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US 4,020,700 AGranted
Unitary fluidic angular rate sensor
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsMario T. Lopiccolo, Max A. Schaffer, George A. Jachyra
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AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsMario T. Lopiccolo, Max A. Schaffer, George A. Jachyra
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The nozzle of an angular rate sensor which directs a stream of fluid toward a pair of temperature-dependent sensing resistor elements is formed in a major block which defines the chamber within which the sensing elements are also mounted, thereby to mitigate problems of aligning the jet with respect to the chamber and of aligning the sensing elements with respect to the nozzle. Within the casing, only the nozzle block, a diaphragm pump assembly, and an anvil need be mounted; these are secured by a lock nut, the pressure thereof being applied through a conical Belleville spring. A fine weld is used to hermetically seal the element, but the weld can be cut off without damage to the unit; so that by loosening the lock nut, the entire apparatus can be disassembled without destruction. Reference resistors, for a bridge to measure changes in the sensing elements, are mounted directly within the unit, to avoid bridge misbalances due to external connections.
In a fluidic angular rate sensor having a sealed casing filled with a gas, and internal components including a nozzle, pumping means for providing said gas under pressure to said nozzle to produce a stream of gas along an axis within a chamber, temperature sensitive resistive elements disposed in said chamber in the path of said stream for differential cooling by said stream as a function of said sensor experiencing an angular rotation in a plane of sensitivity, the improvement comprising:
In a fluidic angular rate sensor having a sealed casing filled with a gas, and internal components including a nozzle, pumping means for providing said gas under pressure to said nozzle to produce a stream of gas along an axis within a chamber, temperature sensitive resistive elements connected in a sensing bridge configuration and disposed in said chamber in the path of said stream for differential cooling by said stream as a function of said sensor experiencing an angular rotation in a plane of sensitivity, the improvement comprising:
In the method of fabricating and then disassembling a fluidic angular rate sensor having a sealed casing filled with a gas, and internal components including a nozzle, pumping means for providing said gas under pressure to said nozzle to produce a stream of gas along an axis within a chamber, temperature sensitive resistive elements connected in a sensing bridge configuration and disposed in said chamber in the path of said stream for differential cooling by said stream as a function of said sensor experiencing an angular rotation in a plane of sensitivity, the steps of:
In a fluidic angular rate sensor having a sealed casing filled with a gas, and internal components including a nozzle, pumping means for providing said gas under pressure to said nozzle to produce a stream of gas along an axis within a chamber, temperature sensitive resistive elements disposed in said chamber in the path of said stream for differential cooling by said stream as a function of said sensor experiencing an angular rotation in a plane of sensitivity, the improvement comprising:
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