Richard Michael Clayton

US Patent:

43297242, May 11, 1982

Filed:

Apr 9, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/138735

Inventors:

Richard W. Clayton - Medford NJ

Assignee:

RCA Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

G11B 2124

US Classification:

360109

Abstract:

A transducer mounting arrangement for tape record and/or replay systems having a rotating scanner is provided wherein both transducer protrusion from the cylindrical surface of the scanner and the dihedral angle between the planes in which the gaps of the transducers reside, are adjustable.

US Patent:

45601291, Dec 24, 1985

Filed:

Apr 27, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/604975

Inventors:

Richard W. Clayton - Medford NJ

Assignee:

RCA Corporation - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

E04G 300

US Classification:

248278

Abstract:

An apparatus for tilting a viewfinder of a camera in two opposite senses without raising it from a storage position includes a main chassis, a subchassis rotatably mounted within main chassis and a carriage supporting the viewfinder within said subchassis and engaging cam surfaces of the subchassis. The rotation of the subchassis with respect to the main chassis allows for various positions of the viewfinder while tilted in a first sense and movement of the carriage along the cam surfaces of the subchassis allows for various positions of the viewfinder while tilted in a second sense.

US Patent:

49774085, Dec 11, 1990

Filed:

Jun 28, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/372747

Inventors:

Jack D. Harper - West Windsor Township, Mercer County NJ
Richard W. Clayton - Medford NJ
Philip Olikara - Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County PA

Assignee:

General Electric Company - East Windsor NJ

International Classification:

H01Q 112
H01Q 1110

US Classification:

3437925

Abstract:

A deployable crossed log periodic dipole array is made up of a plurality of bays spaced along a feed transmission line arrangement. Each bay includes a support centered on the array axis. Each bay also includes as antenna elements four long, straight, flat or slightly bowed springs or spring-like tape elements, each fastened at one end to a transmission line conductor. A retainer associated with each bay is rotatable about the cylindrical support and engages the spring elements, so that rotation of the retainer winds the spring elements against the spring resistance and stores energy therein. A locking arrangement simultaneously engages or disengages all the retainers. Simultaneous unlocking of the retainers allows the springs of all the bays to rotate the retainers and to unwind. As the springs unwind, they deploy. The transmission line arrangement includes two open two-wire transmission lines on a common axis.