Two axis accelerometer

Details Two axis accelerometer Two axis accelerometer

1990-07-16

1992-08-25

Lall, Parshotam S.

Boots, shoes, and leggings

73488, 73495, 73510, 74 5F, 364550, G01C 1902, G01P 1502

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051424851

ABSTRACT:
A new two-axis accelerometer comprising a rotating body linked to the motor rotor via a flexure zone. In a first type the rotating mass is concentrated and the flexure zone permits the rotating mass to perform a transversal parallel shift. In a second type the rotating body is an inertia rotor and the flexure zone is an extension of the rotor shaft that embodies a flexible portion. In either type the rotating body/flexure zone combination has two degrees of flexing freedom with two different flexure coefficients in two mutually perpendicular directions both normal to the electric motor shaft. The accelerometer further comprises a deflector shaft coaxial with the rotor shaft and extending beyond the rotating body and associated with electro-optical measuring means and processor means for measuring linear acceleration components in said two mutually perpendicular directions. In one of its aspects the two axis accelerometer in accordance with the invention measures only two perpendicular components of the acceleration of a body to which it is attached. By another aspect the two axis accelerometer according to the invention is a multisensor being at one and the same time a two-axis angular rate gyroscope and a two axis accelerometer. By yet another aspect of the invention there is provided a multisensor inertial measurement unit (MIMU) serving for the simultaneous measurement of three angular velocity and three linear acceleration components.

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