Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With particular transmitter
Patent
1980-03-03
1981-08-18
Pitts, Harold I.
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
With particular transmitter
34087018, G08C 904
Patent
active
042849900
ABSTRACT:
A displacement transducer suitable for monitoring the angular rotation of an internal combustion engine is provided. The transducer comprises a rotary disc having a castellated periphery and mounted for rotation with the engine. First and second coils are mounted such that upon operation of the engine the castellations of the disc interrupt the inductive coupling therebetween. The first coil is fed with an oscillatory electrical signal which induces in the second coil an output signal of a first peak amplitude during the interruptions produced by the castellations and of a second peak amplitude during periods between the interruptions. Thresholding circuitry responsive to the output signal produces a control signal which is indicative of the commencement and cessation of the interruptions. In accordance with one disclosed embodiment, the threshold circuitry includes a pair of inverters sharing the same thermal environment. The first inverter is capacitively coupled to receive the output signal from the second coil, and the second inverter, which has its output connected to its input in a feedback arrangement, provides bias through a resistive coupling to the first inverter to compensate for temperature drifts, whereby the first inverter switches output signal states when its input signal passes through a preselected voltage level.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3161803 (1964-12-01), Knittweis
Fowler Albert L.
Henderson Alan G.
Stevenson Alastair K.
Walker David M.
Float Kenneth W.
Holtrichter, Jr. John
Hughes Microelectronics Ltd.
MacAllister William H.
Pitts Harold I.
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