Edward W Summers

US Patent:

7295323, Nov 13, 2007

Filed:

Mar 31, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/096322

Inventors:

Andrew W. Kaliszek - Phoenix AZ, US
Edward Summers - Glendale AZ, US
Wesley H. Williams - Phoenix AZ, US

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

G01C 19/64

US Classification:

356465

Abstract:

Adhesive system and method are provided for affixing a fiber optic coil to a hub with an adhesive in a fiber optic gyroscope. The adhesive system comprises a fiber optic coil, a substantially cylindrical hub configured to couple with the fiber optic coil, and an array of adhesive dots affixing the fiber optic coil to the substantially cylindrical hub. The method comprises forming an array of adhesive dots on an outer surface of the hub, and affixing the fiber optic coil to the outer surface of the hub via the array of adhesive dots.

US Patent:

6211963, Apr 3, 2001

Filed:

Dec 29, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/222466

Inventors:

Andrew W. Kaliszek - Phoenix AZ
Bogdan Szafraniec - Phoenix AZ
Charles H. Lange - Glendale AZ
Edward Summers - Glendale AZ

Assignee:

Honeywell Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

G01C 1972

US Classification:

356465

Abstract:

A design for an environmentally robust fiber depolarizer for a fiber optic gyroscope is disclosed. The design comprises; substantially a clockwise propagating leg and a counterclockwise propagating leg, distally coupled at opposite ends of a gyroscope sensing coil, said depolarizer fiber leg wound in a that is rotation insensitive pattern and that is also a symmetrical winding pattern. Moreover, axial, radial and embedded sensing coil mounting methods for the fiber depolarizer to reduce the depolarizer sensitivity to thermal variations are also disclosed. Specific attention to the design of the fiber depolarizer of a gyroscope provides enhanced immunity to the stress of environmental variation.