Abstract:
This electrochemical cell uses zinc and either chlorine or bromine as the primary reactants, with a molten, non-aqueous zinc halide electrolyte. During charging of the cell, growth of dendrites on the zinc electrode is controlled by operating the cell continuously or intermittently at a temperature above the melting point of zinc, thereby positively preventing such growth; or by operating at such temperature that incipient dendrites are melted by heat generated by the charging current. That current may be intermittently increased to insure such dendrite control. In a large battery of cells utilizing chlorine as the halogen, excess halogen gas developed during charging of the battery is compressed and liquefied to facilitate external storage, and a large portion of the energy required for compression is recovered upon expansion of the gas during battery discharge.
Abstract:
A system for automatically inspecting an integrated circuit, including a device for shining a scanning narrow light beam at an integrated circuit to be inspected and another light beam at an accepted integrated circuit, a pair of photo-detectors that receive light reflected from these integrated circuits, and a comparing system compares the outputs of the photo-detectors.
Abstract:
An automated sequential air sampler that is highly suitable for being remotely situated to obtain a plurality of air samples at predetermined intervals of time over an extended time period, is disclosed. The air sampler includes a plurality of piston pumps that may be in the form of hypodermic syringes. Each pump operates to obtain an air sample whenever a plunger thereof is retracted to have air drawn through an inlet needle into an interior chamber thereof. The inlet to each pump is automatically sealed by having the inlnet needle thereof covered by a septum that is drawn against said inlet with a guide rod on which it is mounted and in response to the plunger reaching the end of its stroke. Sequential retraction of the several syringe plungers is accomplished by operation of a timed retractor assembly which functions to retract individual plungers at predetermined intervals of time.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for detecting the presence and quantity of nitric oxide is disclosed. A volume of gas being evaluated for the presence and quantity of nitric oxide is illuminated by a source of ultraviolet radiation to produce ionization of any nitric oxide present. Resulting nitric oxide ions are detected by means of an ion detection system. The source of ultraviolet radiation may be either a window or windowless device.
Abstract:
A tunable travelling wave optical device consists of a dielectric optical waveguide with a top surface, which is periodically corrugated with a corrugation periodicity, L. At least the corrugated top surface is in an evacuated envelope wherein an electron beam with an adjustable electron velocity, ve is formed. The electron beam propagates in close proximity to and in a direction parallel to the direction of propagation of an optical beam through the guide. The electron velocity is adjusted to be greater than but on the order of the phase velocity of the first spatial harmonic generated in the corrugated waveguide. The wavelength lambda of the optical beam which is amplifiable by the device, or is produced therein when the latter acts as an oscillator, is substantially equal to c/ve L, c being the speed of light.
Abstract translation:可调谐行波光学器件由具有顶表面的电介质光波导构成,其波纹周期为周期波形。至少波纹顶表面处于抽真空的外壳中,其中具有可调电子速度的电子束 形成了。 电子束在与光束通过引导件的传播方向平行的方向上并且在平行的方向上传播。 电子速度被调整为大于但在波纹波导中产生的第一空间谐波的相位速度的数量级。 可以由器件放大的光束的波长λ或者当后者用作振荡器时产生的光束的波长λ基本上等于c / ve L,c是光速。
Abstract:
An automated system wherein, under computer control, traces of organic chemical compounds in aqueous solutions are separated into a plurality of families of compounds. Several of the families are separated as separate extracts, dissolved in organic solvents. The volume of solvent, containing each extract, is greatly reduced in a separate pre-GC unit, to increase the ratio of extract to solvent volume. The output of each pre-GC unit is supplied to a separate gas chromatograph (GC). The elution times of the peaks, exiting the various GC''s, are used in the selection of peaks of interest by the computer based on the comparison of the extract types and the elution times with elution times of known compounds. Peaks of interest from any of the several GC''s are supplied one at a time to an absorption cell of a single IR spectrometer through a peak storage unit, which is designed to hold each peak of interest in one of its holding columns until the spectrometer is ready to receive the peak. Compounds are identified by the computer based on their extract types, elution times and the spectral data from the spectrometer.
Abstract:
A travelling wave amplifier of signals in the millimeter wavelength range consists of a monolithic solid state waveguide structure wherein space harmonics of the input electromagnetic energy wave (signals) are generated due to periodic corrugations of the guide''s top surface. The waveguide structure includes a current conductive layer supportive of a stream of electrons with an electron velocity ve, the stream of electrons being located where the amplitude of the spatial first harmonic is a maximum. The corrugation periodicity L is selected so that the equality ve K ( omega /2 pi ) L is satisified. In the equality, omega is the angular frequency of the input wave and K is a factor which is not less than and on the order of one.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for fabrication of superconducting thin film structures which show Josephson-like effects and which allow fabrication of standard components, such as resistors and capacitors in circuits, starting with the deposition of superimposed thin films of selected metals at least one of which is superconducting, and all of which are stable (i.e., will not diffuse and are sufficiently inert to be chemically stable under normal use). The thin films are all effectively removed around the desired structure by anodization through a photoresist mask or by ion beam etching. A structure which shows a Josephson-like effect is produced by so manipulating the thin films that a thin line region across a narrowed section of the layered thin films is produced with a lower transition temperature than in the surrounding layered films. This is done by altering the ratio of the thickness of the superconductive thin film to the thickness of the non-superconductive thin film in the thin line region and controlling the dimension, l, of the thin line region in the direction of current flow.
Abstract:
A two terminal current limiter is disclosed. The current limiter includes two (first and second) transistors and two resistors, one of which, acting as a sensing resistor, is connected in series with the collector-emitter path of the first transistor between the said two terminals. When sufficient voltage drop occurs across the sensing resistor, the second transistor is biased into conduction, which together with the second resistor, controls the biasing of the first transistor, thereby controlling the current flow therethrough.
Abstract:
A wideband digital pseudo-gaussian noise generator is disclosed. It includes two feedback shift registers which provide maximal length pseudo noise sequences. Selected stages of the two registers are fed as inputs to 30 exclusive-OR gates, the stages being selected so that their outputs represent distinct phase shifts of a product sequence. The outputs of the gates are summed to provide the generator''s output which approximates gaussian noise over a useful bandwidth of 10MHz.