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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1986

Filed:

Oct. 14, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:

Wataru Shimizu, Fuchu, JP;

Akira Yamashita, Komae, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ; G01P / ; G08C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324208 ; 324162 ; 34087025 ;
Abstract

A detection head unit comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator has four poles disposed circumferentially at an interval of 90.degree.. The poles have primary coils and secondary coils wound thereon. Two radially opposing poles constitute a pole pair. The primary coils wound on the poles constituting the pole pair are connected in series and in opposite phase with each other and one pole pair is excited by a sine wave signal and the other pole pair by a cosine wave signal. The rotor is of such a configuration, e.g. an eccentric rotor, as to change reluctance of the respective stator poles in accordance with a rotation angle and change reluctance in a differential manner between the two poles constituting the pole pair. An output signal resulting by phase shifting the sine wave signal applied to the primary coil in accordance with a rotation angle of the rotor is provided by a secondary coil. The rotation angle is detected by measuring phase difference between the reference signal and the output signal of the secondary coil. The rotation speed can be detected by detecting difference in frequency or period between the reference signal and the output signal. Further, acceleration in rotation can be detected by detecting an amount of change in the rotation speed. The detection device of a high resolution can be obtained by providing teeth of a certain pitch on the periphery of the rotor and teeth corresponding to the rotor teeth on the stator poles.


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