Radial arm guidance platform tracker
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsWilliam W. Stripling, Harold V. White, Joe S. Hunter
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Abstract
A radial arm tracker with a constant drive ratio for use in monitoring the osition of a guidance platform during the firing azimuth alignment phase. One end of the radial arm is mounted to the rotor of an encoder and a telescope is pivotally mounted at the free end of the radial arm through a constant ratio drive system to a stator of an encoder. The stator of the encoder is coupled to a north seeking device. The missile firing azimuth is referenced to the output of the north seeking device through the radial arm tracker.
Claims2
A radial arm tracker for aligning a platform of a missile;
- said radial arm tracker comprising an encoder that has a rotor and a stator, a radial arm having one end connected to said rotor and an opposite end with a telescope pivotally mounted thereon, and a constant ratio drive system interconnecting said telescope and said stator of said encoder for pivoting said telescope relative to said encoder stator as said arm is rotated relative to said stator.
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