Patents by Inventor Andrew L. Russel, Jr.

Andrew L. Russel, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4282468
    Abstract: A positioning system is provided in which command and feedback signals are processed to develop an analog error signal for application to a servo drive to position a controlled element. The command signals are in the form of pulses each of which corresponds to a certain incremental distance of movement. The feedback signals are developed from phase shifts of a low frequency resolver signal, such phase shifts being proportional to movement of the element. Such feedback signals are applied to a resolver digitizer circuit which develops a train of resolver pulses in response to the phase shift represented by each feedback signal. Each such resolver pulse corresponds to the same incremental distance of movement as a command pulse and both the resolver pulses and the command pulses are applied to a comparator and error signal circuit in which any cumulative error in either direction is stored as a digital number and is converted to an analog error signal of the proper polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Assignee: Hyper-Loop, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Barker, Andrew L. Russel, Jr., Gary Bricault, Albert L. Van Wieren