Abstract: An electronics circuit for accurately digitizing an analog audio, video or ike data signal into a fourteen bit digital equivalent signal/words having thirteen data bits and a sign bit and then introducing a dither component into the digital equivalent signal. The circuit includes a first Electrical Erasable Programmed Read Only Memory which generates a dither component to be added to a selected, five, six, seven or eight bits of each fourteen bit digital equivalent sample. The circuit also includes an automatic gain control circuit and a data selector circuit which, in combination, select the five, six, seven or eight data bits of the thirteen data bits of each digital equivalent sample to supply to a binary adder. The binary adder then adds the dither component to the selected data bits of each digital equivalent sample. The five, six, seven or eight selected bits of each fourteen bit sample provide optimum video, audio or like information for the sample.

Abstract: A multi-piston pump is provided which uses microprocessor controlled check all valves to control flow rate of a fluid at the pump's outlet port. The pump includes nine cylindrical shaped chambers and associated reciprocating pistons which are driven by a cam attached to a shaft. The pump's shaft is coupled to the shaft of a motor which, in turn, drives the pump's shaft and cam resulting in a fluid, such as seawater, filling each of the nine chambers and then having the fluid forced from the chamber by the movement of its associated piston from bottom dead center to top dead center. A pressure transducer which monitors the pressure at the pump's outlet port and a shaft encoder which monitors the angular position of the pump's shaft respectively provide analog signals indicative of the pump's outlet port's pressure and the shaft's angular position.

Abstract: An electronics circuit for digitizing an analog audio or like data signal to a six bit digital equivalent signal and then introducing a dither component into the digital equivalent signal. The electronics circuit includes an Erasable Programmed Read Only Memory (EPROM) which generates a six bit dither component to be added to the digital equivalent signal. A binary adder adds a dither bit to each of the six bits of the digital equivalent signal and then provides a three bit equivalent digital signal. The three bit equivalent digital signal is then written in parallel into a first storage register, while one bit of the three bit digital equivalent signal is written into a second storage register. When a fuze active signal, which is input to the present invention, is a logic zero the first register is enabled for a read operation allowing the three bit equivalent digital data to be read from the first register to a parallel to serial converter which converts the data to a serial three bit digital format.

Abstract: An electronics circuit for use in determining the position light is incident on a position sensing detector. The position sensing detector provides a pair of photoelectric current signals which indicate the position the light is incident on the detector. These photoelectric current signals are converted to negative ramp voltage signals by a dual switched integrator and then provided through a first pair of sample/hold amplifiers to a second pair of sample/hold amplifiers with each of the second pair of sample/hold amplifiers storing for one line of a raster scan the dark current voltage component of one of the photoelectric current signals.

Abstract: A Gray code counter is provided having identical modular circuits with each odular circuit providing a Gray code count sequence having a predetermined number of bits and an enable signal to enable a successive modular circuit of the Gray code counter. Each modular circuit of the Gray code counter enables a successive modular circuit only during certain predetermined counts of the Gray code count sequence. The number of modules required to implement the counter is determined by the number of binary bits per module and the total number of binary bits provided by the counter. The Gray code counter can operate either in an up mode count or a down mode count in accordance with the Gray code count sequence.

Abstract: A rapid reprogramming terminal for reprogramming all electronic warfare and vionics systems aboard an aircraft including the bus controllers for each avionics or electronic warfare bus on the MS-1553 multiplex data bus in the aircraft and the remote terminals connected to each bus in the aircraft. The rapid reprogramming terminal includes a high speed digital signal processor which executes the functions required to reprogram a remote terminal or bus controller through software stored in an electrically erasable program read only memory. The information required to reprogram a remote terminal or bus controller is stored on an IC memory card which is electrically coupled to the digital signal processor.

Abstract: An electromagnetic field sensor for use in a target seeking missile which asures the amplitude, phase, frequency and polarization of an incoming electromagnetic field as well as the angle of arrival of the incident electromagnetic field. A Luneberg lens is mounted in the radome of the missile. The Luneberg lens focuses an electromagnetic wave reflected from a target which then passes through the radome and enters the Luneberg lens on one side of the lens onto a point on the opposite side of the lens. A photonic sensor which may be a single electro-optic modulator or a pair of electro-optic modulators is positioned on the Luneberg lens at the point upon which the incident electromagnetic wave is focused. When a pair of electro-optic modulators are used as the sensor the sensing axis of one of the electro-optic modulators is generally perpendicular to the sensing axis of the other electro-optic modulator.

Abstract: An interferometric fiber optic gyroscope employing an integrated, width pshed, optic chip containing annealed proton exchange waveguides and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer for sensing a ramp induced signal from loop closing electronics to achieve a highly improved gyroscope scale factor linearity and dynamic range. An edge light emitting diode (ELED) operating at 1.3.mu. wavelength is employed as the light source in the gyroscope. A decorrelator optical fiber segment is employed between the light source and the chip, and a Lyot depolarizer optical fiber segment is employed between the chip and one side of the fiber optic coil. Also, an intermediate output of the loop closing electronics is shown to have reduced scale factor sensitivity to light source wavelength change.

Abstract: A digitally formed monopulse radar employing dynamic real-time calibration uring operation. The invention has a transmitter section, timing circuit, RF section, IF section, in-phase and quadrature section and a digital signal processor. A portion of the transmit signal is diverted from the transmitter section for preparation of calibration factors during the calibration period between receive signals. The calibration factors prepared by the digital signal processor are applied by the processor to antenna received signals during the receive mode and to produce the corrected sum and delta pitch, and delta yaw signals and the tracking errors .epsilon..sub.y and .epsilon..sub.p.

Abstract: An apparatus for burning coal water fuel, dry ultrafine coal, pulverized l and other liquid and gaseous fuels including a vertically extending outer wall and an inner, vertically extending cylinder located concentrically within the outer wall, the annnular space between the outer wall and the inner cylinder defining a combustion chamber and the all space within the inner cylinder defining an exhaust chamber. Fuel and atomizing air are injected tangentially near the bottom of the combustion chamber and secondary air is introduced at selected points along the length of the combustion chamber. Combustion occurs along the spiral flow path in the combustion chamber and the combined effects of centrifugal, gravitational and aerodynamic forces cause particles of masses or sizes greater than the threshold to be trapped in a stratified manner until completely burned out. Remaining ash particles are then small enough to be entrained by the flue gas and exit the system via the exhaust chamber in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A pyrofuze ordnance arming system, for air delivered ordnance, which provs a removable physical barrier to prevent the premature operation of ordnance device arming activation systems. An electrothermally initiated, alloyably removable pyrofuze pin extending from a pyrofuze device is employed as a physical barrier in an arming system to replace the conventional arming wires. The system increases safety and reliability for ordnance arming while decreasing the complexity and labor involved in preparing and loading ordnance on aircraft.