METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING ANALOG SYNCHRO SIGNALS TO A SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE STATUS OF A MECHANICAL OUTPUT COMPONENT
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    发明公开
    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING ANALOG SYNCHRO SIGNALS TO A SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE STATUS OF A MECHANICAL OUTPUT COMPONENT 审中-公开
    方法和装置将模拟SYNCHRO信号表示机械故障部分的状况的信号

    公开(公告)号:EP1046124A4

    公开(公告)日:2003-07-09

    申请号:EP99905425

    申请日:1999-01-08

    CPC分类号: H03M1/645

    摘要: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus which utilizes a software-based digital signal processing circuit to generate a signal which is representative of the status of a movable component. A preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention includes a synchro which is connected to a movable component. An analog reference excitation may be applied to the synchro, and the synchro generates analog synchro signals which bear a relationship to the status of the movable component. The analog synchro signals are converted to digital synchro signals by a plurality of analog-to-digital converters. A digital reference signal and the digital synchro signals are provided to a software-based digital signal processing circuit which preferably corrects constant and time-varying errors in the digital synchro signals and generates a status signal which is representative of the status of the movable component. For instance, the status signal may represent the angular position of the movable component. A different embodiment of the status signal may represent the angular velocity of the movable component.

    SPLIT FIELD OPTICS FOR LOCATING MULTIPLE COMPONENTS
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    发明公开
    SPLIT FIELD OPTICS FOR LOCATING MULTIPLE COMPONENTS 失效
    与进行收购事项的多个部件可分离场光学

    公开(公告)号:EP0838065A4

    公开(公告)日:1999-11-24

    申请号:EP96923684

    申请日:1996-07-03

    CPC分类号: G06K9/20

    摘要: An apparatus and method is provided for capturing component location information through the use of fiber optic conduits. In various embodiments, an image of a component attached to a translatable and rotatable spindle (302) is captured and transmitted along a fiber optic conduit (305) to a camera (316) coupled to an image processing computer (318). The image processing computer (318) determines component location on the spindle based on the transmitted image and, where necessary, generates component location correction information so that the spindle and attached component can be moved to a determined location. A plurality of fiber optic conduits (305, 308, 311, 314) may be bundled together to provide a single combined image of the components (A1, A2, A3, A4) attached to multiple spindles which can be captured by a single camera (316), wherein the image processing computer (318) segregates the images and determines multiple component location correction information.