Patent Numbers 7,891,597 and 7,997,521 Awarded for “tension Control System for a Continuous Winding Machine”
August 2011: Dale Henson, of San Jose CA, used this technology to enable wireless control of tension on a spinning wind head powered by a rotary transformer as designed by a former satellite design engineer. The wireless communication allows tension set points to be changed remotely while the new system maintains the linked servo loops […]