Inertial Flywheel Patents (Class 73/514.04)
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Patent number: 8718974Abstract: Measuring devices each include a rotating body arranged between a wheel and a wheel hub with rotation centers aligned with each other, and an optical detector fixed to a body frame. The rotating body is formed of a disk portion attached between the wheel and a mounting surface of the wheel hub, and a cylindrical portion extending from the disk portion to the body frame and encompassing an outer circumferential surface of the wheel hub. In a circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion, there are provided elongate holes as light-transmitting portions that transmit light therethrough. The optical detector includes a light-emitting element serving as a light-emitting portion and a light-receiving element serving as a light-receiving portion, which are fixed to the body frame by a mounting bracket.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Geo Technical Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyonari Kishikawa, Kouhei Tou
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Publication number: 20120272735Abstract: The disclosure relates to a micromechanical rotary acceleration sensor including a substrate with at least one anchoring device and at least two flywheel masses. At least one of the flywheel masses is connected to at least one anchoring device by means of a coupling element. The at least one anchoring device is designed in such a manner that the at least two flywheel masses are elastically deflectable from a respective rest position about at least one axis of rotation. The at least two flywheel masses is designed in such a manner that they have different natural frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Reinhard Neul, Torsten Ohms, Mirko Hattass, Daniel Christoph Meisel
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Patent number: 7938194Abstract: An improved method is provided for controlling a power tool having a rotary shaft. The method includes: disposing an inertial mass in a housing of the power tool, such that the inertial mass is freely rotatable about an axis of rotation which is axially aligned with the rotary shaft; monitoring rotational motion of the power tool in relation to the inertial mass during operation of the power tool; and activating a protective operation based on the rotational motion of the power tool in relation to the inertial mass.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: David A. Carrier, Daniel Puzio, Robert Bradus
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Patent number: 7730963Abstract: An improved method is provided for controlling a power tool having a rotary shaft. The method includes: disposing an inertial mass in a housing of the power tool, such that the inertial mass is freely rotatable about an axis of rotation which is axially aligned with the rotary shaft; monitoring rotational motion of the power tool in relation to the inertial mass during operation of the power tool; and activating a protective operation based on the rotational motion of the power tool in relation to the inertial mass.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: David A. Carrier, Daniel Puzio, Robert Bradus
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Patent number: 7487845Abstract: An improved method is provided for controlling a power tool having a rotary shaft. The method includes: disposing an inertial mass in a housing of the power tool, such that the inertial mass is freely rotatable about an axis of rotation which is axially aligned with the rotary shaft; monitoring rotational motion of the power tool in relation to the inertial mass during operation of the power tool; and activating a protective operation based on the rotational motion of the power tool in relation to the inertial mass.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: David A. Carrier, Daniel Puzio, Robert Bradus
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Patent number: 7395871Abstract: An improved method is provided for controlling a power tool having a rotary shaft. The method includes: disposing an inertial mass in a housing of the power tool, such that the inertial mass is freely rotatable about an axis of rotation which is axially aligned with the rotary shaft; monitoring rotational motion of the power tool in relation to the inertial mass during operation of the power tool; and activating a protective operation based on the rotational motion of the power tool in relation to the inertial mass.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2004Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: David A Carrier, Daniel Puzio, Robert Bradus
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Patent number: 7039927Abstract: A disc or like article (10, 115, 119) rotatable by drive means, such as a compact disc for use with a computer, includes indication means (12, 110, 120) which, when the disc is rotated at or above a predetermined angular velocity, provide an indication that rotation has occurred, which indication can be important if the disc contains confidential information. The indication device can be a tube formed with two enclosures separated by a breakable membrane (15, 16, 112, 122), a colored liquid/gel (17, 111 121) being in one enclosure and passing into the second enclosure, by breaking the membrane, when the disc is spun, thereby providing a visual indication thereafter of the spinning having occurred The invention also relates to such an indication means, per se, for after-fitting to a disc recorded on by spinning, and to a method of producing a disc with said indication means.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2001Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: 3Lfants LimitedInventors: Andreas Sotiriou Constantinou, Marios Panikos Sotiriou, Guy Davies
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Publication number: 20030005767Abstract: A triaxial sensor substrate is adapted for use in measuring the acceleration and angular rate of a moving body along three orthogonal axes. The triaxial sensor substrate includes three individual sensors that are arranged in the plane of the substrate at an angle of 120 degrees with respect to one another. Each sensor is formed from two accelerometers having their sensing axes canted at an angle with respect to the plane of the substrate and further being directed in opposite directions. The rate sensing axes thus lie along three orthogonal axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2002Publication date: January 9, 2003Inventor: Rand H. Hulsing
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Patent number: 6456939Abstract: A micro inertial measurement unit, which is adapted to apply to output signals proportional to rotation and translational motion of a carrier, respectively from angular rate sensors and acceleration sensors, is employed with MEMS rate and acceleration sensors. Compared with a conventional IMU, the processing method utilizes a feedforward open-loop signal processing scheme to obtain highly accurate motion measurements by means of signal digitizing, temperature control and compensation, sensor error and misalignment calibrations, attitude updating, and damping control loops, and dramatically shrinks the size of mechanical and electronic hardware and power consumption, meanwhile, obtains highly accurate motion measurements.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Inventors: Hiram McCall, Ching-Fang Lin
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Patent number: 6393914Abstract: An angular accelerometer having a substrate, a fixed electrode supported on the substrate and including a first plurality of fixed capacitive plates, and a ring-shaped rotational inertia mass substantially suspended over a cavity and including a plurality of movable capacitive plates arranged to provide a capacitive coupling with the first plurality of fixed capacitive plates. A central member is fixedly attached to the substrate. A plurality of support arms extend between the central member and the ring-shaped mass for supporting the mass relative to the fixed electrode during rotational movement of the mass. The angular accelerometer also includes an input electrically coupled to the fixed electrode for receiving an input signal, and an output coupled to the mass for providing an output signal which varies as a function of the capacitive coupling and is indicative of angular acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2001Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Seyed R. Zarabadi, John C. Christenson, William J. Baney