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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1997
David Dexter Lynch, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Litton Systems, Inc., Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention is a method for applying forces to the resonator of a vibratory rotation sensor (VRS) by establishing an ac voltage between conducting regions of a surface of the resonator and one or more forcer electrodes opposing the conducting regions. The method comprises the steps of generating a first ac voltage having a first frequency and a first phase, generating a second ac voltage having a second frequency, and establishing the difference of the first and second ac voltages between conducting regions of a surface of the resonator and the one or more forcer electrodes. The first and second ac voltages are synchronized to the displacement of a point on the resonator when the resonator is vibrating. The ratio of the vibrational frequency of the VRS to either the difference or the sum of the first and second frequencies is a ratio of integers.