Abstract:
A SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THE REFRACTIVE INDEX ALONG A PATH IS PROVIDED WHEREIN TWO LIGHT SIGNALS, WHICH ARE OF DIFFERENT COLORS AND WHICH ARE INTENSITY-MODULATED WITH DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES, ARE TRANSMITTED ALONG THE PATH TO A RECEIVER INCLUDING A PHASE DETECTOR. THE PHASE DETECTOR PRODUCES AN OUTPUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PHASE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SIGNALS, WHICH OUTPUT IS A MEASURE OF THE DIFFERENCE IN REFRACTIVE INDEX FOR THE TWO COLORS. THE RECEIVER INCLUDES A PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE WHICH PROVIDES HETERODYNING OF THE SIGNALS TO FORM A DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY SIGNAL WHOSE PHASE REPRESENTS THE PHASE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO COLOR SIGNALS. EACH COLOR IS ALTERNATELY MODULATED WITH ONE OR THE OTHER OF TWO FREQUENCIES RESULTING IN A DOUBLING OF THE SIGNAL AT THE RECEIVER. ONE OF THE SIGNALS MAY BE DELAYED AT THE TRANSMITTER SO THAT THE SIGNALS ARE OF EQUAL PHASE AT THE RECEIVER, THE RECEIVER SERVING AS A NULL INSTRUMENT AND THE DELAY BEING A MEASURE OF THE REFRACTIVE INDEX.
Abstract:
A distance measuring device wherein the phase difference between a transmitted signal and the received reflection thereof is used to determine the distance the received signal has traversed. The device generates a pair of electromagnetic waves at two accurately known frequencies. The first frequency wave is transmitted and the other frequency wave is used to modulate the received reflected wave in the receiver to produce a difference frequency. A phase measuring circuit compares the phase of this difference frequency to the phase of a signal of the same difference frequency that has been generated locally within the device. To resolve the ambiguity in the resulting phase difference measurement obtained, a switching means is provided to reverse the roles of the generated waves by connecting the second frequency wave to the transmitter and connecting the first frequency wave to the modulatable receiver. This same switching means also changes the phase measuring circuit so that the phase difference associated with the modulated received second frequency is subtracted from the first phase difference. By providing a phase difference measurement at a difference frequency having an associated effective wave length larger than the distance to be measured any ambiguity regarding the number of wavelengths contained in the measured distance is eliminated.
Abstract:
An arrangement for creating voltages for aiming a gun, such as for lateral correction or correction of the elevation of the gun making use of the similarity between the charging or discharging function of a capacitor in a series circuit comprising a resistor and a capacitor and the required correction as a function of the firing range of the gun.
Abstract:
An infrared scanning device creates a video signal representing the strength of infrared radiation from successively scanned points of an object. A modified signal, for instance, indicating when the radiation strength is within a predetermined range, is derived, and the video signal and the modified signal are applied to a reproducing device of the cathode-ray type alternatively so as to be displayed on separate portions of the image target.
Abstract:
1,077,629. Tuned transmission lines. AGA A.B. Oct. 26, 1966 [Nov. 23, 1964], No. 45245/65. Headng H1W. A tuner for the 20-400 MHz range comprises a capacitor and a number of electrically parallel conductors rotatable about a common axis towards and away from a ground plane, the arrangement being such that the conductors approach each other as they are rotated away from the ground plane. The two conductors 3, 4 shown in Fig. 7, are of U-shape and are rotatable about an axis 6 passing through the limbs of the U's. The position of the conductors determines the characteristic impedance and hence the resonant frequency of the arrangement, the impedance being at a maximum when the conductors are closest together and farthest away from the ground plane (position indicated by broken, line). Although a simple flat ground-plane may be used, the one illustrated consists of two troughs respectively formed by members 18, 19 and 20, 21. Trimming may be accomplished by bending the sides of the troughs, as shown. The electrical length of the arrangement may be increased by capacitative loading. two systems may be connected in tandem, the second system being rendered inoperative by a short-circuiting switch at the connecting point. The Specification describes a modification using three U- shaped conductors.