Abstract: An AM-FM-cellular telephone multiband antenna adapted for mounting on a motor vehicle fender includes a first mast section having a length of one quarter wavelength at a first frequency near 835 MHz in the cellular telephone band, a phasing coil connected collinearly above the first mast section and having an effective electrical length of three halves wavelength at the first frequency and a second mast section connected collinearly above the phasing coil and having a length of one half the wavelength at the first frequency, whereby the phasing coil and second mast section increase the gain of the total assembly compared to a quarter wavelength antenna for cellular telephone operation at frequencies near the first frequency and further tune the antenna to resonance at a second frequency in the FM radio while providing reception at frequencies in the AM radio band. The antenna is especially suited for power telescoping operation.

Abstract: A resilient coupling between the rotor and output shaft of a brushless DC motor cooperates with a sensorless drive arrangement that obtains rotor position information from the voltage induced in the stator windings of the motor to reduce the effective inertia of the load and aid in starting of the motor.

Abstract: A sensorless control system for reliably starting a brushless DC motor even when the motor/load inertia is relatively high and even though the rotor may be rotating in the wrong direction when starting is initiated. The line-to-line generated voltages of two deenergized stator windings are compared as a given stator winding is energized. The energization is either interrupted or permitting to continue depending on the comparison. If the comparison indicates that the rotor is turning in the correct direction, the energization is continued to produce synchronous positive torque for accelerating the rotor in that direction. If the generated voltage comparison indicates that the rotor is turning in the wrong direction, the winding energization is interrupted, and the next sequential winding is energized.

Abstract: An AM-FM-cellular telephone multiband antenna adapted for mounting on a motor vehicle fender includes, connected collinearly in order from the bottom, a first mast section having a length of one quarter wavelength at a first frequency near 835 MHz in the cellular telephone band, a phasing coil having an electrical length of one half wavelength at the first frequency, a second mast section having a length of one half wavelength at the first frequency, a trap coil resonant at the first frequency and a third mast section. The trap coil isolates the second and third mast sections at the first frequency so that the phasing coil and second mast section adding gain to the first mass section in cellular telephone reception at frequencies near the first frequency. However, the trap coil connects the second and third mast sections to provide a tuned quarter wavelength antenna at a second frequency in the FM radio band while providing reception at frequencies in the AM radio band.

Abstract: Battery current is drawn by a motor vehicle electric motor speed controller through an electronic switch. The load current carrying circuit of the switch is made conductive to permit battery current to be drawn by the controller when a motor speed command signal indicates a non-zero desired motor speed, and nonconductive to prevent substantial battery current from being drawn by the controller when the motor speed command indicates a desired motor speed of zero.

Abstract: A windshield cleaner control for a vehicle in which signals from separate washer and wiper actuating switches in the vehicle passenger compartment are voltage multiplexed on a single electric conductor through the firewall to washer and wiper actuating circuitry in the vehicle passenger compartment. A wiper actuating path is established including, in series, a source of electric power, a wiper motor actuating coil relay, the park switch and the washer motor, the internal impedance of the actuating coil being sufficiently greater than that of the washer motor that the latter is not activated by current flow through the former. The parallel wiper and washer switches are connected in series between the source of electric power and the electric conductor, park switch and washer motor, but a resistor in series with the wiper switch similarly prevents activation of the washer motor by the wiper switch.

Abstract: An antenna for simultaneous connection to a citizen's band transceiver, an AM receiver and a FM receiver, particularly suitable for use on a vehicle such as an automobile. The antenna proper is a center-loaded upstanding rod which, in the preferred form, telescopes downwardly to a retracted position where it does not protrude above the ground plane. The antenna proper is connected to a T-connected open stub transmission line and to a FM resonant relatively high impedance signal-carrying transmission line. The former has inductive reactance in the FM band which offsets the capacitive reactance of the relatively short effective length of the antenna proper in the FM frequencies. The signal-carrying transmission line is substantially half wave in length in the FM band so as to reflect impedance at its far end substantially equal to the impedance present at the T-connection.

Abstract: An auxiliary vehicle body support and leveler device of the type commonly known as a load leveling shock absorber includes a non-magnetic cover fixed to the vehicle body, a pair of magnetic strips vertically aligned and separated on the outer surface of the cover and a pair of magnetic reed switches, one associated with each magnetic strip, the reed switches being horizontally disposed with one reed adjacent the respective magnetic strip so that the reed switch closes in respond to the presence of a magnetic pole anywhere along the strip. The device also includes a main body fixed to the vehicle running gear and defining a variable volume chamber with the cover, the main body having mounted thereon, within the cover, a permanent magnet disposed with one pole adjacent the magnetic strips and adapted to move vertically between the strips as the main body and cover move relative to one another.

Abstract: A circuit for providing dual speed operation of a single phase alternating current motor having high speed main and starting windings and a low speed main winding. A selectively energizable energizing circuit for the high speed main winding includes a current relay responsive to current flow through the high speed main winding for completing an energizing circuit for the high speed starting winding and a selectively energizable energizing circuit for the low speed main winding includes a bidirectional current translating device and a second current relay responsive to the flow of current through the low speed winding to complete the high speed main winding energizing circuit. The bidirectional current translating device is responsive to electrical control signals which are inhibited while the speed of the motor is greater than a predetermined value.