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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. 13, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Malcolm P Varnham, Plymouth, GB;
James McInnes, Plymouth, GB;
Assignee:
British Aerospace Public Limited Company, Hampshire, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73-137 ; 7351429 ; 73-184 ; 310312 ; 310321 ;
Abstract
A vibrating cylindrical rate sensor (10) is mechanically balanced and mode aligned with respect to the vibrating portion of the sensor (10) by removing material from a vibrating portion of the vibrating cylinder (34) after the drive and pick-off transducers (30, 32, 30a, 18, 20) are fixed to the vibrating portion of the vibrating cylinder (34) of the cylindrical rate sensor (10).