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7467036 In-vehicle electronic control unit  
A first control circuit portion carries out input/output control in cooperation with a microprocessor, a program memory, and a RAM memory. A second control circuit portion is in cooperation with...
7417563 Process to determine the absolute angular position of a motor vehicle steering wheel  
A method for determining the absolute value of a rotational angle includes imaging a continuous segment of a code track of a code carrier on a sensor array such that the sensor array generates a...
7400269 Coding element with integrated limit switch  
An optical encoder. The optical encoder includes a coding element, an emitter, and a detector. The coding element has a track with a track pattern. The track pattern includes a plurality of...
7385532 Extended bitstream and generation thereof for dynamically configuring a decoder  
An extended bitstream, and generation thereof, for dynamically configuring a decoder. Content data is obtained to be encoded. Build settings are obtained for configuring the decoder. The content...
7369063 Encoder signal processing circuit including a direction determining/counting unit  
An encoder signal processing circuit includes: a plurality of detectors adapted to generate signals with different phases; a switching circuit adapted to alternatively select and output a signal...
7336205 Rotary encoder  
A rotary encoder exhibits a shaft, which can be coupled in torque-proof fashion to a rotating object to be measured. The shaft is connected at a true angle of rotation to a material measure and is...
7280049 Encoder runout error correction circuit  
A novel encoder system adapted for use in print architecture at least includes: a codewheel coupled to a rotating print architecture element; a first encoder sensor mounted at a first position...
7256712 Encoder having a signal elimination unit  
An encoder includes an encoder scale having a predetermined cyclic pattern, and at least one detection unit configured to detect a cyclic displacement according to movement of the encoder scale....
6927704 Fault tolerant optoelectronic position sensor  
An assembly for optoelectronically sensing position includes a light source, a coded element, and a plurality of photosensors. Holes are disposed in the coded element to define a plurality of...
6326905 Coded rotary switch with contacts at common radius  
A rotary switch includes a plurality of first electrical contacts disposed at a common radius and a plurality of second electrical contacts mounted for rotation against said first electrical...
6271661 Absolute position transducer having a non-binary code-track-type scale  
An absolute position transducer system has two members movable relative to each other and includes a code track transducer and at least one fine wavelength transducer. The code track is arranged to...
6210597 Radio wave absorbent  
Since the radio wave absorbent of the present invention has the main component of a magnesium-zinc system ferrite material containing 45 to 50 mol % of iron oxide, 7 to 19.7 mol % of magnesium...
6100822 Optical sensing system using multiple detectors at various positions for generating position signals  
The present invention discloses an optical sensing system which uses a plurality of detectors installed at various positions next to an optical panel to generate a position signal for indicating...
5841371 Encoder signal generating device  
An encoder signal generating device in which a light receiving element (1) is constituted by a one-chip planar type phototransistor array that has a plurality of light receiving portions (21)....
5699058 Absolute encoder generating phase-shifted triangular waveforms to produce multi-bit signals  
An absolute encoder is provided with a movable member, which may be a disc, a photodetector and a processing circuit. The movable member has a plurality of tracks T arranged from higher to lower...
5650779 Position encoder  
A sensor failure detection circuit for a position encoder, the sensor failure detection circuit receiving from a first set of at least one position sensor position signals which change state at a...
5651033 Inter-system data communication channel comprised of parallel electrical conductors that simulates the performance of a bit serial optical communications link  
A self-timed interface (STI) links two physically separated systems or nodes. A transmit state machine forms each word in a serial bit stream into a plurality of bytes and generates idle and data...
5594434 Angular sensing system  
A rotatable member is positioned coaxial with a joint between a first element and a second element. The joint defines an angle to be measured. The rotatable member has coded information thereon....
5574444 Method and apparatus for decoding signals containing encoded information  
A signal converter for use with a moveable mechanical device includes input means for receiving a multi-bit digital signal indicative of a position of the moveable mechanical device, a processor...
5565864 Absolute encoder  
An encoder includes a code plate, a detector, a transformer, and first and second calculators. The code plate is formed with an absolute pattern including a plurality of bit patterns, each bit...
5497150 Image scanner  
A hand-held image scanner can scan an object larger than the scanner itself. Successive multiple partial images scanned in the Y (or longitudinal) direction) are combined to form a single image by...
5003308 Serial data receiver with phase shift detection  
An asynchronous serial data receiver for receiving a stream of data bits, characterized by a plurality of shift registers (54) into which samples corresponding to points within said data bit stream...
4978954 Non-contact type potentiometer employing a triangular wave encoder  
A non-contact type potentiometer employing a triangular wave encoder includes a triangular wave encoder for outputting a triangular wave signal consisting of a LEAD signal and a LAG signal having...
4949087 Encoder device  
An encoder device comprises a first resistor having one end connected to a first contact piece and the other end connected to an A/D conversion input terminal, a second resistor having one end...
4897648 Analog-to-digital converter having a gray code board with the least significant bit pattern disposed in the center  
An analog-to-digital converter apparatus has a code board having at least three patterns disposed thereon. One of the patterns represents a least significant bit and is arranged at the center...
4845496 Electro-optical displacement sensor  
An electro-optical displacement sensor comprises an optical source including a plurality of optical grating lines for producing from an incident optical signal a transmitted optical signal having a...
4841297 Displacement coder  
A displacement coder of the differential type wherein, in order to reduce the dimensions thereof, a first disk is rotatably connected to a principal shaft coupled to the shaft which controls the...
4719449 Transport apparatus for transporting part-carrying members to various work stations and for reading data encoded on said part-carrying member  
Each movable member (1) has a disk (6) which is mounted free to rotate about an axis (5) and which includes an annular area (7) of radial stripes (8) together with three concentric coding and read...
4709210 Magnetoacoustic proximity sensor  
A new form of proximity sensor is described which enables sensing of magnetic and/or metallic objects over an extended region of space. The time-varying magnetic field necessary for proximity...
4707683 Increasing precision of encoder output  
An output of a rotary or linear encoder of lower-precision (a subject encoder) is corrected according to that of higher-precision (a reference encoder) to provide higher precision output signals....
4688019 Signal transmission system  
In a measuring instrument for measuring the relative position of two objects, the graduation of a scale as well as a number of identical reference marks absolutely positioned with respect to this...
4654483 Electronic conference system  
An electronic conference system for a remote conference among a plurality of stations, each of the stations comprising an absolute number providing element, for assigning absolute number to an...
4628298 Chain code encoder  
A positional encoder which provides absolute position information from a single code track. A chain code track is positioned on a code disk to supply position words of N consecutive bits, each...
4549260 Cycle timer  
A cycle timer comprises an angle encoder for converting an mechanical angle information into an electrical angle information, a memory unit for storing timing information and a control program for...
4442532 Encoder output pulse detection using two stage shift register and clock oscillator  
A pulse detection circuit, is used for detecting pulses contained in output signals derived from an encoder. An encoder, such as rotary encoder, converts a physical quantity like spatial position,...
4408188 Electromechanical decoder  
1. An electromagnetic decoder comprising a code wheel assembly including a base member, a shaft supported by the base member, a first wheel element and a second wheel element carried by...
4383317 Shaft angle encoder having a circuit for synthesizing a skipped track output signal  
A shaft angle encoder for producing a multiplicity of output signals corresponding to a multidigit binary code word representing the angular position of the shaft, comprising a rotatable code...
4319223 Full code means for electromechanical decoder  
A decoder mechanism comprising a code wheel assembly including an inner wheel element and an outer wheel element, means for locking the inner wheel element to the outer wheel element in driving...
4315252 Apparatus for detecting the relative position of two movable bodies  
Apparatus is disclosed for detecting the relative position or displacement between two movable bodies, wherein a reader or sensor mounted on one of the two bodies reads a code pattern on the other...
4264903 Capacitive touch control and display  
A control for use upon a solid panel, devoid of control shaft apertures, allows data entry by rotational positioning of a human member, such as one's finger, about a pattern of a plurality of...
3961290 Programmable phase coded surface wave device  
A surface wave device (SWD) programmable to produce any one of a plurality of phase coded SWD digital delay line configurations from a single transducer pattern characterized by parallel transducer...
3958237 Acoustic to pulse code transducer  
A transducer in a telephone handset converts acoustic signals into a digital pulse code. The transducer receives enable pulses from a concentrator system which services a group of telephones and...
3947708 Apparatus for and method of converting from a digital signal to an acoustic wave using a piezoelectric beam  
A piezoelectric beam is fixed at one end and is subdivided into segments, each of which is deflected by a logic one in one of the magnitude bit locations of a digital word. The total deflection of...
3916099 Touch sensitive position encoder using a layered sheet  
A touch-sensitive position encoder which provides the position co-ordinates of the location at which a human finger or passive stylus makes contact with the surface of a transparent sheet or plate...
3853191 WEIGHING MACHINE  
A weighing machine with a digital display including a converter which responds to the body weight and generates digital signals, and electrical circuits which respond to the digital signals and...
3824586 METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION UTILIZING ACOUSTIC WAVES  
An analog to digital conversion system wherein a sequence of correlated electromagnetic reference pulses and sampling pulses are generated, the individual sampling pulses each being time-delayed an...
3815126 SHAFT ENCODER FOR APPARATUS HAVING LUMINOUS PHOSPHOR SOURCE  
An analog-to-digital converter for converting angular positional information of a shaft associated with a meter dial register into binary coded outputs includes a non-contacting encoder having a...
3780266 APPARATUS FOR SCANNING SIGNALS  
An apparatus for scanning signals along at least one track includes signal pickup device which is not guided on the track. The track may be subjected to transverse displacements relative to the...
3705400 ERROR-COMPENSATED POSITION DETERMINING  
The present system determines the linear position of a machine tool slide driven by a lead screw. The rotational position of the lead screw is sensed by an analog-to-digital converter which...
3701147 SURFACE WAVE DEVICES FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING  
A distributed-transducer surface wave device for signal processing of the pe which comprises a crystal substrate upon which is disposed at least one transducer set, including an input transducer...
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