Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – Displacement
Patent
1992-08-17
1996-06-04
O'Shea, Sandra L.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
Displacement
116277, 137554, 324226, G01B 714, F16K 3700
Patent
active
055236820
ABSTRACT:
A system to determine the position of an electrically conductive element movably positioned in a housing, like a metal disc in a check valve, with greater accuracy and resolution than single magnet systems includes first and second A.C. electromagnets positioned in close proximity to the element on opposing sides of the housing. The magnets are excited with A.C. currents to generate magnetic fields which penetrate the housing and the element. The magnetic fields are sensed by a magnetic field sensor. A control portion of the system includes a microprocessor configured to allow an operator to adjustably select and set a common frequency, individual amplitudes and a phase difference between the two currents supplied to the two magnets so that the currents might be adjusted to cause the magnets to generate magnetic fields at least partially and preferably essentially cancelling one another at the sensor. The sensor senses essentially only a net perturbation in a magnetic field caused by movement of the electrically conductive member.
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Liberty Technologies, Inc.
O'Shea Sandra L.
Patidar Jay
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