A toy capable of being easily assembled by a child. The components or elements of the toy are supplied in a bag held in a metallic container or can. The elements, which may be facial features and decorative items, are provided with magnet means enabling them to be attached or secured to the container forming a face with attractive accessories such as a hat or the like.

A travelling wave tube of the coupled cavity type including a slow wave propagating structure comprised of a linear array of transverse plates axially spaced apart to provide a sequential series of interposed cavities, each of the plates having a cavity coupling aperture radially spaced from an electron beam transmitting aperture and spanned by at least one thermally conductive, dielectric member made of diamond material, which has respective surface areas disposed in thermal contact with opposi...

A variable output resonator is disclosed having a mode control cavity and a power extraction cavity both capable of being independently optimized to produce a laser beam having high power and good optical quality in the far field. A cone having a conical reflective surface is adapted to be linearly moved along a beam axis of the power extraction cavity in the resonator to intercept a portion of the radiation circulating therein to produce the laser beam. Both the diameter and power level of the ...

A capacitively coupled tablet for use with a probe comprises two sets of conductors spaced apart along coordinate axes to form a matrix, and an overlay disposed above the conductors and forming a plurality of key segments associated with the individual points of intersection of the matrix. A plurality of isolated electrode plates are disposed between the sets of conductors and the overlay at positions corresponding to each of the key segments, the electrode plates each being formed of a conducti...

A programmable negative resistance circuit, transformer coupled to the low-voltage high-current output conductors of the center-tapped secondary winding of a switching power supply transformer, maintains a constant voltage output irrespective of large load current variations.

A plurality of metal deposits are formed on the insulated surface of a semiconductive material to create an array of capacitive photodetectors. A plurality of metal columns connect the metal deposit of each photodetector to a corresponding metal deposit on the insulated surface of a silicon charge-coupled device (CCD). In this manner, the voltage signal generated in each photodetector is capacitively coupled to the charge-coupled device. The metal deposit on the CCD forms a gate for a fill/spill...

The invention relates to hybrid filters comprising a recursive part and a non-recursive part which make it possible to synthesize the filter by splitting the desired pass-band into two. It consists in using for the design of such a filter a charge-coupled device (CCD) in which these two parts are directly linked by a simple charge transfer mechanism without any other connection.

A two-phase buried-channel charge coupled device wherein a doped layer of first type conductivity is formed with a predetermined doping concentration under a surface of a semiconductor body of second type conductivity. A first plurality of electrodes is formed in spaced relationship on the surface over the doped layer. Particles generating the first type conductivity are ion implanted into regions of the doped layer between the first plurality of electrodes, increasing the doping concentration o...

Quinones and polyphenylene oxides are reacted to provide quinone-coupled polyphenylene oxides having an average hydroxyl group per molecule value greater than the average hydroxyl group value associated with polyphenylene oxide reactants. The resulting new polymers have improved color and in combination with styrene resins provide thermoplastic compositions having improved chemical and physical properties.

A plurality of magnetic field generating, electrical coils are preferably arranged in a circle, in one embodiment. Digitally controlled, recurring switching pulses are generated for sequentially defining a plurality of discrete time periods. During each of these time periods, a separate magnetic field is generated responsive to each switching pulse. The pulses are applied to the coil, in turn, for sequentially stepping a magnetic field in a rotary motion about the circle of coils. In other embod...