Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sensor arrangement for a rotatable element
- Patent Title (中): 用于可旋转元件的传感器布置
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Application No.: US14640972Application Date: 2015-03-06
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Publication No.: US09587657B2Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- Inventor: Martin Roy Harrison , Philip Samuel Pickles , Peter Wherritt
- Applicant: Salunda Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Oxfordshire
- Assignee: Salunda Limited
- Current Assignee: Salunda Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Oxfordshire
- Agency: Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
- Priority: GB1404460.6 20140313
- Main IPC: G01D5/243
- IPC: G01D5/243 ; F15B19/00 ; G01D5/20 ; F04D15/00

Abstract:
A sensor arrangement for a rotatable element comprises two coils capable of being driven by oscillatory drive signals to generate electromagnetic fields. The coils are in different positions overlying a cylindrical portion of the rotatable element that has a target feature configured to interact with the generated electromagnetic fields when the target feature is aligned with the coils. Alignment between the target feature and the coils occurs at angular positions of the rotatable element that are offset for respective coils. Thus, by detecting a characteristic of the signals developed across the coils allowing derivation of an angular velocity signal representative of angular velocity. Also, the degree of interaction between the target feature and the electromagnetic fields varies with the axial position of the rotatable element, differentially between the coils, allowing derivation of an axial position signal representative of the axial position of the rotatable element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150260550A1 Sensor Arrangement for a Rotatable Element Public/Granted day:2015-09-17
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