Abstract: An add/drop interface is connected in series with a data bus and is constructed for receiving an add/drop module. The add/drop interface includes a data selection multiplexer which receives through data from the data bus and add/drop from the module and selects the proper output data in response to a signal received from a controller in said interface. The controller provides a signal to drive the data selection multiplexer to select the add/drop data only after all transient signals resulting from module connection have dissipated. The controller also provides error checking so that the through data is selected if errors are detected. Timing circuitry in the interface maintains the correct phase relationship between through data and add/drop data.

Abstract: A winding apparatus, for winding saddle coils for deflection units of picture tubes, has a wire guide tube that is movable along the contour of the desired windings in three mutually perpendicular planes. A receiving device for the coil form is rotatable about its longitudinal axis. In another embodiment the coil form remains stationary and the wire guide tube has one end angled at 90.degree. and rotatable about its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a fiber optic cable comprising a central core which has one or more helical channels in its periphery. One or more tubes containing a dielectric water-blocking compound and one or more optical fibers are positioned in the channels. The fibers are randomly arranged within the tubes in such a way that tensile stresses on the cable are not transmitted to them, thus providing an elongation window. Finally, the assembly formed by the core and the tube or tubes is wrapped with a serving of metal wires. In one embodiment, the core and tubes may be wrapped with a tape layer before the outer metal wires are applied. Any interstices among the core, the tube or tubes, and tape may also be filled with another dielectric water-blocking compound.

Abstract: In a cathode-ray tube with a thick grid No. 2 (24) in the electron-gun system, current transfer into grid No. 2 (24) may result in a lack of picture sharpness. To avoid this error, the aperture (4) in grid No. 2 (24) has a widening (6) of conical shape or stepped diameter.

Abstract: A light source or detector equipped with an optically transmissive window is coupled to a juxtaposed collimating lens for directing light onto a first side of a dichroic filter which passes or blocks a selected wavelength of light. A second lens in juxtaposition with a second side of the dichroic filter focuses light either passed or reflected by the filter onto an optical fiber for transmission or reception of optical signals. A second optical fiber is connected to the second lens and to a third lens for which conveys light between the second optical fiber and a dichroic filter for passing a different wavelength of light and reflecting the selected wavelength, the filter being in juxtaposition with a window of an optical detector. All components are embedded in a molded enclosure for protecting the optical elements and optical fibers from environmental conditions.

Abstract: First and second telephone handsets or headsets are used to form a continuity test set providing voice communication. The telephone handsets are modified to connect the transmitter and receiver elements in series with test leads and current-limiting resistors. Connectors are provided at the ends of the test leads, and one of said handsets is provided with a battery to establish a loop current. LEDs are disposed in selected test leads to provide a visual indication of the flow of loop current, which is established when the connectors are attached to common conductors at the remote ends of a multi-conductor cable or conduit.

Abstract: A rack for supporting a cathode-ray tube during sealing of the screen portion of the tube to the bulb cone portion of the tube is disclosed. The rack includes tubing mounted to the rack through which gas can be blown into the tube. An exit end section of the tubing is of flexible design and includes a helical spring and a plurality of resilient leaf spring tongues for aligning the tubing in the neck of the cathode-ray tube.

Abstract: In a glass viewing screen for a color-picture-reproducing device, the phosphor areas deposited on the inside of the glass viewing screen are surrounded by a sealing-glass matrix. The matrix is made of a sealing glass that shrinks upon thermal crystallization so that the sealing glass may be deposited by screen printing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flat display device with a faceplate (1) having either an outward curvature or bulging inwards under the action of atmospheric pressure, the device also comprising a planar deflection device (8) to deflect the electron beams (13, 14) in each line. With a view to obtaining a pure-color image, the deflection voltages are corrected according to the particular distance between the deflection device (8) and the faceplate (1), thereby ensuring that the electron beams (13, 14) will impinge only on the appropriate equidistant phosphor dots or strips (4). The formula for calculating the correction factor (K) is stated.

Abstract: An interface for use with a microcomputer is provided with memory that in one operating mode is used as a first-in first-out buffer, and in a second operating mode allows the direct data transfer across the interface. The interface also includes a means for selecting the operating mode thereof.

Abstract: A conductive suspension for making contact to the inside of a picture tube consists of graphite, glass-frit powder, a binder, such as nitrocellulose, a solvent, such as isoamyl acetate. It can be applied prior to or after the aluminizing process by various techniques, such as brushing, printing, or spraying, and permits the bake-out process and the frit-sealing process to be performed in one step because it is permeable to organic substances. It is easy to remove from defective tube parts by conventional cleansing techniques.

Abstract: A cellular array having a plurality of processor cells disposed on a chip and interconnected by an internal bus includes data bus couplers for bidirectionally coupling to one or more external buses. The data bus couplers selectively couple buses having multiple logic levels. The number of logic levels on the coupled buses may differ. The internal bus may comprise a plurality of parallel data lines each having two-level logic such as binary data, whereas the external buses may have four-level logic represented by four voltage levels. Each data bus coupler has two-bit A/D and D/A converters parallelly connected to selectively convert two bits of two-level logic data to multiple level data and vice versa. The data bus coupler also has a logic level selector circuit using bidirectional gates for selective operation between buses having similar or dissimilar logic levels.

Abstract: In an array of processing cells arranged as a single instruction multiple data processor, each processing cell contains logic which enables the cell to determine individually whether it will perform an arithmetic or logic operation or be in an idle condition. This cell-level logic includes a control register whose contents determine the operating or idle condition of the cell, and also includes PUSH/POP/COMPLEMENT stack mechanisms to represent multiple complex levels of conditions, and mechanisms to load the results of a cell-level test or arithmetic instruction into the control register, providing data-dependent control at the cell level.

Abstract: In a flat, vacuum-enclosed picture-reproducing device having a phosphor-coated glass faceplate and a shallow tray-shaped rear housing in which a cathode consisting of a periodic array of oxide-coated heating wires is located in front of a counterelectrode, and which contains a control arrangement between the cathode and the faceplate, a perforated anode is present between the heating wires and the control arrangement, which consists of two layers of electrodes, and the counterelectrode has segments arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension of the oxide-coated heating wires.

Abstract: The electron gun system of a color picture tube has coined depressions in the area of the apertures for the electron beams in at least one grid electrode, the coined depressions in one side of the grid electrode being concave. Preferably, this is the side of the grid electrode facing the cathode.

Abstract: During the formation of a black-matrix layer on the inside surface of a faceplate of a color picture tube, the development of the photoresist coating takes place in an atmosphere with a relative humidity of between about 80-100% and at a temperature of between about 30.degree.-50.degree. C.

Abstract: A winding apparatus, for winding saddle coils for deflection units of picture tubes, has a wire guide tube that is movable along the contour of the desired windings in three mutually perpendicular planes. A receiving device for the coil form is rotatable about its longitudinal axis. In another embodiment the coil form remains stationary and the wire guide tube has one end angled at 90.degree. and rotatable about its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: The shadow mask (2) of a color picture tube has retaining springs (6) near its corners and parallel to its rim. The free ends of the retaining springs (6) extend into the corners of the faceplate (1), where they rest on spherical ends (10) of studs (5). The ends of the retaining springs (6) are bent so as to be perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the studs (5).