Abstract: A direct current motor comprises a stator having a plurality of coils connected in series with one another located around a circle in a closed loop configuration, with the junctions between adjacent pairs of coils being in turn connected to diametrically opposed ones of said junctions in said closed loop configuration. A plurality of pairs of oppositely poled silicon controlled rectifiers are connected respectively to the junctions of different adjacent pairs of the coils for conducting current from a DC source into and out of the junctions. A wound rotor energized by the DC source drives a distributor which is arranged to energize the gate electrodes of different ones of the silicon controlled rectifiers in sequence so as to produce a plurality of stator poles which, at any instant of time, are angularly displaced from the rotor poles, and which stator poles shift in position about the closed loop coil configuration with rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: Wind driven rotors are affixed along the length of a flexible power shaft, and the shaft is suspended at a great height above the earth by means of a swivel. The lowermost end of the shaft is connected to rotate a ground supported energy conversion device. The winds aloft impart rotational motion into the wind rotors, whereupon the rotational energy of the shaft is converted into electrical power or other form of power by the conversion device.The swivel enables the rotating shaft to be affixed to a nonrotating lifting or suspension device. The lifting device includes lighter-than-air lifting bodies, aerodynamic lifting bodies, as well as a combination thereof. In one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of lifting bodies suspend a plurality of wind rotors, with each of the rotors being affixed to the shaft by a clutch means, so that when a wind gradient is encountered, a slowly rotating rotor will become disengaged from the shaft, thereby avoiding induced drag of the slow rotor.

Abstract: A high pressure insulated cylindrical gas storage tank is adapted to store gas at a relatively high pressure and also to support the associated interrupter and blast valve assembly which is mounted within a relatively low pressure tank. To facilitate alignment and adjustment of various associated components, upper and lower sealing and adjusting assemblies are provided. The adjusting and sealing units provide the capabilities for affecting radial, angular and vertical adjustment necessary for alignment of the high pressure tank axis with respect to the longitudinal axis of the interrupter and blast valve assembly and the vertical axis of the blast valve housing which is part of the interrupter and blast valve assembly.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for generating a non-oscillating torque wherein a magnetic induction torquer having a first coil for clockwise torque and a second coil for counter-clockwise torque is utilized. The coils are selectively driven from a constant current source by way of an assembly of switches and associated precision dummy load impedances. A control circuit is driven by a torque command signal and a clock signal to selectively apply a plurality of control signals to the assembly of switches to cause current pulses to be directed to the appropriate coil or coils of the torquer in order to produce the commanded torque with no oscillating component in the resultant torque.

Abstract: The unregulated AC electrical power provided by an engine driven alternator to an airborne electronic engine control system which controls the performance of a gas turbine engine, is rectified to provide unregulated DC voltage signals for system electrical power. The system provides position control of a plurality of controlled surfaces within the engine through a plurality of digital effector servo actuators, each of which includes a mechanical assembly for providing displacement of the surface in each of two directions in response to a magnetic field provided by a respective one of two oppositely polarized solenoids disposed within the actuator.

Abstract: A four-axis gyro stabilized inertial reference system. The system comprises a nested gimbal configuration, which includes a platform and three successively larger and concentrically disposed inner, middle and outer gimbals and an outer casing. The platform and inner, middle and outer gimbals are each configured to permit rotation about an associated axis with that axis being perpendicular to the corresponding axis of the neighboring gimbal or platform. The system further includes a platform stabilizing means for maintaining the platform in a substantially fixed spatial orientation, independent of the spatial orientation of the outer casing and over a predetermined range of angular rates.

Abstract: A pulse width modulation chopper controller for a D.C. traction motor has plug sensing means which monitors the voltage across the motor armature on a pulse-by-pulse basis and is responsive, only when the power switch is turned on, to the motor acting as a generator to limit the "on-time" of the power switch before current of high magnitude can flow in the motor.