Moving body speed detecting device which produces and detects a magnetic pole on the body surface

• US 4,931,727 A
• Filed: 10/18/1988
• Issued: 06/05/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc. (DENSO Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc. (DENSO Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamanoue, Kouichi, Inoue, Hideo, Tanaka, Hiroaki, Sugitani, Tatsuo, Akita, Shigeyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Strecker, Gerard R.
• Application Number:
  US07/259,326
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• Field of Search: 324/172-174, 324/206-208, 188/181 R, 340/670-672, 361/236, 361/239
• US Class Current: 324/172
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/172 Determining control parameters used in the regulation, e.g. by calculations involving measured or detected parameters B60T8/17551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/487 delivered by rotating magnets

Abstract

According to this invention, a device for detecting the speed of transference of a moving body, having a construction such that the device comprises a magnetizing element for forming a magnetic pole on a surface of a moving body made of a magnetic material and disposed in the vicinity of the moving body, a magnetic field detecting circuit provided adjacent to the moving body, for linking therewith the magnetic field of the magnetic pole formed by the magnetizing element and for outputting an electrical voltage in accordance with a variation of the magnetic field caused by the transference of the moving body, and an output signal processing circuit for processing a signal output by the magnetic field detecting circuit and for determining the speed of transference of the moving body can be obtained, and by utilizing the device mentioned above, an effect whereby a signal corresponding to the displacement speed of a moving body is continuously obtained and therefore, a moving body need not be precisely fabricated with a specific configuration such as forming concave and convex portions on the surface of the moving body, and moreover, to continuously obtain precise information about the speed of the moving body, because even when the moving body moves at an extremely low speed, an increment of a ripple and a phase shift can not occur, can be realized.

Claims

1. A device for detecting a speed of movement of a moving body, a speed of which is to be measured, having a surface made of a magnetic material, comprising:

magnetizing means, disposed in the vicinity of said moving body, for forming a point magnetic pole on a surface of the moving body to move therewith,

magnetic field detecting means, provided adjacent to said moving body, for detecting a magnetic field of the magnetic pole formed on said surface by said magnetizing means, and producing a voltage in accordance with a variation of said magnetic field caused by the movement of said moving body, both said magnetizing means and said magnetic field detecting means being spaced from said moving body on a same straight line extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of said moving body; and

output signal processing means for processing a signal output by said magnetic field detecting means for determining the speed of movement of said moving body.

4. A device for detecting the speed of moving of a moving body, according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said magnetizing means comprises a core portion made of a magnetic material and an electromagnetic coil wound around said core portion.

5. A device for detecting the speed of moving of a moving body according to claim 4 wherein said core portion of said magnetizing means is provided with a tip end portion at least at one end thereof, said tip end portion being closer to the surface of said moving body than the rest of said magnetizing means and both said tip end portion and a center portion of said magnetic field detecting means being arranged in a line perpendicular to the moving direction of said moving body.

6. A device for detecting the speed of moving of a moving body according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said output signal processing means determines said speed of moving of said moving body from data output by said magnetic field detecting means when said magnetic pole is formed by said magnetizing means and a current data output by said magnetic field detecting means.

7. A device for detecting the speed of moving of a moving body according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said magnetic field detecting means further comprises a Hall element or providing a high density detecting of the magnetic field of the magnetic pole formed by said magnetizing means.

8. A device for detecting the speed of moving of a moving body according to any according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said magnetic field detecting means further comprises at least two magnetic path devices each having a linear configuration and definite longitudinal lengths respectively and said devices are arranged in series in the longitudinal direction thereof and parallel to the moving direction of said moving body, and said Hall element is provided in a center portion of said magnetic field detecting means formed between the respective ends of both of said magnetic path devices and arranged opposite to each other, to provide a high density linking therewith of the magnetic field of the magnetic pole formed by said magnetizing means.

9. A device for detecting a speed of moving of a moving body according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said magnetizing means and said magnetic field detecting means are arranged adjacent to each other on a same surface of said moving body.

10. A device for detecting the speed of moving of a moving body according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said moving body has a plate-like configuration and said magnetizing means and said magnetic field detecting means are arranged opposite to each other with said moving body therebetween.

11. A device for detecting the speed of moving of a moving body according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said signal processing means includes means for periodically initiating said magnetizing means to form said magnetic pole, and for subsequently detecting said speed of moving.

13. A device as in claim 1 wherein said magnetic field detecting means includes means for determining if the value of the voltage output from said magnetic field detecting means is substantially zero at a time when a magnetic pole has just been formed on a surface of said moving body by said magnetizing means, and thereafter, as the magnetic pole is displaced due to the movement of said moving body, the value of the voltage output from said magnetic field detecting means is gradually increased.

2. A device for detecting a speed of movement of a moving body, a speed of which is to be measured, having a surface made of a magnetic material, comprising:

magnetizing means, disposed in the vicinity of said moving body, for forming a point magnetic pole on the surface of the moving body to move therewith,

magnetic field detecting means, provided adjacent to said moving body, for detecting a magnetic field of the magnetic pole formed on said surface by said magnetizing means and for outputting a voltage in accordance with a variation of said magnetic field caused by the movement of said moving body; and

output signal processing means for processing a signal output by said magnetic field detecting means and for determining the speed of movement of said moving body, both said magnetizing means and said magnetic field detecting means being spaced from said moving body on a same straight line extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of said moving body; and

said output signal processing means further including means for detecting a time when said magnetic pole is formed by said magnetizing means and detecting a speed of movement of said moving body from a time after said detected time at which said magnetic pole is formed until a time when said voltage generated by said magnetic field detecting means reaches a predetermined value.

3. A device for detecting a speed of movement of a moving body, a speed of which is to be measured, having a surface made of a magnetic material, comprising:

magnetizing means disposed in the vicinity of said moving body for forming a point magnetic pole on the surface of the moving body to move therewith;

magnetic field detecting means provided adjacent to said moving body, for detecting a magnetic field of the magnetic pole formed on said surface by said magnetizing means and for outputting a voltage in accordance with a variation of said magnetic field caused by the movement of said moving body, both said magnetizing means and said magnetic field detecting means being spaced from said moving body on a same straight line extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of said moving body; and

output signal processing means for processing a signal output by said magnetic field detecting means for determining a speed of movement of said moving body, said magnetizing means further comprising a demagnetizing means for forcibly eliminating, after said determining, said magnetic pole formed on the surface of said moving body.

12. A device for detecting a speed of movement of a moving body, a speed of which is to be measured, having a surface made of a magnetic material comprising:

magnetizing means disposed in the vicinity of said moving body, for forming a point magnetic pole on the surface of the moving body to move therewith;

magnetic field detecting means, provided adjacent to said moving body, for detecting a magnetic field of the magnetic pole formed on said surface by said magnetizing means and outputting an voltage in accordance with a variation of said magnetic field caused by the movement of said moving body, both said magnetizing means and said magnetic field detection means being spaced from said moving body on a same straight line extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of said moving body; and

output signal processing means for processing a signal output by said magnetic field detecting means and for determining a direction of movement of said moving body in accordance with a polarity of the output voltage of said magnetic field detecting means.