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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Melvin G England, Ashford Common, GB;
Assignee:
Thorn EMI Varian Limited, Hayes, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
331 87 ; 331 88 ; 315 3955 ;
Abstract
In a magnetron having a rotatable tuning member in the form of a spinner (121), a rotation sensor and an associated processor (10) generates an indication signal (11) representing the instantaneous magnetron frequency. Three level discriminators 13(1), 13(2), 13(3) are arranged to compare the indication signal (11) with respective threshold signals 14(1), 14(2), 14(3) representing different, preset frequencies. The level discriminators produce a trigger signal T effective to initiate transmission of a pulse of radiation whenever the instantaneous magnetron frequency matches one of the preset frequencies.