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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1976
Filed:
Nov. 28, 1973
Applicant:
Inventors:
William W Stripling, Huntsville, AL (US);
Harold V White, Huntsville, AL (US);
Joe S Hunter, Huntsville, AL (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244-31 ; 73 / ;
Abstract
A radial arm tracker with a constant drive ratio for use in monitoring the osition of a guidance platform during the firing azimuth alignment phase. One end of the radial arm is mounted to the rotor of an encoder and a telescope is pivotally mounted at the free end of the radial arm through a constant ratio drive system to a stator of an encoder. The stator of the encoder is coupled to a north seeking device. The missile firing azimuth is referenced to the output of the north seeking device through the radial arm tracker.