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Transistorized wind speed indicating and recording system

  • US 3,175,152 A
  • Filed: 03/14/1961
  • Issued: 03/23/1965
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1961
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. IN A WIND SPEED INDICATOR UTILIZING A SHAFT SUPPORTED ANEMOMETER, A REVOLVING MEMBER ON SAID ANEMOMETER SHAFT FOR PRODUCING LIGHT PULSES AT A FREQUENCY PROPORTIONAL TO THE WIND SPEED, PHOTOSENSITIVE MEANS TO DETECT SAID LIGHT PULSES, ELECTRONIC MEANS FOR AMPLIFICATION AND TRANSMISSION OF PULSES EMANATING FROM SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE MEANS, THE IMPROVEMENT CONSISTING OF MEANS FOR MEASURING THE FREQUENCY OF SAID PULSES COMPRISING A SOURCE OF POWER SUPPLY POTENTIAL, A SEMICONDUCTOR VARIABLE BIAS EMITTER FOLLOWER FOR SELECTING AND TRANSMITTING ONLY PULSES OF A GIVEN PEAK VALUE FROM SAID ELECTRONIC MEANS AND CONSISTING OF A TRANSISTOR HAVING ITS BASE CONNECTED TO SAID ELECTRONIC MEANS AND TO THE NEGATIVE POTENTIAL OF SAID POWER SUPPLY THROUGH A RESISTOR AND A POTENTIOMETER CONNECTED FROM THE NEGATIVE TO THE POSITIVE POTENTIAL OF SAID POWER SUPPLY, THE EMITTER OF SAID TRANSISTOR CONNECTED TO THE MOVABLE ARM OF SAID POTENTIOM-

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