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selsyn|ˈsɛlsɪn|
Also Selsyn.
[f. self- + synchronous a.]
A kind of electric motor closely resembling a magslip and employed similarly in pairs in order esp. to transmit and receive information about the position or motion of mechanical equipment. Also selsyn motor.
Formerly a proprietary term in the U.S.
1926Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 27 Apr. 802/1 General Electric Company, Shenectady, N.Y... Selsyn... Electrical apparatus for transmitting and receiving motion. Claims use since April, 1921. 1930Gen. Electr. Rev. July 378/2 A distinct possibility exists in the application of Selsyn motors to remote control. 1945Rev. Sci. Instruments XVI. 132/2 The Central Scientific Company announces the availability of a limited supply of a.c. Selsyn motors. 1948Electronic Engin. XX. 17 A recorder..was modified..by removing the motor and replacing it by a gear train driven by a selsyn. 1962J. Bell in G. A. T. Burdett Automatic Control Handbk. iv. 11 In the German Navy of the 1914–18 war an early form of a.c. synchronous transmission was used; this was copied by U.S.A. in the G.E. ‘Selsyns’, the forerunners of the present U.S.A. synchros. 1967[see magslip]. |