Vibratory gyro skewed pick-off and driver geometry

This report is based on recent patent applications by Watson Industries, which are available to the industry through licensing. Essentially, Watson Industries has developed several novel new means of applying and extracting signals for vibratory gyros. The method involves using a slight skew in alignment for pickoffs and/or drivers to control the drive and sensing vectors to electrically optimize gyro performance. The main example presented is based on the ceramic cup vibrating structure gyro, but these same principles may apply to almost all other vibrating structure gyro mechanisms.