A scanning element includes a multilayer circuit board having a first detector unit arranged in a first layer and in a second layer. In addition, the circuit board has a second detector unit, which is arranged in a third layer and in a fourth layer, and a first shielding layer, which is arranged in a fifth layer. The circuit board moreover has a geometrical center plane, which is located between the detector units, and furthermore has vias, which are arranged at an offset from one another in a direction parallel to the center plane. The fifth layer is structured such that that a web that is electrically insulated with respect to this first shielding layer is arranged next to the first shielding layer, the web being electrically contacted with the vias and electrically connecting the vias to one another.

An Eddy current sensor device includes a sender member emitting a magnetic field and two sensing members. A central position sensing member includes a pair of central sense coils each being formed by a plurality of turns, and an edge position sensing member includes a pair of edge sense coils each being formed by a plurality of turns.

An actuator is used to longitudinally move a spline sleeve for controlling drive mode of a differential on an off-road vehicle. The actuator's motor rotates an eccentric knob through a drive train including intermediate gears and a worm gear. The eccentic knob is linked to the spline sleeve through a torsion spring carried on a pivot plate, with legs of the torsion spring pushing a slide block, transferring a moment provided by the eccentric knob into a linear slide force. The pivot plate and torsion spring are jointly mounted on the actuator housing by a hub, opposite the rotational axis of the eccentric knob from the slide block. The slide block includes a contact which completes a circuit through conductive pads on the actuator housing, so the position of the slide block can be directly sensed.

A magnetic response section provided by a scale of a magnetic linear sensor is configured so that changes in magnetic influence on a magnetic detection head appear alternately and repeatedly every first pitch in a displacement detection direction. The magnetic detection head is provided on one side of the scale in the first direction, which is a direction perpendicular to the displacement detection direction, and provided with a base substrate section and a plurality of signal output sections. The signal output sections are arranged on an insulating plate and in the displacement detection direction at a second pitch based on a first pitch. The first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern included by each of the signal output sections are formed to arrange coil elements side by side in an elongated area in a second direction orthogonal to both the displacement detection direction and the first direction.

The present application provides a biasing device for detecting a conductor position and wire processing equipment. The biasing device has a bracket, a first drive mechanism, and a detection mechanism. The first drive mechanism has a first support shaft and a mounting slide block rotatably arranged on the bracket, and a mounting slide block, the mounting block can move relative to the bracket along the extension direction of the first support shaft when the first support shaft rotates; the detection mechanism is fixedly connected to the mounting slide block, and is arranged movably relative to the bracket along the extension direction of the first support shaft to determine whether the measured conductor is located in the detection area of the designated position. The biasing device provided by the present application compensates for the offset of the heat shrinkable tube by adversely adjusting the position of the detection mechanism in advance, thereby ensuring that the heat shrinkable tube is accurately wrapped on the exposed conductor surface at the designated position of the wire in the subsequent process and increasing the scope of application.

A system for distinguishing target metal objects from each other in close proximity to each other. The method includes transmitting a first sinusoid signal via a first transmit coil to a first receive coil in close proximity to the first transmit coil; transmitting a second sinusoidal signal at a second frequency and amplitude different from the first frequency and amplitude to a second receive coil arranged in close proximity to the second transmit coil and in close proximity to the first receive coil such that received signals in the first and second receive coils include first and second frequency signals from the other of the first and second transmit coils. The received signals are separated via frequency domain multiplexing. The signals are compared to detect a presence of the target having a signal magnitude different from the first received signal and the received second signal and a known reference point.

A measuring device including a support base, a movable arm, having an extension prevailing along a longitudinal direction and rotatable with respect to the support base along a rotation axis skewed with respect to the longitudinal direction, a probe constrained to the movable arm, apparatus for measuring oscillation of the movable arm, first magnet including at least one first magnetic element constrained to the movable arm, at least one second magnetic element constrained to the support base and not oscillating with the movable arm, the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element reciprocally movable along a movement trajectory having prevailing extension along the longitudinal direction, the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element exerting magnetic force on each other in at least one position along the movement trajectory.

An apparatus includes a lens assembly that includes at least one lens that defines an optical axis. The apparatus also includes a substrate, an image sensor disposed on the substrate, and an actuator coupled to the substrate and configured to adjust a position of the substrate relative to the lens assembly to move the image sensor along the optical axis. The apparatus additionally includes a capacitive position sensor that includes a first capacitive plate coupled to the substrate and a second capacitive plate coupled to the lens assembly. The capacitive position sensor may be configured to generate a capacitance measurement indicative of the position of the substrate relative to the lens assembly. The apparatus further includes circuitry configured to control the actuator based on (i) the capacitance measurement and (ii) a target position of the image sensor relative to the lens assembly.

An electrode structure includes an insulator and a first electrode that is in the shape of a line, where the first electrode is disposed on a first surface of the insulator, and the first surface is on an opposite side of the insulator relative to a surface of the insulator that faces a core metal of a steering wheel. The insulator includes an engagement portion that engages an engagement-target portion included in the core metal. After the electrode structure is engaged with the core metal, a foam is shaped into a mold to form the steering wheel.

An object is to respectively excite transmission coils with different voltages using a single power supply with low power consumption in an electromagnetic induction type encoder. A detection head of an encoder includes a voltage adjustment circuit and a plurality of excitation circuits. The excitation circuit includes a resonant circuit that includes a driving capacitor and a transmission coil connected in series and generates an alternate-current magnetic field inducing currents in scale coils disposed in a plurality of scale tracks on a scale by connecting both ends of the resonant circuit in a state in which the driving capacitor is charged. The voltage adjustment circuit includes a first transformer capacitor and controls a charging voltage of the driving capacitor in a single excitation circuit using the charged first transformer capacitor.