Abstract: In depositing an adhering, continuous, polycrystalline diamond film of optical or semiconductor quality on a substrate, as by forming on the substrate a layer of a refractory nitride interlayer and depositing diamond on the interlayer without mechanical treatment or seeding of the substrate or the interlayer, the substrate is heated in a vacuum chamber containing a microwave activated mixture of hydrogen and a gas including carbon, and the size of deposited diamond crystallites and their rate of deposition selectively varied by a bias voltage applied to the substrate.

Abstract: In a video system, a video signal operates at a vertical scan rate to gente a first video frame characterized by a first number of lines per frame. A method and apparatus are provided to convert the first video frame into a second video frame characterized by a second number of lines per frame. The first video frame is stored at the vertical scan rate as digital samples. A portion of the stored digital samples from each line of the first video frame are retrieved at the vertical scan rate. The number of digital samples in the retrieved portion from each line of the first video frame is governed by a ratio equal to the second number divided by the first number, such that the retrieved portion from the first video frame is the second video frame.

Abstract: A programmable radar target simulator provides microwave signals for testing a missile that is otherwise controlled by such signals when it is deployed. The simulator has the capability for initiating suitable microwave signals at the proper power levels in the fully automatic, semi-automatic, or fully manual modes. A control section and an IF section accept digital commands from an external computer or manual control from switches and thumbwheels on the front panel of the simulator to provide for the automatic and manual control signals respectively. A frequency synthesizer section provides three frequency modulated IF signals and one amplitude modulated coding signal which respectively are fed to the IF section and to the control section. Doppler frequency shifts are extracted and representative signals are provided in both AC and DC forms to a microwave section.

Abstract: A MICrowave RADiometric (MICRAD) guidance system is disclosed which utilizes an antenna having four beams, designated right, left, up and down. Information from the four beams is monitored essentially 100% of the time by passing through appropriate ferrite cross-switching means to four separate receivers. Information from two of the receivers passes through a first multiplexer and feedback gain balancer to provide a target azimuth output, and information from the remaining two receivers passes through a second multiplexer and feedback gain balancer to provide a target elevation output. A local oscillator heterodynes each of the four receivers in common, and a switch driver couples each of the multiplexers to the ferrite cross-switching means and gain balancers for appropriate selection.

Abstract: A dielectric constant measurement probe assembly includes a coaxial cable ving a outer electrical conductor and a center electrical conductor extending within the outer conductor and terminating at an end portion which projects beyond an end portion of the outer conductor. An adapter member has a central passage receiving the coaxial cable with the outer conductor of the cable extending through the passage of the adapter member and projecting therefrom. An outer tube has a bore composed of first and second axial sections. The second bore section is smaller in diameter than the first bore section. The adapter member is inserted in the first bore section with the end portion of the coaxial cable outer conductor inserted into the second bore section and making electrical contact therewith such that the outer tube thus constitutes an extension of the outer conductor.

Abstract: A digital PLL circuit has a serial shift register receiving input pulses and producing time-delayed output pulses, a clock generator applying clock pulses to the shift register to drive it and set the phase shift of the output pulses, and a digitally-controlled potentiometer connected in series with the clock generator and being adjustable to change its resistance in increments in order to adjust the resistance of the clock generator and thereby set the frequency of the clock pulses applied to the shift register and the time delay produced by the shift register. A feedback control arrangement receives the same digital input pulses as received by the shift register and detects the periods of the input pulses by counting to produce control pulses proportional to the detected periods. A ROM unit stores a look-up table of values representing an array of different counts of increments by which the potentiometer resistance can be adjusted.

Abstract: Compounds and process for preparation and isolation of tetraorganyl tellurium compounds including: tetraalkyl tellurium and tetraalkenyl tellurium. The products remain relatively stable in the absence of light and air.

Abstract: A compact metal bellows preferably for converting pressure changes into lar motion, has alternating inner and outer welds accomplished by a laser weld technique. An inner weld fixture is provided for deflecting a portion of the bellows away from the very small beam spot of the laser weld process. The compact metallic bellows of the present invention is particularly adapted for fitting into a small space and taking advantage of its equal free length and solid length to provide a spring force equal the sum of the spring force of each of the several metallic diaphragms.

Abstract: A thermally activated case venting safety apparatus is used to minimize the otential for detonation of a warhead or other encased explosive when such item is subjected to excessive thermal environments. An aft end closure plate to a warhead casing is secured using an expandable snap ring with a temperature activated releasing mechanism. The snap ring is expanded using a caliper device with an adjustable slide assembly which adjust the snap ring to the required dimensions. An eutectic solder plug or similar plug is attached to the bottom base of the adjustable slide assembly and holds the snap ring in the expanded position. The plug will melt at a predetermined temperature and thus allow the expandable snap ring to retract. Once the snap ring has retracted, the closure plate will be ejected due to the internal case pressure and the warhead case will vent.

Abstract: A safe and arm device, which has an explosive train interrupted by a void establish a safe condition, has the void filled with a liquid explosive to establish an armed condition. The void may be in a device in which the liquid explosive is motivated by fluid pressure corresponding to free-fall or other velocities. The void may be a chamber portion filled with the liquid explosive by expansion of a bladder. Premature arming may be prevented by forming the explosive liquid from nonexplosive liquids mixed by rupture of a bladder or by melting a solid explosive.

Abstract: An acousto-optical classifier for classifying wide bandwidth signals such as high resolution radar returns of ships or very short pulse length signals of radar emitters. This is accomplished by generating the Fourier transform power spectrum with an acousto-optic cell oriented in the Bragg configuration and a low power coherent light source such as a laser. The power spectrum is detected to provide inputs to a digital classifier.

Abstract: A safe and arm device, which has an explosive train interrupted by a void establish a safe condition, has the void filled with a liquid explosive to establish an armed condition. The void may be in a manometer-like device in which the liquid explosive is motivated by fluid pressure corresponding to free-fall or other velocities. Premature arming may be prevented by forming the explosive liquid by melting a solid explosive with heat generated electrically. A selectively variable arming time delay may be provided by a variable orifice controlling the flow of the liquid explosive or by varying the temperature of the liquid to select its viscosity.

Abstract: Aminonitrobenzodifuroxan (CL-18) is prepared by directly converting pentanitroaniline to aminonitrobenzodifuroxan with heat in the presence of an excess of sodium azide. The pentanitroaniline is prepared in high yield from 3,5-dinitroaniline with a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid in which the final sulfuric acid concentration is from 99.0 to 99.5%.

Abstract: An artificial neural network has a plurality of output circuits individually perturbable for memory modification or learning by the network. The network has a plurality of synapses individually connecting each of a plurality of inputs to each output circuit. Each synapse has a weight determining the effect on the associated output circuit of a signal provided on the associated input, and the synapse is addressable for selective variation of the weight. A perturbation signal is provided to one input, while data signals are provided to others of the inputs, so that perturbation of each output circuit may be controlled by varying the weights of a set of the synapses connecting the perturbation signal to the output circuits. An output circuit may be selected for perturbation by loading an appropriate weight in the synapse connecting the perturbation signal to the output circuit while zeroing the weights of the synapses connecting the perturbation signal to other output circuits.

Abstract: A regenerative liquid propellant gun and pertains includes a modified contional fixed bolt extending into a conventional combustion chamber of the regenerative liquid propellant gun. The modified fixed bolt of this invention provides for improved operation of the otherwise conventional regenerative liquid propellant gun and has modified end portion embodiments and internal propellant injection passages, all for the purpose of creating turbulent propellant flow.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for passive direction finding that demines the sideband and angle of arrival of an incoming radio signal. A four-channel superheterodyne receiver generates quadrature between the radio signals received by each channel. Four inphase/quadrature phase detectors are connected to the receiver for generating inphase and quadrature components of the electrical phase differences between antenna elements of the receiver. The inphase and quadrature components are used for sideband determination and the electrical phase differences are used to derive the angle of arrival.

Abstract: A plurality of magnetic sensors mounted to a missile frame measure magnetic fields from magnets mounted to the movable portion of a seeker mounted in the missile frame. As the angle of attack changes, the field strength measured by each magnetic sensor changes. The magnetic sensors thus produce signals that may be calibrated and processed to determine the angle of attack.

Abstract: An optical glass fiber polishing apparatus and method utilizing a slurry prised of water, CeO, glycerin and where needed, a base such as NaOH, to realize transmission loss in the fiber as it is polished towards the fiber core. The intensity of light introduced at one end of the fiber is measured at the opposite end, continuously and without interruption of the polishing, to determine polishing progress through the cladding towards the core.

Abstract: The new unsymmetric allyl-(alkyl) telluride compound methyl allyl telluride and other unsymmetric allyl-(alkyl) telluride compounds are prepared by adding an alkyl Grignard to a tellurium/tetrahydrofuran slurry, then subsequent reaction with an alkyl halide. The unsymmetric allyl-(alkyl) telluride product is isolated by filtration followed by vacuum distillation.

Abstract: A parachute canopy seam joint for fastening a ribbon seam and a radial seam of a parachute canopy together. This parachute canopy seam joint combines a ribbon seam using a zigzag stitch pattern and narrow strips of radial tape sewn together with multiple rows of a straight stitch pattern. The ribbon seam attaches two overlapping ribbons within the parachute. The narrow strips of radial tape shroud the ribbon seam which result in a high strength and low weight and volume radial seam and seam joint. This new configuration of a parachute seam joint has distinct advantages in terms of strength and shock absorbing capacity. Specifically, this new parachute seam joint has a seam strength equal to or greater than the minimum rated strength of the adjoining materials and employs a smaller weight and volume of material than conventional radial seams and seam joints.