Abstract:
An antifriction bearing with compensating flexure pivot, including a shaft supporting a load and mounted in a suitable ball bearing arrangement with a flexural pivot device operatively connected in the shaft intermediate the load and the bearing so as to provide a free axis of a gyroscope. Thus one operative part of the flexural pivot is secured with an inner race of the bearing so as to permit large angular freedom of movement of one gimbal of the gyroscope relative to another gimbal of the gyroscope about the free axis provided by attaching the other operative part of the flexural pivot to one gimbal of the gyroscope, and an outer race of the bearing arrangement to the other gimbal of the gyroscope so that the deflection of the flexural pivot may in effect be always kept nearly at null so that torque transmitted to the load due to friction at the bearing may be considered of a negligible effect and the bearing substantially frictionless.
Abstract:
An electromagnet is arranged with a gyro so that eddy currents generated by movement of a conductor in the field of the magnet provide a precessionaly torque, a component of which decelerates or opposes gyro rotation when the spin axis of the gyro is not coincident with the magnet axis. When said axes are coincident, no further precessional and decelerating torques are provided.
Abstract:
A speed reducing bearing arrangement of the type including a dual bearing having a common race and separate complementing races and balls so selected that the contact angle of one complement of inner and outer race is different than the contact angle of the other complement of inner and outer race is used for coupling an erection mechanism for a mechanically erected vertical gyro to the gyro rotor for rotating the erection mechanism in the same direction as the rotor but at a greatly reduced speed.