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Record 1 2001-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Mechanics (Physics)
  • Navigation Instruments
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
CONT

Suspension: How could the gyro rotors be suspended in mid-air (or rather mid-vacuum) without disturbance? Spin-up: How could the rotors be set spinning and be kept spinning in perfect isolation for many years? Readout: Most baffling, how could the spin direction of a perfect unmarked sphere be observed and read out? In part, the answers lay in a separation of functions -- electrical suspension, magnetic readout, gas spin-up. In part, they lay in exploiting phenomena of superconductivity.

Key term(s)
  • gyro electrical suspension

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique générale (Physique)
  • Instruments de navigation
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
CONT

Gyroscopes libres. Le problème consiste à suspendre la toupie en minimisant l'incertitude [delta]C sur le couple qui lui est appliqué. [...] des recherches technologiques ont favorisé l'apparition de multiples réalisations parmi lesquelles on peut citer : la suspension par cardan [...]; la suspension par flottaison [...]; la suspension hydrodynamique; [...]; la suspension électrique; la toupie, sphérique, est placée entre des électrodes, soumises à des potentiels électriques la maintenant en «lévitation» (performances meilleures que 10-4 degrés par heure); la suspension élastique [...]

Key term(s)
  • suspension électrique d'un gyroscope

Spanish

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