Electronic digital compass
CA 1308551 C · Owner: Farrar, James G. · Inventors: Farrar, James G.
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An electronic digital compass utilizes an amorphous magnetostrictive wire 100 exhibiting reentrant behavior as a core. A sense winding 104 is wrapped about the core and the core is driven with a triangular wave through a drive coil 102. The earth's magnetic field biases the core 100 such that when the core 100 is driven to reentrant jumps the time duration between adjacent pulses induced into the sense winding 104 is related to the heading. A pair of such arrangements are used in physical 90 degree relationship to resolve ambiguities in heading angle. The resulting heading angle calculation is a true digital product which is independent of analog amplitude variations and requires little or …
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- Granted October 13, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 13, 2009.
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