Abstract: An antenna element has parallel first conductor and second conductor connected by a short-circuit conductor to form a loaded inductance. A ground conductor is also formed on an outer surface of a device substrate which is formed with a conductive line comprised of the first conductor, second conductor and short-circuit conductor. The ground conductor has a terminate end connected to the conductive line, and is applied with a ground potential at a leading end. Since the ground conductor functions in a manner similar to a conventional short pin, the antenna element can provide a radiation resistance twice as much.

Abstract: An apparatus of a sustain driver in an AC-type plasma display panel having an energy recovery unit, comprising: a first drive unit for driving one electrode of a panel capacitor to a sustain voltage or a ground voltage; a second drive unit for driving another electrode of the panel capacitor to a sustain voltage or a ground voltage; and a common energy recovery unit. The common energy recovery unit includes: an inductor connected to the one electrode of the panel capacitor and form a L-C resonance circuit with the panel capacitor; a first and second external capacitors connected in series between the power source of the sustain voltage and the ground; and a switch unit for selectively switching the L-C resonance circuit and the first and second external capacitors during the charge and discharge operation of the panel capacitor.

Abstract: A light emitting element driver composed of two transistors, one ground resistor, one inductance and a single capacitor is arranged to drive an LED with a supplied voltage as low as about 0.92 V. The transistors include an NPN transistor and a PNP transistor, the base of the PNP transistor being connected to the ground resistor and the base of the NPN transistor being connected to the collector of the PNP transistor, with the capacitor being connected between the base of the PNP transistor and the node connecting the collector of the NPN transistor to the inductance and to the LED.

Abstract: An apparatus for broadening the radiation pattern of a waveguide horn includes an input waveguide feed including a non-circular waveguide horn having a non-circular aperture, and a dielectric lens shaped as a toroid having an interior opening and an outside circumference, the toroid being cut along an imaginary plane extending generally parallel to a diameter of the toroid and being positioned generally coaxially adjacent the non-circular aperture.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of driving an electro-optical device, such as a liquid crystal display device, including a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of signal electrodes which are formed such that the plurality of scanning electrodes intersect the plurality of signal electrodes, wherein the scanning electrodes are organized into groups, each group consisting of a plural number of scanning electrodes to be simultaneously selected, and scanning electrodes are selected on a group-by-group basis according to the MLS (Multi-Line Selection) scheme. The amplitude of voltages applied to the scanning electrodes is set to be equal to the amplitude of voltages applied to the signal electrodes. This allows circuits such as driving circuits, or a power supply circuit to be constructed in a simple fashion. This driving method is also employed to drive an electro-optical device constructed in a multiple-fold matrix structure.

Abstract: A dual-radiator whip antenna to operate over a 30 to 450 MHz frequency band includes a high frequency dipole above a low frequency monopole. The outer conductor (30) of a coaxial line is configured to operate as a monopole. Above the upper terminus of the outer conductor, an extension (32a) of the inner conductor (32) is configured as the upper arm of a dipole. An upper length of the outer conductor also functions as the lower dipole arm. With a single antenna port (13), a diplexer and other feed elements separate signals into high and low frequency bands respectively coupled to the dipole and monopole radiators. Increased high frequency range results from positioning of the center of radiation of the dipole above the monopole.

Abstract: An improved high performance x-ray system having a rotating anode therein which includes an improved coating for the x-ray tube rotor. The surface of the x-ray tube rotor is coated with a ductile, metal coating, preferably iron, having a thickness of about 0.2 to about 5.0 mils thick. The rotor coating has ductile properties with a strain to fail greater than 0.05% and thermal expansion properties which when placed on an x-ray tube rotor, provides at least about 40,000 x-ray scan-seconds prior to tube failure due to rotor spalling.