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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:
May. 01, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stanley A Griffin, La Jolla, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Dynamics Corporation, Convair Division, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73147 ;
Abstract
The invention is directed to a model support system for wind tunnel testing. The two embodiments of the model support use a conventual 2-shell strain gauge balance in conjunction with aerodynamically shaped support vanes with one attached to each end of the inner rod (non-metric) of balance with one half below and the other half above the balance.