GYRO STABILIZED OPTICS WITH FIXED DETECTOR
Assignee
Raytheon
Filed as: RAYTHEON COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE
Filed
May 8, 1975
Granted
Feb 19, 1985
Location
TX US
Abstract
A cannon launched guided projectile having a gyro based electro-optical target finding and guidance system which includes an optical system carried by a gyro to provide target location information for an electronic system to produce gyro rotor torquing signals and for producing projectile guidance signals from gyro pickoff outputs is disclosed. The electronics system includes two difference channels for processing pitch and yaw signals responsive to the electrical output of a light detector and a sum channel for controlling the two difference channels responsive to target acquisition and master trigger signals.
Source: Google Patents
35 USC §181 Secrecy Order
Imposed
Aug 25, 1982
Rescinded
Aug 15, 1984
Duration
1 year, 11 months
Inventor
- 1WILBUR W. COTTLE
Record Details
- Patent number
- US 4500051
- Application
- 05575684
- Aerospace match
- Yes
- Dataset source
- 35 USC §181 SO records
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