Abstract: A control circuit for a flyback stepcharger comprising a source producing a urrent proportional to a power supply output in order to charge a capacitor. When the capacitor reaches a predetermined level the charging stops and switching transistors to the primary of the transformer of the stepcharger are turned on. When the primary current reaches another predetermined level the switching transistors are turned off. The source charging the capacitor is restarted a set time after the switching transistors are turned on. The stepcharging is terminated when the DC voltage of the power supply output reaches its set value as measured when the switching transistors are on.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is disclosed in which the receptacle coments are shielded by an electromagnetic radiation mask and in which no power is present at the front end of the receptacle when the receptacle is not connected to its mating electrical plug. Intermediate electrical contacts in the receptacle portion of the connector assembly completely close apertures in the mask when the receptacle is not mated and are moved from the mask apertures and into contact with the internal electrical conductors of the receptacle when engaged with the male electrical plug portion of the assembly.

Abstract: A compensation system for use in a helmet mounted raster projection system tilizes a microprocessor to control the offset position of the raster line and frame scanners, thereby increasing the stability of the viewed scene. The microprocessor calculates control words which are fed to the scanners via digital to analog converters during the vertical sync of the raster scan. The microprocessor calculates the control words from pilot look data obtained by head and eye trackers compared to previous similar data.

Abstract: A proximity sensor for indicating the spatial proximity of a ferrous object omprising a magnetic reluctance bridge formed from a plurality of high and low permeability sections and with a ring core flux gate magnetometer disposed therebetween to form the center reluctance path of the bridge in order to sense flux when the bridge is unbalanced, a dc magnetic field generator disposed along a line of symmetry for the bridge for providing magnetic flux in the bridge, wherein a ferrous object disposed adjacent one of the low permeability sections will unbalance the bridge and cause flux to be detected by the flux gate magnetometer, and further including circuitry for generating a triggering signal when flux is detected by the magnetometer.

Abstract: A stowage pack containing a lanyard is disclosed for use on military airct to provide for arming and safe release of bombs and mines (stores) and for opening of stabilizing and drag fins.The stowage pack is connected with a shackle on board the aircraft and packages a non-magnetic lanyard which is connected at its opposite ends, respective, to the pack and to the store. Once the store is released from the shackle and falls away from the aircraft, the lanyard pulls pins to arm the store or open fins or a parachute compartment. After the store falls farther, it breaks the lanyard at a weak section near the pack and they fall away together, leaving only the pack connected with the aircraft shackle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a shielded electrical connector, that has outer member that may be screw threaded together and they are usually electro conductive, this member is a metallic element combined with an inner insulated member made of a rotatable, soft plastic or rubber material that not only insulates but provides a cushion protective environment for an inner electrical conduit.

Abstract: A method for depositing a (Hg,Cd)Te film onto a CdTe substrate by using two separate vaporizeable sources of reactant materials each maintained at separate and distinct temperatures followed by the step of mixing both of each sources with a hydrogen halide gas and passing the resulting mixtures over a CdTe substrate maintained at a lower temperature distinct and different from the temperatures maintained during vaporization of the two distinct vaporizeable sources.

Abstract: A tomographic marking device is disposed in an electron microscope between a goniometer stage for holding a specimen and a fluorescent screen for displaying a magnified image of the specimen. The device comprises an externally geared, ring wheel, having a pair of spaced-apart, colinearly disposed pins fixed to the inner periphery of the wheel and defining a straight line parallel to both the screen and the tilt axis of rotation of the goniometer stage. Because the magnetic lenses of the microscope rotate the magnified image on the screen, means are provided to rotate the wheel and to indicate the position of angular rotation of the tilt axis of the goniometer stage located on the screen relative to the actual tilt axis of the goniometer stage.

Abstract: An optic fibre is wound around a drum and a strip of flexible adhesive is plied across the width of the winding to maintain the relative positions of individual turns of the winding. The fibre turns and adhesive are then cut across the width of the winding and the resultant ribbon is unwrapped from the drum. One end face of the adhesive in which the cut ends of the fibres are secured is then cut such that the axes of the fibres assume a predetermined orientation relative to the cut end face. The cut end face is then applied against the surface of a former of predetermined shape and the fibre ends are secured in the positions they have assumed. A radial fibre arrangement is obtained by cutting the end face normal to the fibres and using a cylindrical former.

Abstract: A hydroacoustic transducer provides an improved hemispherical radiation pern throughout a wide range of operating depths. A can-shaped transducer is nestled in the inside of a hat-shaped array of hollow spheres. Resiliently mounting the spheres with respect to each other and a hat-shaped shell holds the array away from the surface of the transducer and layering the hollow spheres assures the hemispherical pattern. Fashioning the spheres from hemispherical shells of aluminum and bonding them together makes the array insensitive to greater or lesser hydrostatic pressures and potting the array in polyurethane presents a more rugged structure capable of withstanding the routine abuses of the ocean environment.

Abstract: A method of recognizing different perspective views or images (i.e., multivariant views) of the same object (i.e., intraclass patterns). Each intraclass pattern, or different representation of the same object, is described as an orthonormal basis function expansion, and a single averaged matched spatial filter is produced from a weighted linear combination of these functions. The method eliminates the multiple matched spatial filters, and the extensive postprocessing of the matrix output from a multichannel correlator, which are used in the prior art.

Abstract: An improved high pressure turbine rotor blade and tip cap structure therefor is provided, which comprises, a plurality of metallic layers bonded to the tip end of the blade, each layer having a peipheral shape conforming to the camber of the blade, the layers defining a plurality of radially outwardly opening, serpentine-shaped passageways for passage of coolant fluid through the periphery of the tip end of the blade.

Abstract: Apparatus for detecting acoustic emissions from metal matrix wire allows on-line measurement of the transverse strength of the wire as it is moving through its manufacturing process. A series of end and middle rollers guide the wire and form a bend in it. The location of the bend in the wire is maintained in contact with a liquid bath which, in turn, is contacted by the sensing surface of an acoustic transducer. Acoustic emissions from breaking of the fiber-matrix interface of the wire are transmitted by the bath and detected by the transducer.

Abstract: A rotatably shaft is directly supported by at least three wheels, including drive wheel. The circumferential edge of each of the wheels frictionally engages the circumferential edge of the shaft. The shaft is in frictional contact with each of the wheels, and is driven by the drive wheel. Speed step up is achieved because the diameter of the drive wheel is larger than the diameter of the shaft.

Abstract: This invention comprises an optically pumped iodine monofluoride laser operating on the B.sup.3 .pi.(0.sup.+).fwdarw.X.sup.2 .SIGMA..sup.+ system. Ground state IF was produced by the reaction between I.sub.2 and F.sub.2 in an optical cavity which was subsequently optically pumped with a high energy, broadband dye laser to produce lasing energy.

Abstract: An elevator levelling/hatch control circuit including a motor controller, elevator dispatching unit, an elevator location sensing unit, and a control unit. The control unit receives hatch position signals, monitors the speed and direction of elevator motion and generates hatch open/close commands and elevator speed and direction commands to assure safe elevator operation in a shipboard environment. In one embodiment the circuit utilizes miniature electromechanical relays that may be visually monitored and easily tested.

Abstract: Disclosed is a GaA1As laser diode wherein an abrupt etch step in the waveguide layer forms a third mirror. The structure is a large optical cavity double heterostructure laser having a relatively long active cavity and a relatively short passive cavity. Output is temperature and current sensitive for single mode operation, widely-spaced dual mode operation, and narrow-band multimode operation.

Abstract: A new family of stress compensated quartz resonators having cuts exhibiting an ultra-linear frequency vs. temperature characteristic. This family of resonators has an orientation defined with respect to the crystallographic axes by polar angles .phi. and .theta., which angles lie on the locus where the second-order temperature coefficient of frequency is zero between the angles .phi.=20.degree..+-.2.degree. and .theta.=20.degree..+-.5.degree., and in close proximity to the locus of zero coefficient of stress. In one preferred embodiment, the resonator comprises a plate whose angles of cut .phi. and .theta. are both substantially equal to 20.degree.. In a second preferred embodiment an exact stress compensation is provided where .phi. is substantially equal to 20.8.degree. and .theta. is substantially equal to 23.2.degree., and orientation where the locus of the zero coefficient of stress intersects the locus of the zero of the second-order temperature coefficient.

Abstract: Dental cements with syringate esters such as 2-ethylhexyl syringate with or without vanillate esters dissolved in o-ethoxybenzoic acid as ingredients of the liquid when mixed with metal oxide powder yield rapid setting, insoluble cements that have high strength, do not inhibit free radical polymerization, adhere strongly to metal, and reduce carries. Use of silanized glass filler to the powder in conjunction with the addition of monomer to the liquid gives an even stronger cement.

Abstract: A fiber optic acoustic sensing system for tracking a phase shift linearly over a wide range thereby allowing accurate tracking in the presence of temperature induced phase flucuation. In one embodiment, light from a laser is split and coupled into both legs of a fiber interferometer. One leg is phase modulated by the acoustic signal while the other leg is phase modulated by a first and a second piezoelectric cylinder modulators. The second modulator is driven at .omega..sub.m to effectively shift the acoustic information up in frequency into the sidebands of the carrier .omega..sub.m. The light signals in the two legs are combined, detected, cross-correlated with the carrier .omega..sub.m to produce an error signal, and then low pass filtered. This filtered error signal is fed back to control the first modulator. The first modulator keeps the interferometer locked in phase by effectively cancelling out the phase produced by temperature and acoustic pressure flucuations.