Machine element or mechanism – Gyroscopes – Gyroscope control
Patent
1999-11-04
2000-11-14
Herrmann, Allan D.
Machine element or mechanism
Gyroscopes
Gyroscope control
74 546, 248550, 248660, 396419, G01C 1952, G03B 1700, F16M 1300
Patent
active
061453935
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a floated gimbal instrument platform that provides a stable optical path for optical instruments. The instrument platform has an outer vessel with a transparent viewing port, an inner vessel also with a transparent viewing port, a transparent suspending fluid filling the outer vessel and in which the inner vessel floats in neutral buoyancy, an optical instrument secured inside the inner vessel, spacing studs which centrally position the inner vessel within the outer vessel, and jets which align the second viewing port with the first viewing port, the jets being used to rotate the inner vessel in the suspending fluid. Any misalignment between the viewing ports can be compensated by rotating the inner vessel and any translational forces applied to the platform is dampened by the fluid, thereby eliminating jitter.
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