Abstract:
An arrangement including a main wave guide flanked by two auxiliary wave guides, all being arranged parallel to one another. Each lateral wall of the main wave guide is formed with a slot, the slots providing openings between the main wave guide and the auxiliary wave guide. The length of each slot is equal to the wave length in air of the wave which is propagated in the main wave guide. One end of one auxiliary wave guide absorbs an incident wave traveling in one direction, and one end of the other auxiliary wave guide reflects an incident wave traveling in the same direction. At its other end, each auxiliary wave guide may have a crystal for receiving energy flowing in the opposite direction toward that other end. The wave guide arrangement may form part of a detection means including a source of microwaves for providing signals traveling along the main wave guide in said one direction, an aerial for transmitting and also for providing signals traveling along the wave guide in the opposite direction, an amplifier chain connected to each of the crystals, and a phase comparator connected to the amplifier chains.
Abstract:
An electronic device is arranged to correct the angle A of gyroscopic heading for variations in the magnetic deviation angle a, thereby producing the angle (A + a). A synchro transmitter generates a sin A and a cos A signal which are subsequently modulated by a modulator. The modulated signals are then integrated between two sets of limits each of which is a function of the angle a and the operational frequency of the modulator. The relationship between the angle a and operational frequency is such as to provide four output signals respectively representing various combinations of the product between different pairs of the functions sin A, cos A, sin a and cos a. By appropriate summing in accordance with trigonametric equations, signals of sin (A + a) and cos (A + a) can be produced.
Abstract:
A magnetic tape recorder cassette has a captive cover permanently connected to the cassette so that it can be moved from a closed position, covering a front edge which has an opening in it to an open position, in which it covers the rear edge but allows the cassette to be inserted in the recorder. For each spool the cassette has a brake unit arranged to be retracted, when the cassette is inserted in the recorder. The recorder is reversible and drives a tape tensioning device comprising a freewheel and a slipping clutch for each spool, arranged to tend to wind up tape irrespective of the direction of travel of the tape, slipping of one or each clutch allowing the tape to travel while maintaining it taut.
Abstract:
A transmitting and receiving head for a Doppler effect radar detector comprising a rectangular waveguide into which a transmitting and a receiving aerial are coupled and which contains a crystal mixer between the two aerials, energy fed to one end of the waveguide being radiated by the transmitting aerial and passing through an obturator which allows a controlled leakage to reach the mixer for mixing with the energy delivered to the other end of the waveguide by the receiving aerial.
Abstract:
The invention provides a gyroscopic north-seeking device comprising two photoelectric devices for picking up graduations at diametrally opposite points of the disc, and two channels for processing the picked up signals, said channels comprising logic circuits which determine the direction of rotation of the disc at each pick-up point, plus at least one device for the algebraic addition of the signals picked up from said points. Supplementary logic circuits are provided at the input of the algebraic adder device, to effect the addition (or subtraction) of the picked up signals as a function of coincidence (or non-coincidence) of the directions of rotation of the disc at the diametrally opposite pick-up points.
Abstract:
A method and system for identifying a vehicle. An interrogation station transmits a frequency modulated continuous microwave to a vehicle having responder equipment which modulates the received microwave in accordance with an identifying binary code which is decoded at the interrogation station which receives the reflected modulated microwave. The modulation may be further frequency modulated at two different frequencies or may be modulated to give decoded pulses having different widths.
Abstract:
A method of guiding aircraft to effect an automatic approach to a landing place in which radar waves are transmitted to be received by the flight controls of the aircraft. The radar waves are transmitted from the ground at a carrier frequency of the order of gigahertz and define a radioelectric guiding axis situated at the intersection of a vertical radioelectric plane of alignment and a radioelectric descent plane perpendicular to the vertical plane and inclined to the horizontal. The method is particularly suitable for use with helicopters. Apparatus for carrying out the method includes a transmitter on the ground for transmitting radar waves of very short wavelength and equipment on board the helicopter comprising a receiver for the radar waves connected by a coupler to an automatic pilot of the helicopter flight controls.
Abstract:
In a sampling device for receiving simultaneously several electrical signals at different inputs and successively sampling them in predetermined order, there is provided a priming gate for each input, the priming gates being controlled in succession by a ring counter such that the samples taken from each input appear in succession at a single output.
Abstract:
A vehicle presence detector circuit for the control of coloured light traffic signals in which the output of a Doppler radar system, representing the speed of vehicles, operates a relay when the speed drops below a threshold value and the relay is only reset when the speed signal exceeds a higher threshold value.