Abstract: Conductor bundles for the concentric coils of a dry inductor having no iron core. The coils define cooling air gaps therebetween, adjacent ones of the coils being electrically connected in parallel and each coil being comprised of turns of a conductor bundle of the same rectangular cross section, the coils having different numbers of said turns. The conductor bundles form the turns of the coils and comprise a plurality of conductors electrically insulated from each other and twisted together, the conductor bundles of all coils are structurally identical with respect to the number and cross-sectional dimension of the conductors, and the rectangular cross sections of the conductor bundles forming respective coils have different cross-sectional dimensions in the axial direction of the respective coil whereby the coils have the same dimension in said axial direction while the number of the turns of the coils differs.

Abstract: This invention relates to a movable substation which comprises: a movable truck frame, substation equipment carried on said frame, a generator having a prime mover coupled therewith for supplying electric power to said substation equipment for the starting thereof, and a relay unit for detecting whether or not said substation equipment has started to supply electric power to a load, said relay unit connecting said generator to said substation equipment when electric power is not supplied from said substation equipment to said load, and disconnecting said generator from said substation equipment when the electric power can be supplied from said substation equipment to the load, and connecting said substation equipment to the load.

Abstract: An induction motor operating system having a pulse width modulation operating system and a time domain signal generating system.The induction motor is operated from the time domain system to provide extremely large motor starting forces compared to the nominal motor force. Opposite ends of each of first, second and third motor windings are connected across a D.C. power supply and individual power supply. Waveforms are supplied to said respective motor windings during a predetermined brief interval. The first waveform, supplied to a first winding, is configured such that current initially flows through the first winding to establish a first magnetic field in the motor. The second and third waveforms are configured so that current is supplied to the second and third windings after establishment of the first magnetic field to establish second and third magnetic fields reacting with the first magnetic field to create a motive force acting on the moving element of the motor.

Abstract: An input control circuit for a step motor is disclosed. The circuit includes three separate counters for selectively monitoring command pulses and motor pulses such that the rate of acceleration and the initial point of deceleration are independent of (i) the entry rate of command pulses and (ii) the entry timing. This permits operation of the step motor with an undedicated source of command pulses, e.g., a microprocessor.

Abstract: A method of stopping a feedback-controlled stepping motor having a stator and a rotor wherein the drive of the stator field is leading the rotor by more than one step and the rotor is rotating with an angular velocity within a first range of values is performed by decreasing the drive lead of the stator field from its slewing value to another value whereby the angular velocity of the rotor decreases below the first range and sensing for the decrease of the angular velocity of the rotor to within a second range of values so that when the angular velocity of the rotor is within the second range of values the rotation of the stator field is stopped to brake the rotor.

Abstract: An elevator system in which indicia in the hatchway to signal elevator car slowdown points for the floors of a building are also used to maintain and update the advanced car position. The advanced car position is changed to the next floor in the car's travel direction at the start of a run, and then each slowdown indicia encountered by the car associated with the car travel direction changes the advanced car position until the slowdown indicia is detected which is associated with the floor at which the elevator car is to stop.

Abstract: A photo-thermal ink transferring device includes an ink transferring drum which comprises a photoconductive layer on which inking material being in solid state at room temperature and having heat-fusing and semiconductive properties is coated and a transparent electrically-conductive layer which is provided on the opposite surface of the photoconductive layer. In ink transferring, while the desired portion of a paper onto which ink is transferred placed in contact with the coated inking material and while a proper current is passed through the coated inking material and transparent layer, light representative of a portion of image to be transferred is locally illuminated from the inner side of the electrically-conductive layer toward the photoconductive layer. As a result, the light-illuminated portion of the inking material coated on the photoconductive layer is locally self-heated by Joule heat phenomenon, so that the inking material is fused and transferred onto the paper.

Abstract: An electrophotographic reproducing machine in which the bias voltage applied to the sleeve is set at such a level as to substantially nullify the developing current which is produced as a result of induction of charge in the developer in accordance with the potential of the electrostatic latent image when the document is a blank. The setting of the bias voltage is made in accordance with an electrostatic latent image formed as a result of the projection of a leading projecting portion provided on a document glass plate in contact with the document mounting position, the projection of the leading projecting portion being made in advance to the projection of the image on the document to form the electrostatic latent image of a potential substantially equal to that corresponding to the blank portion of the document.

Abstract: The machine flux of a rotating-field machine is determined from the digitized values of the machine stator terminal voltages and conductor currents averaged within a sampling period of an associated digital evaluation system. In order to form each component of the machine flux, the average value of a stator terminal voltage of the same phase, reduced by the ohmic voltage drop in that phase of the stator winding of the rotating-field machine, is multiplied by the clock period of the digital evaluation system and by a scaling factor and the average values so formed for each clock cycle are summed up. From the integral so obtained, the digitized value of the conductor current of the same phase averaged within a sampling period of an associated digital evaluation system and appropriately scaled, is substracted. The simulation of the machine flux can thereby be accomplished digitally.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and a device for reducing the consumption of a stepping motor by automatically adapting the duration of each drive pulse supplied to said motor to the mechanical load that its rotor is to drive.The method comprises forming each drive pulse by a series of elementary pulses separated by interruption periods, and determining the mechanical load by measuring, during said interruption periods, a parameter which is representative of the variation in the voltage induced in the winding (11a) of the motor by the rotary movement of the rotor.

Abstract: A safety shield assembly for insertion within a drawout circuit breaker compartment between the load and line receivers in the compartment and the power stabs on the circuit breaker. The shield assembly utilizes a moveable shield, a pair of spring motors and a pair of actuating probes to operate the shield. One spring motor and one actuating probe are attached on either side of the circuit breaker compartment and both probes must be actuated before the spring motors can draw the moveable shield into an open position to expose the line and load receivers. The probes include a compression spring at its point of contact with the circuit breaker to compensate for overtravel.

Abstract: The varying impedance of a solar generator is matched with the fixed or varying impedance of a load driven therefrom by comparing the generator voltage with a reference voltage and producing a difference signal indicative of the difference, if any, in the voltages, repetitively switching "on" and "off" the current flow from the generator to the load according to the voltage difference so as to maintain the generator voltage at a substantially constant level. Energy generated during periods when current is not supplied to the load is stored for supply during periods when current is switched on to the load.

Abstract: A microcomputer-based electronic controller for a dishwasher utilizes a motor driven timing cam for selectively energizing the electromechanical components of the dishwasher. An internal diagnostic routine in the microcomputer insures that the timing cam is advanced when the microcomputer calls for power to be applied to the motor.

Abstract: A plug current regulator for a dc electric traction motor propelled vehicle, implemented using a microcomputer for controlling a time-ratio switching regulator, provides a substantially smooth electrical braking function by applying relatively short time duration current pulses to build up braking current, followed by a relatively long time duration in which current pulses are inhibited. Current regulation is provided by comparing motor current to a desired braking current and generating an update signal when actual current drops below desired current. Filtering is minimized by sampling motor current at a time interval occurring relatively long after a current pulse is supplied to the motor.

Abstract: For cable termination, a metal plate is fit into the open cable-receiving end of either a connector plug or receptacle. One or more openings in the plate include hollow metal tubes conductively secured to the plate. A set of cable wires within a grounded shield have a shield end portion peeled back preliminary to the wires being passed through one of the tubes and connected to an appropriate connector contact. The peeled-back shield end portion extends over the tube. A ring of solder about the shield affixes it to the tube. Optionally, an aluminum ring may be clamped over the shield sleeve by an electric current operated cryo ring. In another shield connection technique, an oversized ferrule is crimped onto the shield. An elongated tapered cylindrical adapter has one end of a diameter enabling fitting receipt onto the connector open end and a recessed shoulder for engaging edge portions of the connection plate to secure it in place.

Abstract: A power generation system is taught utilizing a ferromagnetic material contained in a tape and rotatably disposed in a triangular configuration around a series of pulleys. The entire system is under water in the ocean so as to utilize the temperature differentials available between just below the surface of the ocean and approximately 100 meters below. The tape which is ferromagnetic passes through superconducting coils having parallel fields and thereby providing a very large magnetic field. The lower portion of the ferromagnetic tape, which is cooled by the ocean, experiences greater magnetization than the upper warmer portions of the magnetic tape. The lower portion of the tape experiencing greater magnetization is pulled up into the magnetic field and thereby causes movement of the tape. As the tape moves upward it is warmed by the ocean currents with the result that a lower portion of the tape now experiences the greater magnetization. This therefore causes continual movement.

Abstract: To reduce disturbance and interference signals, and particularly recurring disturbance signals due to vibration or out-of-round conditions of rotating elements coupled to a speed transducer, a low-pass filter (11) is connected to the speed transducer and, in addition, a high-pass filter (12) which, however, is disconnected upon sensing that the speed of the wheel or of the vehicle is below a predetermined limit, or that the anti brake-lock system unit (13) has responded. Thus, disturbance signals, and particularly periodic disturbance signal which might cause oscillatory conditions to arise in the filter and transducer circuitry, are effectively suppressed.

Abstract: A hydraulic dynamic electric machine comprising a rotary portion including a rotary shaft and an electromagnet adapted to rotate together with the rotary shaft, a water wheel connected to a lower portion of the rotary shaft and adapted to drive the rotary portion, and a thrust bearing for bearing the thrust produced by the rotary portion and the water wheel, with the thrust bearing being disposed below the water wheel and having hydrostatic type bearing pad which makes use of pressurized water as the lubricant.

Abstract: A snap-on liquid-tight connector for mechanically and electrically connecting a flexible metallic conduit to an electrical enclosure. The connector is screw-threaded at the conduit receiving end for electrical contact thereto and for secure, liquid-tight engagement. The opposite end of the connector is snapped into the knock-out of an electrical enclosure. The insertion end of the connector provides both electrical and mechanical connection between the connector and the electrical enclosure.

Abstract: A gas/vapor electromagnetic induction machine comprises an annular coil container including two coaxial electrically insulating cylinders connected at lower ends to an annular bottom plate and coaxially disposed around an iron core within an enclosed tank charged with a non-condensable electrically insulating gas and a condensable cooling gas. A dripping pan receives a condensate of the cooling gas located on the lower portion of the tank through the operation of a pump and drops the condensate into the annular coil container and onto the iron core assembly located within the annular coil container. Thus a coil is always partially or entirely immersed in the condensate collected in the annular coil container.