Self-induction-type stroke sensor

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PATENT NO 6512360
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09653424

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Within a body, a sensor member, which has one end supported in a cantilever fashion adjacent a predetermined end of the body and has the other end extending into a space of the body, includes a coil section having a plurality of coil segments that are excitable in a same phase by a predetermined A.C. signal and sequentially arranged along a direction of linear movement of a movable member. The movable member has an inner space to permit entry of the sensor member into the movable member. Inner peripheral wall of the movable member defining the inner space includes a magnetism-responsive substance containing a magnetic or electrically-conductive material. Relative positions of the magnetism-responsive substance and the coil section vary in accordance with a stroke position of the movable member, in response to which respective inductance of the coil segments are caused to vary in such a manner that during movement of the magnetism-responsive substance from one end to the other of a particular one of the coil segments, a voltage across the particular coil segment is caused to progressively decrease or increase.

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CATERPILLAR JAPAN LTD10-1 YOGA 4-CHOME SETAGAYA-KU TOKYO 158-8530

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Goto, Atsutoshi Fuchu, JP 22 1357
Sakamoto, Hiroshi Kawagoe, JP 356 5045
Sakamoto, Kazuya Hamura, JP 76 1912
Tozawa, Shoji Setagaya-ku, JP 32 2212

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