Force transducers for use in arrays

Measuring and testing – Dynamometers – Responsive to multiple loads or load components

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7386264, 7386269, 32420715, 333148, G01L 516, H03H 930, G01R 3312

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ABSTRACT:
A force transducer is described which uses current pulses in a conductor to generate acoustic pulses in a magnetostrictive delay line. The pulses are sensed by a coil around the line. The magnitude of the pulses is modified by force applied to the transducer either by changing the shielding effect of a magnetoelastic ribbon (between the conductor and the delay line) by applying a force to be sensed thereto, or in another alternative by modifying the distance between the conductor and the delay line in accordance with applied force. The transducers are economic and easily assembled into arrays for sensing stress distribution in two dimensions because the common conductors can be used for the columns of the array and common delay lines can be used for the array rows. Each column then has a common current-pulse generator and each row has a common detector coil. A similar technique may be used for sensing the spatial distribution of other parameters such as temperature, magnetic field or displacement.

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