Abstract: Disclosed is an interplanetary rocket propulsion to Mars and the Moons of the nearer outer Planets by means of 6000° K temperature, 100 atmosphere pressure, power generation and propulsion systems that utilize a gas cooled nuclear reactor and metal powder combustion, in combination with water wherein dissociation into oxygen to react with certain metals to form on board retained metal oxides, and to heat the hydrogen from dissociated water as well as on-board liquid hydrogen that is seeded with an alkali metal for use in a linear, Faraday magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator that is coaxial with a MHD accelerator for propulsion, wherein water and probable metal sources on planetary bodies would provide rocket fueling by metal oxide reprocessing to metal and for manned permanent life support bases, and for search of high value minerals, gold, silver, aluminum, rare minerals, diamonds, for transport with their lesser gravity back to Earth.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator, a rotor, and a field coil; the rotor includes a first magnetic pole having a first annular portion and a plurality of claw portions and a second magnetic pole having a second annular portion and a plurality of projection portions; in the rotor, the claw portions and the projection portions are circumferentially alternately positioned, and the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole are maintained in a non-contact state by providing a radial gap, a circumferential gap, and an axial gap between the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole; and the gap arrangement member has an axial positioning portion that is axially locked with respect to at least one of the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole, and axially positions the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole.

Abstract: A unitary system for an electric-assist bicycle generates signals indicative of power input to a drive system of the bicycle when a rider pedals the bicycle, considering torque applied by the rider, as well as the cadence or speed of the rider's pedaling. Direction of pedaling is also measured using the system. The system utilizes fixed, hard-wired, contactless electronics, namely first and second inductance coils that are non-equally-spaced circumferentially around a first axis, and which generate a first electrical signal indicative of torque based on lateral movement of a conductive or otherwise magnetically permeable rotatable member relative to the coils, and which generate second and third electrical signals indicative of pedaling cadence and direction based on eccentric relative rotational movement of the conductive or otherwise magnetically permeable rotatable member relative to the first and second inductance coils.

Abstract: A rotary electric-machine rotor includes: a rotor core made of magnetic material, the rotor core having magnet holes; magnets disposed in the magnet holes; resin portions disposed in at least part of gaps between the magnet holes and the magnets, the resin portions extending in the axial direction; and end plates disposed adjacent to end surfaces in an axial direction of the rotor core. The end plates are members made of magnetic material. The end plates cover end surfaces of the magnets in the axial direction and end surfaces of the resin portions in the axial direction, and each of the end plates having at least one holes disposed in a position that faces at least one part of the end surfaces of the magnets.

Abstract: At a time that a position detecting device is initiated, an arithmetic processing unit calculates the absolute position of a rotating shaft at the time of initiation, on the basis of first to third analog signals corresponding to first to third angles of rotation, which are detected respectively by first to third rotational angle detectors. During rotation of the rotating shaft, a current position counter detects a current absolute position of the rotating shaft by counting a number of pulses of forward rotation pulses or reverse rotation pulses, corresponding to the first angle of rotation detected by the first rotational angle detector, taking as a standard a total number of pulses corresponding to the absolute position of the rotating shaft at the time of initiation.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a winding structure and method having a high power density, and motor applying the above. The winding of the present invention has a multilayer 2D structure, has a distributed structure with an electrical angle of 180 degrees and is manufactured in the form of a PCB, wherein each layer arranged only one phase winding. Each phase windings contains 2 layers, or 4 layers, or other even layers, of windings. The number of coil cycles in every layer is the same as the motor poles, the winding layers of a same phase are connected via a through hole, the connecting hole is arranged at a corner of an upper portion of the winding loop inside.

Abstract: A turbine engine is described that includes a drive shaft and an electric generator, wherein the electric generator includes a first rotating element comprising a first magnet array and mechanically coupled to the drive shaft. The electric generator further includes a second rotating element comprising a second magnet array and mechanically coupled to the drive shaft and an armature comprising a first coil array and a second coil array, wherein the first rotating element is configured to rotate at a particular velocity relative to the first coil array, and the second rotating element is configured to rotate at the particular velocity relative to the second coil array.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic absolute rotary encoder, comprising a rotation shaft, multiple rotating wheels that can rotate along the rotation shaft, multiple encoding units that correspond to the multiple rotating wheels one-to-one, and one or more permanent magnet assemblies that provide the magnetic bias to the multiple encoding units. Each encoding unit comprises a magnetically permeable encoder disc, the structure thereof enabling the magnetic permeability thereof to be different according to the different positions of the rotation shaft, and comprises multiple sensor units that comprise multiple magnetic sensors. The sensor units are used to sense the magnetic permeability of the magnetically permeable encoder disc and to output the sensor signals that characterize the relative position of the magnetically permeable encoder disc.

Abstract: A switch assembly has two contacts; a switch having an open position in which the contacts are electrically separated from one another; and a switch status detector positioned remotely from the switch.

Abstract: Provided is a DC motor for a fuel pump for a vehicle. The DC motor for a fuel pump for a vehicle includes: a housing whose inside is hollow; a stator coupled to the inside of the housing and having a first permanent magnet whose N pole is disposed inwardly in a radial direction and a second permanent magnet whose S pole is disposed inwardly in a radial direction, the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet being spaced apart from each other to face each other; and a rotor disposed on an inside of the stator while being spaced apart from the stator, in which a first gap g1 between the first permanent magnet and the rotor is different from a second gap g2 between the second permanent magnet and the rotor, whereby a torque ripple that is a fluctuation width of a cogging torque is reduced.

Abstract: An interior permanent magnet synchronous motor is provided. In the motor, a V-type recess is provided between adjacent permanent magnets within an outer surface of a rotor. The angle of the V-type recess ranges from 103° to 107°.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes a magnet configured to generate a bias magnetic field. A plurality of electrical wires extend through the magnet. A magnetic sensor chip is attached to an end face of a first electrical wire of the plurality of electrical wires.

Abstract: A stator core includes a cylindrical yoke and teeth that are disposed in an inner circumference surface of the yoke along its circumferential direction and that are subjected to magnetic flux from the rotor of the rotating electrical device. The teeth include a trapezoidal tooth that has a trapezoidal cross section that is taken vertically along a central axis of the yoke and an oddly shaped tooth of which a tip section has the same shape as the trapezoidal tooth and a base section from the tip section to the yoke has a different shape from the trapezoidal tooth.

Abstract: A drive unit includes an ultrasonic actuator having an actuator body formed using a piezoelectric element, and a driving element provided on the actuator body and configured to output a driving force by moving according to the vibration of the actuator body, and a control section configured to induce the vibration in the actuator body by applying a first and a second AC voltages having a same frequency and different phases to the piezoelectric element. The control section adjusts the first AC voltage and the second AC voltage so that the first AC voltage and the second AC voltage have different voltage values from each other.

Abstract: A resolver fixing structure which does not cause distortion at a resolver stator is provided. The resolver fixing structure arranged between coil ends of a stator constituting a rotating electrical machine includes a ring portion as a base member having a hole, and a resolver stator press-fitted into the hole. The resolver stator has an outer circumferential portion provided with a shield member coming into contact with the hole.

Abstract: A method and corresponding apparatus for regulating a system that produces electric power, the system including an electric alternator having a rotor integral with a rotating part of a wind machine to form a rotary assembly, and a power electronics module, the method including the steps of: producing an alternating current at output terminals of the alternator; converting the alternating current produced by the alternator into modulated pulses of direct current. Alternating electric current produced by the alternator is regulated by controlling the speed of rotation of the rotary assembly by resisting torque imposed by the alternator in response to modulating the pulses of continuous current produced by the converted the alternating current.

Abstract: A DC to AC inverter comprising a battery structured to provide a plurality of DC voltages and a switching system comprising a mechanical rotation system having a stator with a plurality of spaced-apart, conductive contacts, each electrically interconnected to one of the battery DC voltages and arranged so that, as the stator is circumvented in a single direction, the DC voltage of successive contacts increase in steps from 0 volts to the uppermost DC voltage and then decrease in steps to the lowermost voltage, and then increase in steps back to 0 volts, a rotor positioned within the stator and structured to revolve within the stator so that its conductive brushes electrically engage each contact during one revolution of the rotor, causing the brushes to pick up each contact's DC voltage as the brushes electrically engage each contact, and a motor structured to rotate the rotor.

Abstract: A stator wound resolver comprising: a stator and a rotor aligned on an axis; the stator having a plurality of teeth with input and output windings disposed on some or all of the teeth, the input and output windings exhibiting a mutual inductance characteristic that varies as a function of position of the rotor about the axis; the input winding being connectable to a drive signal and the output windings being disposed on the teeth such that output signals induced in the output windings correspond to position of the rotor; the rotor being attachable to a position changing means, the rotor comprising at least two axially spaced rotor pieces that are offset from each other by a stagger angle such that a portion of harmonic distortion produced by one of the rotor pieces is reduced by complementary harmonic distortion produced by another of the rotor pieces.

Abstract: A variable-reluctance-type angle sensor having an output winding wound in each slot on a one-slot pitch basis and in a sinusoidal distribution. The variable-reluctance-type angle sensor is so structured that the number of the poles of exciting windings is equal to the number of slots and that the induced voltage in the output winding corresponding to one phase of n-phase output windings is sinusoidally distributed.

Abstract: A permanent magnet generator includes an annular stator with windings on the inner face. A round rotor is rotatably mounted in the stator, and includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced rectangular openings inwardly of the outer peripheral portion of the core. Radial U-shaped grooves are formed between the openings. A magnetic unit, including a rectangular permanent magnet and an abutting magnetic conductive shim, is close-fitted within each opening. The core includes core lamination and separate end laminations of a structure corresponding to the core laminations. The end laminations are rotated about an axis through the core to offset the magnetic unit openings with respect to the magnetic unit opening of the core laminations. The laminations are riveted together, with the offset end lamination retaining the magnetic units within the core.

Abstract: A sinusoidally distributed winding method suitable for a detector winding comprises the steps of serially connecting winding groups (x) wound sequentially at one-slot intervals to form a one-phase shunt winding group (y), and constructing an n-phase shunt winding group (Z) using n of the one-phase shunt winding groups (y). An automatic winding can be performed based on the winding procedure group wound sequentially at one-slot pitch intervals.

Abstract: Object of the present invention is to provide an induction alternating current generator on vehicle and a method for generating alternating current in a generator on vehicle, which improve the efficiency of the generator by increasing magnetic flux permeating a stator core.Second electromagnetic exciting means for generating magnetic field in the direction of repelling the leak magnetic flux between neighboring claw poles, are provided in the spaces formed by the neighboring claw poles engaging each other at a gap and first electromagnetic exciting means provided inside a pair of the rotor cores of the induction alternating current generator on vehicle.

Abstract: A switched reluctance motor (10) provides position and speed detection without a shaft position sensor. At least one of the stator pole faces (54) and/or at least one of the rotor pole faces (60) has an irregularity such as a notch (52 and/or 58) providing a perturbation or blip (70, 82) in the inductance profile (72, 76, 84) of the motor (10) during rotation of the rotor (14) indicative of the position of the rotor (14) relative to the stator (12). The frequency of the perturbations indicates motor speed.

Abstract: A Wiegand-effect shaft position sensor is excited by an alternating magnetic field generated by stationary magnets or solenoids interacting with a high-strength, toothed wheel that is fixed to the rotor. A set of three stationary poles are situated proximate to the rotor and are connected together by a yoke. The magnets or solenoids are mounted in the outside poles of the set of three stationary poles. The central stationary pole contains a Wiegand-effect device. In operation, a flux reversal in the Wiegand-effect device occurs at twice the frequency at which the poles of the toothed wheel pass the stationary poles, resulting in the generation of sharp voltage pulses indicative of rotor position.

Abstract: This disclosure describes apparatus and method for overcoming stroke limitations of moving coil reaction-mass vibration dampers, by recovering armature stroke displacement. The coil housing is selectively coupled or de-coupled to the vibrating structure. If, when the armature reaches its travel limit, sufficient damping energy has not been applied to the structure, the coil-housing assembly is decoupled from the structure while the armature is pulsed back to its zero displacement position. The housing then is re-coupled to the surface, having displaced some determinable distance from its previous location relative to the surface. Additional armature movement in the same direction as the previous armature stroke is applied, thereby generating the needed additional damping force. The resetting of the housing to its normal position vis-a-vis the vibrating structure can occur at a selected time in the damping force-generating cycle when reset does not impart an undesired reaction to the vibrating structure.

Abstract: A machine is disclosed having the ability to generate high energy pulses of electrical power with a high degree of flexibility in the shape of the pulse. Different mechanism provide non-uniform or non-symmetrical magnetic flux density distributions through which an armature winding is rotated. The electromotive force induced in the armature winding has a waveform which may be customized by use of the different mechanisms or by a combination of the techniques. Additionally, a non-symmetrical armature winding or a compensation winding may be used to tailor the output pulse to achieve the desired characteristics.

Abstract: A multiple rotational position sensor includes a stator winding provided to a stator mounted to a casing and a rotor having a rotor winding provided to a rotor shaft mounted for rotation to the casing, in which the rotational position is sensed by the relative rotation between the rotor and the stator. According to the present invention, the sensor also includes a speed reducing unit for coupling the rotor shaft and the casing together and outer bearings for rotatably carrying the casing, which is revolved by rotation of the rotor shaft by an angle less than the angle of rotation of the rotor shaft.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a stator having permanent magnets constituting a two-pole field, and a rotor having rotor windings wound on a rotor core of a three-pole construction, in which the rotor core is formed in such a manner that the cross-sectional shape of the rotor core normal to the motor shaft is made symmetrical with respect to the radial center line of each pole thereof and that the gap between the permanent magnets and a predetermined range from the center line of the arc-shaped outer periphery of the rotor core facing the permanent magnet is made larger than the gap between the permanent magnet and at least part of the other range of the outer periphery of the rotor core.

Abstract: An alternator having a rotor which extends obliquely with respect to its axis of rotation between at least a pair of pole pieces having power windings disposed therein with the turns of the windings facing the pivotal axis of the rotor. Upon driving the rotor in rotation, the rotor due to its oblique configuration causes the flux extending with respect to the pole pieces to reciprocate with respect to the pivotal axis and the power windings, thereby producing two cycles of alternating current for each rotation of the rotor. The form of the rotor can substantially correspond to a portion of a cylinder having oppositely disposed face portions extending obliquely with respect to the central axis of the of the cylinder which is substantially coincident with the pivotal axis of the rotor. The periphery of the rotor thereby generates a cylindrical figure of revolution as the rotor is rotated.

Abstract: A full flux reversal variable reluctance machine is disclosed. The stator includes a plurality of poles and electrical windings surrounding a portion of the stator. The rotor comprises main and shunt components that have alternate sections of high and low magnetic permeability. The shunt and main components are magnetically isolated, and the sections of high and low magnetic permeability for one component are complementary to the sections on the other component. Variations in flux magnitude and direction are induced in the stator without reversing the flux direction in the rotor.

Abstract: This rotational position detection device comprises a stator section including primary and secondary windings and a rotor section disposed in such a manner that it is capable of performing relative rotational displacement with respect to the stator section. A conductive substance portion is provided in the form of a predetermined pattern. The amount of flux passing through the conductive substance portion of the rotor section changes in accordance with a relative rotational position of the rotor section with respect to the stator section and therefore an eddy current flows through the conductive substance portion. Reluctance is caused to change by a loss due to this eddy current and a secondary output signal corresponding to the rotational position is produced in the windings of the stator section. The pattern of the conductive substance portion can be formed easily by using electro-plating or other surface processing technique.

Abstract: The present synchro-generator comprises a stator, which comprises at least two signal windings, which are offset predetermined angles relative to each other, and a rotor, which carries an exciter winding (3).In order to provide a structure which is simple and inexpensive and to generate output voltages which approximate sine voltages as closely as possible, the stator comprises an axially aligned cylindrical coil (9), which is known per se and provided with obliquely wound windings, the rotor comprises a rod core (2) carrying the exciter winding (3), the two ends of the rod core (2) face and define an air gap with the inside surface of the cylindrical coil (9), and the latter is surrounded on its outside surface by a shell (11) of low-reluctance material.

Abstract: A linear resolver wherein a stator is made of a magnetic material and is toothed at equal pitches along the direction of measurement, and a movable element is an electromagnet made of an E type or C type core around which a primary single phase winding W.sub..theta. is wound, the surface of the movable element facing the stator and constituting part of a magnetic path of the linear resolver being provided with detection secondary windings bonded to the surface, and the detection secondary windings each having as its winding pitch a half the pitch between the teeth of the stator; wherein the movable element is supported relative to the stator with a constant gap therebetween and guided in sliding relation to the stator only in the longitudinal direction of the stator.

Abstract: A resolver which in a preferred embodiment utilizes a stator member, preferably made of a single piece of ferrite material, which has active stator sine poles and active stator cosine poles and a rotor member which has passive rotor poles. The active stator poles have excitation voltage inputs supplied thereto and, as the rotor poles rotate relative thereto, the sine and cosine stator poles supply voltage outputs which vary sinusoidally and co-sinusoidally, respectively, as a function of the angular position of the rotor member relative to the stator member. Multiple stator and rotor pole combinations can be used to provide resolver operation at different speeds.

Abstract: A magnetic structure including a stator including sensor windings and a field exciter, and a movable armature having a variety of applications, including a synchro resolver and a tachometer. The stator comprises a plurality of planes of oppositely polarized parallel magnetic pole pieces contained in an annular or toroidal structure of rectangular cross-section to circumferentially surround the movable rotor or armature. The parallel pole pieces of opposite polarity form a segment extending radially inward, and are surrounded by a plurality of sense windings, wherein the rotor selectively provides a relatively low reluctance path to one or more of the pole pieces, causing a change in flux and corresponding voltage to be produced in the sense windings. In one embodiment, the pole pieces are energized by a permanent magnet located in the stator to produce a tachometer output voltage upon the sense windings. In that configuration the sense winding signals vary in amplitude according to velocity and position.

Abstract: A stator adapted for mounting adjacent the periphery of a moving machine gear, whereby the gear serves as a rotor in an electric alternator. A pair of elongated pole pieces are mounted in parallel adjacent the gear periphery. Dependent teeth are formed on each of the ends of each pole piece. The ends of the teeth of the pole pieces are separated from the gear tooth tips by a short air gap. The pole pieces are of length such that when the teeth at one end of a pole piece overlie gear tooth tips, the teeth at the opposite end of that pole piece overlie spaces between gear teeth. The pole pieces are displaced longitudinally relative to one another so that when the teeth at one end of one pole piece overlie gear tooth tips, the teeth at the like end of the other pole piece overlie spaces between gear teeth. Magnets are positioned between the pole pieces, one at each end. Gear motion induces electrical potentials in conductor coils wound on the pole pieces.

Abstract: A rotation detector for detecting the rotational speed and phase of the upper rotary drum of a guide drum of a VTR in respect to the stationary drum of the guide drum as the upper rotary drum rotates about its rotational axis, the rotation detector including a magnet mounted on the lower surface of the upper rotary drum along a first circumferential path which is coaxial with the rotational axis of the upper rotary drum, five yoke members mounted along the first circumferential path on the lower surface of the upper rotary drum with the magnet and each yoke member being equally spaced from one another along the first circumferential path, a first iron core having a coil wound about it mounted on the stationary drum along a second circumferential path which is coaxial with and opposing the first circumferential path for producing a signal corresponding to the rotational phase of the upper rotary drum in response to the passing of only the magnet during rotation of the upper rotary drum, and two second iron cor

Abstract: An alternator for use in a brushless DC tachometer which produces are output voltage with a trapezoidal waveshape. The alternator includes a three phase toroidal winding on a plotless core. The windings are concentrated rather than being distributed. The rotor includes high intensity permanent magnets configured to provide uniform flux density over a large segment at least equal to a commutation increment.

Abstract: A signal generating device comprising a bistable magnetic device which alters its magnetic state when the density of magnetic flux to which it is subject passes through a predetermined value, and detecting means providing an output signal responsive to a change in magnetic state of said bistable device. A conducting means for magnetic flux comprises a first portion providing a first path of high permeability and a second portion, and has the bistable device connected between the first and second portions for conducting therebetween and being subjected to the conducted magnetic flux. The second portion provides second and third paths through the bistable device, each having a respectively alterable permeance for varying in an opposite relationship the respective reluctance of the second and third paths of the conducting means and the density and sense of magnetic flux to which the bistable device is subject.

Abstract: A non-contact signal generator which is adapted for the conduction signal source for the semi-conductor ignition system of so-called current-breaking type or induced-energy accumulating type and which is of the permanent-magnet-energization, variable magnetic reluctance type with one or more than two stationary pole number for generating one conduction signal for each pole in each rotation is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotary pulse generator including an armature having a two-magnet assembly including spaced pole pieces defining a pair of spaced gaps, an armature plate including a charge core and charge coil mounted thereon, and a trigger core and trigger coil mounted thereon, said trigger core being separate from said charge core but located in proximity to said charge core so that, at a given armature speed, said trigger coil produces a repeating series of trigger pulses including a first major voltage pulse of one polarity and of a major magnitude closely followed by a second minor voltage pulse of opposite polarity and of a minor magnitude substantially less than the major magnitude, the repeating series of trigger pulses being produced in response to the two-magnet assembly sequentially rotating past the trigger core and the charge core.

Abstract: A demodulator for the demodulation of polyphase, in particular triphase, voltages interfering among themselves and constituting a system of polyphase pseudo-sinusoidal voltages modulated in amplitude to a pulsation .epsilon., to obtain a system of polyphase voltages with a pulsation .epsilon.. The demodulator comprises a polyphase rotating machine including three 3-phase armatures connected through a common yoke made up of a low magnetic loss material, and fed by three systems of polyphase pseudo-sinusoidal voltages modulated in amplitude to a pulsation .epsilon.. A rotor freely rotates within the armature and includes three magnetic circuits connected through a common magnetic axle with the flux carrying parts of the rotor being a low loss magnetic material. Three static coils are disposed concentric with the axis of the magnetic rotor axle, and three systems of polyphase voltages of pulsation .epsilon. are collected at the respective terminals of the coils.

Abstract: A signal generating means comprising a bistable magnetic device which alters its magnetic state when the density of magnetic flux to which it is subject passes through a predetermined value, and detecting means providing an output signal responsive to a change in magnetic state of said bistable device. A conducting means comprising first and second portions conducts magnetic flux in first and second paths and subjects the bistable magnetic device which is connected between the first and second portions to the conducted magnetic flux. The second portion provides the second path with an alterable permeance for varying the reluctance of the second path of the conducting means, and an energizing means provides magnetic flux to the conducting means having a sense along the first path through the bistable device which is opposite to its sense in the second path.

Abstract: A pulsating signal generator for the production, in particular, of 3 systems of triphase voltages, in which the resulting pseudo-sinusoidal voltages of the 3 systems are modulated in amplitude at predetermined, fixed or variable pulsation .epsilon., and staggered in phase by 2.pi./3 radians among themselves. The generators of the double homopolar rotating machine type comprise a magnetic stator circuit of double homopolar alternator construction provided with two armatures, each including a system of triphase windings with 3 independent circuits per phase, each circuit of each phase of the first armature being connected in series with one of the circuits of a phase of the second armature. A rotor with a rotating magnet divided into two half-rotors by an airgap 23 is disposed on a shaft concentric with the armatures and an excitation induction coil, concentric to the axis of the rotor provides magnetic flux through the armatures. A driving means drives the half-rotors at speeds .mu..sub.1, and .mu..sub.

Abstract: In the construction of a photoelectric type rotation angle detector for a rotatable or turnable object including a photoelectric transducer, an optical interceptor and a comparator circuit, a cylindrical light interceptive portion extends parallel to the main shaft axis of the interceptor, the optical trace of the transducer extends across the light interceptive portion, and angular deviation of the object from a standard angular position induces corresponding relative rotation between the transducer and the interceptor for generation of a corresponding output from the comparator circuit.

Abstract: A magnetic interrupter type transducer for providing an ignition signal with alternating peaks and varying progressively between the peaks. The shape of the signal is a function of the configuration of the opposed surfaces between a rotor and an adjacent pole tip of a magnetic circuit which generates the ignition signal by electromagnetic induction. The variation in volume of the air gap produced during rotation of the rotor provides the signal of the desired characteristics.

Abstract: An engine driven rotor has pairs of arms of different lengths passing by the stator core teeth with respectively different clearances. The stator teeth carry pick-up coils that are connected in series-aiding relation. Although the stator teeth are uniformly spaced, the rotor arms, that are equal in number to the stator teeth, have the longer pair angularly offset from equiangular relation to the shorter pair in such a way that when the rotor moves in its normal direction, a weak pulse is followed by a stronger one and this pattern is repeated four times per revolution. The output of the coils is supplied to a threshold switch, which will be triggered on the second of the pair of pulses at low rotation speeds of the rotor and on the first of the pair of pulses at high speeds.

Abstract: An inductive transducer intended, according to the invention, for converting the displacement of mechanical objects into an electric signal, comprising primary and secondary coils with cores, connected to one of mutually moving mechanical objects. The coils are arranged one opposite the other with a gap, wherein a main screen connected to the other moving object and at least one auxiliary screen are located. The auxiliary screen is set movably in a plane parallel to the main screen. The inductive transducer of this invention permits obtaining a functional relationship between the output signal and two or more displacements of mechanical objects, and thereby enables the relationship, including the slope thereof, to be controlled by simple means.

Abstract: An angular position signal generator includes a rotor and a stator each having an arrangement of salient magnetic poles. The poles on the rotor are all of the same polarity and are spaced at unequal angles around the axis of the rotor. The poles on the stator are identically arranged so that in at least one position of the rotor all the poles are aligned and in at least two other positions only some of the poles are aligned. As the rotor rotates, therefore, the flux flowing between the poles fluctuates and a winding in the flux path produces pulses of different magnitudes at these various positions of the rotor.

Abstract: A rotation indication system having an improved sensing device for determining the velocity of a rotating body is disclosed. The improved sensing device is tubular in configuration and includes a source of magnetic flux and two pole pieces that define a split magnetic field. The sensing device is mounted in close proximity to a rotor which is connected to the rotating body. The rotor has apertures which interrupt the split magnetic field producing an output signal with a frequency proportional to the velocity of the rotating body. The sensing device is oriented relative to the rotor apertures so that each pole piece is alternatively in register with an aperture to produce the desired output signal. Since the sensing device is tubular in shape, it can be rotated about its axis to obtain the desired orientation with the rotor apertures, thus permitting the use of the sensing device with a wide range of rotor diameters having various aperture spacings.