Measuring and testing – Navigation – Take-off and landing monitors
Patent
1989-09-21
1991-01-15
Woodiel, Donald O.
Measuring and testing
Navigation
Take-off and landing monitors
74 57, G01C 1906
Patent
active
049844598
ABSTRACT:
Rate of turn indicator for a nautical vessel, aircraft and the like indicating the rate of turn or swing in units such as degrees per unit of time from a particular course of travel. The indicator includes a magnetic gyro wheel including a flexible hub rotating about an axis in the same plane as the course of travel and electromagnetic sensing coils receiving the deviations of strength of the electromagnetic field of the magnetic gyro wheel from an axis on turning from the course of travel. The magnetic gyro wheel includes a plurality of permanent magnets of alternating poles positioned about a circumferential axis of a circular member, and a flexible hub material affixed to the interior diameter of the circular member. The hub is affixed to an axially support shaft. The magnetic gyro wheel is in close proximity to a motor driven nonferrous metallic plate and is driven by eddy currents being induced into the non-ferrous magnetic plate, thus produced. This causes a mechanical drag between gyro and metallic drive plate, causing rotation of the gyro. There is no other mechanical connection between the two members. The rate of turn indicator includes a meter connected to the electromagnetic sensing coils through electrical circuitry and a potentiometer for zeroing the meter where the meter indicates the rate of turn.
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patent: 2815584 (1957-12-01), Watson
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patent: 4240302 (1980-12-01), Karnick
Jaeger Hugh D.
Woodiel Donald O.
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