Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – Displacement
Patent
1983-02-22
1987-03-10
Karlsen, Ernest F.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
Displacement
324226, 336 45, 34087035, 303 20, 303DIG3, G01B 714, H01F 2102, G08C 1906
Patent
active
046493409
ABSTRACT:
To determine the relative position of two objects, for example pistons (16, 22) respectively responsive to the deflection of a brake pedal (10) and actual braking pressure of a wheel of a wheel brake (18) in an automotive power assisted braking system, a core having salient poles, such as an H or E core, has windings wound on the core, coupled to sensing circuits which determine the inductance of the winding, upon placement of short-circuit rings, or coupling magnets on, or adjacent to the core to affect the magnetic circuit, and hence the inductance of the winding. The inductance of the winding can be sensed by connecting the core in an oscillatory circuit (FIG. 3B), applying alternating current thereto, respectively inversely phased (FIG. 4B) and determining phasing of output, or connecting the coils in a multivibrator circuit (FIG. 4C), the output, upon balance of the magnetic circuits, being a pulse train of unity duty cycle upon balance; or connecting the coils to a supply voltage such that the magnetic circuit in a center leg of the salient poles will be in opposition, and sensing the flux in the center leg by an additional sensing coil (FIGS. 5A, 6), which flux will be exactly balanced if the magnetic circuits of the respective salient poles are balanced due to uniform position, or uniform change of position, of the respective magnetic elements, such as magnets or short-circuit rings.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3100889 (1963-08-01), Cannon
patent: 4132980 (1979-01-01), Zabler
Karlsen Ernest F.
Robert & Bosch GmbH
Snow Walter E.
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