Piezoelectric gyrometer

Abstract

Abstract The rate gyro can be used on missiles capable of being subjected to very high acceleration. It consists of a more or less plane plate (12) with 4-fold symmetry about an axis roughly perpendicular to its plane. The plate is formed, at least partly, from a piezoelectric material. Its two large faces carry both the electrodes (E) for exciting the plate at resonance, these electrodes being distributed uniformly around the axis, and the electrodes (D) for detecting the vibrations of the plate, these electrodes being located in the same plane and arranged so as to detect the stresses caused by the forcing field and by the Coriolis forces during the rotation of the plate about its axis. The plate is preferably square. The power supply to the excitation electrodes (E) is such that they excite vibrations of the plate symmetrically about one of the directions (X) but antisymmetrically about the perpendicular direction (Y), so that the forcing vibrational mode and the Coriolis mode are 90 DEG apart. <IMAGE>

Inventors

• 👤 Christian Adam
• 👤 Jean Raoult
• 👤 Jacques Rochereau

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