General Electric

About: General Electric is a company organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Turbine & Signal. The organization has 76365 authors who have published 110557 publications receiving 1885108 citations. The organization is also known as: General Electric Company & GE.

Programmable functions for reconfigurable remote control

Abstract: A reconfigurable remote control transmitter is disclosed that has the ability to learn, store and repeat the remote control codes from any other infrared transmitter. The reconfigurable remote control transmitter includes an infrared receiver, a microprocessor, nonvolatile and scratch pad random access memories, and an infrared transmitter. The microprocessor application is divided into four main categories: learning, storing, retransmitting, and user interface. In the learning process, the reconfigurable remote control transmitter receives and decodes the transmissions from another remote control transmitter. The process is repeated at least twice for each key to make sure that it has been properly received and decoded. Once the data has been received and decoded, it is stored for later use. In order to do this, the received and decoded data is compressed so that it can fit into the nonvolatile memory. This process is repeated for each of the several remote control transmitters that are to be replaced by the reconfigurable remote control transmitter. When the learning and storing operations have been completed, the reconfigurable remote control transmitter is ready to use.

Volatility Diagrams for Silica, Silicon Nitride, and Silicon Carbide and Their Application to High‐Temperature Decomposition and Oxidation

Abstract: Volatility diagrams—isothermal plots showing the partial pressures of two gaseous species in equilibrium with the several condensed phases possible in a system—are discussed for the Si-O and Si-N systems, and extended to the Si-N-O and Si-C-O systems, in which the important ceramic constituents SiO2, Si3N4, Si2N2O, and SiC appear as stable phases. Their use in understanding the passiveactive oxidation transitions for Si, Si3N4, and SiC are demonstrated.

Compact electrical power supply for signal processing applications

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compact electrical power supply which derives electrical energy from a low frequency medium voltage source (eg a 120 V 60 Hz ac main), and converts the electrical energy to a low voltage format suitable for solid state signal processing equipment The supply entails in succession bridge rectification means, a dc-dc boost converter, a capacitor storage bank, and a half bridge converter, either resonantly or non-resonantly operated The converters operate at frequencies substantially above audible frequencies in the interests of compactness The design provides a high input power factor (inductive) with minimum EMT, and provides a lengthened voltage hold up after loss of power

Dielectric materials for power transfer system

Abstract: A power transfer system is provided. The power transfer system includes a field-focusing element including a dielectric material. The dielectric material includes a ceramic material and a polymer material. The ceramic material includes an oxide compound comprising titanium and the polymer material includes a resin. Further, a method of forming a power transfer system is presented. The method includes forming a resonator. Forming a resonator includes the steps of disposing a metallic layer (62), blending a ceramic material and polymer material to form a dielectric material (64), depositing the dielectric material (64) over the metallic layer (62) to form a dielectric layer, forming a Swiss-roll structure (56) of metallic layer and dielectric layer (64), and curing the Swiss-roll structure (56) to form a monolithic Swiss-roll structure (56).

Optical Properties of Noble Metals. II.

Abstract: Earlier work dealing with the optical properties of Cu and Ag is extended along two directions. The optical properties of Au are discussed and interpreted in terms of intra- and interband processes as well as plasma effects as elementary excitations of the system. In addition, the previous tentative interpretation of the low-energy optical structure in terms of interband transitions near $L$ and $X$ in the Brillouin zone is examined carefully by means of absolute calculations of the imaginary part of the frequency-dependent dielectric constant, using as input data the results of band calculations as well as Fermi surface experiments. The agreement of the results for all three noble metals with experiment strongly supports the previous interpretation. It is shown that in metals, sharp optical structure may arise from transitions between relatively flat, filled bands, such as the upper $d$ band, and empty states just above the Fermi surface. This structure complements that arising from transitions at critical points and accounts for the region in the noble metals where direct interband transitions first set in. Finally, the present calculations are used as a basis for comment on recent data of Spicer and Berglund and the relative importance of direct and indirect transitions in photoemission processes.