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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1998
David Goldstein, Potomac, MD (US);
Thang Dinh Nguyen, McLean, VA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A control tab on a submarine or the like is angularly displaced by a remote control actuator system featuring a pair of shape-memory cables consist of a superelastic actuating cable connected to the control tab and a force generating thermoelastic cable anchored to the submarine frame. A force transmitting lever interconnects the cables and is selectively locked by a releasable locking mechanism in a position holding the actuating cable fully stretched with the control tab displaced a maximum amount from its neutral position by the displacing force generated in the thermoelastic cable in response to heating thereof by electric current conducted therethrough.