Acceleration measuring apparatus

• US 3,094,877 A
• Filed: 04/27/1961
• Issued: 06/25/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Theodore Gold
• Original Assignee: Theodore Gold
• Inventors: Gold, Theodore
• Application Number:
  US04/106,072
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• US Class Current: 73/178.00T
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/121 by potentiometers

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A MEASURE OF THE ACCELERATION OF A CRAFT IN A REFERENCE DIRECTION IRRESPECTIVE OF CHANGES IN THE ATTITUDE OF SAID CRAFT WITHIN A PREDETERMINED RANGE OF ATTITUDE CHANGE WHERE THE CRAFT IS CONSTRAINED TO MOVE ALONG A LINEAL PATH IN SPACE COMPRISING FIRST ACCELEROMETER MEANS RESPONSIVE TO ACCELERATIONS PARALLEL TO AN AXIS OF SAID CRAFT LYING IN THE PLANE DEFINED BY SAID AXIS AND SAID REFERENCE DIRECTION FOR PROVIDING A FIRST SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE THEREOF, SAID CRAFT AXIS AND SAID REFERENCE DIRECTION BEING DISPLACED WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER BY A SMALL ANGLE, SECOND ACCELEROMETER MEANS RESPONSIVE TO ACCELERATIONS PERPENDICULAR TO SAID AXIS AND LYING IN SAID PLANE FOR PROVIDING A SECOND SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE THEREOF, AND COMPUTING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND SIGNALS FOR PROVIDING A MEASURE PROPORTIONAL TO