The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1987
Kabushikikaisha Tokyo Keiki, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a gyro apparatus comprising a binnacle, a gyro the spin axis of which is made substantially horizontal, a supporting apparatus for supporting the gyro from the binnacle with a freedom of three axes, a north-seeking apparatus for giving a north-seeking action to the gyro, a follow-up ring following up the gyro around its vertical axis, a servo motor for rotating the follow-up ring by a deviation singal around the vertical axis of teh gyro relative to the follow-up ring and a transmiting apparatus for transmitting an azimuth angle of the spin axis relative to the binnacle to the outside, the gyro apparatus is characterized in that the transmitting apparatus is formed of a digital encoder having a reference angular position transmitting device and a first counter apparatus being made operable by an output signal of the encoder.