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公开(公告)号:JPH1068617A
公开(公告)日:1998-03-10
申请号:JP11769797
申请日:1997-05-08
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: GRZYBOWSKI RICHARD R , MELTZ GERALD
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high performance air path gap sensor. SOLUTION: A machine having a projecting material, a mutually movable adjacent seal 18 susceptible to abrasion, an air path gap 18 between the seal 18 and the material 26, and a material interval D2 between a sensor 10 and the material 26 is provided with the sensor 10 being arranged in the seal 18 by the recessed gap D. A gap/thickness circuit 14 delivers transmission and reflection microwave signals 30, 32 having an impedance substantially matching with the characteristic impedance of a coaxial cable 12 along the coaxial cable 12. The circuit 14 receives the reflection signal 32 and supplies an electric signal indicative of the recessed gap D and/or the an air path gap G. Alternatively, the circuit 14 supplies only the recessed gap D. The sensor 10 also determines operation of the machine through measurement.
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公开(公告)号:WO9110156A3
公开(公告)日:1991-08-22
申请号:PCT/US9007638
申请日:1990-12-21
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: MOREY WILLIAM W , LEONBERGER FRED J , GLENN WILLIAM H , MELTZ GERALD
CPC classification number: G02B6/29322 , G02B6/022 , G02B6/02204 , G02B6/29395 , G02F1/0115 , G02F1/0126 , G02F1/0131 , G02F1/0147 , G02F1/125 , G02F2201/02 , G02F2201/307 , G02F2203/055
Abstract: A variable light filtering arrangement (10) includes at least one optical fiber section (11) including a waveguiding core (13), and at least one permanent Bragg grating region (12) in the optical fiber section. The grating region includes a plurality of grating elements constituted by periodic refractive index variations of a predetermined initial periodicity and cumulatively redirecting, of the light launched into the core for guided propagation therein, that having an axial wavelength within a narrow band around a central wavelength that is determined by the periodicity and refractive index variations of the grating elements. At least one of the periodicity and refractive index variations of the grating region is controlledly modified in such a manner as to temporarily change the central wavelength within a predetermined wavelength range.
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公开(公告)号:WO9627223A3
公开(公告)日:1996-10-10
申请号:PCT/US9602626
申请日:1996-02-27
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: D AMATO MARY A , BALL GARY A , MELTZ GERALD
CPC classification number: H01S3/0675 , H01S3/06712
Abstract: A polarized fiber laser source includes a fiber laser (10) comprising a pair of Bragg gratings (14, 16) at opposite ends of a fiber laser cavity (18) which is doped with a rare-earth dopant so as to allow lasing to occur at a lasing wavelength μL. A grating tap (26) is provided along a portion of the laser cavity (18) to couple-out a predetermined amount of light along one polarization, e.g., the 's' polarization, at the lasing wavelength μL. This causes one polarization mode to experience more loss than the other, thereby allowing the fiber laser to lase only on the less lossy polarization mode and causing the laser output light (40) to be polarized only along such polarization.
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公开(公告)号:EP0806680A3
公开(公告)日:1998-07-08
申请号:EP97107567
申请日:1997-05-07
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: CRZYBOWSKI RICHARD R , MELTZ GERALD
IPC: G01B15/00 , F01D11/02 , F01D11/08 , F01D11/12 , F01D21/04 , F02C7/00 , G01S13/36 , G01S13/88 , G01S13/08
CPC classification number: G01B15/00 , F01D11/025 , F01D11/12 , F01D21/04 , F05D2260/80 , G01S13/36 , G01S13/88
Abstract: A machine having protruding elements (26) and an adjacent abradable seal (18), which move relative to each other, an air-path clearance G between the seal (18) and the elements (26) and an element distance D2 between the sensor (10) and the elements (26), is provided with a sensor (10) which is recessed within the seal (18) by a recess distance D. A clearance/thickness circuit (14) provides transmitted and reflected microwave signals (30,32) along a coaxial cable (12) having a characteristic impedance, to the sensor (10), which has an impedance substantially matched to the characteristic impedance of the cable (12). The sensor (10) provides the reflected signal (32) which is indicative of the recess distance D when the elements (26) are not in front of the sensor (10) and is indicative of the blade distance D2 between the sensor (10) and the elements (26) when the elements (26) are in front of the sensor (10). The circuit (14) receives the reflected signal (32) and provides electrical signals indicative of the recess distance D and/or the air-path clearance G. Alternatively, the circuit (14) may provide only the recess distance D. The sensor (10) provides such measurements whether or not the machine is operating.
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公开(公告)号:EP0034181A4
公开(公告)日:1982-12-27
申请号:EP80901827
申请日:1981-03-09
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: MELTZ GERALD , SNITZER ELIAS
CPC classification number: G01L1/243 , G01B11/18 , G01L11/025
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公开(公告)号:DK0753130T3
公开(公告)日:2000-04-25
申请号:DK95913985
申请日:1995-03-08
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: MELTZ GERALD , VARASI MAURO , VANNUCCI ANTONELLO , SIGNORAZZI MARIO , FERRARO PIETRO , IMPARATO SABATO INSERRA , VOTO CLAUDIO , DUNPHY JAMES R
IPC: G01L1/24 , G01B11/16 , G01D21/02 , G01K5/72 , G01K11/12 , G01K11/32 , G01M11/08 , G01D5/353 , G01D5/26 , G01D5/34
Abstract: An embedded optical sensor has a plurality of layers 10-20 and an optical fiber 21 with a fiber grating 28, disposed between the layers 14,16. The layers 10-20 comprise filaments 22 and resin 24 which have different thermal expansion coefficients and the filaments 22 are oriented so as to create unequal transverse residual stresses that act through the geometry of a resin-rich region that surrounds on the grating 28 in the fiber 21. The unequal transverse residual stresses cause birefringence in the grating 28, thereby causing the grating 28 to reflect light 32 having two wavelengths with a predetermined separation, each along a different polarization axis. The wavelength separation and average wavelength between such separation have different sensitivities to temperature and strain, thereby allowing independent temperature and strain measurements using only a single grating. The birefringence is maximized when the filaments 22 of the adjacent layers 10,12 are oriented at 90 degrees with respect to the longitudinal (Z-axis) of the fiber 21.
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公开(公告)号:DE69513281T2
公开(公告)日:2000-02-17
申请号:DE69513281
申请日:1995-03-08
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP , FINMECCANICA SPA
Inventor: MELTZ GERALD , VARASI MAURO , VANNUCCI ANTONELLO , SIGNORAZZI MARIO , FERRARO PIETRO , IMPARATO SABATO , VOTO CLAUDIO , DUNPHY JAMES
IPC: G01L1/24 , G01B11/16 , G01D21/02 , G01K5/72 , G01K11/12 , G01K11/32 , G01M11/08 , G01D5/353 , G01D5/34 , G01D5/26
Abstract: An embedded optical sensor has a plurality of layers 10-20 and an optical fiber 21 with a fiber grating 28, disposed between the layers 14,16. The layers 10-20 comprise filaments 22 and resin 24 which have different thermal expansion coefficients and the filaments 22 are oriented so as to create unequal transverse residual stresses that act through the geometry of a resin-rich region that surrounds on the grating 28 in the fiber 21. The unequal transverse residual stresses cause birefringence in the grating 28, thereby causing the grating 28 to reflect light 32 having two wavelengths with a predetermined separation, each along a different polarization axis. The wavelength separation and average wavelength between such separation have different sensitivities to temperature and strain, thereby allowing independent temperature and strain measurements using only a single grating. The birefringence is maximized when the filaments 22 of the adjacent layers 10,12 are oriented at 90 degrees with respect to the longitudinal (Z-axis) of the fiber 21.
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公开(公告)号:DK0681681T3
公开(公告)日:1998-10-12
申请号:DK94907899
申请日:1994-01-26
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: BALL GARY A , MELTZ GERALD , NEWMAN LEON A
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公开(公告)号:DE69410595D1
公开(公告)日:1998-07-02
申请号:DE69410595
申请日:1994-01-26
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: BALL GARY , MELTZ GERALD , NEWMAN LEON
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公开(公告)号:DE69031707D1
公开(公告)日:1997-12-18
申请号:DE69031707
申请日:1990-12-21
Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Inventor: MELTZ GERALD , MOREY WILLIAM WAYNE , WILSON ARNOLD LEROY
Abstract: An optical waveguide light redirecting arrangement includes an optical waveguide having a solid portion that guides light in a first path along a longitudinal axis, with at least one grating region being embedded in the solid portion at a location remote from its end portions. The grating region includes a multitude of grating elements extending at such longitudinal spacings and at such oblique angles relative to the longitudinal axis to redirect light reaching the grating elements between the first path and at least one second path extending externally of the waveguide and diverging between a focus situated at a predetermined distance from the waveguide and the grating region. When light is directed in one of the first and second paths toward the grating region, it is redirected by the grating elements into the respectively other of the second and first paths with attendant in-phase combination in the other path of light having a wavelength within a range around a central wavelength. The grating elements are formed in the waveguide by exposing the waveguide to an interference pattern of two ultraviolet radiation beams that are symmetrical with respect to a plane extending at the oblique angle relative to the waveguide axis at the center of the grating region.
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