Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – Displacement
Patent
1996-01-17
1997-12-02
Strecker, Gerard R.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
Displacement
1231465A, 324166, 32420712, 324251, 327179, 327332, 327511, G01B 730, G01P 3489, F02P 1702, H03G 100
Patent
active
056940386
ABSTRACT:
A magnetic-field-to-voltage transducer includes a Hall element and a digitally gain-controlled Hall-voltage amplifier that produces an analog voltage Vsig having excursions of one polarity corresponding to the passing of magnetic articles. Vsig is applied to the input of a signal-manipulating circuit that generates a proximity- detector binary output voltage, Vout, having transitions of one direction each time a predetermined point is reached in Vsig. A digitally gain-controlled gain amplifier is connected to the Hall element. A comparator circuit generates a binary signal Vbig (or V.sub.toobig) that changes from one to another binary level each time that Vsig exceeds a DC target voltage, V.sub.TG. The AGC circuit senses and counts gain counter excursions of one polarity in Vsig, and produces a binary count output signal at the input of the gain amplifier at each of the counted excursions in Vsig, incrementally changing the transducer gain in the direction to bring the peaks in Vsig to just below the target value T.sub.TG. This AGC feature prevents saturating the amplifier and quickly renders a Vsig of essentially constant amplitude so that either the peak excursion values or predetermined threshold levels in Vsig, at which transitions in the proximity detector output voltage Vout are caused to occur, provide greater accuracy and stability in the correlation between detection-approach and -withdrawal distances and transitions in Vout.
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Moody Kristann L.
Scheller P. Karl
Towne Jay M.
Tu Teri L.
Vig Ravi
Allegro Microsystems Inc.
Strecker Gerard R.
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