Patents by Inventor William J. Bigley, Jr.

William J. Bigley, Jr. 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: 4295081
    Abstract: Load actuating servomechanism apparatus includes dynamic regeneration to equalize and overcome a frequency-varying load/load drive train mechanical resonance. The drive circuitry comprises a per se conventional primary motor speed controlling rate feedback loop including a cascaded rate signal command source, summing error-signal producing node, and loop frequency response shaping filter and driver amplifier for exciting a load driving motor, and a rate tachometer signal feedback element connecting a measure of the motor output speed to a subtractive input of the summing node.To broaden the response band of the primary feedback circuit and accommodate a mechanical resonance otherwise interfering therewith, a secondary, positive feedback path supplements the input rate command with a signal dependent upon motor current, and thus upon motor load. Accordingly, output load drive automatically increases as motor current increases when a load drive retarding mechanical resonance is encountered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Assignee: Lockheed Electronics Co., Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Bigley, Jr., Vincent J. Rizzo