Proximity detector

• US 4,208,695 A
• Filed: 03/24/1978
• Issued: 06/17/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Noda, Masahiro, Takahashi, Ryoji
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, J. D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Schroeder, L.
• Application Number:
  US05/889,981
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: 340/562, 340/563, 340/258 B, 361/203, 361/181, 331/65, 307/116, 49/25
• US Class Current: 361/181
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 13/26 between closing doors
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/46 responsive to changes in electrical capacitance
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/104 for elevators
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/955 using a capacitive detector

Abstract

A proximity detector comprises a pair of antennae being disposed along the front edge of a door and at a space therebetween, a pair of coils constituting series resonance circuits, together with each electrostatic capacities of the antennae which are connected in series with the coils, an AC power source for supplying voltages to the series resonance circuits; rectifying circuits for rectifying the voltages produced on the antennae by the AC power source, and a differential amplifier circuit for amplifying difference between the outputs of the rectifying circuits, the output of the differential amplifier controlling the movement of the door.

Claims

1. A proximity detector comprising;

a pair of antennae being disposed along the front edge of a door and at a space therebetween;

a pair of coils constituting series resonance circuits, together with earth electrostatic capacities of said antennae which are connected in series with said coils;

an AC power source for supplying voltages to said series resonance circuits;

rectifying circuits for rectifying the voltages produced in said antennae by said AC power source; and

differential amplifier circuit for amplifying difference between the outputs of said rectifying circuits, the output of said differential amplifier controlling the movement of said door.

2. A proximity detector according to claim 1 wherein a variable capacitor is connected between one of the antennae and earth to adjust amplitudes of AC voltage appearing on the antennae.

3. A proximity detector according to claim 1 wherein a pair of the coils, the electrostatic capacities and the rectifying circuits connected in series are provided on each of two panel door to connect them to an adder/subtractor.