摘要 |
<p>A speed and direction detector for rotating bodies such as gears (10) including a pair of spaced sensors (14) mounted adjacent the gear teeth (12) to develop phase-shifted alternating signal waveforms, and a decoder (20) to develop a sequence of output signal conditions (5-53) depending upon the relation between the altern ating waveform values. Signal stage memories (26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36) utilizing flip-flops and gates connect the decoder outputs to an up/down counter (42, 44) which is incremented or decremented according to gear rotation direction only if a complete signal condition sequence occurs.</p> |