Position Detector

• US 20100033169A1
• Filed: 07/29/2009
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nippon Thompson Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nippon Thompson Company Limited
• Inventors: Sakai, Tetsuya, Horibe, Hirofumi
• Application Number:
  US12/511,445
• Publication Number:
  US 20100033169A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/207.240
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/145 influenced by the relative movement between the Hall device and magnetic fields see G01R33/06

Abstract

A position detector can correct a position for detecting a moving object without changing a physical location of a moving mechanism, a Hall element and/or the like. Either a permanent magnet 19 or Hall elements 16a, 17a, 17b, 17c is mounted on a moving object 3 moving along a fixed movement path, and the other of them is mounted on the fixed movement path of the moving object 3. A voltage output from each Hall element is detected based on an electromotive force induced in the Hall element in accordance with a facing position between the permanent magnet and the Hall element, for detection of the position of the moving object. A comparison unit a2 outputs a detection signal for the moving object when the voltage value output from the Hall element exceeds a threshold, and comprises a variable controlling unit R for variably controlling the threshold.

Claims

1. A position detector provided with either a permanent magnet or Hall elements mounted on a moving object which moves along a fixed path of movement, with the other of two, the permanent magnet and the Hall elements, mounted on the fixed path of movement of the moving object, and detecting a voltage output from each of the Hall elements on the basis of an electromotive force induced in the Hall element in accordance with a facing position between the permanent magnet and the Hall element in order to detect the position of the moving object, the position detector comprising,

a comparison unit comparing a voltage value supplied from the Hall element with a threshold, outputting a detection signal when the voltage value exceeds the threshold for detection of a position of the moving object from a position in which the detection signal is output, and comprising a variable controlling unit for variably controlling the threshold.

2. A position detector according to claim 1, wherein the variable controlling unit comprises a variable resistance.

3. A position detector according to claim 1, further comprising an amplification unit provided between the Hall element and the comparison unit for amplifying a voltage supplied from the Hall element and outputting the voltage thus amplified.

4. A position detector according to claim 2, further comprising an amplification unit provided between the Hall element and the comparison unit for amplifying a voltage supplied from the Hall element and outputting the voltage thus amplified.