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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/241 (2006.01); G01R 27/26 (2006.01); F16C 41/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/2415 (2013.01); F16C 41/007 (2013.01); G01R 27/2605 (2013.01);
Abstract
Example capacitive-sensing rotary encoders and methods are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a rotary encoder structured to be mounted to a motor, the rotary encoder including a plurality of circumferential capacitive sensor arrays, each of the plurality of capacitive sensor arrays having an output representing a binary bit of a rotary encoder output, the rotary encoder output changing as a conductor rotates responsive to a rotatable shaft of the motor relative to the rotary encoder.