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US 12,535,121 B2Granted
Apparatus for stabilization of an instrumentation platform
AssigneeVale S.A.
InventorsBenjamin David Polzer, Richard Curtis Bailey
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Abstract
An apparatus for rotation rate damping of a suspended platform, the apparatus including a plurality of vertically-extended partially-filled fluid reservoirs, each of the reservoirs being open at a top and offset from a center of gravity of the suspended platform, the reservoirs being connected by tubing permitting fluid to flow between reservoirs in response to gravitational accelerations; wherein motion of the fluid in the tubing creates damping of the rotational motion of the platform.
Claims18
An apparatus for rotation rate damping of a suspended platform, the apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of vertically-extended partially-filled fluid reservoirs, each of the reservoirs being open at a top and offset from a center of gravity of the suspended platform, the reservoirs being connected by tubing permitting fluid to flow between reservoirs in response to gravitational accelerations;
- wherein motion of the fluid in the tubing creates damping of the rotational motion of the platform;
- wherein the plurality of reservoirs consists of pairs of reservoirs, each diametrically offset horizontally from the center of gravity at a position diametrically opposed to an other reservoir in the pair;
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- where the reservoirs in a pair are connected to each other by tubing, but not to reservoirs of any other pair.
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