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7561947 |
Dynamic CMG array and method
Methods and apparatus are provided for reorienting control moment gyros (CMGs) to compensate for CMG failure or change in spacecraft (S/C) mass properties or mission. An improved CMG comprises a...
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7197958 |
Energy storage flywheel retention system and method
An energy storage flywheel system includes a flywheel assembly that is rotationally mounted in a housing assembly, and one or more actuator assemblies. The actuator assemblies are configured to...
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7124656 |
Gimbal mechanism
Provided is a gimbal mechanism comprising a support stand, an outer frame and an inner frame. The support stand includes a spaced pair of L-shaped legs comprising a first member having at least one...
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6598492 |
Pneumatic caging system for gyro-stabilized sensor platforms
A passive caging system for use in gyro-stabilized sensor platforms and the like, employing a pneumatic dashpot in place of automatic caging gyro brakes, pin-locking devices, springs, fluid damped...
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6006871 |
Pneumatic device for locking/unlocking a rotor to a stator
A device for locking and unlocking a rotor to a stator, at least parallel to the rotation axis of the rotor, includes an annular rotor flange transverse to the axis, an annular stator bearing...
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5456276 |
Contact lens cleaning apparatus
A contact lens cleaning apparatus having a clockwork controlled by a rotary knob to turn a ratchet wheel against a pawl, causing the lens cage to oscillate in the cleaning solution in the...
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5419212 |
Touchdown and launch-lock apparatus for magnetically suspended control moment gyroscope
A control moment gyroscope including a rotor extending along a rotor axis. The rotor includes a first and second rotor end. A gimbal housing includes a magnetic suspension system for magnetically...
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5184521 |
Gyroscopically stabilized apparatus
A gyroscopically stabilized apparatus for aiming an instrument at a target object. An external yoke is attached to the ends of a hub assembly which supports the gyro and camera platforms for...
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4872357 |
Device for temporarily locking a rotor onto a stator
A device for temporarily locking onto a stator a rotor that normally rotates on the stator on magnetic bearings (such as an inertia wheel in a space satellite) includes a frustoconical bearing...
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4833932 |
Stabilised mount
A stabilised mount (e.g. for an antenna) has two gyroscopic rotors mounted in such a way that they can pivot about orthogonal axes. Rewinding of the antenna (to avoid undue twisting of the...
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4807485 |
Motor driven caging system for free gyros
A motor driven caging system for free gyros which cages both the inner and outer gimbals thereof and locks in both the caging and uncaging positions by an over center mechanism is disclosed. The...
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4606239 |
Locking and unlocking device for a gyroscopic rotor
The invention relates to a locking and unlocking device for a gyroscopic rotor which is mounted through the intermediary of an internal cardan (5) placed at the end of a shaft (4) which receives a...
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4570507 |
Magnetic fluid gyro bearing and caging mechanism
A gyro bearing and caging mechanism in which a spherical gyro rotor is driven by an induction motor with bearing surfaces between the rotor and stator having a magnetic fluid that is held in place...
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4491029 |
Position gyroscope
The present positional gyroscope is used for stabilizing and steering a fng body, especially a secondary flying body ejected from a primary or carrier flying body which is rotating or rolling about...
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4483207 |
Caging mechanism for gyroscopes
A caging mechanism for caging the inner gimbal of a directional gyroscope to a horizontal position. Depression of an actuator rod turns a caging disc which is simultaneously moved linearly toward...
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4399714 |
Method and apparatus for overcoming certain destabilizing torques on gyro-stabilized platforms
Destabilization of a gyro-stabilized platform (such as employed for mounting an antenna on-board a ship) resulting from uncompensated yaw or rotation of the platform in azimuth from a fixed...
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4355540 |
Centrifugal brake for a gyroscope with Cardan suspension
A centrifugal brake for a gyroscope with Cardan suspension in a fixed housing on a mobile support includes two weights, identical, of C shape, mounted in opposition on two, diametrically opposed...
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4345485 |
Temporary locking device for inertia wheel
A temporary locking device for a rotor of an inertia wheel, sustained, with respect to a stator, by magnetic means and associated with two emergency bearings having a conical bearing surface for...
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4322984 |
Gyroscope cage system for high g environments
A gyroscope caging system includes a clamping ring encircling a portion of the rotor of the gyro and adapted to engage an annular groove in the rotor simultaneously with engagement of a groove in a...
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4266431 |
Gyroscopic apparatus
Gyroscopic apparatus comprises a gyroscopic device having two mutually perpendicular sensitive axes. The device is suspended in a two-axis gimbal system by means of cross-spring pivots of zero...
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4236414 |
High-g gimbal platform
A platform carried by a rocket projectile for supporting an antenna or ot type of terminal homing sensors which are required to survive a high-g launch phase. The platform uses compliant suspension...
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4155521 |
Cannon launched platform
A gyro seeker which is capable of use in a cannon launched missile. The gyro seeker is enclosed in a housing mounted in the nose section of the missile. The platform of the gyro seeker supports an...
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4149418 |
Turn rate indicator of aircraft with improved zero seeking characteristics
A turn rate indicator for an aircraft includes magnetic substance pieces facing each other, one being rotatable integrally with a gimbal and the other being fixed to a body. Because of the...
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4147066 |
Means and method for uncaging a gyroscope rotor
A gyroscope rotor uncaging apparatus is disclosed having a housing, a bearing structure supporting the rotor and permitting rotation of the rotor about its spin axis and about at least one other...
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4069990 |
Ring-wing canard spin-up control mechanism
Apparatus of the present invention requires a very short spin-up wheel mot arm compared to a large wheel diameter. Such a requirement demands good wheel control during low rpm and excellent...
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4036453 |
Wide angle torquing scheme
A torquer system for a gyro device that has a spherically shaped rotor divided into upper and lower hemispheres. The rotor of the gyro is mounted on a gas bearing over a spherically shaped stator...
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4027540 |
Inertial optical stabilizer
Gyroscope instrumentation for providing stabilization of the direction of a ine-of-sight of more than 45° about one or more axes is described utilizing a two axes optical system. An inner gimbal...
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4020701 |
Gyroscopic apparatus
A floated gyroscope having a float pivoted within a housing for limited rotational movement is provided with a rotational limit control for limiting rotation when the gyroscope is not in use. The...
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4009848 |
Gyro seeker
A gyro seeker which may be employed and housed in the nose section of a cannon launched missile. The gyro seeker functions in a dual mode in that it detects either laser designated targets or...
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3992955 |
Two axis caging system
A caging mechanism for a gyro in which a flat split ring lying in a plane perpendicular to the gyro rotor spin axis is deformable so that its inside diameter is enabled to capture the gyro rotor. A...
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3926060 |
Gyroscopic apparatus
A gyroscopic apparatus including at least one two-degree-of-freedom gyroscope having a sensitive element mounted in an inner gimbal rotatable about an axis, an outer gimbal rotatable about an axis...
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3839916 |
ATTITUDE BAR POSITIONING AND INSTRUMENT CAGING MECHANISM
A rotatably and linearly actuated mechanism for use with a gyroscopic aircraft attitude indicating instrument is operable for positioning an attitude bar and for caging the instrument and locking...
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3596523 |
FULL-FREEDOM GIMBALLESS GYROSCOPE SYSTEM
A gyroscope system having a gyro rotor completely enclosed within a spherical float that is supported within a hollow spherical cavity by a flotation fluid and a spherical arrangement of...
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3534617 |
GYROSCOPE ARRANGEMENT
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3528300 |
ATTITUDE GYROSCOPE
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3526143 |
CONTROL APPARATUS
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3522736 |
GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT
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3522993 |
STABILIZING DEVICE FOR LIGHT BEAM IN OPTICAL SIMULATORS
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3508447 |
GYROSCOPE APPARATUS
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3477297 |
CAGING APPARATUS AND SENSOR STABILIZATION SYSTEM EMPLOYING SAME
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3474688 |
CAGING MECHANISM
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3473391 |
CAGING DEVICE FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY LOCKING TWO GIMBALS
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3457793 |
PNEUMATIC CAGING
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3430499 |
FREE ROTATING GYRO ALIGNMENT APPARATUS
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3322338 |
Centrifuge stabilizing assembly with heat probe
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3311326 |
Force direction indicator and apparatus and method employing same
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3292269 |
Gyroscopic compasses
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3283592 |
Gyroscopic caging apparatus
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3272019 |
Gyro-vertical apparatus
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3232121 |
Gyroscope
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