摘要:
A circuit for recognizing cyclically occurring pulse sequences includes a counter controlled by a D-type flip-flop circuit to start counting the pulses in the pulse sequence when a specific pulse event occurs. The output of the counter is compared by a comparator with a preset number to provide an output via a gate if the specific pulse event occurs when the number of pulses counted by the counter is equal to the preset number. If the count rises above the preset number the comparator resets the flip-flop and no output is produced by the gate.
摘要:
A skip count clock generator yielding multiple frequencies of clock pulses for variably driving a scanner to produce a required resolution of scanned data includes a base frequency generator of clock pulses and a device for establishing a periodic clock pulse cycle. An electrical logic circuit is used to skip any chosen whole number of clock pulses in a period to yield a desired fraction of the clock pulse cycle.
摘要:
The present invention pertains to a method and synchronizer circuit for controlling the counting operation of a timer/counter circuit to synchronize the read and update functions of this circuit. The synchronizer circuit is capable of establishing a search period prior to the occurrence of each update function. During each such search period, the synchronizer circuit searches for a read command. If a read command is not received by the synchronizer circuit within the search period preceding the occurrence of an update function, the synchronizer circuit allows the update function to occur without delay. If a read command is received by the synchronizer circuit within the search period preceding the occurrence of an update function, the synchronizer circuit delays the start of the update function until after termination of the read command that was received within the search period.
摘要:
A testing switch is activated manually by the taxi driver or automatically at the end of a trip. When the testing switch is activated, a preselected plurality of pulses is applied to the computing means of the electronic taximeter. If the taximeter is in proper working order, the indicating means of the taximeter will successively and in unison display the numerals from 0 to 9 at the rate or about one per second. If the numerals do not appear in the proper sequence, or if the driver perceives that they appear at a rate markedly different from one per second, or if some or all do not appear whatsoever, he knows that the electronic taximeter is not in proper working order.
摘要:
A monitoring system is provided for use in conjunction with a wire loop which is embedded in a roadway, and which senses the presence of vehicles in the roadway to control a traffic signal. The monitoring system senses the output of the loop oscillator which is included in the traffic control circuitry and which generates a loop signal and whose frequency-determining circuit includes the wire loop to indicate immediately any failure in the loop circuit. If for any reason the loop oscillator fails to operate, that fact will be sensed immediately by the monitoring system of the invention, and such a failure will be equated to a failure in the embedded loop, or in the lead-in circuit which connects the loop to the loop oscillator. A digital embodiment of the monitoring system of the invention includes a reference oscillator which generates a reference signal whose frequency is lower than the frequency of the loop signal, and it also includes a two-count binary counter which is clocked by the reference signal, and which is cleared by the loop signal so that the counter cannot exceed a count of one, so long as the loop oscillator is functioning. However, should the loop oscillator fail, indicating a failure condition in the loop, the counter will then proceed to the count of two, and that count will set a flip-flop to activate an appropriate indicator. The flip-flop will remain set and the indicator activated, until reset by appropriate manual means. An analog embodiment of the monitoring system of the invention is also provided.
摘要:
The method of storing, without interruption, digital signals having asynchronous transitions and reproducing these digital signals upon an expanded time scale after the occurrence of a fault.The apparatus comprises an input counter, an output counter, an adder operated to subtract, and a latched gate by which the adder stops the output counter when the outputs of the two counters are equivalent. The least-significant-bit of the output counter comprises the output signal, which is stored in a register. A second register simultaneously stores an output from the adder which signifies that more than one pulse is stored in the input counter. After occurrence of a fault the data in the two registers are combined in a modulator for display on an oscilloscope. A complete unit typically includes several channels for simultaneous display; each channel including the apparatus described above.
摘要:
An arrangement for controlling the output information of a sequence counter includes a set of output logic gates responsive to the counter output information for generating sequencing information, a blanking circuit for inhibiting each one of the plurality of logic gates, and a control circuit responsive to counter-advancing signals for energizing the blanking circuit and for permitting the counter to generate the sequencing information after a first predetermined time interval following the energization of the blanking circuit, the control circuit deenergizing the blanking circuit after a second predetermined time interval following the first time interval to permit the gates to respond to a group of signals. Thus, the blanking circuit and the control circuit enable the counter to be advanced to a subsequent sequence state before the output logic gates generate the sequencing information so that the stages of the counter are switched to the next state during the second time interval and thus erroneous sequencing information is prevented from being generated during the transition period between sequence states.
摘要:
A weighing system totalizer wherein a pulse generator produces pulses at a constant repetition frequency to be counted in by a counting device, wherein a digital-to-analog converter cumulatively converts the generator-produced pulses into a feedback d.c. signal, and wherein a signal comparing circuit is responsive to the feedback d.c. signal and to a weightrepresenting d.c. signal to start and stop operation of the pulse generator for providing a generator-produced pulse train in which the number of pulses is representive of the magnitude of the weight-representing d.c. signal.
摘要:
Timing of a vehicle between two points from a standstill or between two points while moving is accomplished by using a first bistable device to provide pulses to a counter and a second bistable device to prevent application of pulses to the counter. The first bistable device is actuated by a radiation-responsive device or a vehicle movement responsive device whereas the second bistable device is only actuated by the radiation-responsive device. The bistable devices are interconnected to prevent both from being actuated simultaneously and means are provided to prevent the second bistable device from being inadvertently actuated by extraneous sources of radiation.