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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2002
David A. Osterberg, Glendale, AZ (US);
Christopher J. Heiberg, Peoria, AZ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A dynamic unbalance compensation system that compensates for dynamic unbalance of a rotating assembly on a vehicle, such as a spacecraft, to compensate for the presence of a dynamic unbalance moment. The system includes a vehicle, such as a spacecraft, a rotational assembly mounted on the vehicle and rotatable about an axis of rotation relative to the vehicle, and one or more momentum devices mounted on the rotational assembly and generating a momentum vector component perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The one or more momentum devices generate a compensation torque during spinning of the rotational assembly so as to compensate for dynamic unbalance of the rotational assembly.