Heimann Gmbh

Frank Fichtner

Manfred Dennhoven

Ulrich Traupe

Enno Holzenkaempfer

Mario Gauer

A position sensor for supplying digital signals corresponding to the position of a movable part in non-contacting, reliable fashion. A number of individual electrodes are applied on a substrate with a layer of a-Si:H applied thereon. A common, large-area collector electrode is applied over the a-Si:H layer. A light beam is moved over the collector electrode to activate a predetermined combination of photosensitive pixels which may be photodiodes or photoresistors. These pixels are situated between the individual electrodes and the common collector electrode. The output signals of the photodiodes are in the form of a digital code that characterizes the location of the light beam.

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Uelversheim, Germany

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