摘要:
An encapsulated reflective sensor for use in conjunction with a code wheel (34) for determining the motion and position of a shaft has a light emitting device (8) and photo-detector array (12) contained within a transparent encapsulant (2). The encapsulant (2) has a convex curved surface (6,40,42) which prevents light from the light emitting device from impinging on the photodetector array (12). An emitter lens (40) is formed by the convex curved surface between the light emitting device (8) and the code wheel (34). The emitter lens (40) magnifies and concentrates the light toward the code wheel (34). As the code wheel (34) turns with the shaft, the light incident on the wheel is modulated and reflected toward the photodetector array (12). A second detector lens (42) may be used between the code wheel (34) and photodetector array (12) for concentrating the modulated light reflected from the code wheel (34) toward the photodetector array (12).
摘要:
An optical shaft angle encoder has a plurality of active photodiodes (26) in an array on a semiconductor chip. A rotating code wheel (3) has alternating areas (13, 15) for alternately illuminating or not illuminating the active photodiodes (26) in response to the rotation of the wheel (3). Errors in the duty cycle involving the end active photodiodes (26) in the array are largely avoided by having a plurality of inactive photodiodes (27) at each end of the array with width and electrical properties effectively the same as the active photodiodes (26) so that leakage current to each end active photodiode (26) of the array is substantially equal to the leakage current to active photodiodes (26) remote from the end of the array. Similarly, leakage current which may affect the duty cycle of individual photodiodes (26) may be minimized by surrounding the individual photodiodes with a reverse biased photodiode junction.
摘要:
An optical shaft angle encoder has a plurality of active photodiodes (26) in an array on a semiconductor chip. A rotating code wheel (3) has alternating areas (13, 15) for alternately illuminating or not illuminating the active photodiodes (26) in response to the rotation of the wheel (3). Errors in the duty cycle involving the end active photodiodes (26) in the array are largely avoided by having a plurality of inactive photodiodes (27) at each end of the array with width and electrical properties effectively the same as the active photodiodes (26) so that leakage current to each end active photodiode (26) of the array is substantially equal to the leakage current to active photodiodes (26) remote from the end of the array. Similarly, leakage current which may affect the duty cycle of individual photodiodes (26) may be minimized by surrounding the individual photodiodes with a reverse biased photodiode junction.