An inductive detector is provided for measuring the relative position of bodies along a measurement path comprising: an inductive target arranged along the measurement path; a laminar antenna arranged facing a portion of the target; an electronics circuit arranged along the measurement path; wherein, the inductance of at least one winding in the antenna varies continuously in proportion to the relative position of target and antenna.

A dielectric member includes a first bobbin, which is located on a radially outer side of a first core, a holder, which receives a magnet, and a second bobbin, which is located on a radially outer side of a second core. A first terminal and a second terminal are fixed to a terminal fixing portion. A wire continuously forms a first connecting portion, which is connected to the first terminal, a first coil portion, which is wound around the first bobbin, a first crossover portion, which traverses from the first coil to the second bobbin over the holder, a second coil portion, which is wound around the second bobbin, a second crossover portion, which traverses from the second coil portion to the first coil portion over the holder, and a second connecting portion, which is connected to the second terminal.

An inductive proximity sensor and a method for the detection of an object having at least one coil, wherein at least one transmitted current pulse can be applied to the coil by a control and evaluation unit and the control and evaluation unit is configured to output an object determination signal, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to scan at least one induced voltage pulse that has been generated by the transmitted current pulse at the coil in a plurality of sections from or after the time of the application of the transmitted current pulse and to form scan values, whereby the voltage pulse is digitized, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to evaluate the scan values for an object detection of a metallic object, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to scan the transmitted current pulse that has been generated at the coil in at least two sections from or after the time of the application of the transmitted current pulse and to form transmitted current scan values, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to determine a rise in the current increase of the transmitted current pulse from the transmitted current scan values, and the control and evaluation unit is configured to end the transmitted current pulse in dependence on the detected increase of the transmitted current pulse.

A proximity sensor is provided with coils (11, 12) disposed in a pre-set positional relationship, a first distance calculation unit (31) and a second distance calculation unit (32) for calculating first distance information (d1) and second distance information (d2), respectively, from the coils (11, 12) to a detection object (W) on the basis of reception results (voltages V1, V2) of the coils (11, 12), and a position estimating unit (33) for estimating the position, such as distance and azimuth, of the detection object (W) on the basis of the first distance information (d1), the second distance information (d2), and the positional relationship of the coils (11, 12) .

A method and an inductive proximity sensor for detecting an object having at least one coil, wherein at least one transmission current pulse can be applied to the coil by a control and evaluation unit and having the control and evaluation unit for outputting an object detection signal, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to scan at least one induced voltage pulse that is generated by the transmission current pulse at the coil in at least one section from or after the point in time of the application of the transmission current pulse up to the point in time of the complete attenuation of the voltage pulse and to form scan values, whereby the voltage pulse is digitized.

For inductive sensing (such as for proximity switching), differential inductance readout is based on Sense/Reference resonators implemented as LC-ring oscillators, with L.sub.S/L.sub.R inductor coils and a shared (time-multiplexed) resonator capacitor. The ring oscillators include matched Lsense/Lref drivers time-multiplexed (by out enable signals), to provide Lsense/Lref resonator excitation signals to the Lsense/Lref resonators, based on resulting Lsense/Lref resonance measurements (such as of resonance state) acquired by the ring oscillators from the Lsense/Lref resonators. Differential readout data is based on the time-multiplexed Lsense/Lref resonance measurements, corresponding respectively to L.sub.S/L.sub.R coil inductances (such as based on Lsense/Lref resonator oscillation frequency). The ring oscillators can be implemented with a Schmitt trigger, converting analog resonance measurements into digital input to the Lsense/Lref drivers. Driver matching and layout matching can be used to improve accuracy. Effects of parasitic capacitance at the driver outputs can be suppressed by shorting or bootstrapping across the inactive L.sub.S/L.sub.R coil inductances.

To improve the S/N ratio of a pen signal received in a sensor controller, without decreasing the frequency of position detection or increasing the circuit scale of the sensor controller, a method according to the present invention is executed by a sensor controller of an electromagnetic resonance system, and in each of a plurality of pen signal detection periods Tl to T3, three loop coils LCx.sub.n1 to LCx.sub.n+1 are connected in connection modes having different connection polarities for each pen signal detection period, a result value indicating a level of a pen signal is detected via the three loop coils LCx.sub.n1 to LCx.sub.n+1, and the level of the pen signal corresponding to each of the three loop coils LCx.sub.n-1 to LCx.sub.n+1 is separately acquired by performing a restoration operation according to the connection polarities on a plurality of the result values detected in the respective pen signal detection periods.

A sensor apparatus includes: a linear electrode group extended in parallel; a loop coil group crossing the linear electrode group; and a sensor controller. The sensor controller is configured to sequentially send alternating magnetic fields from the linear electrode group, use the loop coil group to detect an alternating magnetic field generated by an indicator according to the alternating magnetic fields, determine a linear electrode set including part of the linear electrode group based on a result of detecting the a alternating magnetic field, execute a process of generating alternating magnetic fields in at least a part of the linear electrode set for a plurality of times, use a plurality of result values detected by at least the part of the loop coil group as a result of the execution to derive a two-dimensional position of the indicator, and update the linear electrode set according to the two-dimensional position.

An inductive position transducer system is provided, including an inductive position transducer and one or more sensing circuit portions. Each sensing circuit portion is connected to first and second sensing coil terminals and is configured to receive a signal from a respective sensing coil and comprises an impedance circuit portion and an input circuit portion (e.g., of an ASIC). The impedance circuit portion comprises at least first and second impedance circuit portion components. The first impedance circuit portion component is coupled between first and second impedance circuit portion nodes. The second impedance circuit portion component is at least one of: coupled between the first coil terminal and the first impedance circuit portion node; or coupled between the first impedance circuit portion node and the second impedance circuit portion node (for which a third impedance circuit portion component may also be provided in some implementations).

To improve the S/N ratio of a pen signal received in a sensor controller, without decreasing the frequency of position detection or increasing the circuit scale of the sensor controller, a method according to the present invention is executed by a sensor controller of an electromagnetic resonance system, and in each of a plurality of pen signal detection periods T1 to T3, three loop coils LCx.sub.n1 to LCx.sub.n+1 are connected in connection modes having different connection polarities for each pen signal detection period, a result value indicating a level of a pen signal is detected via the three loop coils LCx.sub.n1 to LCx.sub.n+1, and the level of the pen signal corresponding to each of the three loop coils LCx.sub.n1 to LCx.sub.n+1 is separately acquired by performing a restoration operation according to the connection polarities on a plurality of the result values detected in the respective pen signal detection periods.