The Lucas Electrical Company Limited

Duncan Barry Hodgson

John Howard Moore

Paul M McCarthy

Andrew P Ives

An angular position signal generator includes a rotor and a stator each having an arrangement of salient magnetic poles. The poles on the rotor are all of the same polarity and are spaced at unequal angles around the axis of the rotor. The poles on the stator are identically arranged so that in at least one position of the rotor all the poles are aligned and in at least two other positions only some of the poles are aligned. As the rotor rotates, therefore, the flux flowing between the poles fluctuates and a winding in the flux path produces pulses of different magnitudes at these various positions of the rotor.

Angular position transducers for use in engine timing controls

A fault indicating system in a vehicle includes a d.c. source, a plurality of electrically operated devices operated by the d.c. source and a plurality of fault indicating units, one for each device. Each fault indicating unit is operable by a predetermined address signal, and on being operated produces after a delay an output representative of the operation condition of its device, each fault indicating unit having a different delay. A monitoring unit produces the predetermined address signal and receives the output signals from the fault indicating units. The monitoring unit operates in cycles, in each of which it has a transmission period in which it feeds the address signal to all the fault indicating units, and a plurality of receiving periods during which it receives the output signals from the fault indicating units in turn, warning means being operable by the monitoring unit to indicate a fault in any of the devices.

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Duncan Barry Hodgson