Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Displacement sensor
- Patent Title (中): 位移传感器
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Application No.: US12120411Application Date: 2008-05-14
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Publication No.: US08164325B2Publication Date: 2012-04-24
- Inventor: Masahisa Niwa , Yukiko Nishida , Kunitaka Okada
- Applicant: Masahisa Niwa , Yukiko Nishida , Kunitaka Okada
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPP2007-139607 20070525
- Main IPC: G01B7/00
- IPC: G01B7/00 ; G01B7/14

Abstract:
An oscillator circuit outputs an oscillator signal with a frequency corresponding to an inductance of a displacement detector coil. An oscillation cycle measurement circuit measures a cycle of the oscillator signal output from the oscillator circuit, and outputs a signal corresponding to the measured cycle. A squaring circuit calculates and outputs a square of the signal output from the oscillation cycle measurement circuit. By the calculation and output of the square of the oscillator signal cycle, a square root component of the product of inductance and capacitance components is eliminated, so that the output signal changes linearly relative to the displacement of a displacement body. As a result, the linearity of the output signal relative to the displacement of the displacement body can be improved.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080290861A1 DISPLACEMENT SENSOR Public/Granted day:2008-11-27
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