| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for a gyroscope having a performance greatly improved in the navigation and pay load instruction to a spacecraft. <P>SOLUTION: This resonator gyroscope comprises a proof mass, a counterbalancing plate having an extensive planar region, and one or more flextures interconnecting the proof mass and counterbalancing plate. A base plate is affixed to the resonator by the one or more flextures and sense and drive electrodes are affixed to the baseplate proximate to the extensive planar region of the counterbalancing plate for exciting the resonator and sensing movement of the gyroscope. The isolated resonator transfers substantially no net momentum to the baseplate when the resonator is excited. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI |
