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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:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasuo Nekado, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Precision Technology Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 7/14 ; G01B 7/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 7/14 ; G01B 7/30 ;
Abstract
A position transducer including a scale and magnetic sensor system consisting of a first sensor unit and second sensor unit disposed in different positions in a direction (Z-direction) perpendicular to a moving direction (X-direction) of the magnetic sensor relative to the scale. The first and second sensor units are driven in phase with each other with a high frequency signal, and a difference between outputs of these two sensor units is determined in order to detect a relative position of the magnetic sensor to the scale.