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US 4405985

GUIDANCE COMPUTER

Assignee

Filed

Oct 22, 1965

Granted

Sep 20, 1983

Location

WOLLASTON MA US

Abstract

A digital computer for guiding the flight of a ballistic missile through the instrumentation of a Q Matrix. The computer may be described as being the digital counterpart of a mechanical differential analyzer in that it is made up of a number of appropriately interconnected integrators which generate the solution of the particular equation or set of equations being solved. An initial value of velocity-to-be-gained is inserted into the computer and then by means of accelerometer outputs, multipliers, adders and integrators, samples of the missile's velocity are compared with the velocity-to-be-gained to generate output signals to control or guide the trajectory of the missile during its powered flight.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Mar 3, 1982

Rescinded

Mar 2, 1983

Duration

12 months

Inventor

  • 1ELDON C. HALL

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