Abstract: An aircraft indicating system for displaying a resolution advisory signal from a Traffic Advisory and Collision Avoidance System provides an indicating pitch attitude symbol to the pilot engendering an instinctive response to avoid a collision. A driving circuit converts a TCAS signal in the form of a vertical speed command to a pitch command for energizing the indicating symbol by effecting a vertical displacement thereof in accordance with the guidance resolution advisory. The display signal is generated in accordance with the relationship: ##EQU1## where: .PHI.=aircraft roll attitude, limited to + or - 30.degree..THETA..sub.CMD =commanded pitch attitude defining the upper and lower pitch limits of the resolution advisory symbology.THETA..sub.EXIST =current pitch angleV.sub.ZTCAS =TCAS vertical speed commandV.sub.ZEXIST =current vertical speedV.sub.T =true airspeedK=conversion constant.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 27, 1993
Date of Patent:
January 17, 1995
Assignee:
Honeywell Inc.
Inventors:
Thomas W. Kennedy, Jr., Donald F. Fenstermaker
Abstract: A DC voltage power supply circuit for suppressing turn-on transients applied to a switching voltage regulator circuit includes a relatively high impedance current suppression element connected in series between a rectifier circuit and a capacitive load, means for sensing a voltage drop developed across the suppression element, a diode network for developing a reference potential, and a silicon-controlled rectifier having a gate electrode responsive to the voltage drop developed across the current suppression element and the reference potential developed across the diode, for energizing a relay having contacts for disabling the switching regulator from supplying the load during the initial turn-on phase, and for shunting the current suppression element and activating the switching regulator after the capacitive load is substantially charged.
Abstract: Refresh memory apparatus for use in a CRT raster display system utilizes half field storage memories for ping ponging between updating and readout. In one TV mode of operation the even and odd raster lines are stored in the respective memories and in another TV mode the top and bottom halves of the frame are stored therein. The most significant bit and least significant bit of the vertical address signals are multiplexed to control the ping pong reading and writing of the memories and are multiplexed with the remainder of the address signal to provide the read and write addresses for the memories. The multiplexers are controlled in accordance with the TV mode in which the system is operating.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 8, 1986
Date of Patent:
December 29, 1987
Assignee:
Sperry Corporation
Inventors:
David J. Benson, Carl H. Brown, William R. Hancock