Gyroscopes
CA 1138230 A · Owner: Smiths Industries Public Limited Company · Inventors: Beardmore, Geoffrey
Overview
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Gyroscope apparatus is known in which a rotor is supported by bearings for rotation about its axis and in which a gimbal and inertia ring are mounted by flexure pivots at one end of the rotor outside the, bearings. In the present invention the rotor is of tubular form and a gimbal ring encircles the rotor intermediate its supported ends. The gimbal ring is mounted on the rotor by a pair of flexure pivots for angular displacement about an axis at right angles to the rotor axis. An inertia ring is mounted concentrically with the gimbal ring by another pair of flexure pivots for angular displacement about an axis at right angles to the rotor axis and the axis of displacement of the gimbal …
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- Granted December 28, 1982. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 28, 1999.
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