Pendulum-type accelerometer

Details Pendulum-type accelerometer Pendulum-type accelerometer

1990-09-27

1992-08-04

Williams, Hezron E.

Measuring and testing

Speed, velocity, or acceleration

Acceleration determination utilizing inertial element

73170A, 73178R, 33366, 33396, G01P 1508

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051348837

ABSTRACT:
A pendulum-type accelerometer for use on trucks, cranes, airplanes, and boats as a multipurpose sensor. A cylinder with a damping fluid includes four equally spaced coils in a base of the cylinder and a pendulum suspended from a top of the cylinder which swings over the coils. Coils connected to a signal processing system which provides an angular momentum and banking signal and an acceleration and deacceleration or grade indicator signal.

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