Abstract: The central locking system for motor vehicles comprises a plurality of catch drives reversibly driving between a locking position and an unlocking position. The catch drives are switched on for a pre-determined time duration in the locking direction by drive signals of a first time control circuit. The catch drives are energized in the unlocking direction by a second time control circuit for a pre-determined time duration. The time control circuits can be triggered alternately through a triggering control switch actuatable by means of a door key from outside the vehicle, or by means of a press-button switch actuatable from within the motor vehicle. The trigger inputs of the time control circuits are connected through separate trigger paths to the press-button switch.

Abstract: A commutatorless DC motor with an armature, a detector for sensing the position of the armature, a motor winding arrangement for supplying current via a bridge network, the network being controlled by semiconductor switches that act in dependence upon the armature position.

Abstract: A digital-to-analog converting device comprises a signal processing circuit supplied with a discrete digital signal x.sub.n at a time nT, where n is a natural number and T is a sampling period, for converting the discrete digital signal x.sub.n into a digital signal y.sub.n satisfying an equation ##EQU1## where N is a natural number greater than i, a digital-to-analog converter for converting the output digital signal y.sub.n of the signal processing circuit into an analog signal having a continuous amplitude, and an analog lowpass filter supplied with the output analog signal of the digital-to-analog converter, for eliminating frequency components substantially equal to or higher than 1/2 a sampling frequency F.sub.s of the discrete input digital signal of the signal processing circuit.

Abstract: The gain of a servomotor driven process control system is adaptively compensated for changes in the motor coulomb friction torque. The gain is manually adjusted at the time of installation. Thereafter, the minimum motor current occurring in a process cycle is identified, and the gain is automatically adjusted if the identified minimum motor current changes over time, indicating a change in the motor coulomb friction torque. As a result, the level of response stability achieved at the time of installation is maintained despite changes in the motor coulomb friction torque.

Abstract: The motor control system for an electric motor having no mechanical means integral therewith for commutating current provides the ability to control position, velocity and torque of such a motor to the degree achievable with DC motors having mechanical commutators. Such a result is achieved by maintaining a desired spatial relationship between the resultant magnetic field created by the stationary member and the movable member of the electric motor. The control system includes detecting apparatus for detecting parameters of the motor that dictate, in part, the desired spatial relationship within the motor and command apparatus for creating a motor command signal which, when generated in the motor, causes the desired spatial relationship to be established. The present invention also permits maintenance of an optimal spatial relation--a spatial relationship that causes the motor to produce desired torque with a minimum excitation.

Abstract: A digital servo device having a servomotor with a feedback control device including a position detector. The detector detects the phase relationship among the various signals. The detector is a flip flop located between an AND gate and a differentiation circuit. The flip flop is connected to be set by a predetermined point detecting signal output from the AND gate and the flip flop is connected such that the positive and reverse direction command pulses are inhibited from being produced by locking a receiving shift register in response to an output signal from the flip flop. The feedback circuit is reset by a reset signal which comprises a differentiated output signal of the flip flop which has a pulse width wide enough for obtaining a resetting condition but not so wide that the next positive and reverse direction detecting pulses are extinguished.

Abstract: An input signal sample is converted, i.e., quantized, from a first digital code to a second digital code by combining an array of stored differential quantizer decision levels with the input signal sample to obtain an array of partial sum signal values. The signs of the partial sum signal values are algebraically summed and the result is used to obtain the quantizer interval that the input signal sample falls in.

Abstract: A servo motor feedback fault detector that combines the motor drive voltage, the current flowing through the motor and the rotational speed of the motor and compares this combined signal with a dynamic threshold generated by combining a percentage tolerance of the motor current with a percentage tolerance of the motor rotational rate.

Abstract: A position control system of closed-loop configuration in which a position detector is provided on a motor-driven machine element for sensing the position thereof and a rotary encoder is provided on the motor shaft for detecting the rotational speed thereof by producing pulses of a frequency proportional to the rotational speed. The system includes a device for controlling position based on a position detection signal from the position detector and a motor position signal from the rotary encoder, and a device for controlling speed based on a rotational speed signal from the rotary encoder and an output from the position control device.

Abstract: A dual-flash analog-to-digital converter comprises a first quantizer (20) for quantizing an analog input in accordance with coarse amplitude levels and outputting a more significant bits signal (24) and a remainder analog signal (32); a second quantizer (34) for quantizing the remainder signal in accordance with fine amplitude levels to output a less significant bits signal (36); and digital corrective logic (38) which receives both digital signals and corrects carry errors in the quantization. An analog method of diagnosing errors in the operation of such circuit calls for applying the remainder signal (32) to a pair of comparators (45,46) having thresholds set at upper and lower ends of the normal quantization range of second quantizer (34).

Abstract: An apparatus for compensating for thermal expansion and contraction causing structural part size variations of machine components. The apparatus senses the displacement and temperature of various components of a machine which are designed to move relative to each other along one axis and adjusts this motion in predetermined manner depending upon the sensed displacement and temperature. A programmed control system is responsive to the sensed temperature and converts various sensor outputs to the necessary correction signals for application to the motor causing the relative motion.

Abstract: A motorized nut for use in conjunction with a fixedly secured lead screw for displacing a movable member along a fixed member into which the lead screw is journaled parallel to the desired path of member movement, includes an induction motor whose case is rigidly secured to the movable member. The motor rotor is made hollow so as to allow the lead screw to extend coaxially therethrough. A pair of nuts are each secured in a separate one of the ends of the tubular motor rotor for threadedly engaging the lead screw so that as the motor rotor rotates in response to motor excitation, the motor stator and hence, the movable member, are displaced on the movable member along the axis of the ball screw.

Abstract: An aircraft control surface servomotor control of the pulse width modulation type with precise motor current control for providing precise torque limiting measurements.

Abstract: A capacitor array for a companded pulse code modulation voice codec includes a first plurality of capacitors having a common capacitance C each. A plurality of switching means individually and selectively couple one plate of each of the capacitors to a first point of reference potential or to a second point of reference potential. A second plurality of capacitors has a common capacitance 2C, each, which is coupled in series to form a plurality of junctions, each of the junctions being coupled to a separate one of second plates of the first plurality of capacitors.

Abstract: A control system for positioning an implement using a power steering unit. Instead of connecting a rotary spool of the power steering unit with a steering wheel, the rotary spool is connected with a DC motor through reduction gears. An angular displacement of a control lever is detected by an angular position detector and an angular displacement of an implement is detected by another angular position detector. Signals from both detectors are fed into a comparator which is connected with an amplifier for rotating the DC motor in either direction in response to signals therefrom.

Abstract: A high-speed bipolar logarithmic analog-to-digital (A/D) converter outputs signed binary number proportional to the logarithm of a bipolar analog input signal. A log converter is followed by a level shifting amplifier to center the output of the log converter on a temperature compensating reference. The reference voltage from the temperature compensating reference is used by a linear A/D converter to set the end points of the converter range. A code converter follows the A/D converter if a uniform absolute value coding is desired. Limiting the number of least significant bits (LSB) used to those representing the range of usable converter operation completes the device.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a pair of expanded multiplexed noise codes from multi-bit code mate pairs having code bits of equal pulse width by first reducing the pulse width of each of the original code bits of both code mates by one half to form a pair of intermediate code mates having code bits of one half the pulse width of the original code bits. One of the intermediate codes is delayed by a time equal to at least three times the pulse width of the intermediate code bits after which it is added to the other intermediate code mate to form a first partially interleaved code mate, while a second partially interleaved code mate is generated by subtracting the delayed intermediate code mate from the other intermediate code mate and effected, for example, by forming the negative of the delayed intermediate code mate and adding it to the other intermediate code mate.

Abstract: Displacement table data, which consist of pulse number data for N individual displacement divisions which altogether constitute a given rotational displacement of a pulse motor, are stored in a memory so that the sum of pulse numbers stored in the individual divisions may be equal to a given pulse number corresponding to the displacement of the pulse motor. Pulse period table data, which consist of pulse period data for determining the speed of the pulse motor for divisions corresponding in number to the number of divisions of the displacement table data, are stored in another memory. The pulse motor control is effected by causing generation of pulses corresponding in number to the pulse number data for the individual displacement divisions of the displacement table and having pulse periods for the individual divisions of pulse period table, and by executing the generation of pulses for the successive divisions.

Abstract: Apparatus for converting binary to quaternary-level signals in which the symbols of selected words are inverted in order to eliminate the d-c component of the signal. In order to reduce the power spectral density at frequencies close to d-c and increase the power spectral density at frequencies close to the Nyquist rate, one word of each frame is selectively inverted relative to another in order to maximize the summation of all the numerical values of the differences between adjacent symbol levels. Thereafter both words of the frame are selectively inverted in order to minimize the running digital sum of the signal.

Abstract: A warning and braking device for use on a power cutting tool such as a circular saw or a lawnmower comprises a generator, a drive shaft and a pulley connected by a lever to the power tool on/off switch. When the power tool is in the working "on" position, the generator assembly does not contact the power tool drive belt and no electric current is produced by the generator. When the power tool switch is shifted to the off position, however, the pulley on the generator drive shaft is brought into contact with the drive belt, exerting a braking force on the drive belt and producing an electrical signal from the generator which is connected to a warning device such as a light or a siren.