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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:
Jul. 20, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Raymond Carroll, Andover, MA (US);
Bruce Porter, Sudbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356350 ; 385 14 ;
Abstract
An axial gyroscopic pointing reference for mounting on optics within an internally cooled telescope a resonant fiber optic gyroscope, in which the elements of the fiber optic gyroscope are cryogenically cooled with the same system that cryogenically cools the telescope optical elements. In one specific configuration the pointing reference includes three orthogonally positioned resonant fiber optic gyroscopes supported in a tetrahedron configuration and cryogenically cooled by the telescope cooling system.