Pneumatic stepping actuator positioner
CA 1285835 C · Owner: Flohr, Mark Christian · Inventors: Flohr, Mark Christian
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Abstract, A pneumatic control system for a reversible stepping actuator has an analog pneumatic control signal and an analog signal indicative of actual position of the actuator. Imbalance in these signals opens one or the other of a pair of comparator valves having inlets connected to a source of pneumatic pressure. Opening of either of the comparator valves enables a pulse timer which converts the pneumatic pressure from either of the comparator valves to pulses of pneumatic pressure applied to one or the other of the operators of the reversible stepping actuator. An oscillating pneumatic timer may be used to produce the pressure pulses, or an electric timer can be used to "chop" one of …
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- Granted July 9, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 9, 2008.
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