With Pick Off Patents (Class 74/5.6R)
  • Publication number: 20110126647
    Abstract: Apparatus for generating a rate of turn signal includes a gyroscopic device arranged to generate the output indicative of the rate of turn in a desire plane relative to a nominal predetermined direction. The rate of turn signal includes a drift error generated by a drift of the actual predetermined direction and the error is corrected by generating a first signal with the gyroscopic device in a first orientation and a second signal with the gyroscopic device in a second orientation inverted relative to the first orientation so that the readings will now be in the opposite direction, comparing the two signals to determine the drift error and using the drift error to correct the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventor: Dave Newland