Patents by Inventor Jerold P. Gilmore

Jerold P. Gilmore 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).

  • Miniature attitude sensing suite
    Patent number: 6577929
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of and apparatus for determining the inertial attitude of an aerospace vehicle. In one embodiment, the invention provides a rotational astronomical object-sighting concept to determine the inertial attitude of an axis of the aerospace vehicle without the star identification or dragback. In another embodiment, the invention provides an attitude measurement apparatus comprising a high sensitivity optical sensor and a low power inertial sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Johnson, Howard Musoff, Darryl G. Sargent, Jerold P. Gilmore, Cornelius J. Dennehy
  • Miniature attitude sensing suite
    Publication number: 20030023355
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of and apparatus for determining the inertial attitude of an aerospace vehicle. In one embodiment, the invention provides a rotational astronomical object-sighting concept to determine the inertial attitude of an axis of the aerospace vehicle without the star identification or dragback. In another embodiment, the invention provides an attitude measurement apparatus comprising a high sensitivity optical sensor and a low power inertial sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: William M. Johnson, Howard Musoff, Darryl G. Sargent, Jerold P. Gilmore, Cornelius J. Dennehy
  • Inertial navigation system with automatic redundancy and dynamic compensation of gyroscope drift error
    Patent number: 5194872
    Abstract: An inertial navigation system with automatic redundancy and dynamically calculated gyroscopic drift compensation utilizes three, two-degree of freedom gyroscopes arranged whereby any two of the gyroscopes form an orthogonal triad of measurement sensitive axes. The input axes of the three gyroscopes form three pairs of parallel input axes, each pair of parallel input axes corresponding to one axis of the orthogonal triad of axes. The three gyroscopes are operated in a plurality of preselected combinations of both clockwise and counter clockwise directions, thus changing the direction of the angular momentum vector by 180.degree.. Parity equations are formed from each pair of gyroscope outputs whose measurement sensitive axes are parallel. The parity equations include combinations of gyroscope pairs that have been operated in both the clockwise and counterclockwise directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Musoff, Jerold P. Gilmore