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US 2010/0141246 A1Published application
Magnetic Type Digital-analogic Position-sensing Device
AssigneeHiwin Mikrosystem Corp.
InventorChih-Mao Shiao
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Abstract
A magnetic type digital-analogic position-sensing device utilizes plural magnetic strips and plural digital sensing readers to perform position-sensing operation. One of the magnetic strips is provided with an analogic sensing reader. After being finely divided, the signal outputted from the analogic sensing reader can cooperate with the signals outputted from the digital sensing readers to obtain the displacement of the sensor. By such arrangements, the position-sensing device can both have high environment adaptability and high resolution.
Claims4
A magnetic type digital-analogic position-sensing device comprising:
- a magnetic scale including plural magnetic strips, each of the magnetic strips including plural magnetic zones, each of the magnetic zones equally includes an N pole and an S pole, the plural magnetic zones on the same magnetic strip having the same length, and the magnetic zones of any two of the magnetic strips are different in length;
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- a sensor being located on the magnetic scale and provided with plural digital sensing readers opposite the magnetic strips of the magnetic scale, the sensor being further provided with an analogic sensing reader opposite one of the magnetic strips, the digital sensing readers and the analogic sensing reader being all used to sense magnetic polarity of the opposite magnetic strips, when the sensor moves along the magnetic scale, the digital sensing readers will output high or low signals, and the analogic sensing reader will output a sinusoidal signal, a relative position of the sensor and the magnetic scale and a displacement of the sensor are obtained based on a comparison of all the above signals.
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