Nissho Corporation

Hideo Ogawa

Isshu Terauchi

Norihisa Teraji

A uniaxial horizontal sensor wherein factors causing errors are eliminated having high resolution and reproducibility and stability of detection with which a high levelness of inclination angle zero can be secured by attitude control has a construction wherein an electrode holding body (1) made of an insulating material has an electrode chamber (11) having an encircling wall with an inner peripheral wall surface of a high three-dimensional surface roughness and of a surface of rotation shape obtained by rotating a circular arc line (AL) of a predetermined radius with a point (P) on a vertical line (V) as its center and bisected by the vertical line (V) about a horizontal center axis (H) intersecting orthogonally with the vertical line (V) and having a common electrode (2) projecting into the electrode chamber (11) in the same position as the vertical line (V) and peripheral electrodes (3) in left-right symmetrical positions on either side of the common electrode (2) and projecting further into the electrode chamber (11) than the common electrode (2) and a bubble (5) and an electrolyte (4) mixed in such a ratio that the inter-electrode impedance becomes a predetermined value in the horizontal state are sealed inside the electrode chamber (11) in such a state that the common electrode (2) is always immersed in the electrolyte (4) and does not make contact with the bubble (5) and in the horizontal state the peripheral electrodes (3) also do not make contact with the bubble (5).

Uniaxial horizontal sensor

A biaxial inclination sensor including, in the inner bottom of a circular liquid chamber 11 formed in a sensor holder 1 made of an insulating material and having a bottom surface 28 made horizontal, one common electrode 2 made of 18K gold having a low ionization tendency in a central position and vertical with respect to the bottom surface 28 and four outer electrodes 3 made of the same material as the common electrode 2 and passing vertically through the bottom surface 28 at points of intersection of two horizontal orthogonal lines passing through the center and a circle of a predetermined radius about the center and all having the same surface area. An opening in the liquid chamber 11 of the sensor holder 1 is closed off in a liquidproof manner by a glass window plate 4 having a spherical concave portion 9 of a surface roughness less than JIS Rmax 0.25 in its inner surface. A gas bubble 8 and an electrolyte 7 made by mixing pure water as a solvent, magnesium sulfate as a solute and anhydrous methanol as a solution in such ratios that the impedance between the electrodes is 10K.OMEGA. are sealed into the sealed liquid chamber 11 in amounts such that the common electrode 2 is always submerged in the electrolyte and does not make contact with the gas bubble 8. The biaxial inclination sensor has a high resolution and reproducibility and stability of detection with which it is possible to secure a high level indication of inclination angle zero by attitude control.

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Hideo Ogawa