Abstract: A rotary control signal generating device, such as a resolver, which comprises an internal stator including a magnetic system having first and second ring-shaped pole pieces with generally cylindrical, axially spaced, outwardly facing first and second pole surfaces. These pole surfaces are generally concentric with respect to a central axis and have the same outer diameter. The two pole pieces each include a given number of equally spaced coil receiving slots with axially spaced pole pieces aligned to form sets of circumferentially spaced slots. The stator includes a multiturn or primary exciter winding between the two pole pieces and wound concentric with the axis, whereby an AC voltage magnetizes the pole pieces. The stator further includes two offset sensing windings on the same pole pieces and in the axially aligned sets of slots.

Abstract: Minaturized unipolar low power rotational speed transducers or tachometer generators are disclosed, one of which is comprised of coaxial housing and pole members of magnetic material and a permanent magnet interposed therebetween and which housing and pole member provide an annular air gap receiving the annular side wall of a rotatable cup-shaped rotor of electrically conductive material. The rotor is supported by a drivable shaft at the end of the housing corresponding to the closed end of the rotor, and a pair of brushes radially engage the rotor side wall adjacent the closed and open ends of the rotor to provide an output signal in response to driving rotation of the rotor.