Abstract:
An oscillator which can be selectively started and stopped in response to a control voltage. When the oscillator is stopped, the control voltage is used to derive a voltage that is summed with the oscillator output such that the d.c. voltage level of the oscillator is the same value, both in the presence and absence of oscillations.
Abstract:
Method of operating a display tube comprising a screen including a cathodochromic material. The method comprises steps of heating the cathodochromic material to a temperature below the total erase temperature and writing information on the cathodochromic material (by electron impingement thereon) while the heating is continued. Heating can be done by the writing electron beam and/or supplemental heating means.
Abstract:
Operation of a cathodochromic display tube by steps including destabilizing the color centers for the optically reversible coloration component of the cathodochromic material. Such destabilizing excludes at least partially the optically reversible coloration components before the image-formation process. Destabilization can be achieved by heating the cathodochromic material to a temperature at least equal to the partial erase temperature but below the total erase temperature of the cathodochromic material, and/or by exposing the cathodochromic material material to radiation of suitable wavelength.
Abstract:
A workpiece having a machine-readable coded marking recessed into the surface thereof. The workpiece comprises a main body and a thin integral coating in the area of the marking. The marking comprises a plurality of related marks, such as a bar-code marking, which are recessed through the coating and which have substantially different light reflectances than the surrounding surface. The workpiece may include an integral undercoating between the coating and the main body with marks recessed into, but not through, the undercoating. The marks may be made by selectively removing material, as by abrasion or ablation, from defined surface areas and through the coating.
Abstract:
In an intaglio printing method, the steps of providing a novel intaglio inking plate having a surface and means for producing different prescribed patterns of shallow depressions therein, producing a first prescribed pattern of depressions in said surface, filling said depressions with ink, transferring ink from the pattern of filled depressions to a transfer surface, altering the surface to provide a second pattern of shallow depressions therein and then repeating the step of filling the depressions with ink and transferring an ink pattern to a transfer surface.
Abstract:
A workpiece having a machine-readable coded marking recessed into the surface thereof. The workpiece comprises a main body and a thin integral coating in the area of the marking. The marking comprises a plurality of related marks, such as a bar-code marking, which are recessed through the coating and which have substantially different light reflectances than the surrounding surface. The workpiece may include an integral undercoating between the coating and the main body with marks recessed into, but not through, the undercoating. The marks may be made by selectively removing material, as by abrasion or ablation, from defined surface areas and through the coating.
Abstract:
In an intaglio printing method, the steps of providing a novel intaglio inking plate having a surface and means for producing different prescribed patterns of shallow depressions therein, producing a first prescribed pattern of depressions in said surface, filling said depressions with ink, transferring ink from the pattern of filled depressions to a transfer surface, altering the surface to provide a second pattern of shallow depressions therein and then repeating the step of filling the depressions with ink and transferring an ink pattern to a transfer surface.
Abstract:
A workpiece having a machine-readable coded marking recessed into the surface thereof. The workpiece comprises a main body and a thin integral coating in the area of the marking. The marking comprises a plurality of related marks, such as a bar-code marking, which are recessed through the coating and which have substantially different light reflectances than the surrounding surface. The workpiece may include an integral undercoating between the coating and the main body with marks recessed into, but not through, the undercoating. The marks may be made by selectively removing material, as by abrasion or ablation, from defined surface areas and through the coating.
Abstract:
A workpiece having a machine-readable coded marking abraded into the surface thereof. The marking comprises a plurality of related marks, such as bar-code marking, which have substantially different light reflectances than the surrounding surface. The markings may be made by moving a means for abrading a defined surface area along a particular path with respect to the surface to be marked. The abrading means is selectively activated or deactivated according to a prearranged program to selectively abrade the surface.
Abstract:
In an intaglio printing method, the steps of providing a novel intaglio inking plate having a surface and means for producing different prescribed patterns of shallow depressions therein, producing a first prescribed pattern of depressions in said surface, filling said depressions with ink, transferring ink from the pattern of filled depressions to a transfer surface, altering the surface to provide a second pattern of shallow depressions therein and then repeating the step of filling the depressions with ink and transferring an ink pattern to a transfer surface.