Printed circuits can be inspected by eye, which is fatiguing or automatically by comparison with a master pattern by optical super-imposition, which requires great precision in handling. In the present invention analysis of optical scanning of a pattern determines the directions of boundaries of features of the pattern and employs this analysis to identify any local divergence from the prevailing direction of the boundary.

Vapor permeable microcapsules filled with volatile perfluoroalkyl bromide and used to tag articles for the detection thereof.

The invention relates to an intruder detector for use in a burglary in which infra-red radiation is imaged onto a sensor 16. The imaging system, which serves to divide the area of surveillance into monitored and unmonitored zones and to focus the radiation onto the sensor, consists of a window 12 constructed as a flat one-piece segmented Fresnel lens, each segment 12a, 12b and 12c focusing energy from a different respective monitored zone onto the sensor 16. The lens is double sided with one sid...

This invention relates to a device for focus detection or distance detection in which one or more images of a target formed by an optical system are received by photoelectric light receiving means to obtain a photoelectric output regarding the imaging condition of the image of the target and this photoelectric output is electrically processed through a processing circuit to thereby provide an electrical output representing the focus adjusted condition of the optical system with respect to the ta...

The invention relates to a detection system and a detection method for the detection and tracking of optical codes on objects which are transported along a monitored zone, comprising a plurality of optoelectronic sensors to read the codes and to generate corresponding reading data and comprising at least two data buses, each having its own associated bus control unit, wherein each of the plurality of sensors is connected both to the one and to the other of the two data buses and wherein the one ...

A sonic detector for sensing substantially horizontally moving sonic waves comprising a sectional housing having a transducer means carried therein. One section of the housing is provided with an outwardly extending radial flange for intercepting the horizontal sonic waves and transmitting sliding movement to the section with respect to the other housing section. The sliding movement of the said housing section provides activation of the transducer means for producing a signal. This invention re...

A detection system which utilizes an automatically varied threshold controlled by noise level in one or more frequency bands while monitoring a plurality of seismic frequency bands where signal and noise do not occur simultaneously. The signal and noise frequency bands may be preselected or they may be automatically determined during operation of the system.

A portable aerosol dust spectrometer has an inlet section with a sampler entry having an entry efficiency for airborne dust approximately to that of the human head during inhalation, a clean-up stage to remove particles above 15 .mu.m and a main collection stage which is a cascade impactor. The cascade impactor classifies particles of dust and collects fractions onto a number of collection surfaces. A pump draws air or gas through the apparatus. The apparatus samples air in a similar way to the ...

A supporting mechanism for a fixed detection section in a detection device comprises the fixed detection section and a rotary detection section. The mechanism comprises a plate spring and a supporting plate. The plate spring is mounted on a fixed housing of a drive motor in spaced relation thereto, and has at least in part an elastic portion whose resilient force direction along an axial direction of the rotary shaft. The supporting plate of a ring shape has a plurality of elongated apertures fo...

This invention relates to apparatus for monitoring the pulse rate of a human or animal subject, including a pulse detector for attachment to the subject which produces a pulse signal corresponding to the pulse of the subject, a transmitter which transmits the pulse signal to a remote signal analyzer and indicator which exhibits a characteristic of the pulse. The indicator may be a monitor to continuously display the pulse rate or an alarm which indicates an increase in pulse rate. The invention ...