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Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 16, 2022
Applicant:

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Paul A. Ward, Dedham, MA (US);

Richard D. Elliott, III, North Reading, MA (US);

Daniel Joseph Guyon, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 19/5607 (2012.01); H03F 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 19/5607 (2013.01); H03F 1/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A tuning fork sensor system places a controlled bias on the proof-mass drive-axis electrodes to cancel the quadrature charge. Also, its charge amplifiers employ a field-effect transistor biased slightly into the triode region so that it behaves as a very large value resistor. In addition, it uses a phase-locked loop having a special loop filter in order to optimize performance by rejecting off-frequency drive feedthrough to the motor pick-off while resulting in very low phase wander for the demodulation references.


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