G01D 5/363
Direction discrimination
Official title: {Direction discrimination}
G01D5/363 (Direction discrimination) appears on 43 US grants and 18 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01D- Granted patents
- 43
- Published applications
- 18
- Assignees
- 39
- Inventors
- 77
- Latest grant
- 8 Apr 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Optical fiber sensor and Brillouin frequency shift measurement method8 Apr 2025US 12,270,688 B2Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
- Optical encoder17 Aug 2021US 11,092,465 B2Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method of determining a direction of rotation and valid transitions of quadrature pulses14 Apr 2020US 10,623,213 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Method of determining a direction of rotation and valid transitions of quadrature pulses11 Jun 2019US 10,320,594 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Apparatus and method for a light direction sensor12 Apr 2011US 7,924,415 B2The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Optical fiber sensor and brillouin frequency shift measurement method15 Feb 2024US 2024/0053172 A1Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
- Method of determining a direction of rotation and valid transistions of quadrature pulses19 Sep 2019US 2019/0288885 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Method of Determining A Direction of Rotation and Valid Transitions of Quadrature Pulses25 Jan 2018US 2018/0023975 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Optical encoder16 Feb 2017US 2017/0045381 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Apparatus and method for a light direction sensor19 Aug 2010US 2010/0208245 A1USA as represented by the Admin. of the National Aeronautics and Space Admi.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Instrument for measuring the range of motion associated with a human body joint103US 4,436,099 AThe University of Toledo · 1984
- Hand held digital measuring device73US 4,551,847 A1985
- Digital tape rule44US 4,161,781 AThe Stanley Works · 1979
- Interpolation apparatus for digital electronic position measuring instrument40US 4,225,931 ADr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH · 1980
- Photoelectric signal generating circuits28US 4,074,128 AGeneral Electric Company · 1978