Electricity: measuring and testing – Electrical speed measuring – Including speed-related frequency generator
Patent
1996-05-09
1998-02-17
Strecker, Gerard R.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Electrical speed measuring
Including speed-related frequency generator
25022721, 324775, 32420713, 32420725, 3242441, 385 12, G01P 3487, G01P 336, G01R 33032, G02F 1095
Patent
active
057194971
ABSTRACT:
Lensless magneto-optic speed sensor. The construction of a viable Faraday sensor has been achieved. Multimode fiber bundles are used to collect the light. If coupled directly into a 100 or 200 .mu.m core fiber, light from a light emitting diode (LED) is sufficient to operate the sensor. In addition, LEDs ensure that no birefringence effects in the input fiber are possible, as the output from such light sources have random polarization. No lens is required since the large diameter optical fibers and thin crystals of materials having high Verdet constants (such as iron garnets) employed permit the collection of a substantial quantity of light. No coupler is required. The maximum amount of light which could reach a detector using a coupler is 25%, while the measured throughput of the fiber-optic bundle without a coupler is about 42%. All of the elements employed in the present sensor are planar, and no particular orientation of these elements is required. The present sensor operates over a wide range of distances from magnetic field sources, and observed signals are large. When a tone wheel is utilized, the signals are independent of wheel speed, and the modulation is observed to be about 75%. No sensitivity to bends in the input or output optical fiber leads was observed. Reliable operation was achieved down to zero frequency, or no wheel rotation.
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Forman Peter R.
Rodriguez Patrick J.
Veeser Lynn R.
Freund Samuel M.
Strecker Gerard R.
The Regents of the University of California
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