Patents by Inventor Joseph P. Hu

Joseph P. Hu 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: 4026159
    Abstract: In a fluidic angular rate sensor in which a pair of temperature sensitive resistive elements are differentially cooled by a jet of fluid, the direction of which lags the position of the resistive elements when the rate sensor is rotated in the plane of sensitivity, undesired, long term errors that result in the lack of a zero null (when the unit is not undergoing any angular rate) are compensated for by introducing a voltage equal to the zero-rate null offset, determined with the velocity of the fluid jet reduced to a point below which it has any appreciable effect on the sensing bridge (simulating static conditions), together with an input to the bridge to offset its output so that the static null offset to be usable to compensate the dynamic null offset (that is, the offset in the null determined with the fluid jet in full operation).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Donald H. Isakson, Joseph P. Hu, Max A. Schaffer