Quotient circuit

Claim 1

AN ELECTRICAL DIVIDER CIRCUIT RESPONSIVE TO THE RATIO OF A FIRST INPUT SIGNAL TO A SECOND HIGHER INPUT SIGNAL, SAID CIRCUIT COMPRISING: A SAW-TOOTH WAVE GENERATOR FOR CYCLICALLY GENERATING A SUBSTANTIALLY LINEAR SAW-TOOTH OUTPUT WAVEFORM HAVING A LEADING SIDE OF PROGRESSIVELY INCREASING MAGNITUDE, A SQUARE WAVE GENERATOR HAVING A HIGH D.C. LEVEL OUTPUT STATE AND A LOW D.C. LEVEL OUTPUT STATE, COMPARATOR CIRCUIT MEANS HAVING A PAIR OF INPUT TERMINALS TO WHICH THE SIGNALS TO BE COMPARED ARE FED, MEANS CONNECTING THE OUTPUT OF SAID SAW-TOOTH WAVE GENERATOR CIRCUIT TO ONE OF SAID COMPARATOR INPUT TERMINALS, SWITCHING CIRCUIT MEANS HAVING AN INPUT FOR CONNECTION TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND INPUT SIGNALS, AND AN OUTPUT CONNECTED TO THE OTHER OF SAID COMPARATOR INPUT TERMINALS, SAID SWITCHING CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING MEANS FOR COUPLING THE LOWER OF SAID INPUT SIGNALS TO THE LATTER COMPARATOR INPUT TERMINAL WHEN THE SQUARE WAVE GENERATOR MEANS IS IN ITS HIGH LEVEL OUTPUT STATE AND FOR CONNECTING THE HIGHER OF SAID INPUT SIGNALS TO SAID LATTER COMPARATOR INPUT TERMINAL WHEN THE SQUARE WAVE GENERATOR IS IN ITS LOW LEVEL OUTPUT STAGE, SAID COMPARATOR CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING MEANS FOR INITIATING THE OPERATION OF THE HIGH LEVEL STATE OF SAID SQUARE WAVE GENERATOR WHEN SAID COMPARATOR CIRCUIT MEANS SENSES COMPARABLE VALUES OF SAID SAW-TOOTH WAVEFORM AND THE HIGHER OF SAID INPUT SIGNALS ARE FOR INITIATING OPERATION OF THE LOW LEVEL STATE OF SAID SQUARE WAVE GENERATOR WHEN SAID COMPARATOR CIRCUIT MEANS SENSES COMPARABLE VALUES OF SAID SAW-TOOTH WAVE AND THE LOWER INPUT SIGNALS, MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID SAW-TOOTH WAVE GENERATOR TO INITIATE A NEW SAW-TOOTH WAVE CYCLE UPON THE TERMINATION OF THE LOW LEVEL STATE OF SAID SQUARE WAVE GENERATOR, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE AVERAGE VALUE OF THE SQUARE WAVE OUTPUT OF SAID SQUARE WAVE GENERATOR.