A system for compensating for the backlash of a drive mechanism of an actuator that can be controlled manually or switched to automatic, with the starting position indeterminate. The actuator includes a position transducer for the actuator. Impulses are supplied to the drive mechanism to energize the drive mechanism in discrete steps in a first direction. In response to a change in the actuator position being sensed by the position transducer, the supply of impulses to the drive mechanism is ter...

A buoyancy pillow for a free diver is attached to the ventral side of a diver's trunk by shoulder, waist and crotch straps, the pillow including a bladder with a center of buoyancy located in its lower one-half portion when inflated by the diver from a hose equipped with a mouthpiece having valve structure including a pressure-relief valve.

A vision compensation system includes a lens receiving frame with a pair of lens members, at least one of which has variable optical compensation capabilities. Carried by the frame are means for producing a signal as a function of the relative angular positions of the eyes of the wearer and means responsive to that signal for changing the optical characteristics of the variable lens to provide compensation for impaired accommodative capacity of the wearer's eye.

A failure compensation circuit automatically reduces the output voltage of a power supply when a portion of a load drops out. The compensation circuit includes a circuit for generating a control signal representative of the desired voltage across the load. A power supply supplies voltage to the load in response to the control signal. An input signal representative of the current delivered to the load is produced which decreases whenever a portion of the load drops out. The circuit for generating...

The present invention pertains to an apparatus that is capable of correcting for inaccuracies caused by molecular collision broadening in analyzers. The apparatus includes an analyzer for analyzing a fluid. The analyzer is capable of producing an output signal corresponding to the fluid in the analyzer. The apparatus also includes a device for detecting molecular collision broadening in the fluid. The detecting device produces an output signal proportional to the molecular collision broadening. ...

In a discrete tone system, a base station receives a transmission burst from a remote unit being installed that includes delay compensation pilot tones that are uniformly spread throughout the transmission bandwidth. The arrival time transmission burst is not synchronized with the other remote units transmitting to the base station. The base station measures the phase delay of each tone and calculates the delay of the remote unit from the slope of the line of phase angle versus tone frequency. T...

A gyroscope system can detect the amount of movement of the system. The gyroscope system includes a circuit that has a number of different features and detects movement independent of any circuit parameters. The first feature uses a feedback loop to compensate for difference in Q factors between the circuits. Another feature regulates the amplitude of the resonator. Yet another feature extracts the rotation rate signals from the gyroscope in a new way.

In transmission of optical signals in a dispersive medium, the signals are transmitted simultaneously in two modes in an optical fiber (15), which are orthogonal to each other, one of the signals being a non-chirped amplitude modulated signal modulated by an amplitude modulator (3), and the other signal is a phase modulated signal modulated by a phase modulator (5). The received signal is formed by the sum of the amplitude modulated contributions of the two signals. In an optical fiber system, t...

The emission waveband of a data modulated laser signal is locked to the reflection waveband of a chirped Bragg grating dispersion compensator by means of a phase locked loop regulating the temperature of the laser or the magnitude of the drive current applied to it.

The flare compensation range of a camera is substantially increased by measuring and averaging a substrate or drain current representing an amount of charge elements generated in an image sensor, which is subsequently subtracted from the output signal of the image sensor.