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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joe S Hunter, Huntsville, AL (US);
Lawrence J Little, 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 / ; G01C / ; G01C / ; G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
74-512 ; 74-51 ; 74-57 ;
Abstract
A gyro bearing and caging mechanism in which a spherical gyro rotor is driven by an induction motor with bearing surfaces between the rotor and stator having a magnetic fluid that is held in place at discrete positions around the circumference of the rotor by permanent magnets imbedded in the spherical rotor and a movable caging plate with magnets in a surface thereof and magnetic fluid between surfaces of the caging plate and a top surface of the rotor for caging the rotor.