Texas Instruments Corporation

John A Haug

Henry F Breit

Premkumar R Hingorany

Keith W Kawate

Youn H Ting

Werner Strasser

John T Hancock

Bryan C Jansen

Richard T Gordon

A method of forming enclosures for microwave and hybrid devices and the enclosure itself wherein the metals to be joined are thin (i.e., less than 40 mils thick) and/or thick (up to several inches) and wherein metallurgical hermetic bonds are provided between adjacent metals which are generally difficult to bond to each other and may be bonded by a select number of bonding processes.

Hybrid/microwave enclosures and method of making same

An electric switch is shown which is responsive separately to two different conditions, i.e. temperature and pressure. The switch includes a temperature sensing disc and a pressure sensing disc both coupled through several alternate motion transfer arrangements to the movable electrical contact of the switch. Several structures are shown for mounting a switch on a surface so that the pressure sensing disc is exposed to fluid pressure and the temperature sensing disc is thermally coupled to the surface.

Dual condition responsive switch apparatus

A starting circuit for single phase electric motors including both split-phase and capacitor start motors includes a gate controlled solid state switch serially connected to the start winding of the motor. Rectified reference pulses from a pulse transformer are generated to turn on a first transistor to provide gating current for the solid state switch. Initially, when the motor is energized at zero rpm, the pulses are received at the switch after the start winding current passes through the zero current level to gate the switch to conduct each half cycle and energize the start winding however as the motor speeds up, the pulses are received earlier and earlier relative to the start winding current zero cross over until at a selected speed the pulses are received at the switch prior to the start winding current zero cross over with the result that the switch is no longer gated conductive. When this occurs the voltage across the switch goes high. This voltage is rectified and received at the base of a second transistor adapted to shunt the pulses from the pulse transformer away from the first transistor to lock out the switch with the start winding deenergized. In a first embodiment the pulse transformer is energized by the main winding current to directly employ the phase difference between main winding current and start winding current while in a second embodiment the pulse transformer is energized by line current to directly employ the phase difference between line current and start winding current.

Universal single phase motor starting control apparatus

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