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7194816 Mobile terminal apparatus  
A mobile terminal apparatus 1 uses an acceleration sensor as a tilt angle sensor 24, and realizes various applications based on this detection result. A processing unit 10 counts the number of...
6826843 Electronic compass apparatus and method  
An apparatus and method for determining the orientation of Earth's magnetic poles. A magnet is pivotally coupled to a support and is free to orient itself with Earth's magnetic pole. A detector is...
6742270 Luminescent indication compass  
A luminescent indication compass includes an electric power supply, a luminescent driver, a luminescent panel, a control panel, a voltage dropping circuit, and an electronic compass module. The...
6070333 Electronic compass  
An electronic compass has a compass housing. An electronic magnetic field sensor is disposed in a fixed position relative to the compass housing. A magnet is rotatably mounted relative to the...
6018302 Mechanical pointer drive for avionics display  
An avionics display (10) for use in an aircraft navigation system including a navigation receiver. The avionics display (10) includes a needle (12) for indicating the position, heading, glide slope...
5560115 Gimbaled magnetometer with inductive coupling  
An apparatus for mounting a magnetometer including a frame and a platform mounted for rotation within the frame. The magnetometer and one or more counterweights are mounted within the platform such...
5282318 Position sensor  
A position sensor has a ring of a material of high permeability that is floated on a liquid within a hermetically sealed toroid, so as to hold the ring in a horizontal position. Exciting coils are...
4750349 Microcomputer controlled quick ranging technique and digital filter  
A quick ranging technique controlled by a microcomputer, makes predetermined stepped adjustments to the charge times in a ranging circuit to bring the charge time into a required range, thusly...
4546550 Compass  
An electronic compass for vehicles comprising at least two magnetic sensors arranged in use to be respectively responsive to orthogonal horizontal components of a magnetic field which includes the...
4531298 Apparatus and method for controlling northerly turning error in direction indicating navigational instruments  
A system to control the effect of northerly turning error which may occur in any direction indicating navigation instrument which includes a component responsive to the earth's magnetic field. In...
4428053 Adaptive compass and north stabilization drive system  
This system accepts compass outputs from a wide variety of compass output devices such as stepper and synchro devices having different coupling ratios, supply voltages and carrier frequencies. The...
4412387 Digital compass having a ratiometric bearing processor  
A digital compass including a two-axis earth's magnetic field sensor and a earing processor computes the bearing for local display or transmission from a remote site to a local site for display...
4402142 Electronic compass for automotive vehicles  
An electronic compass for vehicles such as automobiles comprising a float mechanism including a permanent magnet for following the earth's magnetic field and four Hall effect sensors for detecting...
4398353 Compass data converter  
The peaks of synchro or step data representative of compass heading are detected and the resulting logic levels are latched into a register by an enable pulse generated in response to the data...
4379366 Direction finding system  
A direction finding system of the type finding a present direction on 4N direction divisions defined by 2N boundary levels for automotive vehicles, said system comprising a magnetic sensor circuit...
4327363 System for transmitting heading information from a compass to several followers  
A synchro transmitter having a rotor driven by a compass communicates the heading information from that compass to a plurality of loads via respective synchro receivers whose rotors are energized...
4255866 Nonmagnetic compass  
A compass device for underwater use and having substantially no magnetic nature or influence utilizes three Hall effect generators in an array wherein two of the generators have their principal...
4250626 Electronic compass  
Set out herein is an electronic compass suitable for public use having a conventional pin supported magnetic needle which is placed over a set of magneto diodes or Hall devices arranged in...
4232451 Detector for sensing the angular position of a rotatable magnet  
A detector to detect angular positions of a rotatable magnet, i.e., a magnetic compass, having one or more flux-sensitive components, namely Hall-elements. The detector includes a substantially...
4075619 Remote reading compass display  
A digital compass display readily movable to different intended mounting positions and including a multidigit numerical indicator mechanically and electrically connected to an end of an electrical...
4067007 Adaptive compass drive system  
A radar system having an adaptive compass drive capable of operation over a wide variety of compass outputs and supply voltages and frequencies. For compass outputs in the form of multi-phased...
4059064 Marine auto pilot  
A marine auto pilot employing a compass with a Hall-effect sensing element in conjunction with a magnetic circuit designed to provide a high intensity magnetic field; electrical circuitry designed...
4053829 Apparatus for detecting the direction of a magnetic field to sense the position of, for example, a rotary element or the like  
Apparatus for detecting the direction of a magnetic field includes a magnetoresistive device comprising an insulating substrate, first and second ferromagnetic metal film strips on the substrate...
4047168 Digital compass and gimbal assembly for two conductor connection  
A remote reading magnetic compass operative with only two electrical connections for both power and data purposes. The compass includes a disc which is photoelectrically sensed to provide output...
3959889 Method and apparatus for determining a measured direction relative to an external magnetic direction  
An apparatus is disclosed for determining a measured direction such as the direction of a ship or airplane relative to an external magnetic field such as the magnetic field of the earth. This...
3935645 Apparatus for indicating relative azimuth  
An arrangement for indicating a relative azimuth between two objects remote from each other, such as a control station and a mobile unit remotely controlled by the station, on which are...
3921305 Method and apparatus for digitally operating a compass card in a navigation system  
A pictorial navigation system includes a stepper motor driven compass card. Digital information is picked off of a gyro, decoded to determine direction and processed through a motor sequencer to...
3906641 Autopilot employing improved hall-effect direction sensor  
An improved marine compass employs a Hall-effect device which provides an output signal related to the relative rotation of the compass card therein. When the Hall-effect device is mounted on a...
3906483 Compass display circuit  
For use with a digital magnetic compass providing a serial pulse train representative of compass heading, a display circuit for converting received pulse trains into parallel codes for driving a...
3825823 APPARATUS FOR DETECTING THE DIRECTION OF A MAGNETIC FIELD RELATIVE TO A MARKER DIRECTION BY SEQUENTIALLY SCANNING PLURAL STATIONARY SENSORS  
An apparatus to detect the direction of an external magnetic field is disclosed incorporating a flux gate magnetometer having a plurality of sensing coil arrays. A scanner sequentially connects...
D235854 Title is not available  
3253341 Apparatus for determining the orientation of borehole instruments  
3193944 Magnetic compass for aircraft  
3146530 Pendulous north seeking gyroscopic assembly  
3119189 Heading system  
2995827 Automatic steering apparatus for vessels, vehicles and other guided bodies  
2924886 Transmitting magnetic compass systems  
2886898 Compass system  
2806295 Electrical borehole surveying device  
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