A position sensor including a rotational shaft (7), a plurality of brushes (13, 15, 17, 19) supported by the rotational shaft (7), a housing (3), a printed circuit board (21) fixed to the housing (3), a main conductor (M) provided on the printed circuit board (21) and contacting with the brushes (13, 15, 17, 19) for generating a primary signal in accordance with which a predetermined number of positions has been attained by the rotational shaft (7), and a subordinate conductor (S) provided on th...

A system for determining the course of travel of a carrier or wearer of an apparatus comprised of a pair of sensor arrays adapted to vectorially measure the earth's gravity and magnetic fields as well as the movement of the carrier which may be for example a human wearing the sensor apparatus on his leg. Analog signals representative of these vector quantities are fed to the system which includes vector operation circuitry for performing a double integration to determine the distance traveled in...

A position plotter having a pair of bearing indicators disposed in relation to a navigation chart to show at their intersection the position of a vessel on the chart are enslaved to a pair of radio direction finders mounted on a rotatable azimuth table whereby the indicators and chart are independent of the vessel's heading when the table is rotated to a predetermined azimuth setting.

A low cost x-y digitizing system is described for use in consumer electronic devices, such as portable digital assistants, mobile telephones, web browsers and the like. The digitizer includes a resonant stylus, an excitation winding for energizing the resonant stylus and a set of sensor windings for sensing the signal generated by the stylus, from which the x-y position of the stylus is determined. A novel stylus design is described together with novel digitizer windings and novel excitation and...

A vehicle gear shift position indicator having a housing containing a pointer element and a mounting arm secured to one end of that element and projecting laterally therefrom. The pointer element is arranged to traverse an appropriate indicia panel and the mounting arm is connected to the housing through control mechanism which directs the path of movement of the pointer element over the indicia panel. The control mechanism includes a fulcrum about which the arm pivots and a guide which holds th...

A position regulator is provided which is effective to control, via a control unit, a pressure medium circuit to operate a different working pressures. The regulator comprises two or more pistons dividing a common cylinder into a number of pressure chambers, the pistons being arranged for movement relative to one another. The invention provides stop means for each separate piston, each stop means being individually adjustable to produce different lengths of stroke for the respective pistons wher...

A position detecting apparatus for detecting position of an object disposed in a first space by receiving light from the object with a light receiving element disposed outside said first space, said position detecting apparatus includes an optical system for directing light from the object to the light receiving element, and a first optical element transmitting light from the object, disposed in a partitioning member for partitioning said first space and space outside said first space, wherein s...

In ultrasonic echo testing to detect flaws in manufactured articles, raw materials and such it is desirable to maintain a predetermined spacing and relative orientation of the ultrasonic transducer and the surface of the tested article. Thus, automatic scanning of the article by repetitively translating the transducer across its surface is difficult or impossible if the article surface is anything other than flat. Herein, a plurality of satellite transducers are mounted with and around a primary...

The present positional gyroscope is used for stabilizing and steering a fng body, especially a secondary flying body ejected from a primary or carrier flying body which is rotating or rolling about its longitudinal or roll axis. Such gyroscopes are supposed to sense and take over the rolling position information from the gyroscope of the carrier flying body. For this purpose it is necessary that the gyroscope of the secondary flying body avoids course deviations. Hence, the gyroscope is supporte...

A position drive for a wafer in a system for testing of integrated circuit components of the wafer includes a first drive assembly for quick lifting of a wafer-supporting member towards testing probes, second drive assembly for positioning the wafer-supporting member in two stable positions in a vertical direction for compensating thickness allowances of the wafers to be tested and a third drive assembly for mechanical rotation of the wafer-supporting member through any required angle.