摘要 |
A displacement measuring transducer performs a direct conversion of changes in physical position, particularly angular position, into a digital form suitable for input to a digital microprocessor. The transducer is of the inductive type. Two inductance legs are connected at a common input to form a three-terminal bridge device. To sense positional changes, a step voltage is applied to the input and the transient response at the output of each leg is sampled periodically. Digital circuitry compares the responses of each leg to a fixed reference voltage and produces a binary digital count proportional to the motion sensed by the transducer. This transducer provides high resolution and low noise over a wide dynamic range. It also allows temperature compensation and scale factor calibration.
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