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Vehicle attitude adjustment assembly

DC CAFC
  • US 6,885,924 B2
  • Filed: 12/13/2002
  • Issued: 04/26/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An assembly for adjusting the attitude of any selected portion of a structure, the assembly comprising:

  • a controller configured to connect to and control one or more jacks operable to change the attitude of a structure; and

    a proportional tilt sensor connected to the controller and configured to be supported on the structure, the tilt sensor being configured to provide signals to the controller that represent the degree of longitudinal pitch and lateral roll of a portion of the structure the sensor is connected to, the controller being additionally configured to move any selected portion of the structure into a desired attitude by commanding movement of the entire structure into an attitude where the tilt sensor signals match any one of a number of different pre-set reference values corresponding to different desired attitudes of the selected portion of the structure.

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