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Movable core position transducer

  • US 4,857,824 A
  • Filed: 08/29/1988
  • Issued: 08/15/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A position measuring system comprising:

  • a mechanical device having a mechanical displacement;

    a drive rod operatively coupled to said mechanical device to be moved linearly in response to mechanical displacement of said mechanical device;

    a transducer for measuring the mechanical displacement of said mechanical device;

    a single coil wound on said coil former means having only two leads;

    a constant current source connected across said leads;

    means connected across said leads for suppressing the real component of the output voltage produced across said leads corresponding to the imaginary component of the output voltage produced across said leads by the constant current source;

    a finite length core of high permeability material located within said coil former means connected to said drive rod to be moved linearly within said coil former means;

    said core being positioned by said drive rod at an initial position wholly within said coil former means to be electromagnetically coupled with first segments of said single coil to produce an initial signal corresponding to an initial position of said mechanical device;

    said single coil having a non-linear winding pattern between said two leads, said core progressively electromagnetically coupling to said single coil as said core moves linearly within said coil former means so that movement of said core will produce a linear inductance variation across said leads which corresponds to the linear movement of said core within said coil former means.

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