Abstract:
A signaling device which generates a selection signal via an analog selection device for choosing a signal range, and a range scale for displaying the signal range chosen by the analog selection device, wherein the range scale includes setting ranges and a transition range, where one setting range of the setting ranges is arranged in an alternating manner with the transition range along the range scale, and the analog selection device is arranged such that selection of a setting range or a transition range along the range scale is selected and the analog selection device defines an analog selection value, and the signaling device additionally detects the analog selection value aided by the selection signal and checks whether this value corresponds to a value allocated to a transition range, and if so, outputs a signal via a signaler.
Abstract:
An angle detector includes an intersection phase detector to compare each pair of multiple sensor signals or multiple sensor processed signals generate and output each intersection phase detection signal indicating a phase at which the signal level difference of the each pair is a first maximum hysteresis error after signal levels of signals of the each pair match, an intersection level detector to detect each intersection level and generate and output multiple intersection level signals indicating the detected intersection level, a signal selector to single out a selection signal of the either of the multiple sensor signals or the multiple sensor processed signals; a phase detector to detect that a signal level of the selection signal selected by the signal selector has reached a threshold level and a threshold level adjuster to adjust the threshold level based on the intersection level signal and the first maximum hysteresis error.
Abstract:
A sensor interface operates to communicate a sensed quantity along one or more processing pathways and in different data representations. The signal representations can be swapped along one or more locations of the signal processing branches. These branches are independent from one another and combined at an interface component for transmission along a single path or node for a control unit.
Abstract:
A measurement instrument having a processor, a first sensor and a second sensor. The processor is adapted to output a measurement signal embodying a measurement of a physical quantity. The first sensor and second sensor are connected to the processor and are operable to generate respectively first and second measurements of the physical quantity. The processor defines a first measurement range within which the measurement signal is dependent on the first measurement and not the second measurement. The processor defines a second measurement range within which the measurement signal is dependent on the second measurement and not the first measurement. The first and second ranges meet at a predetermined transition. The first and second measurements are different at the transition and the measurement embodied in the measurement signal crosses the transition without an abrupt change.
Abstract:
A controlling unit and a method of correcting an actual limit value of a sensor signal is described, wherein above or below the limit value a specific state of the sensor is recognized, the method comprises the steps of determining a new limit value of the sensor, determining a stability criteria to decide whether the actual limit value is corrected with said new limit value and approaching the actual limit value to the new limit value when the conditions are fulfilled to correct the actual limit value for said sensor.
Abstract:
A rotation angle detecting apparatus having a reference signal-generating device that generated a reference signal; a rotation angle detecting section that generated an output signal in response to the reference signal; a feedback control section that determines a rotational angular speed based on the output signal and performs feedback control to calculate a rotation angle; and a free-running range change device that narrows a free-running range of the rotational angular speed at a time of starting settling of the rotation angle. In the rotation angle detecting apparatus, the free-running range of the rotational angular speed at the time of starting the settling of the rotation angle is narrowed, whereby the settling time can be shortened. Accordingly, the time that elapses before it becomes possible to detect a rotation angle can be shortened correspondingly.
Abstract:
A sensor includes a transducer that provides a sensed signal to a signal processing device. The signal processing device switches the operating mode as a function of frequency, such that the switching device is operated in the switched operating mode at low frequencies and in the continuous operating mode at high frequencies. In a preferred embodiment, the transducer is a Hall effect sensing device.
Abstract:
A control device for an optical sensor including an optical transmitter is used to prolong the service life of the optical transmitter, preferably a light-emitting diode, and to adjust the service life of the electronic components and, thus, prolong the service life of the optical sensor. This is achieved in that the transmitter power is able to be switched over between full power and reduced power as a function of a measuring value from the sensor.
Abstract:
A non-linear scale instrument responsive to a sensor which generates an output signal proportional to the magnitude of a changeable condition. A visible scale includes spaced gradations over the total extent of the scale, with spacings between pairs of scale gradations varying across the scale. A control circuit, in response to the output signal of the sensor, determines the angular position of and drives a rotatable pointer across the scale to the angular position corresponding to the magnitude of the condition measured by the sensor. The control circuit also automatically converts between different measurement units at the user's selection to re-position the pointer corresponding to the measured condition in the selected units.
Abstract:
A non-volatile memory stores values defining a released position or a depressed position of a clutch pedal. A potentiometer mechanically linked to the clutch pedal produces an output signal whose value or magnitude represents the current position of the clutch pedal. When power is turned on, first and second end limit values which electrically define the depressed and released positions of the clutch pedal are read from the memory, a constant value is added to the first end limit value and subtracted from the second. Thereafter, each time the output signal is sensed for control purposes, the output signal is compared with the end limit values. If the output signal is less than the first end limit value it replaces that value in the memory and if the output signal is greater than the second end limit value it replaces that value. The sensor is thus calibrated in a manner transparent to the operator each time the system samples the sensor output signal for control purposes. When either end limit value is changed, threshold values representing specified positions of the clutch pedal relative to its released or depressed position are recalculated and stored for subsequent use as control values.