Abstract: An ultraviolet radiation sanitation system which is portable and which operates on battery power to generate UVC radiation to decontaminate bathrooms on aircraft and other small rooms or enclosed areas. The system includes one or more low pressure high output mercury or amalgam UVC lamps mounted on a housing which contains a battery powered power supply, lamp ballasts and control circuitry. The housing also includes a control panel having controls and indicators for system operation. A motion detector is provided on the housing to shut off the system in the presence of detected motion which would occur by the presence of a person. The housing is mounted on a tripod or other stand to support the system on an aircraft bathroom floor or other location in which the system is to be deployed.

Abstract: An ultraviolet disinfection system to generate UVC radiation inside athletic clothing, gear and other items to be decontaminated. The system includes a plurality of UVC lamps vertically disposed in a housing and having UVC transmissive lamp enclosures over which items to be decontaminated are placed. The system has a microprocessor based controller and can kill pathogens including Clostridium difficile in 30 seconds or less.

Abstract: A UVC disinfection system which produces a dosage of UVC radiation sufficient to kill Clostridium difficile and other pathogens in a simple fast and unique manner. The system is especially useful for sterilizing and disinfecting medical ultrasound probes or transducers. The system in one embodiment comprises an enclosure for housing a plurality of UVC lamps which are disposed around a central area in which an ultrasound transducer can be disposed. The lamps are disposed in a vertical orientation, as is the transducer and provide 360° of UVC radiation around the transducer for effective and efficient decontamination. The UVC lamps can also be provided at the bottom of the enclosure. The system is controlled by an electronic controller which typically is a microprocessor based controller for control of the ballasts for the UVC lamps and having associated control switches and displays. The current input to the ballasts is monitored by the controller to assure that the UVC lamps are operating properly.

Abstract: A UVC radiation system for producing decontaminated air which flows into the surroundings of the system while blocking UVC radiation from entering the surrounding environment. In one embodiment, the system comprises a first housing forming a first air chamber and having multiple side walls each having one or more UVC lamps adjacent thereto. Each side wall has air vent openings in a pattern which confronts substantially the entire length of the one or more adjacent lamps. A second housing surrounds the first housing and lamps and forms a second air chamber having one or more walls containing an air filter to permit air to flow through the filter into the surrounding environment and to prevent UVC radiation from entering the environment.

Abstract: A UVC disinfection system which produces a dosage of UVC radiation sufficient to kill Clostridium difficile and other pathogens in a simple fast and unique manner. The system is especially useful for sterilizing and disinfecting medical ultrasound probes or transducers. The system in one embodiment comprises an enclosure for housing a plurality of UVC lamps which are disposed around a central area in which an ultrasound transducer can be disposed. The lamps are disposed in a vertical orientation, as is the transducer and provide 360° of UVC radiation around the transducer for effective and efficient decontamination. The UVC lamps can also be provided at the bottom of the enclosure. The system is controlled by an electronic controller which typically is a microprocessor based controller for control of the ballasts for the UVC lamps and having associated control switches and displays. The current input to the ballasts is monitored by the controller to assure that the UVC lamps are operating properly.

Abstract: An ultraviolet radiation system to decontaminate small objects such as TV remote controls, hospital bed controls, cell phones, computer tablets and the like which are present in a hospital or other health care facility. The system includes a plurality of UVC lamps arranged in a table top sized housing and having a UVC transmissive shelf in the housing for support of objects to be decontaminated. The system has a microprocessor based controller and can kill Clostridium difficile and other pathogens to thereby decontaminate items in 30 seconds or less.

Abstract: For use in an electronic security system, an antenna system which provides a magnetic field which is substantially zero at distances large compared to the dimensions of the antenna, and has magnetic coupling between transmitting and receiving antennas which can be readily predetermined by varying the relative sizes of the antenna loops. The size and shape of the detection pattern can also be readily predetermined by varying the relative sizes of the antenna loops. Preferably, the transmitting and receiving antennas each comprise three magnetic loops lying in a single plane, the center loop having a magnetic phase which is in phase opposition to that of the upper and lower loops. The sum of the three magnetic dipoles is equal to zero to provide a net magnetic field as seen from distances large compared to the antenna dimension, which is substantially zero.

Abstract: A pulse train processor includes a plurality of parallel input, serially coupled pulse discriminating modules one for each of the consecutive pulses of a pulse train characteristic of a magnetic strip or resonant tag target signal produced in a magnetic interrogation zone such as found in retail clothing or library theft prevention applications. Each module is tailored to the particular expected characteristics of the corresponding pulse of the pulse train, and the modules are serially enabled and an alarm is triggered if and only if the expected characteristics of the several pulses are sequentially present from the initial pulse to the last pulse of the received pulse train. The modules are self-resetting in the event that the pulse characteristics of any of the pulses are other than the expected pulse characteristics whereby the pulse train processor is substantially continuously armed.

Abstract: For use in an electronic security system, an antenna system which provides a magnetic field which is substantially zero at distances large compared to the dimensions of the antenna, and has magnetic coupling between transmitting and receiving antennas which can be readily predetermined by varying the relative sizes of the antenna loops. The size and shape of the detection pattern can also be readily predetermined by varying the relative sizes of the antenna loops. Preferably, the transmitting and receiving antennas each comprise three magnetic loops lying in a single plane, the center loop having a magnetic phase which is in phase opposition to that of the upper and lower loops. The sum of the three magnetic dipoles is equal to zero to provide a net magnetic field as seen from distances large compared to the antenna dimension, which is substantially zero.

Abstract: An antipilferage system is provided with an improved signal processing system to prevent false alarms. This signal processing involves singly or in combination the improvements of a slew rate limited amplifier, which prevents impulse noise from ringing or being stretched by subsequent filters; a gain-controlled amplifier ahead of said slew rate limited amplifier, the gain of the gain-controlled amplifier being reduced as the noise and/or signal exceeds a minimum threshold level; a video detector which controls the gain-controlled amplifier and serves to maintain a minimum signal to noise ratio; a digital smoothing circuit which averages several "frames" of the entire signal such that random noise is averaged to zero while any signals which are synchronized with the modulation are added together; signal processing circuitry for the recognition of incoming signal pulse shape as compared to a predetermined pulse shape, the output of which is a trigger signal to an alarm.

Abstract: A resonant tag circuit having at least one resonant frequency is operative in an electronic security system in which the tag circuit is sensed and electronically deactivated to destroy the resonant characteristics of the tag circuit at the detection frequency. The tag circuit is electronically deactivated by a breakdown mechanism operative within the resonant structure of the tag to cause vaporization of a conductive area or short-circuiting of capacitor plates to destroy the resonant properties of the circuit. A deactivator provides electromagnetic energy at a resonant frequency of the tag circuit of sufficient energy to cause electrical breakdown and deactivation of the tag circuit.

Abstract: A resonant tag circuit having at least one resonant frequency is operative in an electronic security system in which the tag circuit is sensed and electronically deactivated to destroy the resonant characteristics of the tag circuit at the detection frequency. The tag circuit is electronically deactivated by a breakdown mechanism operative within the resonant structure of the tag to cause vaporization of a conductive area or short-circuiting of capacitor plates to destroy the resonant properties of the circuit. A deactivator provides electromagnetic energy at a resonant frequency of the tag circuit of sufficient energy to cause electrical breakdown and deactivation of the tag circuit.

Abstract: An antenna system for use in an electronic security system and having a transmitting antenna with at least one loop lying in a plane, and a receiving antenna having at least two twisted loops lying in a common plane with each loop being twisted 180.degree. and in phase opposition with each adjacent loop. The transmitting and receiving antennas are disposed in spaced substantially parallel relationship across an aisle or passage through which a resonant tag circuit must pass for detection.

Abstract: For use in an electronic security system for detection of a resonant tag, an antenna system has a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna at least one of which includes two or more twisted loops lying in a common plane with each loop being twisted 180.degree. to be in phase opposition, and a conductive shield enclosing each twisted loop antenna. The conductive shield has a grounded shorted turn portion enclosing the periphery of the antenna, and a shield portion enclosing the crossed conductors of each pair of twisted loops, this latter shield portion being insulated from the shorted turn portion to prevent current flow in the crossover shield portion.

Abstract: An antenna system for an electronic security installation comprising a pair of substantially identical planar multiple loop antennas respectively connected to the transmitter and receiver of the security system and providing an electromagnetic field of high intensity only in the interrogation region of the system while also discriminating against interferring signals originating outside of the interrogation region. Each planar antenna includes two or more loops lying in a common plane with each loop being twisted 180.degree. with respect to each adjacent loop to be in phase opposition. The transmitting antenna and receiving antenna are substantially identical in size and configuration, and each antenna has a total loop area of one phase equal to the total loop area of opposite phase.

Abstract: An electronic security system detects a resonant tag circuit even in the presence of a substantially identical spurious resonance. The spurious resonance is fixed or quasi-stationary in time, in relation to the time that a resonant tag circuit is present in a security system. A representation of the quasi-stationary noise is stored in an electronic memory and is subtracted from a received signal to automatically cancel the interfering noise.