Abstract:
Velocity detection is the crucial step for motion feedback and control. A dynamic loudspeaker can be conceptualized as a motion conductor within magnetic field. This invention calculates the velocity of a motion conductor, uses operational amplifier to emulate the calculation and realize the velocity detection.
Abstract:
A multi-function sensor system comprises a dual-axis electromagnetic speed sensor and a depth transducer to enable various underwater or marine measurements to be achieved in a single unit thus reducing the space required on a vessel and the cost of having such multiple functions.
Abstract:
A method of recognizing obstacles on operation of a vibratory pile driver of a work machine includes monitoring an acceleration signal of the vibratory pile driver during operation of the vibratory pile operator and analyzing the acceleration signal to determine the presence of an obstacle. The acceleration signal may be monitored over a time period which is determined based on an excitation frequency of the vibratory pile driver. The analysis may include comparing negative and positive half-waves of the acceleration signal. Responsive to the analysis indicating an obstacle, a system operator may be alerted, and/or operation of the vibratory pile driver may be adjusted via controller intervention.
Abstract:
A speed sensor for detecting a speed of a magnetizable object. The speed sensor (100) can be supplied with an electric alternating signal with a first frequency by an electric signal source. The speed sensor including: a primary coil for generating a magnetic alternating field with the first frequency; first and second secondary coils. The first and second secondary coils can each be magnetically coupled to the primary coil via a magnetizable object. First and second electric signals induced in the first and second secondary coils respectively by the generated magnetic alternating field; a Goertzel filter bank detects first and second amplitude values of respective spectral components of the induced first and second electric signals in the event of a second frequency which differs from the first frequency. A processor determines the speed of the magnetizable object depending on the detected first amplitude value and the detected second amplitude value.
Abstract:
A removable sensor assembly for non-intrusively sensing instantaneous speed of an engine comprising a crankshaft having a respective end equipped with an externally accessible bolt, the removable sensor assembly comprising: a housing comprising a recess configured to removably receive and engage a portion of the externally accessible bolt; and a force sensing device received in the housing, the force sensing device being configured to wirelessly provide information indicative of angular motion of the crankshaft, the force sensing device comprising: at least one coil; a power supply for providing an excitation to the coil, wherein the coil provides a first signal and a second signal each corresponding to the movement of the housing, the first signal corresponding to the resistance of the coil and the second signal corresponding to the inductance of the coil; and a signal transmitter coupled to the coil to receive and transmit the first signal and the second signal.
Abstract:
A piston damper assembly includes a piston damper and a relative velocity sensor. The piston damper includes a damper body, a piston rod, and a dust tube which is attached to the piston rod. The relative velocity sensor includes an axially extending first magnet supported by the dust tube, a flux collector, and a first sensor coil. The flux collector is supported by the dust tube, includes an axially-extending first prong in axially-extending contact with the first magnet, includes an axially-extending second prong, and includes a joining member connecting the first and second prongs. The first sensor coil surrounds the joining member and/or one of the first and second prongs. A piston-damper dust tube subassembly includes the dust tube and the relative velocity sensor.
Abstract:
A device for detecting motion of a movable part of an injection-molding machine uses an encoder coupled to the part which outputs two square waves which are a quarter-cycle out of phase. The two waves are used to generate trigger pulses at four times either encoder waves' frequency. The direction of the phase shift, positive or negative, depends on the forward or backward direction of motion of the part, and the trigger pulses are generated in on one of two logic circuits depending on the direction of motion of the part. The quadrupling of the encoder wave frequency increases the accuracy of motion measurement. The device uses AND/OR logic to generate the two sets of trigger pulses. The trigger pulses are counted to determine the distance the part has moved. The trigger pulses are also latched, and higher-frequency clock pulses are counted during the latched period to calculate the part's speed.
Abstract:
The present invention features a method and an apparatus for sensing the speed and the direction of rotation of a motor. The apparatus of the invention has a timing wheel disk that is attached to the rotational shaft of a motor and has a number of slots. Opposite the timing wheel are mounted two spaced-together proximity sensors that are a given or a fixed distance apart. The sensors are spaced to read within each slot of the disk at any given point during in the rotation of the timing wheel. When the sensors detect the edges of each slot of the rotating wheel, signals are generated. The sensors respectively define sensing channels A and B. A microcontroller contains a logic program that calculates the motor's speed and direction. Speed is determined by measuring the time that it takes for a point (the edge of a rotating disk's slot) to travel across both sensors. Direction is determined by storing the logic level of the first sensor (channel A) while a generated exclusive OR signal is high, and then analyzing the level of channel A when the exclusive OR is low. Channel A changes logic states over the exclusive OR period when the motor is rotating clockwise; it remains at the same logic state over the exclusive OR period when the motor is rotating counterclockwise. The invention requires no coupling or interface between the sensors. No moving parts are required by this invention, since the timing wheel is mounted directly upon the motor shaft, and the sensors are fixedly mounted adjacent the timing wheel on the brake drum, which requires no special bracketing.
Abstract:
The invention comprises a velocity sensor (10, 30, 50, 60, 70, 110) that measures velocity in only one degree of freedom and is insensitive to the other five degrees of freedom. The velocity sensor uses differential flux splitting, and by sensing changes in flux, common mode effects are removed. In practising the invention, a permanent magnet (17, 33, 55, 65, 71, 131) is used to create a flux field, and multiple return paths are used to split the flux. A plurality of pole pieces (20-21, 39-40, 58-59, 66-67, 72-73, 111-112) simultaneously move an equal amount in relation to the return paths for differentially varying the amount of flux carried by each return path (13-14, 34-36, 52-53, 63-64, 73A-C and 75A-C, to thereby induce a differential voltage in secondary coils (15-16, 37-38, 56-57, 68-69, 80-83 and 90-93, 140-143 and 150-153). Detection means (not shown) is used to sense the change in voltage and provide an indication of the sensed velocity. The pole pieces and return paths are overlapped by an amount to ensure that one may move relative to the other a limited extent in directions not parallel to the sensitive axis without effecting a change in the net overlapped area, and the coils are arranged in series-connected, oppositely wound pairs so that common mode error signals are cancelled.
Abstract:
In a velocity sensor having a coil and a stick-shaped magnet inserted into the coil and magnetized such that opposite magnetic poles are provided at opposite longitudinal ends thereof, the coil and the magnet being movable relatively, the coil is wound more at the ends than at the center thereof.