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ANGULAR RESOLVER [1 record]

Record 1 1999-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Servomechanisms
DEF

A synchro or other device whose input is the angular position of an object, such as the rotor of an electric machine, and whose output is electric signals, usually proportional to the sine and cosine of an angle, and often in digital form; used to interchange rectangular and polar coordinates, and in servomecanisms to report the orientation of controlled objects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Servomécanismes
DEF

Capteur électrique de position angulaire, composé d'un stator et d'un rotor, et fournissant un signal électrique continu ou alternatif caractéristique de la position angulaire du rotor.

OBS

Ces appareils, d'aspect analogue à celui des synchromachines, transforment un mouvement angulaire en un système de deux tensions proportionnelles au sinus et au cosinus de l'angle d'entrée.

OBS

Le terme «résolver» figure à la section E-2428-5.

Spanish

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