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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1989
James H Bechtel, San Diego, CA (US);
Stephen R Schaefer, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Tacan Corporation, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention concerns devices for optical measurement of torsion of a rotating shaft. The measurement system can readily be installed to monitor existing equipment because it requires only that a band consisting of alternating high and low reflectivity regions be placed on the shaft at the locations to be measured. The band may be applied as an adhesive tape, among other possibilities. One sensor head is located to correspond to each band. Each sensor head projects light onto the corresponding band, then collects the light reflected by the high reflectivity region(s) of the band. The phase displacement between the intensities of the reflected light at two or more sensor heads may be used to determine torsion on the rotating shaft.