Abstract: A loading/ejection lever has a slot engaged by a pin on a servo member, for pivoting the lever during loading or ejection of a cassette. The servo member also has a guide surface for causing a cassette lift to be lowered during the latter stages of insertion, and raised during the first stages of cassette ejection. The guide surface for the cassette lift is divided into separate lowering and raising portions, arranged so that a longer stroke of the servo member is utilized during the loading process, before the cassette lift is lowered, than in the reverse movement in which the lift is raised only after the servo member has passed the lowering point. As a result of this construction, it is possible to provide a greater distance between the lever pivot and the location where the coupling pin on the servo member engages the lever, and to provide a spring element on the lever which biases the coupling pin during only a portion of the range of engagement between the servo member and the loading/ejection lever.

Abstract: A device for positioning an optical fiber with respect to a defined reference plane. The optical fiber is arranged so as to be displaceable with respect to the reference plane by an electro-mechanical deflector device comprising three pairs of deflector elements which are arranged like parallel leaf springs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high-pressure discharge lamp provided with a discharge vessel having a ceramic wall and a ceramic end plug which is arranged therein by means of sintering in a sunken position and in which a current-supply member of a main electrode is arranged in a gas-tight manner by means of a sealing ceramic connection. Outside the discharge space enclosed by the discharge vessel, a ceramic filling piece is arranged, which adjoins with a capillary intermediate space the wall of the discharge vessel, the end plug and the current-supply member. The capillary intermediate space is filled substantially entirely with sealing ceramic. With this construction of the vessel end, the sintered joint between the wall of the discharge vessel and the end plug is completely covered by sealing ceramic and the sealing ceramic is prevented from extending into the discharge space.

Abstract: A graphite probe for an electrothermal atomizer comprises a thick stem portion (3) carrying a thin head portion (2) which meets the stem portion (3) at a step (4) which, in operation, is located outside a cuvette (6) adjacent to a slot (7) through which the probe head (2) is inserted into the cuvette (6). A sample deposition aperture (8) is provided in the cuvette (6) through which a sample can be deposited via a dosing tube (9) on a part (10) of the head portion (2) of the probe. The part (10) of the head portion (2) is separated from the rest of the probe by a ridge (5) which extends across the width of the head (2). The ridge (5) prevents liquid samples having a low surface tension from spreading towards the step (4) and has a mass such that its temperature increase matches that of the rest of the head portion (2) thus reducing the production of double peaks in the measured absorption.

Abstract: The apparatus contained in a single housing (1) comprises a first movable input reflector (4) and a second input reflector (5) for causing the input light beams to deviate along the optical axis (11) of the night path and optical axis (7) of the day path, respectively. The night path is constituted by an objective (12), a light intensifier tube (13) and a bent ocular (14) and the day path is constituted by an optical system having a second output reflector (9). The optical axes of the night path and of the day path extend in a sagittal plane (7, 11) of the carrying vehicle; on the other hand, the first input reflector and the second output reflector are alternately concealable by manipulation of the second output reflector. For viewing by night the first input reflector in the active position is situated before the second input reflector, the second output reflector being in the concealed position.

Abstract: The device includes a first connector housing (7) in which end portions of a number of optical fibres (1) are secured and a second connector housing (11) in which a corresponding number of optical elements to be connected to the fibres, for example end portions of further optical fibres (3), is secured. After the connection has been established, the two connector housings (7, 11) are detachably coupled by means of a locking device which includes a first locking portion (17) which is provided at the first end (16) of a lever (15) provided on the first connector housing (7) and a second locking portion (18) which cooperates with the first locking portion and which is provided on the second connector housing (11). In order to establish also an electrical connection between pairs of conductors (35, 41), an electrical contact member (27, 37) is provided near each of the two locking portions (17, 19).

Abstract: A rear-projection system by means of which a high brightness and contrast can be obtained in that the projection screen has a maximum transmission for signal light and ambient light. This is achieved by making the surfaces of the projection-screen anti-reflecting as far as possible. A satisfactory contrast is further guaranteed by ensuring that ambient light which has traversed the screen is absorbed in dark layers inside the enclosure. Further steps may be taken in order to prevent ambient light which is incident on the mirror from being reflected back to the screen.

Abstract: An optical transmission system comprises a monomode optical transmission fibre which has an end portion in which the diameter of the core tapers toward the end. If the tapered portion is followed by a part of increasing diameter this results in a better matching to the wavefront which issues from the lens arranged in front of or on the fibre. This yields a higher coupling efficiency.

Abstract: A channel plate electron multiplier is mounted parallel to, but spaced from, the screen. The electron multiplier comprises a stack of juxtaposed substantially planar apertured dynodes with the apertures therein aligned to form channels. An apertured extractor electrode is mounted on the output side of the electron multiplier. Preferably two or more foraminous deflector electrodes are mounted on the extractor electrode. The apertures in the foraminous deflector electrodes have the same pitch as the channels of the electron multiplier but are offset laterally relative to each other and to the axes of the channels by amounts which allow the emergent electron beam from each channel to pass through to the screen without impinging upon the deflector electrodes. By applying a potential difference between the deflector electrodes an electron beam emerging from its respective channel is deflected laterally onto a respective one of its associated group of phosphor stripes.

Abstract: A method for transmitting ciphered information between two stations while using session keys. According to the method a mutual identification of the stations (AK, A; A,B) is obtained while using an identification device (ID) comprised in each station. Number values (r.sub.1, r.sub.2), originating from each station, may be exchanged by said identification in a form which is so ciphered that the number values may be recovered by the counterpart only. The session key (t.sub.m) is formed on basis of said number values in a modification device (MODIFI). Ciphered data messages are exchanged between the station using the established session key and a message ciphering/deciphering device (MCRY, MDECRY) comprised in each station. According to the method the mutual identification and the establishment of the session key via an open channel may be obtained by transmitting one separate identification sequence in each direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to an X-ray subtraction method, and equipment for implementing this method, in which a moving structure is subtracted from the fixed background. The picture values corresponding to the minimum absorption are used as the mask image for each picture element from the projection images.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transmission method denoted as the "color shift" method. Therein the composite color video signal, which is formed by a sequence of analog line signals, is sampled, as a result of which each analog line signal is converted into a time-discrete line signal formed by a plurality of line signal samples occurring at a rate f.sub.s, each sample being formed from the sum of a luminance and a chrominance signal sample. Thereafter, these time-discrete line signals are submitted to a scrambling operation in which, in accordance with a predetermined pattern, a number of line signal samples is, each time, selected from the line signal samples of a group of time-discrete line signals for assembling time-discrete auxiliary line signals. This selection is effected such that of all those line signal samples which together represent a given time-discrete auxiliary line signal, the associated chrominance signal samples all have the same polarities.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the fine adjustment of a resonant microstrip-line formed on an insulating substrate (2), tuned by a varicap diode (7,8) which makes it possible to adjust the shape of the curve representing the tuning frequency of the strip line as a function of the direct voltage controlling the diode. One or more blind holes are provided in the surface of the substrate opposite the strip line, and a base part (15) with one or more threaded holes, into which cylinders are screwed, is fitted under the strip line. The cylinders are placed facing the blind holes and are aligned with the holes to enable entry into them. The cylinders and the base part are electrically conductive and connected to ground.

Abstract: In a circuit arrangement for converting an analog picture signal, which corresponds to consecutive fields, into an amplitude-discrete output signal, which, in a comparison stage, compares the picture signal to a plurality of reference values and produces an amplitude-discrete intermediate signal at an output, a significant simplification of the circuit cost and design effort is accomplished with, at the same time, an improvement in the error cancellation by the fact that the change in the positions of the values of the picture signal and the reference values relative to each other corresponds to the sum of a fraction and a first integral number of value intervals.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical glass fibre having a synthetic resin cladding and a method of manufacturing same, in which the first layer of the synthetic resin cladding is formed from a curable polysiloxane composition.The curing rate is increased by the presence of acrylate groups. The refractive index (exceeding 1.46) and the glass transition temperature (lower than -50.degree. C.) can be adjusted by the ratio of the dimethyl siloxane groups, methyl phenyl siloxane groups and diphenyl siloxane groups present. The curing rate can furthermore be increased by the addition of monomeric acrylate compounds.

Abstract: A predictive encoding arrangement for use in a video digital imaging system wherein sequences of codewords are produced by a video signal source corresponding to sequential elements of a video picture, codewords for any given picture element being successively produced in successive picture periods. Codewords for the N picture elements of each picture period are stored in a picture memory. An encoder encodes the difference between codewords supplied by the video signal source and codewords read out from the memory, the encoded codewords than being decoded by a decoder and supplied to the memory for storage therein. A cyclic address counter operating at the codeword rate cyclically generates N-K memory addresses for storage of codewords in the memory, wherein N>K and K is the number of codeword periods for the encoder and decoder to produce a decoded codeword in response to a codeword from the video signal source.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for producing a direct voltage from a sinusoidal input voltage comprising a filter for suppressing interference voltages, a rectifier, a switched mode power supply part and a pulse generator. The pulse generator produces from the rectified input signal switching pulses for the switched mode power supply part. The frequency of these pulses is varied so that it is a minimum at the maximum value of the rectified input voltage and is a maximum at the minimum value and is varied between the extreme values so that the second derivative of the frequency with respect to time is always zero or negative. A switching pulse is terminated when a signal proportional to the output current of the rectifier exceeds the difference between a signal proportional to the rectified input voltage and an integrated signal proportional to the output current of the rectifier.

Abstract: A method of and a device for working the sealing edge of a funnel portion for a cathode ray tube during a plurality of working phases. A number of funnel portions are simultaneously worked in successive working units. Each unit comprises a centering device for centering and bringing the funnel portion into a stationary working position. The funnel portions are simultaneously transported from one unit to another by a common transport device.

Abstract: A magnetic head for a magnetic recording and playback device. The head comprises a Mn-Zn-ferrous ferrite core having a very high saturation magnetization and magnetic permeability. The Mn-Zn-ferrous-ferrite has a composition according to the formulaMn.sub.a Zn.sub.b Fe.sub.c.sup.II Co.sbsb.xFe.sub.2.sup.III O.sbsb.4with0<a.ltoreq.0.550.06.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.0.40.34.ltoreq.c.ltoreq.0.90.0006.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.006.

Abstract: A measuring oscillator for measuring temperature has an all-pass filter (1) which drives a current source (16) having a controllable amplification factor and a control element (17). The control element is connected to the control input of the current source (16) and controls its amplification factor in a manner such that the amplitude of the alternating voltage produced by the measuring oscillator assumes a constant value. The all-pass filter comprises a phase-determining bipolar circuit arrangement (10) comprising a voltage follower (12), whose input is connected to one terminal (9) of the circuit arrangement (10) and whose output is connected through an ohmic input resistor (13) to the inverting input of a first operational amplifier (14), which is fed back negatively through a measuring resistor (15) having a temperature-dependent ohmic resistance value. The output of the first op-amp also is connected through an ohmic resistor (41) to the one terminal (9) of the bipolar circuit arrangement.