US Patent No: 4,418,372

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Magnetic rotary encoder

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Abstract

Disclosed is a magnetic rotary encoder used in combination with a rotary body having plural pieces of magnetic information recorded on at least one circumferentially running track. The rotary encoder comprises a substrate having a surface disposed opposite to the rotary body and at least one magnetoresistive element formed on the surface of the substrate. The magnetoresistive element is formed on the substrate surface as an integral pattern including at least two portions extending substantially in the radial direction of the rotary body in a relation opposite to the magnetic information recorded portion of the rotary body, two lead connection terminal portions formed at the outer ends of the radially extending portions respectively, and a circumferentially extending portion interconnecting the radially extending portions at their ends, so as to form a single electrical signal path which passes both of the radially extending portions and terminates in the two lead connection terminal portions. These lead connection terminal portions are disposed outside of the outer peripheral edge of the rotary body.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
HITACHI, LTD.TOKYO32320

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hayashida, Hiroshi Kure, JP 12 229
Kawakami, Kanji Mito, JP 33 713
Miyashita, Kunio Azumino, JP 76 1221
Takahashi, Tadashi Kawasaki, JP 178 2032

Cited Art

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COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE POUR L'INFORMATIQUE CII-HONEYWELL BULL (SOCIETE ANONYME) (2)
4,212,041 Apparatus and method for removing the effect of interference magnetic fields in a magnetic transducer device for detecting information magnetically coded on a carrier 8 1978
4,315,291 Magnetic transduction device with magnetoresistances 29 1979
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (1)
4,255,708 Magnetoresistive position transducer with invariable peak signal 8 1978
 
U.S. PHILIPS CORPORATION (1)
4,320,428 Multitrack thin-film magnetic head with stacked electric leads 5 1980

Patent Citation Ranking

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HITACHI, LTD. (5)
4,628,259 Magneto resistive sensor for detecting movement of a rotating body 16 1981
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NORTHSTAR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (2)
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ADMOTEC, INC (1)
4,853,631 Magnetoresistive sensor having inter-leaved magnetoresistive elements for detecting encoded magnetic information 13 1987
 
ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD. (1)
5,117,319 Magnetic movement sensing device 6 1989
 
COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE (1)
5,821,517 Magnetic encoder for reading marks on an associated magnetic track 7 1995
 
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (1)
5,027,243 Self-initialization of short magnetoresistive sensors into a single domain state 19 1989
 
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES NETHERLANDS B.V. (1)
4,649,447 Combed MR sensor 24 1985
 
KABUSHIKI KAISHA SANKYO SEIKI SEISAKUSHO (1)
5,047,716 Movement detector employing constant current drive 15 1989
 
MITSUBISHI KASEI CORPORATION (1)
4,843,365 Magnetoresistance element 1 1988
 
MITUTOYO CORPORATION (1)
5,949,051 Magnetic encoder using a displacement detecting circuit thereof 9 1997
 
NTN CORPORATION (1)
4,904,937 Apparatus for magnetically detecting positions with minimum length magnetic information units recorded on a plurality of magnetic tracks 8 1988
 
PRINCETON ELECTRO-TECHNOLOGY, INC. (1)
5,545,985 Magnetoresistive position sensor including an encoder wherein the magnetization extends greater than 0.5 times the pole pitch below the surface 13 1994
 
ROSEMOUNT INC. (1)
5,502,380 Analog weighted binary absolute position encoder including an array of sense resistors each having material responsive to FWX and nonresponsive to flux 8 1994
 
THE TORRINGTON COMPANY (1)
6,700,367 Bearing equipped with magnetic encoder and sensor including aligned sensing elements 8 2000
 
VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LTD. (1)
4,656,377 Tachogenerator having a magnetoresistance stator coil 14 1985
 
YAMAHA CORPORATION (1)
4,954,803 Magnetic-resistor sensor and a magnetic encoder using such a sensor 4 1989