Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5752412 | Process for scanning of gyroscopic instrument and a gyroscopic instrument using this process The invention refers to a process for scanning a gyroscopic instrument. The invention is characterised by the collection of gyroscopic data being effected by true angle scanning. In order to apply the process of the invention, a gyroscopic instrument incl... | 05/19/1998 |
| 4862049 | Constant area pulse generating network A system for generating substantially constant area pulses suitable for application to an inertial instrument torquer. The torquer current pulses are directly utilized to provide an averaging feedback loop wherein the variations in pulse width due to erro... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4771644 | Mounting flexure A flexure acts as an interface for mounting a precision sensing device to a support having a different coefficient of thermal expansion. The flexure, which has substantially the same coefficient of expansion as the device, engages the support along an ann... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4563909 | System for electronically tuning and suppressing 2N rectification torques in a dynamically tuned free rotor gyroscope A system for electronically tuning and suppressing 2N rectification torques in a dynamically tuned free rotor gyroscope with a universal hinge, or a plurality of universal hinges. The system includes means to adjust the frequency of the drive shaft of the... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4522355 | Apparatus for scanning a rotating gyroscope An apparatus comprising, inter alia, gyroscope feedback circuitry which aw scanning the rotor magnet of a gyroscope disposed in an associated guided missile system so as to increase the seeker field thereof is disclosed. A signal from the cage coil of th... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4395922 | Gimballed stabilization system with means for suppression of dither characteristics A gimballed platform stabilization system includes at least one outer member, an inner member, and an intermediate inertia bearing member. The intermediate member has limited coaxial angular freedom about an isolation axis with respect to the inner and ou... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4361054 | Hot-wire anemometer gyro pickoff An arrangement of hot-wire anemometers is set partially into the rotor boary layer so that they form two resistors of a wheatstone bridge circuit for each axis. The hot wire resistors change in resistance according to the angular offset from null of the ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4258577 | Gyroscopic apparatus A gyroscope in which sprung elements are supported in cantilever fashion from a rotor and extend in a generally inward direction towards the rotor axis. The centers of mass of the elements are out of alignment with the rotor axis and the elements are free... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4189946 | Three axis gyro In a gyroscope including a rotor spinning about a spin axis, the rotor gimballed about two mutually perpendicular axes and including cross coupled closed loops operative on the two mutually perpendicular axes so as to be able to detect rates about said tw... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4111562 | Hydraulic gimbal system for beam projection lamps A gimbal system is disclosed in which low static friction hydraulic motors drive two concentric movable rings in orthogonal planes. For each ring, the drive shaft of the motor is part of one supporting axle. The other supporting axle is coupled to a shaft... | 09/05/1978 |
| 3968352 | Torque control system for reaction wheel assemblies and the like An improvement in torque control systems for reaction wheel assemblies and the like used primarily for stabilizing space vehicles such as satellites including means for integrating the torque command signal and combining the integrated torque command sign... | 07/06/1976 |
