preventing the destruction of the light information during n successive read-out operations.

Abstract: An amplitude modulation (AM) removal circuit comprising a phaselock loop. A phaselock VOR receiver includes said AM removal circuit.

Abstract: An optical assembly is mounted in the nose of a missile, this assembly including an infra-red sensor for sensing the orientation of the missile relative to an infra-red illuminated target, and a visible sensor such as a vidicon for determining the orientation of the missile relative to a visible target. The infra-red and visible detectors may be used alternatively for acquiring and tracking a target, as the situation may demand. The optical unit is stabilized in space about the pitch and yaw axes thereof by means of a gyro stabilized platform unit which is separated therefrom and linked thereto by coupling rods which cause the optical assembly to accurately follow the stabilized platform in both yaw and elevation.

Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit of a color television receiver includes a horizontal output transformer with a secondary winding across which a voltage is developed and includes a horizontal deflection winding coupled to a pincushion correction winding of a pincushion reactor. In response to the current flowing in the vertical deflection winding, the inductance of the pincushion correction winding varies in a manner providing for East-West pincushion distortion correction. For setup, in the service mode of operation, the vertical deflection circuit is disabled. A circuit, coupled to the pincushion reactor, adjusts the inductance of pincushion correction winding to compensate for a change in the inductance caused by disabling of the vertical deflection circuit for maintaining the voltage across the horizontal output transformer secondary winding substantially unchanged during setup.

Abstract: The television receiver horizontal deflection transformer develops retrace pulses from which the high voltage is generated. A shutdown safety circuit arrangement monitors a predetermined minimum width of retrace pulse by comparing it with the duration of a locally produced standard pulse to determine an excess high voltage condition. When such a condition occurs, voltage is applied to the horizontal driver for disabling the deflection system.

Abstract: A modulator stage of a switched vertical deflection amplifier produces pulse width modulated gating signals obtained by modulating horizontal rate pulses including a ramp portion at a vertical deflection rate. The gating signals control switches coupled between a source of horizontal retrace pulses and a capacitor for charging the capacitor with decreasing and increasing amounts of energy during respective first and second intervals during each vertical trace interval for producing a sawtooth current in a vertical deflection winding coupled to the capacitor. A generator adds a nonlinear component to the ramp portions of the horizontal rate pulses for altering the gain of the amplifier during the vertical trace interval for producing a scanning current with a desired degree of linearity.

Abstract: A negative-feedback arrangement for a switched-mode vertical deflection circuit automatically controls the duration of that overlap portion of the vertical trace interval in which simultaneous conduction of the vertical deflection control switches occurs.

Abstract: A capacitor is coupled to a vertical deflection winding for forming a resonant circuit therewith during retrace. A switched mode vertical deflection amplifier generates trace current in the deflection winding. A feedback resistor samples the current in the deflection winding and provides a feedback voltage to the amplifier. In order to substantially diminish a ringing component of the trace current at the beginning of trace, a cancellation circuit provides the amplifier with a voltage which cancels the feedback voltage during at least the latter portion of retrace.

Abstract: A source of alternating current in a power supply and deflection system of a television receiver is coupled to a primary winding of a transformer, a relatively closely coupled secondary winding of which provides a voltage which may be rectified for providing operating voltage for another portion of the receiver such as the vertical deflection system. Yet another portion of the receiver, such as the audio section, is energized by voltage derived from a winding so disposed around the transformer as to be energized by leakage flux from the transformer for substantially reducing the effects of variations of the audio loading on the deflection systems.

Abstract: An acoustic type of pipeline marker that has combined with it, as a unitary structure, an acoustic signal detector for determining whether the marker is operating. The detector is only energized when it is desired to check whether the marker is emitting the desired acoustic signals into the pipeline. The detector provides a visual signal.

Abstract: An electron beam forming structure includes an anode having first and second sections spaced from each other with the first section being closest to the cathode and having a beam-admitting aperture and being connected to a positive potential and the second section having a beam-limiting aperture and being connected to ground relative to the first section. The first section will repel positive ions created in an area adjacent the beam-limiting aperture and deflect them away from the source of the electron beam so they can be collected at the second section.

Abstract: 1. A fully vitrified ceramic element comprising a thin wafer having at least one aperture extending through said wafer, and perpendicular to the major surfaces of said wafer, the composition of said wafer consisting essentially of between 10 and 50 mole percent of at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of the oxides of Cs, Rb, K, Be, Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Ce, La, Yt and Zn, and between 90 and 40 mole percent of oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of titanium, tin and niobium and between 0.5 and 3 mole percent of an oxide forming compound of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Au, Pd, Mo, W, and Sb.

Abstract: A supply circuit for television receivers in which power source isolation is effected via a backward transformer. For the sake of achieving an insusceptibility to interferences, the operating frequency is equal to the line frequency. According to the invention, the supplied energy is controlled by varying the switch-on time during one period of the line frequency, in that the disconnecting time position is changed with the aid of a thyristor switching stage.

Abstract: A radio beacon navigation system wherein buoys placed at predetermined locations in a harbor or channel transmit identification signals. Every buoy is assigned a unique carrier frequency upon which is transmitted a signal capable of identifying the buoy. Each buoy is shown on harbor charts according to the unique properties of its signal. Radio receiving means carried aboard vessels navigating through the harbor or channel include means for determining the identity of the buoy from which signals are received and the direction from which the received signals emanate.

Abstract: A method of operating a pyroelectric camera tube having a normally provided electron beam emitting cathode and control grid G.sub.1 controlling the electron beam, and a gas in the interior space of the tube by applying positively-going pulses to the grid G.sub.1 during the period of the normally applied line blanking pulses. A circuit for producing the positively-going pulses is also disclosed which have the effect of increasing the target pedestal potential.

Abstract: A system for obtaining the range and bearing of the location of any radar transmission with a minimum of received data (one pulse). Three receiving systems spaced apart from each other receive signals from the radiating source. Solving three simultaneous equations for circles using the location of each receiving antenna as the center of three circles. The point of intersection of the three circles is the location of the radiating source.

Abstract: A processing apparatus for determining the frequency of a supplied signal is usable in a Doppler microwave landing system. The apparatus derives scalar signals representative of signal frequency and amplitude and computes the average value of the scalar signals over a number of time intervals prior to dividing the signals to produce an output signal representative of average supplied signal frequency.