CYCLE CIRCUIT SCHEMES OF FAST-ACTION PULSE-COUNTERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100070049-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 18
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2012
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: August 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CY gC Cx11CUIT SC1I1, 3 OF FACT-AQTZO1~ iL-COUNTUtS
CONFIOENTIAI
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OYGLiC (jt~0[Il`y' ~ !ji' lays FM T-AC ~ OtJ
A. V. N~tucthil
only iii he corportents and conscqudnt1y in speod of operation.
0.e~Atocl~r~llictl puce couiitora, wih ara widely u>~eU in
toiephony, tol=ox~oe Ean co, and autoinn4cc cireuito, ?r~tim ntly Jn i to
o tt1 iry inch oaoirt {crllairelrlQ t'tio ? W hi4~h cotitput? Lion d~acedu. x'11 cro
rar.cl actin 'oItu . ' d) clocti'o~ttoch u cal cciuntcare boin replacccl
by of is autl ole(:tt'onie circuito
lfi~~l--o rr~d cotnltuttttion wao firut ?olvr~cl in cottnocti m vvLh ox-
1~+ri~~~enta~ ~~I4'$t ~ ?ii co. ~'ti t o f~Etvortd=oh iat~ortttory :rt 1231, Wynn-
~d1iiatho dosicued oovurai npoc .al 1ii Ph-c?,eod courttLrl ~ e :i'euits using;
ionic afld o1nil~rctnic tubs (1, 2J. At priont, eioctronic artd ionic
duvicor aro Loins; usod with r,eir'cir eountero in eounLtirtpj alpha-particloa.
ia:rh couttbinr; tpw d ar'c also needed in telephony, tolentochanics,
rniiitt'y cn ;in :erinr~, photooontroi of inclulstrial proeocscui, qucti ty c;lcc-
tric we1din , alltomdtic dofoctoscopy, ch ronor~ral~liy, computers, ote.
prO!lortt eiectronic counting c?rcuibs can count uto a million
pulses per socond, which is more titan 10,000 tines the rn?t`imurn spoed
of olectrontech nic.1 C tors,
1b.1 4N N p ,*t many pulse counter circuits and dosigri5,
h4 the principle of ~isljtri ction is common to all, rtolay, thyratron,
~1ic c circuits follow sitiilar principles but diffor
A block diar;rarn of a countin unit is shown in Figure 1. Any
pulse counter inay be considered as being made up of four typos of
b Leillents
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2) prtlnctapor, with t'A?mVc~'i(iAt1 ~U
~ puIc A~ ar>a~xrar~
ah tpo Into pul,sca of a dofn1to n apo 'or a1uarp topor4t~.an off' ttta ~ntiro
pc)unter;
2) a puloo roducnr, ivrlicli r~tducQC tf? nuttiLo
r o.~ puJaon by k tai.mo
tint io, Pra(1Ucon at l~(to o?tltplt a futjibor Qt
t.~art taro ftimtjQr cL _t r#p~tt~ P1~1c t; ,
3) a reinr kr ndy-cater, which do to itt nc~ 1y div..
..a
L) ?thc cf~u1,1i9iOul9nt;, wiieii u ii
t~.C input of the ?O1iOwjni
1u ~muu i or puleQC on ?tLQ Input by tiro rudtt Uon Factor k
raduc r W th k, o nu?tput o1' th@ ~ r'ccoclir ~~ :'ocl~icpr
rl'ho ox'ditiary d 'cjttta1 ilccltan cal. counter has as a ptike :ltapcr a
can bo oxpr'o,Jaod throutiw r?z~lin,p of the roniajt~ct
or t:clicatorti
ir mo pulcep wo apJ_tliud : o do input of `the ~ ; -
crro~j~:t~, t,l~~. n number
nhitbor sy, tom, Sinco ttcr tie cittial s,;`steni is i7ow pis:
ud, to count;ors
'Plus we sC! titer t::o r'odiicon ?t'actor k is tiro radix
of our
"2'''" ni as 3'o11ows;
/77a ; : r7, -,4MfIx AZ* il9, $*
sltou1d he ,got; up for k = 10,
is a, mechanical. mosh which connccto on reducer with anet;lier.
defin.ito aiYglo of dg:~lr,ct~ipn, A tn~cl~anical rodlrt
cet' with a hoar ratio
(roduct;jon factor) of 10 is used as a reduce
r. The relnainder indicator
is a dish with ten djV?SjOn~ niarkod off on..it and
the coupling element;
ra~chot macfanism which tranofortns a pulse oi' arbitrary
shape into a
This brcakdown into individual elements can also be a
ppl.l,ed to
electronic, ionic, or relay counting units.
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Q.3 T1iQ r 1 n CJ,ent A ' any u L ~QunLR 1-~ t1 Thy
pij1 Q Eli r i y Baru term n& th c u cal u c ?ar tk ~ puit
I ~
Qcup L fg ?LQ~nnt, and rc mg!, r}clar ncl ca tAr
Oise t' tl~Q lna t }V G1R~,y uc1 t~' 1A pj' u1A~ rec1uCArR the ayo~, e
rE out r, w4?1i th coni 1 t ~L' i ~v~ L "rnormtyptcn~n ~ c, ~Qnt (rci i ra thy.
ratr'etn:i1 Q1 giQCtrQf tut1Qi). V1itir occlr r>rceQOr~ivo pu1Qa, tlla statQ o1
23'pW' 7a7/ tF 1Cj'IQi1t ci~ar~;n cc1 cal f. 'j1le r~~nr~ erg cf e1Qfarrto ire tlQ r9~lilfJCr
rErf'"r1 o'r?ho circ-~~t
cir'cti t i~ clir:
act
t
1
prof'or
io~ Al or oven ocluc.i to he reduction
ftr ii
i
r a counter is OX )rasccld cap a t'Unction of t1 nurnbcr eluinante in
reticors (A) and tho r~ ~lriction ?aetor o ono rducar (k) is
1. ~ k= kA'
it CLU1 ho cliovin teat i is rroahot wren k = a , 2,7, #'or constant A.
Thus, from t1s st mdljoirrt of coot of n countin edit, it is rnoAt
crfic icint to condtrUct two- and throc- path pu1;a roducor circuitc with
k= 2 a;,d 1.=3. In ?th s case, to counter 118oc a l~UIii t ry s,yetern with
radii 2 or 3 (irictoad of 10).
1.1 rlelay circuits for two-pat/x pulse reducers (Fa.gur'Q 2) wrrr'c
first uCc1C1 in t lid111FJtl' 'J.rlJ~; a.ld `t0ib111;C1i 11lWC St Ch o r 4t ~i-'C~ltt
the rotating fiold for' a iynehr?naus motor of the puist~-rcqu.onc1 te1o-
rndtering Sy tern usod in Clio TsLh;1~1 (Cuntral ElectriCal Assombly Laboratory)
of tho Liosonc~rc. Siltldlar circuits are used to control the number of
selective pulses in taiameehanics units of the tea VET and 1 RT of the
"'1'sentroo1oktror1nntazhtt (these circrlits wire propowod by the author and
L. C). Rashkovskiy) and as the preliminary element of a relay counter
in the te1emocbanjcs systont WI1U-7 (3).
The r~perational principle of the circuit is as f oiiows; The
cults are connected as in normal operation of a pulse .pair, a.npi
line relay L trans nits input pulses to relay pairs A and fl, whose cir.r.
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GUN; LllE1 L AI
except that they are brought through relay contacts L/1 rid L/2.
Line relay L/,3 and L/L~ are Lo conn?cted in tha 1ocktn? ciroutt oL
z'e1a;ie A and 1. on a certe a pulcee are trarrarnitted to the coil
of line elay L, relays A and h ue corinoeted and dicconnoctod with c,
?rcciuency which ie one-1 cW tho pulsation frequency of to lint rolay.
Fite opening and olocin~ o tyre line relay contacts uud the opera-
tion of re1a7o A ar>icl ~ as a Lunction of tiro ar@ ahowc raphically in
1'aCuro 3. Ti}e tinchadod roctan 1o c Iowa tt a curront throurh tiro relay
coil, whicc tho ?1--adcd roctan 1c ahowa tho cloood ?tatc of tho normally-
opon and normally-clopod relay contacts. Tho normally-open contact
are shoe above tho a ~scissa, and tiro norni 11y-closod contacts blow it.
Lirros 2 and 3 show the operation of relays A and 1 for normal
circuit oporaion when tl-o following conditions are obsarvads
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