Patents by Inventor Reinhard H. F. Probst

Reinhard H. F. Probst 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: 5408751
    Abstract: The system includes for planar angular measurements a gyro--preferably a laser gyro--and an angle encoder mounted with their sensitive axes coaxially on a turntable shaft, which is rotatably mounted in a case and driven at constant speed with respect to said case. The angular rate should be high enough to operate the laser gyro above the lock-in rate. For spatial angular measurements and navigation three gyros are mounted with their sensitive axes spatially arranged with respect to the turntable shaft to sense the same component of its angular rate. For avaraging errors due to gyro scalefactor and drift, the turntable is mounted on a second shaft with is axis perpendicular to the turntable. The second shaft is provided with a second an coder and a motor rotating the second shaft. The processing of the signal readout of the gyro(s) and encoder(s) allows to increase the accuracy, resolution and bandwidth of angular measurements with respect to a locally fixed basis or to inertial space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: K. Rudiger Rodloff, Bernhard F. M. Stieler, H. B. Egmar Lubeck, Volker Wetzig, Reinhard H. F. Probst