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Took a chance on this one being I was not familar with the author. Overall this was very enjoyable. I will grant that the writer used events from our real world history in the plot but that is okay. What he did with them is what matters. Am looking forward to the next installment in the series.
"A fun read"
An enjoyable listen with just enough humor to keep it light and entertaining. Recommended for anyone with a taste for military si fi.
"Timeless Classic"
I would be the first to state that the tech and social norms are dated (not so much when I first read these as a young teen though). If you are looking for stories about cutting edge tech and so on then this is not for you. If you are looking for brilliant writing and still reverent ideas then this is well worth the time. Buy and enjoy!
"Fun Listen"
Been a Jack Campbell fan for a long time. Did not know what to expect from him in this genre but was pleased with this. Looking forward to the next volume.
"Old School"
One good old school story. Do not try to dissect it, just sit back and enjoy! Recommended for listening enjoyment.
"Timeless story"
Read this a long time ago and found it interesting. This time it is much more engaging. Perhaps it might be that it is because I am a practicing Catholic, but the questions that are raised resonate and interest me. Do get this one.
"The story continues!"
Ian Douglas continues to deliver. Picking the story up several years after Singularity he delivers a great story that is well paced and diffuct to put down (or stop listening to). Do not start unless you have time on your hands!
"Different look at things."
What struck me was that this book seemed balanced. No doubt many will say that the author has some kind of agenda but I did not get that impression. Yes he is a commited capitalist with liberatian views, but he kept them checked. This is a fresh look at why nations fail, recommended.
"Food for thought."
Let me first get this out of the way, I am a committed Catholic. I also firmly beleive what the church teaches and do my best to practice that. I also can not imagine living in a country where there is no seperation between religious and civil law, such as Iran. I also beleive that seperation of church and state is a fundemendal principle that should stand firm. What Faircloth brought to light are disturbing trends in America that anyone watching should notice. What I object to is that he gives scant acknowlagement of the good the Church, Catholic and Protestent, has done while highlighting the scandal that has plaged it recently (and I do wish to point out that it is something we Catholics should be shamed by and pray that it never happens again). Having said that I do agree this is something that has to be countered before we find ourselves living under Christianed Sharia style law.
"Clarifies a mysterious time in our Lords life."
What stood out for me was not so much what our Lord did as a child but the roles that Mary and Joseph played in his early years. Pope Benedict took what could have easly been a dry, theological work and brings it to life and makes it relevent to all of us. In particular I came away from this short work with a very new impression of Saint Joseph and the role model he provides for all Christian Fathers and indeed any man no mater their faith. A must Read!!!
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Unite \U*nite"\, verb (used without an object)
1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.
2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Unite \U*nite"\, adjective [L. unitus, p. p. See {Unite}, verb (used with an object)] United; joint; as, unite consent. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Unite \U*nite"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {United}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Uniting}.] [L. unitus, p. p. of unire to unite, from unus one. See {One}.]
1. To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies.
2. Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach.
Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul. --Milton.
The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship. --Clarendon.
Syn: To add; join; annex; attach. See {Add}.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
1: act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief [syn: {unite}, {unify}] [ant: {carve up}, {dissever}, {divide}, {separate}, {split}, {split up}]
2: become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" [syn: {unify}, {unite}, {merge}] [ant: {break apart}, {disunify}]
3: have or possess in combination; "she unites charm with a good business sense" [syn: {unite}, {combine}]
4: be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport" [syn: {connect}, {link}, {link up}, {join}, {unite}]
5: bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation; "the Democratic Patry platform united several splinter groups" [syn: {unite}, {unify}]
6: join or combine; "We merged our resources" [syn: {unite}, {unify}, {merge}]
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There simply aren't enough jobs for young people looking for work in the Arab world. Public sector jobs are no longer a guarantee for graduates, and the private sector is unable to grow fast enough. For example, in Egypt 600,000 young people enter the labor market each year, but only about 250,000 of them find a job.
The result—millions of young adults are forced to make a living by starting their own very small enterprises, or "microenterprises," despite the low incomes that these businesses often provide. For many of these young "micro-entrepreneurs," only thing standing between a subsistence level income and thriving, sustainable businesses is a lack of reliable, affordable capital. Unfortunately, too many financial institutions see young people as a risk when it comes to loaning money.
Silatech works to bridge this gap, connecting young micro-entrepreneurs with financing and complementary business support services to help them start and grow their own businesses.
Through our partnerships with financial institutions (FIs), NGOs, businesses, and various youth-serving organizations, including educational institutions, Silatech now has operations in Yemen, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria (currently on hold), Morocco, Tunisia, and Somalia.
Together, these operations have financed more than 60,000 youth run businesses, sustaining and creating an estimated 120,000 jobs since programming began in late 2009. In the process, Silatech has raised more than US$ 60 million of co-funding for its microenterprise programs, making us the largest provider of youth-focused microenterprise services in the Middle East and North Africa.
We offer three different types of support to young Arab micro-entrepreneurs.
More specifically, Silatech currently has five key regional microenterprise programs operating within this framework:
Silatech currently supports five regional microenterprise programs, providing financial and non-financial products and services to young micro-entrepreneurs in the region.
This program helps financial institutions across the region to create and introduce youth-focused loans and other financial products for micro- and small entrepreneurs.
Building upon Silatech's successful track record, our Regional Youth Loans Facility provides financial incentives to selected financial institutions (FIs) through concessional debt (and equity funding in some cases), as well as catalytic grants such as guarantees, in order to encourage them to expand the provision of financing to youth-run enterprises in their markets.
Typically, any seed funding from Silatech is matched by co-funding from the FIs themselves, and is further leveraged through investment partnerships with regional and international investors (donors, impact investors, or high-net-worth-individuals).
We also provide technical assistance in order to help financial institutions design and launch youth-focused loan products in the market. Typically, this takes the form of product design support, training for their staff, financial training to young clients, as well as marketing and outreach strategies for them to effectively reach and service young clients.
This initiative helps provide access to finance for youth-run businesses, often in an environment where many FIs implicitly or explicitly consider youth as high credit risks, and restrict access to lending.
We don't just SAY that youth are no higher a credit risk than other demographic groups. With seed financing invested by Silatech, we put our money on the line to back up the assertion.
Silatech currently partners with financial institutions in Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, and Somalia who now are either offering or designing youth-focused credit products as a result of this initiative.
The purpose of this fund is to unlock financial support for youth with less than twelve months of business experience, a group which has whom have traditionally been excluded from credit services by financial institutions because of the higher risk of lending to startup businesses.
Financial institutions typically require twelve months of business operating experience before making a lending decision for a young entrepreneur. However, because of their circumstances, many young entrepreneur cannot mobilize the necessary capital from friends and family to get their businesses started, so they aren't able to get that critical twelve months of experience that banks usually require. This initiative aims to break that vicious circle, helping young entrepreneurs start up their own businesses. Silatech has launched this product in Yemen and Lebanon and is in discussion with a number of additional partners to implement similar guarantee structures.
Kiva Arab Youth, the first phase of this initiative, was launched in early 2012. Implemented in partnership with Kiva, the world's largest microlending platform, Kiva Arab Youth allows online lending to young microentrepreneurs in five Arab countries (Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon and Somalia) via an "Arab Youth Channel" on Kiva, starting from amounts as small as $25.
Silatech has also structured a Matched Loan Facility on this channel dedicated to income generating projects by Arab youth. This means when a user makes a loan toward this group, Silatech will also lend the same amount, doubling their impact.
Building on this experience for the second phase, Silatech is currently developing a standalone platform, Narwi, contextualizing this process for the region. Narwi is a Micro-Endowment (or Waqf) platform available in Arabic, French, and English, as well as offering a number of secure payment gateway options. Narwi will be sourcing profiles of young Arab microentrepreneurs from Kiva while it builds its capacity to onboard Field Partners of its own. This second phase will also consider ways to tap into the broader stream of Islamic and other charitable giving, and integrate mobile services.
This initiative seeks to extend support to youth enterprises beyond financial access, connecting them to an enterprise support value chain that offers solutions and support throughout the enterprise lifecycle.
Our non-financial support services include awareness raising, pre-finance incubation, training, financial literacy, enterprise training, business development services (including micro-franchising models), as well as access to markets.
Silatech seeks to connect key financial institutions and their young clients with youth-serving organizations and other education and training providers. Silatech, in partnership, with a range of regional and international partners is developing and testing a package of support services that provides the best opportunities for youth run businesses to start, sustain and grow.
This initiative helps socioeconomically disadvantaged youth to build their financial assets by offering them specialized micro-savings accounts, linking them to financial literacy training, and conducting social marketing activities to increase their awareness of the importance of savings.
Regional partners providing financing and technical assistance include GIZ (German Development Cooperation) and Sanabel (The Arab Microfinance Network). Key operational partners include financial institutions, youth serving organizations, national microfinance networks and media firms.
Silatech's Regional Youth Savings Initiative emerged from a pilot project in Yemen that has already enabled more than 80,000 youth to access savings accounts for the first time in Yemen and Morocco.
Youth Entrepreneurship Project (YEP)
This three-year collaboration with international NGO PlaNet Finance is designed to improve access to financial services for young entrepreneurs in Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon. The project is expected to benefit over 3,000 economically and socially disadvantaged youth and their families.
Countries covered: Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon
When launched, "Narwi" (www.narwi.org) will be the first online Micro-Endowment (or Waqf) platform. It will allow users to create a personal Endowment that they can contribute toward financing the young Arab micro-entrepreneur of their choice. Our mission is to connect these young micro-entrepreneurs with capital and knowledge, mobilized through the crowd, which enables them to grow sustainable businesses and create jobs for others. These endowments are reimbursed into the users' account as the micro-entrepreneur makes their repayments, so that contributions move on to support others as well. Narwi will be implemented with a network of international and regional partners; it follows Silatech's successful partnership with Kiva in implementing "Kiva Arab Youth."
Countries covered: Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Somalia
Kiva Arab Youth
Started in March 2012, Kiva Arab Youth is a partnership between Silatech and Kiva, the world's largest microlending platform which allows visitors to make direct, online loans of as little as $25 to young Arabs of their choice who are either starting a new business or seeking to expand an existing one. As of March 2014, Kiva Arab Youth had mobilized over 150,000 individuals who collectively have lent more than $6.7 million to fund 5,000 young Arab entrepreneurs through MFI field partners in six countries (Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen and Somalia, the latter two having been brokered by Silatech).
Regional Youth Savings Initiative
This initiative supports economic empowerment of socio-economically disadvantaged youth in building assets by offering them specialized micro-savings accounts, linking them to financial literacy training, and conducting social marketing activities to increase their and broader societies' awareness of the importance of savings.
Countries covered: Yemen, Morocco
IFAD Rural Youth Economic Empowerment Program
$3 million program working with local partners – including microfinance institutions, banks, non-profits and companies in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen – to build their capacity to design, manage and sustain youth-inclusive financial products and complementary non-financial services to disadvantaged and financially excluded youth living in rural areas.
Countries covered: Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia
Youth Loan Project (Boudour)
Silatech is providing technical assistance to Attawfiq Microfinance in Morocco to support their ability to expand the provision of youth financial services, including the launch of a dedicated youth loan product.
Countries covered: Morocco
Moroccan Youth Financing Facility
Silatech and Jaida (a wholesale financing institution for the Moroccan microfinance sector) have created a USD 3 million Moroccan Youth Enterprise Fund, which provides lines of credit, technical assistance and client training to enable the microfinance sector in Morocco to expand its provision of youth financial services.
Youth Loan Fund
Silatech has a longstanding partnership with Al Amal Microfinance Bank (AMB) on the development of innovative youth financial services. Through this pioneering project with AMB, a youth strategy has been developed for the financial institution which has included a loan product for existing youth-run enterprises, a startup product called Mashrou3i, a youth savings account, and support to the creation of a sister entity Al Amal Foundation which provides pre- and post-finance training and business support to youth-run enterprises.
Countries covered: Yemen
Youth Small Enterprise Loan Fund
Silatech is providing technical and financial assistance to support Yemen's Small Enterprise Development Fund in youth financial services, including the launch of a dedicated youth small enterprise loan product.
Village RoSCAs for Community Savings and Borrowing
This research project is testing a number of methods to build village RoSCAs (Rotating Savings and Credit Associations) that would enhance micro savings and borrowing among villagers. The objective is to enhance access to finance among the villagers, while building on their capacities, without pushing them into debt traps.
Countries covered: Egypt
Capacity Building for Egyptian Microfinance
Through Silatech's partnership with Microsoft, this project will provide IT software from Microsoft to MFIs, in addition to developing new software for loan tracking to automate management and improve efficiency. In addition, the program will provide capacity building programs to support MFIs in helping startup entrepreneurs.
Youth Enterprise Growth Initiative
Together with the UK-based Mowgli Foundation, Silatech is providing a package of non-financial services (training, mentorship and access to finance) to support the growth of micro enterprises run by high potential youth clients of the Alexandria Business Association (ABA). With funding from DFID, Silatech is also partnering with Yale University to carry out a study into the impact of providing higher levels of financing to high potential clients of ABA,
Silatech is supporting the development and expansion of Yomken's (Yomken.com) operations for their crowdfunding and open innovation services.
Rural Youth Economic Empowerment through Community Development Associations
Silatech is supporting Community Development Associations (CDAs) and the Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) which they serve to provide a package of training, business development services and financing solutions to youth.
Microfinance Technical Assistance Project – Puntland
Silatech is supporting a Puntland-based NGO, Help Leads to Hope, to design and launch a youth-focused microfinance institution—Kaamil MFI—which will facilitate access to loan capital and micro savings facilities for young entrepreneurs in Puntland and beyond.
Countries covered: Somalia (Puntland)
Kaah Islamic Microfinance Services
Silatech, Kaah Express and the American Refugee Committee have partnered to launch Kaah Islamic Microfinance Services, a youth-focused microfinance institution which will leverage the existing Kaah Express networks and agents in urban and rural areas. Silatech provides technical assistance.
Countries covered: Somalia (all parts)
Somaliland Youth Enterprise Fund (SYEF)
Silatech and the microfinance arm of Doses of Hope (DOH), Kaaba Microfinance Institution (K-MFI), and AFF/Shuraako (non-profit operating foundation) and Kiva have established a revolving fund in order to create sustainable and resilient self-employment opportunities directly targeting youth-run small businesses in Somaliland.
Countries covered: Somalia (Somaliland)
Microfinance Technical Assistance Project—all of Somalia
Silatech has entered into a partnership with Dahabshiil (a leading African money services business) to support the company's spin-off microfinance institution, with the objective of promoting Somali youth enterprise development and providing employment solutions throughout Somalia.
Somali Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Program (SYEEP)
Silatech, Shaqodoon and the American Refugee Committee have partnered to create SYEEP, the primary component of which is the establishment of specially-designed "One Stop Shop" (OSS) centers for youth employment and business support services.
Countries covered: Somalia
A part of Silatech's Najja7ni service in Tunisia, MobiSouk is a mobile based marketplace that connects young entrepreneurs without Internet access to customers (B2C) and other businesses (B2B), where they can offer services and products.
Countries covered: Tunisia
Technical Assistance to Entrepreneurship Finance Centre (EFC)
In partnership with Tuninvest, Développement international Desjardins (DID), Silatech is providing support to the design of youth financial and non-financial services for Technical Assistance to Entrepreneurship Finance Centre (EFC).
Technical Assistance to Ibdaa Microfinance
Silatech is providing technical assistance and financial support to Ibdaa's youth startup product (Mashroui), in addition to a standard youth loan product targeting existing businesses (Shabab).
Countries covered: Lebanon
Vocational Training and Startup Financing
Silatech provides technical assistance and training to improve the impact of MFW's existing "Mihnati" program. Mihnati is a loan product that finances vocational education and training. Silatech is jointly developing "Makinati," a loan product for young startup entrepreneurs targeted mostly to graduates of the Mihnati program.
Countries covered: Jordan
Youth Enterprise Programme with Tamweelcom
Silatech provides technical assistance and financial support to Tamweelcom, one of Jordan's largest and most established MFIs. The objective is to target socially and economically challenged youth with start up business projects in Jordan.
Technical Assistance to IRADA
Provision of loan capital in addition to technical assistance and BDS solutions to IRADA to launch youth financial services combined with training to existing/future youth clients across Sudan.
Countries covered: Sudan
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Hello, I am trying to record audio on my computer with Audacity but it seems like there is no recording devise on my computer. When I right click on my sound icon and click "recording" I see two microphones (not plugged in) and "line in (not plugged in)". Both disabled devises and disconnected devises are showing. I'm so clueless when it comes to this stuff! What do I do?
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I had the same problem and was able to fix it by following this click here
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Woolwell - Internet. :)
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What audio are you trying to record? From a microphone, cd or internet?
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Thanks for the replies! BRYNIT, here is a stupid question, but how do I do that? Where do I go to get updated drivers?
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Just read that you have disabled and hidden devices showing. Have you checked that you have the correct drivers installed, check for updated drivers.
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Windows Vista has Aux disabled and hidden. You need to right click on sound icon click on recordings. Right click on any device and select show disabled devices and disconnected devices, you should now see Aux right click and select enable. You should now be able to use Audacity.
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You need a connected microphone, try unplugging it then plug in again it should be automatically picked up. Sounds stupid but if it has an on off switch make sure it's on.
If you still get nothing you need to try the mike in something else to see if it's working.
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According to one feature a bearing-free oscillation motor, e.g. for driving an optical scanner or chopper comprises a torsion shaft fixed at one end for rotational oscillation about its axis, a rotor support member substantially more rigid in bending than the torsion shaft attached to the free end of the shaft and extending back therealong, a magnetically interactive rotor rigidly joined to the support member at the midlength of the torsion shaft, and a magnetically interactive stator adjacent the rotor for inducing rotational oscillation of the rotor, the torsion shaft and the rotor support member cooperating to provide a stiff system in bending. Preferably the rotor torsion shaft and rotor support member assembly are cooperatively constructed to restrain the rotor, in response to radial forces acting on it, to substantially translational motion without tilting of the rotor or the attached mirror or other device. According to another feature a torsion-shaft mounted rotor is divided into angularly spaced pole faces which, by vectorial combination effects, result in more uniform and decreased force on the rotor if the rotor is deflected from its desired position. According to another feature of the invention in such general type of oscillation motor a rotor motion pick-off coil has a predetermined stationary position aligned on the plane of symmetry bisecting the drive coil so as to be magnetically substantially symmetrical, regardless of rotor position, with the magnetic field effects that are inherently produced by the drive coil as it drives the rotor. Preferably this pick-up system has its modulated flux provided by stray flux from permanent magnets which bias the drive rotor.
1. A bearing-free oscillation motor, for example for driving an optical scanner or chopper, comprising:
a torsion shaft fixed against rotation at one end for rotational oscillation about its longitudinal axis and having a free end defining a mounting portion;
a rotor support member substantially more rigid in bending than said torsion shaft attached to said mounting portion and extending therefrom back along said torsion shaft;
a magnetically interactive rotor rigidly joined to said rotor support member at a point corresponding to the midregion of the effective length of said torsion shaft; and
a magnetically interactive stator means located adjacent said rotor with an air gap therebetween for cooperation with said rotor for inducing rotational oscillation of said rotor;
said torsion shaft and said rotor support member cooperating to provide a stiffer system in bending in a direction of change of said air gap than would result by mounting said rotor directly on said free end of said torsion shaft.
2. The motor of claim 1 wherein said rotor is mounted to said rotor support member at a point substantially equidistant from said free end and said fixed end of said torsion shaft.
3. The motor of claim 1 wherein the assembly of said rotor, said torsion shaft and said rotor support member are cooperatively constructed to restrain said rotor, in response to radial forces acting on said rotor, to substantially translational motion without tilting effect on said rotor relative to said stator means.
4. The motor of claim 1 including means to apply driving force to said rotor at a frequency corresponding substantially to the natural oscillation frequency of the oscillating assembly comprising said torsion shaft and all parts mounted thereon.
5. The motor of claim 4 in combination with a scanning mirror supported by the free end of said torsion shaft, said mirror and motor cooperating to provide a resonant scanning system.
6. The motor of claim 4 further comprising means for generating a signal related to the velocity of rotary motion of the rotor and means for applying positive feedback of said signal to said control means to sustain resonant oscillating motion of said rotor.
7. The motor of claim 6 wherein said means for generating said signal comprises a stationary ferromagnetic piece having a pick-off coil wound therearound and a pole face, a pole member mounted to move with said rotor and arranged to magnetically interact with said pole face to produce said signal in said pick-off coil.
8. The motor of claim 1 wherein said relatively rigid rotor support member comprises a tube disposed coaxially with said torsion shaft, with spacing provided between said torsion shaft and the inner surface of said tube to prevent contact therebetween during permitted bending of said torsion shaft.
9. The motor of claim 1 wherein said rotor comprises ferromagnetic material, said stator means includes permanent magnet means for biasing said rotor to an equilibrium position and said stator means includes control means for applying driving flux to said rotor.
10. The motor of claim 9 wherein said rotor has four pole faces arranged to magnetically interact with corresponding pole faces of said stator means;
the magnetic system of said motor designed such that with constant air gap between all the respective rotor and stator pole faces, approximately equal radial forces are applied to each of said rotor pole faces, said forces increasing and decreasing with respective decrease and increase of said air gap;
alternate pole faces of said rotor being diametrically opposed, and adjacent pole faces of said rotor being spaced at least about 60� apart for improving the radial force effects on the rotor attendant with any radial displacement of said rotor.
11. The motor of claim 10 wherein the pole faces of said rotor are arranged such that the radial forces in the pole faces resulting from magnetic attraction are 90� apart.
12. A bearing-free optical scanner comprising:
a torsion shaft fixed against rotation at one end for rotational oscillation about its longitudinal axis and having a free end defining a mounting portion;
a rotor support member in the form of a tube substantially more rigid in bending than said torsion shaft attached to said mounting portion and extending therefrom back along said torsion shaft, coaxial therewith with spacing for shaft bending provided between said torsion shaft and the inner surface of said tube;
a magnetically interactive rotor rigidly joined to said rotor support member at a point corresponding to the midregion of the effective length of said torsion shaft, said rotor comprising four pole faces having midpoints sapced approximately 90� apart about the axis of said torsion shaft;
a magnetically interactive stator means having pole faces corresponding with those of said rotor, with airgaps between respective rotor and stator pole faces, said stator including magnetic means for biasing said rotor to an equilibrium position, said stator means cooperating with said rotor for inducing rotational oscillation in said rotor; and
means for generating a rotor drive signal having a frequency substantially correlated to the natural frequency of the overall oscillating system to provide resonant oscillating motion of said rotor;
said torsion shaft and said rotor support member cooperating to provide a stiffer system in bending in the direction of change of said airgaps than would result by mounting said rotor directly on said free end of said torsion shaft.
13. In an oscillation motor comprising a ferromagnetic rotor driven by a drive coil of a stator, the drive coil adapted to apply a modulating drive flux to said rotor through a predetermined stationary magnetic flux path which includes stationary ferromagnetic pole pieces and pairs of corresponding rotor and stator pole faces, said motor including rotor motion pick-off means which includes a ferromagnetic rotary element turning with said rotor and a stationary detection coil associated with a stationary ferromagnetic element, said rotary and stationary elements of said pick-off means having corresponding pole faces that have varying reluctance dependent upon displacement of said rotor relative to said stator, and means to apply magnetic flux through said stationary and rotary elements of said pick-off means to be modulated by said varying reluctance of said pick-off elements thereby to generate a voltage in said detection coil having a value at least partially dependent upon the motion of said rotor, that improvement wherein said detection coil has a predetermined stationary position, and said detection coil being aligned relative to said position to be substantially symmetrical, regardless of rotor position, with the magnetic field effects present at said position that are inherently produced by said drive coil as it generates said drive flux for said rotor, the magnetic structure of said stator including said drive coil being symmetrical about a plane of symmetry passing through the axis of the rotor, and said pick-up coil and associated stationary element being longitudinally aligned in said plane of symmetry.
14. In an oscillating motor according to claim 13 which includes a stationary permanent magnet that applies biasing flux to said rotor, the improvement wherein said means to apply magnetic flux through said stationary and rotary elements of said pick-off means comprises means positioning said stationary element in a manner to pick up stray flux from said permanent magnet.
This invention relates to oscillation motors useful to deflect, scan, interrupt or chop beams of light, electrons or other streams of matter with little mass.
Conventional oscillation motors having torsion shaft-mounted rotors suffer numerous disadvantages: the rotors have limited excursion; their resonant frequency drastically decreases as their amplitude of excursion increases; when mounted at the end of a long torsion bar the rotors and accompanying mirrors or other devices are sensitive to cross motion and undesirable oscillations when subjected to mechanical vibrations or accelerations; and the motors operate at a very high Q factor and are generally difficult to tune.
Another problem of such electromagnetic motors, where the rotor is mounted on a flexible shaft, is that the electromagnetic forces which apply the operating torque to the rotor also behave as a second order spring in the radial direction of the rotor, tending to bend the rotor out of its desired symmetrical operating position relative to the stator. Reduction of the electromagnetic forces to reduce this displacement correspondingly penalizes the torque capability of the motor.
The invention provides a way to reduce or avoid the above disadvantages while providing a bearing-free, virtually infinite-life oscillation motor which requires no maintenance, may be oscillated up to frequencies above 10,000 cycles per second, may be adapted for oscillation amplitudes up to 30�, and may be mass-produced conveniently and economically.
A particular object of the invention is to provide a long life resonant scanner capable of operating over a wide range of amplitudes of excursion and of fixed resonant frequencies, of carrying a wide range of reflecting mirrors, chopper vanes, and the like, and of being self oscillating.
One aspect of the invention features a bearing-free motor of the kind mentioned having a torsion shaft fixed at one end and having a free end defining a mounting portion. A second rotor supporting member substantially more rigid in bending and torsion than the torsion shaft is attached to this mounting portion and extends back along the torsion shaft, being spaced radially from the shaft to permit unimpaired bending motion of the latter. A magnetically interactive rotor is rigidly joined to this second member at a point corresponding to the mid-region of the effective torsion shaft length while magnetically interactive stator means are located adjacent the rotor, with an appropriate air gap, for producing rotational oscillation of the rotor. The shaft and rigid rotor support member cooperate to provide an improved system of support, one in particular which is stiffer against radial motion of the rotor than would result, e.g., by mounting the rotor directly on the free end of a torsion shaft. Also, to the extent that forces of magnetic, dynamic or other origin cause radial displacement of the rotor, the new support system restrains such displacement to simple translation rather than the more complex and disturbing motion which involves tilting of the rotor when a rotor is mounted, e.g., on the free end of a torsion shaft.
In preferred embodiments: the rotor is mounted to the rotor support member at a point substantially equidistant from the free end and the fixed end of the torsion shaft; the assembly of the rotor, torsion shaft and rotor support member are cooperatively constructed to restrain the rotor, in response to radial forces acting on the rotor, to substantially translational motion without tilting effect; means are provided to apply driving force to the rotor at a frequency corresponding substantially to the natural oscillation frequency of the assembly (especially useful with a scanning mirror supported by the free end of the torsion shaft, the mirror and motor comprising a resonant scanning system), this motor preferably having means (preferably a pick up coil) for generating a signal related to the velocity of rotary motion of the rotor and for applying positive feedback of the signal to sustain resonant oscillating motion of the rotor. Preferably the relatively rigid rotor support member comprises a tube coaxial with the torsion shaft, with spacing between the shaft and inner surface of the tube to prevent contact during any bending of the torsion shaft. Also preferably the rotor is ferromagnetic, the stator includes permanent magnets to bias the rotor to an equilibrium position and a control coil applies driving flux to the rotor, preferably the rotor having four pole faces, the effective areas of adjacent pole faces being spaced at least 60� (most preferably 90�) from each other for reducing detrimental radial force effects on the rotor that are attendant with any radial displacement of the rotor.
According to another aspect of the invention more generally in a bearing-free oscillation motor having a torsion shaft-mounted rotor, the rotor is provided with the four pole faces arranged to magnetically interact with corresponding pole faces of the stator, alternate pole faces of the rotor being diametrically opposed to balance each other, and adjacent pole faces of the rotor being spaced at least about 60� (preferably 90�) apart for reducing detrimental radial force effects on the rotor that are attendant with any radial displacement of the rotor. In particular such an arrangement serves to make such force change more uniform, regardless of direction of the undesired radial displacement, and reduces the maximum value of such force change and hence reduces the tendency for further rotor displacement due to negative spring effects.
Other objects and features of the invention will be understood from the following description of preferred embodiments taken in conjunction with the drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a side cross-sectional view of a preferred embodiment taken on line 1--1 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic plan view, partially in cross section, of the embodiment of FIG. 1 taken on line 2--2 thereof;
FIGS. 3 and 3a are diagrammatic side views of a prior art optical scanner, illustrating, with exaggeration, the bending effects of a given lateral force on the rotor;
FIGS. 4 and 4a are side views similar to those of FIGS. 3 and 3a illustrating, with corresponding exaggeration the different effects caused by the force of FIG. 3a when applied to a scanner constructed according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic plan view of a rotor according to the invention showing the angular spacing of the pole faces for reducing detrimental radial force effects on the rotor and on the torsion shaft when the rotor is subject to radial displacement;
FIG. 6 is a view similar to that of FIG. 5 of a conventional rotor for purposes of comparison with FIG. 5;
FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 are views similar to FIG. 2 of certain alternative rotor and stator configurations;
FIG. 10 is a perspective and partially exploded view of a resonant motor assembly together with a pick-off coil for positive feedback driving of the motor; FIG. 10a is a side elevation of the device of FIG. 10.
FIG. 11 is a perspective view of a scanning system employing two motors according to the embodiment of FIG. 1; and
FIGS. 12 and 13 are block diagrams of drive circuitry for resonant motor systems according to the invention.
The preferred embodiments here to be described employ moving iron rotors which rotate at right angles to the flux paths from the stators. For information concerning the general construction of such motors, reference is made to applicant's prior U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,177,385 and 3,624,574, which are incorporated herein by reference. According to the broader aspects of the invention other configurations are of course possible as where the rotor moves parallel to the lines of flux or where the coils and other magnetic components have other arrangements.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 and 2, an elongated torsion shaft 10 has at one end a mounting hub 11 fixed against rotation to base 12. At the free end of the shaft, there is a mounting portion 16 to which a mirror 14 is joined. A coaxial rotor support tube 18, relatively rigid in comparison to shaft 10, is mounted at 16 and extends back along the torsion shaft, with the inner surface 18a of the tube spaced from the shaft 10 to enable unimpeded bending of the shaft 10 when subjected to radial displacement (see FIG. 4a).
A ferromagnetic rotor 20 is rigidly joined to tube 18 at a point equidistant from the ends of the torsion shaft.
The rotor 20 defines pole faces 21a, b and 22a, b which are spaced by air gaps g from corresponding pole faces defined by stationary ferromagnetic pole pieces 23a, b and 24a, 24b. The pole pieces cooperate with permanent magnets 25 and 26 and the rotor 20 to define biasing flux paths B; the pole pieces also cooperate wih ferromagnetic bridging portions 27 associated drive coils 28 and the rotor to define driving flux paths D, as generally described in the above referenced patents.
For purposes of an example the torsion shaft 10 of FIGS. 1 and 2 may be milled from a cylinder of high carbon steel (E = 30 � 106 psi) with a length L of 0.6 in., and a diameter D of 0.052 in. Mounting portion 16 is notched to receive a mirror, fastened by epoxy cement, whose moment of inertia is small when compared with that of the rotor-tube-torsion shaft system. The mirror is centrally mounted on the axis of shaft 10 and is typically a circular disc, e.g., 0.50 in. in diameter and 0.040 in. thick.
Rotor support tube 18 and rotor 20 may be machined from one piece of low-loss nickel-iron steel alloy (50--50) such as Carpenter 49 and soft soldered to mounting portion 16. The inner diameter of the tube B may be 0.125 in. The various pole faces of the rotor are spaced apart such that the radial forces on the pole faces resulting from magnetic attraction are 90� apart. (For this effect the pole faces themselves are generally at spacings greater than 60�, the precise spacing being determined on the basis of the amount of rotor excursion and the arcuate extent of the stator pole faces, according to well understood design principles.)
As seen in FIG. 2, when the apparatus is assembled, uniformly sized air gaps are maintained between the pole faces of the rotor 20 and the stator pole pieces. However disturbances from magnetic, dynamic or other origin, may tend to cause change in the size of the air gaps, which in prior art construction can lead to serious malfunctions of the motor due to the negative spring effect of the magnetic system.
According to one feature of the invention, mounting of the rotor 20 on relatively rigid tube 18 helps to alleviate these effects. The tube 18 is at least 20 and preferably 100 times stiffer in bending than is the torsion shaft 10. To understand the effect of such mounting reference is first made to FIGS. 3 and 3a illustrating a prior art configuration in which a rotor 20' is attached to the free end of a torsion shaft 10'. Given radial force F on rotor (greatly exaggerated for purposes of illustration) would change the air gap by the amount of the displacement and would tilt the rotor 20 out of the plane of its stator, as shown. Note also the significant unwanted change in the direction of the reflected beam from R to R1, caused by the tilting of the mirror. Referring now to FIGS. 4 and 4a, by attaching the support member 18 to the free end of the shaft and fixing the same rotor 20 to the member 18, as shown, the same force F on the rotor produces a considerably reduced displacement of the rotor 20 and avoids tilting of the mirror so that the reflected beam R2 is not nearly so disturbed as was the beam R1.
It should be appreciated that the length of member 18 may be varied without departing from the teachings of this invention. At its preferred length, one-half the effective length of the torsion shaft 10, the advantage is often maximized, but so long as the location of the rotor is in the mid region of the length of the torsion shaft, desirable effects of limiting displacement and tilt are achievable.
The combination of FIGS. 1 and 4 provides, in effect, a rotor mounting which may be as much as four times stiffer in radial bending than conventional shaft mounted designs without sacrificing torsion characteristics. Such mounting raises the frequency of the cross motion (pendulum) resonance (thus resisting pendulum motion with ambient vibrations which are of generally lower frequency) and thus reduces the tolerances within which reliable systems can be manufactured. The mounting also provides means for resisting acceleration effects on the rotor as in rocket launching of satellite systems or in rough usage situations. Also, in the case where the mass of the rotor is desired to be of relatively high value for the purpose of obtaining a relatively low rotary resonant frequency, this may be achieved by using the same structure as shown in FIG. 1 with the simple addition of an added mass 21, shown in dotted lines, the system being radially stiff enough to operate due to stiffening obtained by the novel mounting.
The rotor pole configuration of the invention is employed to further increase stability and versatility of the motor. In conventional rotor designs, see FIG. 6, pole faces on opposite ends of the rotor are exposed to tangential oscillating force and, because they are made of ferromagnetic material, are also exposed to radial force tending to attract the rotor out of its symmetrical position within the stator bore. In torsion shaft mounted designs, where bearings cannot maintain the rotor on its axis, any slight radial perturbation sets up an unstable situation, a second order negative spring, which may result in a serious malfunction. Since magnetic force varies with the square of the distance, when the rotor moves toward one stator element, radial attractive force to that element increases; since, simultaneously, the gap between rotor and stator on the opposite side increases, radial magnetic attractive force there decreases. The result is a net force on the rotor toward one pole which becomes increasingly more powerful, an unstable situation arises, and ultimately, contact results between the pole piece and stator element and oscillation ceases.
To reduce this problem, rotors of the instant invention, as seen in FIGS. 2 and 5, have four pole faces spaced considerably apart. In the embodiment the air gaps g are designed as uniform and both coils 28 are employed to drive rotor 20, this configuration thus serving to balance the radial attractive forces absent any displacement.
With this design any given radial displacement of the rotor, regardless of the direction of the displacement, results in the same change in the force conditions, and this change is substantially less than the maximum force change that would result with the construction of FIG. 6.
Referring to FIG. 5 assume a displacement of magnitude d in any given direction, angle b. Angle a represents the angle of orientation of the force on each rotor pole face relative to the X-axis of symmetry. The air gaps are identified by numerals 1, 2, 3 and 4.
With the deflection d,
Gap 1 decreases by d cos (b- a) = d (cos b cos a + sin b sin a)
Gap 3 increases by d cos (b- a) = d (cos b cos a + sin b sin a)
Gap 2 decreases by d cos (b + d) = d (cos b cosa - sin b sin a)
Gap 4 increases by d cos (b + d) = d (cos b cos a - sin b sin a)
If a = 45� (the optinum case of spacing between axis of symmetry and pole faces of between about 30� and 60�)
√2Then gap 1 decrease is d (cos b + sin b) 23 increase " " " √22 decrease " d (cos b - sin b) 24 increase " " "
The force imbalance between gaps 1 and 3 is
ΔF13 = F1 - F3 = Fo /(do -d1)2 - Fo /(do + d1)2
do = nominal gap value
d1 = change in gap at 1
Fo = magnetic force coefficient ##EQU1## assuming d1 is a small fraction of do
do 2 - d1 2 ≈ do 2 ##EQU2## Where Ko is a magnetic stiffness coefficient
Similarly ΔF24 = Ko d2
The resultant of these inbalances in the X-direction is
ΔFx = ΔF13 cos a + ΔF24 cos a
= Ko cos a (d1 + d2)
Therefore under the conditions of a = 45� .
ΔFX = Ko (d/2 ) (2 cos b) = Ko d cos b
In other words:
the resultant in the X-direction is the same as if a force Ko d had occurred in the direction of the original displacement d.
Now, compare with what would happen if a=o (i.e., the rotor pairs are contiguous) as shown in FIG. 6:
We would still have
ΔFx = (ΔF13 + ΔF24) cos a
= ΔF13 + ΔF24 for a = o
= Ko (d1 + d2)
but now
d1 = d cos b
d2 = d cos b
ΔFx = 2 Ko d cos b
which is as though a force of 2Kod had occurred in the direction of the original displacement d. TWICE AS LARGE AS FOR THE CASE a = 45� .
It will be understood from the foregoing that in the event of radial displacement of the rotor, the magnitude of the vectorial average of the change of the air gaps is essentially independent of the direction of the radial displacement and equal to about 70 per cent of the maximum value that would occur with the use of un-spaced adjacent pole pieces, so that the magnitude of the vector addition of the changes of the radial forces at the air gaps is also essentially independent of the direction of the radial displacement and equal to about fifty per cent of the maximum value that would occur with the use of un-spaced adjacent pole pieces.
Where the pole faces are disposed so that the radial forces on them are somewhat off of the perpendicular, i.e., � 30�, desirable effects are still obtained, though decreasing with increase in the deviation from perpendicular.
The principles just described are, as noted, related to the direction of the radial forces, and not dependent upon the particular edges of the rotor and stator pole faces being employed. For example the rotor-stator arrangement of FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 are equally operative according to the invention.
The motor that has been described is particularly useful as a resonant driver, for instance as a resonant scanner as shown in FIG. 11, where the unit operates at a set frequency.
According to one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 10 and 10a, a velocity coil 40 is positioned to detect the motion of the rotor, and this velocity signal is used as positive feedback as shown in FIG. 12 to a power amplifier to control the frequency of the voltage applied to the drive coil (or coils) 28 of the motor. Thus the natural frequency of rotary oscillation of the mechanical system determines the frequency of operation. This frequency can be appropriately varied by changing the mass of the components, etc.
In another embodiment, referring to FIG. 13, a crystal oscillator 50 is chosen to oscillate at a fixed frequency compatible, e.g., with the frequency of television scan, and the motor is constructed with a predetermined natural frequency to substantially match that of the oscillator. In this case the velocity coil may be employed to control the amount of positive feedback, thus to regulate the amplitude of the excursion of the system.
Referring further to FIG. 10 the velocity coil or tachometer 40 is located on top of the motor, the coil having a ferromagnetic core 41 defining a pole face 42 which interacts with the pole face 44 of a ferromagnetic projection 46 mounted on and in magnetic continuity with the rotor. The coil 40, core 41 and stationary supporting elements are aligned in the longitudinal plane of symmetry of the stator, (thus to avoid carrying any flux attributable to the drive coil 28, and being isolated therefrom to avoid forming a magnetic short circuit for the drive coil). The core and projection assembly gather stray magnetic flux from the biasing permanent magnets 25 and 26, this flux being modulated by the variation of the reluctance produced by the motion of the projection 46 relative to the pole face 42.
Referring to FIGS. 4a and 11, the advantages of the invention of limited deflection and tilting of the mirror, even though mounted by a cantilevered torsion bar, have significant advantages in providing high speed, uniform scans in a unit free of bearing problems.
Mathematical analysis shows that the radial stiffness of the unit is expressed generally by
P/dl = 12 (EI/L
where P is a force acting radially on the rotor, dl is the displacement of the point of attachment of the support member 18 to the free end of torsion bar 10 (as well as of the rotor 20), E is Young's modulus of elasticity, I is the moment of inertia of the cross section of the torsion bar and L is the length of the cantilever to the point of attachment. In contrast the radial stiffness of a conventional design per FIG. 3 of the same length and moment of inertia is expressed
P/dl = 3EI/L
of also great importance is the fact that the rotor mirror assembly does not tilt but translates when the rotor is subjected to a force, from either magnetic or dynamic origin.
As is known with regard to simple cantilever beams (see FIG. 3) the tip angular deflection of a beam due to a load P located at its tip is (according to Elements of Strength of Materials -- Timoshenko and MacCullough, Van Nostrand Co., Inc. -- Page 182)
θ1 = PL2 /2 EI
the maximum angular deflection created by a moment 1/2PL at the tip of a beam of length L (where the rotor of FIG. 4 is located) is according to this reference
θ2 = (PL/2) �(L/EI)
the sum of both angles is zero, therefore by beam analysis it is shown that the rotor and the rigidly attached mirror will translate and not tilt.
It will be understood that embodiments shown are given as examples and that variations are possible within the spirit and scope of the claims.
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WASHINGTON — Rising sophomore Rachel Lang is quickly earning the respect of all opposing lineups — high school, travel and recreation — as the Washington 14U All-Star softball team continues to be one of the most formidable in the county.
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