Mechanically-actuated radio transmitter

• US 3,270,283 A
• Filed: 10/04/1963
• Issued: 08/30/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kurt Ikrath, Vogt, Gottfried F., Wilhelm A. Schneider
• Original Assignee: Kurt Ikrath, Vogt, Gottfried F., Wilhelm A. Schneider
• Inventors: KURT IKRATH, Schneider, Wilhelm A., Vogt, Gottfried F.
• Application Number:
  US04/314,071
• Time in Patent Office: 1,061 Days
• US Class Current: 375/312
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 11/00 Generation of oscillations using a shock-excited tuned circuit with feedback H03B5/00

Claims

1. A MECHANICALLY-ACTUATED RADIO TRANSMITTER, COMPRISING A RIGID, TUBULAR, SUPPORTING CASE;

AN ELONGATED SPRING POSITIONED WITHIN SAID CASE;

A PIEZO-ELECTRIC SLUG POSITIONED WITHIN SAID CASE ADJACENT TO ONE END OF SAID SPRING;

A MOVABLE STRIKING PIN EXTENDING THROUGH ONE END OF SAID CASE, SAID PIN HAVING ONE END, INSIDE OF SAID CASE, POSITIONED ADJACENT TO THE OTHER END OF SAID SPRING;

MEANS FOR STRIKING THE OTHER END OF SAID PIN, OUTSIDE OF SAID CASE;

AN ANTENNA POSITIONED OUTSIDE OF SAID CASE;

AND MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID ANTENNA TO SAID PIEZO-ELECTRIC SLUG, THROUGH THE OTHER END OF SAID CASE;

WHEREBY SAID PIN, WHEN STRUCK, SETS UP VIBRATIONS IN SAID SPRING TO REPEATEDLY HIT SAID PIEZO-ELECTRIC SLUG TO MAINTAIN SAID SLUG IN A STATE OF