ELECTROMAGNETIC MOTION SENSOR

• US 20110234209A1
• Filed: 09/01/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YANG, SONG-LING, YANG, YU-QIU
• Granted Patent: US 8,410,774 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/207.15
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/02 Indicating direction only, e.g. by weather vane

Abstract

An electromagnetic motion sensor includes a base, an electromagnetic induction layer, a block, and an emitting coil. The electromagnetic induction layer with a plurality of induction coils is arranged on the bottom of the base. The block is movably connected to the base by a plurality of elastic members. The emitting coil is fixed to a center of the bottom of the block facing the induction layer. A circuit inside the block provides current to the emitting coil. The block moves with the jerk of the motion sensor when the motion sensor is jerked, causing the elastic members to be distorted. The relative movement between the block and the magnetic induction layer causes more than one of the induction coils generate and output voltage signals according to the change of magnetic flux through the plurality of induction coils caused by the moving of the emitting coil.

Claims

1. An electromagnetic motion sensor comprising:

a base;

an electromagnetic induction layer arranged on the base;

a plurality of induction coils arranged on the induction layer; and

a magnetic field emission member comprising;

a block with a circuit movably connected to the base by a plurality of elastic members;

an emitting coil fixed to a center of the bottom of the block, facing the electromagnetic induction layer, wherein the circuit provides current to the emitting coil to generate a magnetic field;

wherein the block moves with the jerk of the motion sensor when the motion sensor is jerked, causing the elastic members to be distorted, the relative movement between the block and the magnetic induction layer causes more than one of the induction coils to generate and output voltage signals according to the change of magnetic flux through the plurality of induction coils caused by the moving of the emitting coil.

2. The electromagnetic motion sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electromagnetic motion sensor also comprises a processor connected to the plurality of induction coils, the processor is configured to receive the voltage signals from the induction coils, and determine the movement direction of the electromagnetic motion sensor based on the sequence of the induction coils generating and outputting voltage signals.

3. The electromagnetic motion sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base comprises a bottom, and four side walls protruding from the bottom plate, cooperatively defining a receiving space with the bottom.

4. The electromagnetic motion sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the emitting coil comprises a first output terminal and a second output terminal both connected with the circuit.

5. The electromagnetic motion sensor as claimed in claim 3, wherein the block is rectangular and includes four sidewalls, and the block is in a center of the receiving space of the base.

6. The electromagnetic motion sensor as claimed in claim 5, wherein the number of the plurality of elastic members is four, each of the elastic members is respectively fixed between a sidewall of the block and a sidewall of the base, causing the block to suspend above the electromagnetic induction layer 20.

7. The electromagnetic motion sensor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic members are coil springs.