Abstract: A triaxial gyroscopic stabilizer for a movie or television camera has a camera in a cardan suspension unit, two three-stage gyroscopes, controlled linkages for adjusting course, banking and pitch, booster-converters, a set of accelerometers, a pitch angle sensor, an integrator, a system shut-off unit, a memory unit, low frequency filters, two computing units, a summator and course and pitch control levers. The cardan suspension unit has an external frame, a middle frame and a platform; the outer frame has the form of a half-fork bracket with an axis of rotation aligned along the course axis; the middle frame has the form of a fork bracket with an axis of rotation aligned along the course axis; the middle frame has the form of a fork bracket with an axis of rotation aligned along the axis of pitch. The first of the two three-stage gyroscopes is mounted on the platform, while the second is mounted on the middle frame.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 6, 1997
Date of Patent:
February 9, 1999
Assignee:
Anatoliy Kokush
Inventors:
Anatoly Akimovich Kokush, Vladimir Vasilievich Fateev, Lev Nikolaevich Evstratov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Kozlov