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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1985
Kenji Indo, Hadano, JP;
Sokkisha Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A displacement sensing device includes a sensor of magnetoresistance elements located opposite to a magnetic scale, and is adapted to measure a relative amount of movement between the magnetic scale and the sensor through the use of a variation in a resistive value of the magnetoresistance elements due to the effect of a magnetic pattern on the magnetic scale. The sensor includes magnetoresistance element sections comprised of a first pair of magnetoresistance elements and a second pair of magnetoresistance elements of a pitch different from that of the first pair of magnetoresistance elements. The magnetoresistance element sections are selectively used in accordance with the pitch of the magnetic pattern on the magnetic scale.