Resonant reed frequency sensitive control apparatus

Claim 1

CONTROL APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING A SWITCHING ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THE ATTAINMENT BY A SOURCE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY OF A PREDETERMINED FREQUENCY, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: (A) FIRST ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS TO BE CONTROLLED; (B) RADIATION SENSITIVE MEANS CHARACTERIZED BY THE PROPERTY THAT AN ELECTRICALLY SIGNIFICANT PARAMETER THEREOF IS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION RESPONSIVE TO IMPOSITION OF RADIATION UPON SAID RADIATION SENSITIVE MEANS; (C) MEANS ELECTRICALLY COUPLING SAID RADIATION SENSITIVE MEANS WITH SAID FIRST ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS FOR CONTROL OF SAID FIRST ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS UPON ALTERATION OF SAID ELECTRICALLY SIGNIFICANT PARAMETER OF SAID RADIATION SENSITIVE MEANS; (D) RADIATION SOURCE MEANS; (E) SHIFTABLE RADIATION TRANSMITTING MEANS ARRANGED RELATIVE TO SAID RADIATION SOURCE MEANS AND SAID RADIATION SENSITIVE MEANS FOR IMPOSING RADIATION FROM SAID RADIATION SOURCE MEANS UPON SAID RADIATION SENSITIVE MEANS AND FOR VARYING THE AMOUNT OF RADIATION IMPOSED BY SAID RADIATION SOURCE MEANS UPON SAID RADIATION SENSITIVE MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SHIFTING OF SAID RADIATION TRANSMITTING MEANS; (F) A SECOND ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS ADAPTED FOR COUPLING WITH MEANS FOR ENERGIZING THE SAME, TO EXERT CONTROL OVER SAID FIRST ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS; (G) OPERATING MEANS OPERABLY COUPLED WITH SAID SHIFTABLE RADIATION TRANSMITTING MEANS FOR SHIFTING THE LATTER WHEN SAID OPERATING MEANS IS ACTUATED, SAID OPERATING MEANS INCLUDING AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT ELECTRICALLY COUPLED WITH SAID SECOND ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS FOR ACTUATION OF SAID OPERATING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE CONDITION OF ENERGIZATION OF SAID SECOND ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS; (H) AN OUTPUT CIRCUIT CONNECTED TO THE SAID SECOND ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS; AND (I) INPUT TERMINALS CONNECTED WITH THE SAID ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT OF SAID OPERATING MEANS AND ADAPTED FOR CONNECTION TO THE SOURCE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY WHOSE FREQUENCY IS TO EFFECT THE SAID SWITCHING ACTION.