U.S. Philips Corporation

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Albert A Comberg

Holger Joachim Moench

Leendert Vriens

Johann Schroder

Mark Carpaij

Aart A Van Gorkum

Ulrich E Enz

Rainer M Waser

Johannes C Rijpers

Dieter Wadow

Rebekka Porath

Heinrich A Oepen

Franciscus A Vollenbroek

Thomas A Welker

Alwin Knops

Norbert E Hansen

Johannes H Wilting

Karl H Panstruga

A sensor system is described, using self-mixing laser sensors () and an analyzer circuit () in order to determine the velocity of a vehicle, such as a car, and the rotational velocity of a wheel () of the car. Deviations between the velocity of the vehicle and the rotational velocity of the wheel () can be used to determine sliding of the wheel () and, finally, the traction or, more specifically, the coefficient of driving friction between the wheel () and the surface the car is driving on. Furthermore, a vehicle control system is described, initiating test accelerations of a wheel () by means of a control circuit () and control means () in order to determine the coefficient of driving friction during driving. The test accelerations initiate short periods of sliding of the wheel () and the sliding is detected by means of the sensor system.

Sensor system, vehicle control system and driver information system for vehicle safety

A load-dependent, preventive fuse with an electronic ceramic (12) in a housing (11) from which connection leads (14) are led outwards to detect at least a first type of load to which a device to be monitored is subjected, in which fuse use is made of a ceramic material, hereinafter referred to as TDR ceramic (12), whose electrically insulating state changes as a function of time, being the first type of load, and as a function of a second type of load, to a semiconducting state, and as a result thereof, when a dc voltage U is applied to the TDR ceramic (12) via connection leads (14) an increase in current forms the activation criterion for the fuse, which criterion is fulfilled under predeterminable conditions and determines a desired operating time .tau..

Load-dependent preventive fuse

The invention relates to a circuit arrangement with a piezoelectric transformer having two electrodes arranged on the primary side of the transformer and such a piezoelectric transformer itself. Piezoelectric transformers of this type are used, for example, for the power supply or control of lamps or electron tubes. For controlling such a piezoelectric transformer directly on the primary side by a most frequently available DC voltage, instead of an AC voltage as is customary, according to the invention a DC voltage source is connected to the electrodes and a switching device is provided for interrupting the supply of voltage to at least one electrode, the positions of the switching device being dependent on the state of expansion of the primary side of the transformer. The switching device is thus periodically closed and opened, the applied DC voltage is thus interrupted periodically.

Circuit arrangement with a piezoelectric transformer

A color cathode ray tube of the shadow mask or beam index type in which the screen structure applied to the faceplate has a plurality of triplets of optical interference filter stripes which are adapted to pass red (R), green (G) and blue (B) light produced by a homogeneous cathodoluminescent screen layer. The usual aluminium layer may be applied to the screen layer. The optical interference filter stripes may have short wave pass filters, band pass filters or a combination of both types. The short wave pass filter stripes may have modified quarter wavelength multilayer dielectric filters and the bandpass filter may have a Fabry-Perot filter.

Color cathode ray tube having interference filter with different pass

An electron beam recording medium with a coating, which is applied to a substrate, is sensitive to electron beam radiation and has an organic rare earth metal type phosphor, is suitable for the irreversible writing of information with low-intensity electron beams.

Electron-beam recording medium

An electroacoustic transducer comprises a terminal (1-1'), a voice coil (2) coupled to the terminal, and a diaphragm (4). The transducer further comprises an element (other than the voice coil) made of a superconducting material which cooperates with the voice coil (2) to provide electromechanical conversion of an electric signal appearing at the terminal (1-1') into vibrations of the diaphragm, or vice versa.

Electroacoustic transducer comprising a superconducting element

Projection television display tube comprising an evacuated envelope having a display window provided on its inside with a display screen, a transparent second window which is disposed in front of said display window on its outside, and a transparent coolant flowing through the space between the display window and the second window, said coolant conveying the heat taken up at the display window through a cooling member to the atmosphere. The coolant is also in thermally conducting contact with a latent heat accumulator, so that an effective cooling is obtained even at peak loads of more than 40 W, and without external pipes.

Projection television display tube with improved cooling

A projection television display tube having an evacuated envelope (1) with a display window (4) which has a display screen (5) on its inside and in front of which a light-permeable second window (6) is provided on the outside, a cooling liquid flowing through the space (7) between the display window (4) and the second window (6) from at least one inlet aperture to at least one outlet aperture. When in such a projection television display tube a cooling jacket(8) is provided at the area of the windows (4, 6) and around the said space (7) and is provided with at least one duct (9) and one pump (16) with connecting nipples (17,18) which transport the cooling liquid from the outlet aperture to the inlet aperture or apertures of the said space (7), an effective cooling is obtained with a power up to 40 W without outer pipes and without heat exchangers. By the forced circulation of the cooling liquid a good temperature compensation is obtained so that fewer stresses occur in the glass of the display window.

Projection television display tube

The invention relates to an optical printer in which light signals emitted by an information-controlled light source are applied to a photosensitive record carrier via a mirror system and a circular-to-linear converter which consists of optical fibers. In order to improve the optical coupling between the light source and the record carrier and hence the printing quality, the mirror system comprises a conical mirror which opens in the direction of the circular-to-linear converter and which enables the light beam to be axially coupled into the circularly arranged ends of the optical fibers at the entrance of the circular-to-linear converter.

Optical printer

An adhering bismuth layer is provided on steel components for cathode ray tubes by electroless plating in an acidic aqueous solution of bismuth oxynitrate. The bismuth coated steel components are heated in an oxidizing atmosphere, for example in air, at temperatures between 350.degree. C. and 650.degree. C. until the bismuth coating becomes black.

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Aachen, Germany

Albert A Comberg