US PATENT SUBCLASS 318 / 489
.~ Responsive to direction, inclination or angular position of bodies


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318 /   HD   ELECTRICITY: MOTIVE POWER SYSTEMS

445  DF  AUTOMATIC AND/OR WITH TIME-DELAY MEANS (E.G., AUTOMATIC STARTING AND/OR STOPPING) {20}
489.~ Responsive to direction, inclination or angular position of bodies


DEFINITION

Classification: 318/489

(under subclass 445) Subject matter in which the sensing means are responsive to direction, grade, inclination, angular position, or to a deviation or change from a predetermined value thereof. The systems included herein are "open-loop" controls and thus are not servomechanisms.

(1) Note. Where the system is closed loop position servomechanism, classification is not herein, but in subclass 580, above.

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580, see Note (1), above.

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33, Geometrical Instruments,

300, for direction sensing and indicating. 74, Machine Element or Mechanism,

5, for structure of gyroscopes, per se.