Wind tunnel balance calibrator
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAtsushi Murashige, Yoshihiro Hamada, Takeo Kawamura, Toshiyuki Kimura
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Abstract
Provided are a wind tunnel balance calibrator capable of improving accuracy of attitude control of a wind tunnel balance, and a wind tunnel balance calibrator which can ensure a wide work space around the wind tunnel balance. A wind tunnel balance calibrator includes a load application mechanism for applying a load to a wind tunnel balance and an attitude restoration mechanism for restoring an attitude of the wind tunnel balance. The attitude restoration mechanism is constituted by a parallel-link mechanism including a support plate for supporting the wind tunnel balance, and actuators capable of displacing the attitude of the support plate with six degrees of freedom.
Claims10
A wind tunnel balance calibrator for measuring a strain of a wind tunnel balance which is generated by a load applied to the wind tunnel balance, said wind tunnel balance calibrator comprising:
- a load application mechanism for applying the load to the wind tunnel balance;
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- an attitude restoration mechanism for restoring an attitude of the wind tunnel balance which is displaced by the load applied to the wind tunnel balance;
- wherein the attitude restoration mechanism is a parallel-link mechanism including:
- a support unit for supporting the wind tunnel balance;
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- a driving unit which is configured to displace the attitude of the support unit with six degrees of freedom in directions of three orthogonal axes and around the three orthogonal axes, the driving unit including a plurality of linear actuators.
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