An improved instantaneous floating point (IFP) amplifier is provided having a plurality of cascaded amplifier stages, with each stage having a plurality of possible gains. The input sample signal is passed through each stage so that no stage is selectively bypassed. A bipolar, logarithmic amplifier is used for gain control. The gain control bits correspond to the industry standard gain control codes, thereby eliminating the need for bit mapping. The offset voltage control circuit is initialized ...

A polarization measurement system and method that determines the polarization of a received signal within one received pulse. The polarimeter accepts series of samples representing horizontal and vertical signal components representing the polarization of a received signal. The samples are discrete time measurements, with each sample representing a magnitude separated in time by a predetermined angular resolution. The samples are combined with other samples in numerous sets of calculations opera...

An instantaneous steam generator is disclosed which has a plurality of heated channels having open tops. Each channel has a base having a steam generation surface with substantially parallel, sharp transverse ridges. The steam generation surface is heated to a temperature substantially above that at which an insulating vapor barrier forms between the surface and a water layer thereabove. The water flow is directed transversely over the ridges so that the vapor layer is separated from the water l...

An instantaneous connection device includes a tubular body, a tight element used to hold the end of a line in the body and includes an elastically deformable annular sealing element and a holding element that are arranged to receive the end of the line, a cam member for moving the holding element from a free state into a state wherein it grips the end of the line when it is axially displaced in the tubular body from a first position to a second position, and an elastic member for bringing the ho...

This invention relates to an electric water heater comprising one or more heating resistors and the means for supplying and controlling electric power supplied to the resistors. The heaters of the present invention are capable of heating incoming water to a desired temperature in the time period required for the input water to flow from the heater water inlet to the heater water outlet, thus requiring no storage capacity. Further, high electrical power consumption, normally associated with on de...

A clock recovery circuit (10) for a superconductor system that enables the phase of a system clock to be instantaneously reset without any pulse interaction. The clock recovery circuit (10) includes a Josephson transmission line oscillator loop (14) of length 2T, where T is equal to one clock period. First and second data inputs (16, 18) are for injecting a data pulse onto the oscillator loop (14). A pulse generator (24) is for injecting an initial clock pulse onto the oscillator loop (14) that ...

A system for instantaneously heating water has a heat exchanger for heating cold water to produce overheated water; a hot water supply member connected to a first intake of the heat exchanger; a cold water supply member connected to a second intake of the heat exchanger; and a blending valve having two intakes and an outtake. A hot water outlet member is connected to an outtake of the heat exchanger and to the intake of the blending valve. The cold water supply member is also connected to the bl...

A current waveform for an electronic circuit is calculated from a description of the circuit at a given level of abstraction without requiring a detailed simulation. In one embodiment, the waveform is estimated without using test vectors, and uses an analysis time step or "granularity" that is much shorter than a clock cycle. The method is applicable for calculating worst-case instantaneous current.

An instantaneous rotation device for a jack-in-the-box type music box comprises a gear adapted to be driven by a power source, an abutting portion formed on said gear, a dog rotatably provided to the gear and having a projection, a spring for biasing the projection into abutment with the abutting portion, a stationary limiting member projecting into a path of rotation of the projection, a cam member for eccentrically moving the projection out of engagement with the stationary limiting member, an...

Hot water supply temperature is set by a temperature setting device in response to an instantaneous flow rate signal from a water flow rate sensor arranged in a water supply pipe and a feeding water temperature signal from a feeding water temperature sensor which are compared with a predetermined hot water supply temperature and calculated in a control unit. A proportional valve and other devices in a gas supply pipe are controlled in response to the result of the comparison and calculation to d...