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Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 1991

Filed:

Nov. 06, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:

Thomas W Kennedy, Montclair, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ; H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356350 ; 372 94 ; 372 97 ;
Abstract

A ring laser gyroscope, which has a triangular quartz block with a triangular quartz tube assembly forming an outer cavity for one rotating beam and an inner cavity for an oppositely rotating beam, is provided. The problem of lock-in of the beams is avoided. A pair of anodes and cathode means are provided for energizing the beams. A mirror is mounted at each corner of the block for reflecting the beams with one mirror being a partly reflective mirror for passing through portions of the inner beam and the outer beam. Outside the partly reflective mirror are mounted a first mirror for reflecting the inner beam, a second mirror for reflecting the outer beam, and a beam combiner mirror for combining the beams. A frusto-conical mirror receives the combined beams and reduces the mean diameter of the outer beam. A fringe detector receives the inner beam and outer beam on an area or point on a face of the fringe detector, which provides a gyroscope output.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Kennedy, Thomas. (1991). Ring laser gyroscope with a tube assembly (U.S. Patent No. 5022761). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5022761

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