US20050017710A1 - Magnetostrictive sensor element - Google Patents
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- the invention concerns a magnetostrictive displacement sensor.
- a magnetostrictive displacement sensor comprises a magnetostrictive material made of wave-guide, as a rule filamentary or cannular, extending in the measuring direction, in particular linearly.
- a position magnet in particular brought without contact beside the wave-guide, by the magnetic fields interference there is produced a mechano-elastic wave which is spreading in those two directions along the wave-guide to be detected at its end. Because of the predefined propagation time there can be determined the precise distance of the position magnet in respect of the end of the wave-guide and thereby the position of a mobile constructive unit the position magnet is attached to.
- the inserting of the wave guide into a support body for example a tube
- the terminal platinum into a specific housing connected to the support body at one of its ends. Since firstly the passing between the support body and this terminal platinum has to be conceived very stable from a mechanical point of view too, to the previous constructions this objective was accomplished in that the terminal platinum housing was surrounding in the exterior the support body in its terminal area.
- An ideal shape of such a stable protective profile is a protective profile as flattened as possible to have it arranged on the surfaces of another constructive element without occupying a great supplementary volume.
- the object of the present invention is to realize a magnetostrictive sensitive element and a displacement sensor comprising this element (without the position magnet), which is to be both easy and cheap to manufacture and stable enough for different employing situations. Furthermore, there must be provided a method as simple as possible to assembly both such a sensitive element and the finite displacement sensor and/or supplementary having the sensitive element conceived as a modular component element of the sensor and thereby separately employed with an output signal, in particular having a low impedance.
- the terminal platinum By having the terminal platinum directly attached to a suitable portion, in particular opened, of the support body, for example a channel bar or a tube, there is no more needed a separate stabilization housing or a joining element for the terminal platinum. This thing considerable facilitates the assemblage too.
- the terminal platinum can be coated, preferably after being attached to the support body, for example with a “Conformal Coating”, therefore with a plastic material coating having an essentially constant covering thickness, thing as a rule accomplished by spraying or dipping into a fluid plastic material.
- the recess for the terminal platinum is machined here in the transverse section of the support body thus that the remanent extension should properly include the terminal platinum, for the extension being provided an increased own rigidity.
- the recess can extend over more than half of the transverse section thus that the remanent extension should represent an almost flat segment considerable smaller than 180° from the round circumference of the tube, and the terminal platinum should set itself but with its lower side on this almost flat extension.
- the recess should be conceived smaller and the terminal platinum should be inserted then into the more curved C shaped extension thus that into the interior circumference of the remanent extension should be included and attached to it not only the marginal area of the lower side but the contiguous narrow side of the platinum too.
- This thing has the advantage that the stability of the extension, in particular against vibrations, increases hyper-proportionally with the size of its angular segment.
- the cutting surfaces of the recess are extending here preferably in parallel to the longitudinal direction of the support body and that of the tube respectively, which can be either straight or curved, thus that the terminal platinum attached to them should be parallel to this longitudinal direction, the measuring direction of the sensor.
- the terminal platinum will be joined to the extension as rigidly as possible, therefore joined by shape or by force, in particular by gluing, namely both to the cutting surfaces of the extension and to the interior circumference, arranged between them, of the extension as well as to the exterior rims of the extension.
- extension's transverse section surrounds here as a C not only the lower side but the terminal platinum narrow side too, this fact provides an outstandingly stable joint.
- the terminal platinum If on the terminal platinum there has to be mounted the entire electronics to generate signals included within the value ranges employed in industry or automations respectively (in particular start-stop/0-10 Volts/4-20 mA/0-5 Volts/CAN-Bus/Profi-Bus/Device-Net-Bus /SSI/Endat), the terminal platinum has to be greater but on mounting the components to generate the electric signal.
- the terminal platinum will be enlarged by having it extended along the measuring direction, therefore along the support body, whereupon the terminal platinum is extending in the measuring direction beside the support body, but here the longitudinal rim contiguous to the support body is not preferably joined to the exterior circumference of the support body but enters and is attached, in particular glued, into a slot of the support body arranged in the measuring direction.
- the slot either completely penetrates the wall of the tube or will represent but a groove in the exterior surface of the tube, or will be directly glued to the support body of the wave guide.
- the terminal platinum is equipped with the components mounted on it, more electric and electronic ones, if possible but on one side, namely on that opposed in respect of the extension, to the end that the entire sensitive element should protrude laterally as little as possible or not at all over the width of the support body.
- the detection coil which will not be unilaterally arranged on the terminal platinum but in order to accomplish the same purpose it is arranged into a notch or into a penetration of the terminal platinum and is extending on both sides of its main plane.
- this coil is either inside the width of the support body or per total protrudes laterally as little as possible over it, therefore in particular it should not to be arranged more to the interior of one side while on the other should protrude over the exterior dimensions of the support body which in a transverse section is either opened or closed.
- the cannular support body having a closed contour can be tightly closed by a lid.
- the cannular support body, therefore having a closed contour is opened at least on the rear end, from the terminal platinum, while the wave-guide protrudes there freely, therefore in particular without a straining spring.
- the wave guide can remain more to the interior or can likewise protrude over the end of the support body.
- the transverse section of the support body is usually opened. Further on the terminal platinum there is a connector for connecting an electric or electronic processing unit.
- the sensitive element can be inserted, preferably joined by shape and thereby propped, with the closed or opened front end of the support body into a suitable protective housing, while on the rear end, namely from the terminal platinum, by means of the connector inside the protective housing there can be taken out an electric connection, for example interrupted by another connector (or cable) being again inside the protective housing, for example from the terminal lid of a suitable protective profile.
- a suitable protective profile has an interior circumference with a preferably closed transverse section, in particular made in one piece, and at least one interior circumference inside which there can be inserted the support body of the element to be held there by shape in the transverse direction thus that to withstand even vibrations or shock like mechanical stresses of the sensor without distorting the measuring signal.
- a damper which may consist of a profiled body or from a damping glue too between those two constructive elements.
- the interior circumference has the shape of a circular arc and is unilaterally opened for console overhang, in the remaining thus formed opening, of the unilaterally prominent terminal platinum from the support body, or is circularly closed too.
- the terminal platinum in order to take out the terminal platinum into the main space of the protective profile, in the terminal area of the protective profile in the interior circumference there must be milled a properly dimensioned lateral hatch.
- the stiffening wall extending between them can be conceived as thick that to still be possible the boring of some passing orifices—preferably more, uniformly spaced in the measuring direction—in this stiffening wall, which penetrate from an exterior surface towards the opposite exterior surface of the transverse section of the protective profile and have no connection either to the opening or the interior circumference of the protective profile.
- passing orifices there can likewise take place in a simple manner a screwing of the protective profile to another constructive unit without the necessity of having extensions or prominences for employing catching pieces or the like on the exterior contour of the protective profile, and thereby there can be obtained per total a smooth continuous exterior circumference without shoulders.
- the protective profile will be formed per total as an extruded profile and will be cut off to the necessary length, while supplementary in the terminal areas of the interior circumference will be widened by milling, in particular on the one hand to make room for the terminal platinum which must be entirely seated inside the protective profile, and on the other hand to include terminal lids to be inserted in the front ends of the protective profile and which—thereby likewise the interior circumference of the protective profile in its terminal area—must have all around a non-passing contour with sharp rims in order to employ as packing an O-ring joint seated into a groove, which leads to a considerable decreasing of the assemblage costs by avoiding the specially formed flat packings which must be previously made.
- the protective profile can be symmetrically equipped with two interior circumferences arranged into a mutually opposed relationship thus that there can be inserted two different sensitive elements into the same protective profile, from example from different front sides, while the sensor thus obtained can be thus conceived redundant.
- the protective profile can be formed asymmetrically too, in particular thus that to have but an interior circumference and an opening arranged beside.
- the groove is preferably thus dimensioned and arranged, in particular eccentrically arranged, that the terminal platinum of a sensitive element inserted into the interior circumference can be inserted and supported, in particular attached too, for example glued, in this groove, with its free longitudinal rim overhung in console.
- a special necessity is here the forming as flattened as possible of the protective profile, whereupon one of two exterior surfaces parallel each other, in particular the longer ones, can protrude laterally with extensions for attaching to another constructive unit.
- FIG. 1 an upper view of the sensitive element
- FIG. 2 a a lateral view according to FIG. 1 ,
- FIG. 2 b an upper view of another embodiment of the sensitive element
- FIG. 3 a front view according to FIG. 1 ,
- FIG. 4 section representations of the protective profile
- FIG. 5 a the displacement sensor in a front view
- FIG. 5 b another embodiment of the displacement sensor in a front view
- FIGS. 6 a longitudinal section through the terminal area of the sensor.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 show a sensitive element whereupon the support body 1 is a tube having a circular transverse section and which, as like the wave-guide 3 centrally extending inside it, is represented much shortened.
- these two constructive elements are conceived very long compared to the diameter since there is necessary that in the measuring direction 10 they should extend over the entire measuring area.
- the measuring direction 10 could be no more a straight line but a curved one, for example a circle or an almost entire circle.
- the wave guide 3 is centrally supported inside the considerable greater interior hollow of the support body 1 by longitudinally spaced ribs or by having it propped against the interior diameter of the support body 1 , propping usually effected for example by means of one or more cannular pieces with a homogenous or cellular structure, for example by means of a cellular hose 26 . Between the exterior circumference of this hose 26 and the interior circumference of the tube there is arranged an insulated inverse current conductor 27 .
- the support body can be tightly closed by a front lid 7 while the wave guide 3 can have at its free front end a damper 13 to avoid thus reflecting the mechanical vibrations arising there in the wave guide 3 and damp them as much as possible.
- the terminal platinum 2 Since the terminal platinum 2 —seen in the measuring direction 10 , therefore in the extending direction of the support body 1 and of the wave guide 3 —is considerable wider than the transverse section of the support body 1 , this arrangement of the terminal platinum 2 is effected thus that it should protrude but on side over the width of the transverse section of the support body 1 , therefore in particular it should end on the other side with the exterior rim of the support body, in particular with the exterior rim of the extension 9 , as best seen in FIG. 3 .
- the glue 14 is preferably arranged not only between the contact surfaces of the terminal platinum 2 with the extension 9 , but between the terminal platinum 2 and the interior circumference segment of this extension 9 too, in order to provide a safe gluing, and reaches preferably around the rims of the extension 9 too, slightly over the exterior surface of the extension.
- FIG. 2 b Another recess type is shown in an upper view in FIG. 2 b , and as seen in the measuring direction is likewise shown in FIG. 5 b too:
- the recess 11 extends but over about 90°-160°, thus that the extension 9 should have an approximately C shaped transverse section the terminal platinum 2 should enter with its edge.
- the extension 9 comprises one of the main faces of the terminal platinum 2 as well as the narrow face 2 b which enters the interior circumference of the extension 9 .
- the extension 9 reaches here around that main face of the terminal platinum 2 but enough to allow the wave guide there joined to the terminal platinum 2 still remain accessible for joining to the terminal platinum 2 , and if necessary to the Villary tape 4 too.
- the terminal platinum 2 is likewise conceived longer in the measuring direction 10 than in case of the other presented solutions.
- the enlarged surface of the terminal platinum 2 is used to include there the entire processing electronics thus that from this sensitive element there can be obtained an industrially employed output signal.
- the recess 11 having this extension 9 of the cannular support body 1 will not be enlarged, usually representing but a fraction from the length of the terminal platinum 2 .
- the wall of the cannular support body 1 will be cut off according to the thickness of the terminal platinum 2 while this will enter the slot, preferably through the slot inside the cannular support body 1 , with which is thus possible a gluing over the entire length of the slot 34 .
- the terminal platinum 2 is equipped with different components, whereupon the equipping is preferably effected but on an exterior surface, namely the exterior surface opposed in respect of the extension 9 .
- a component, the detection coil 5 is here seated into a penetration of the terminal platinum 2 and is thus extending on both sides of the platinum, whereupon the greater portion of the transverse section protrudes on the equipped side of the platinum 2 .
- the detection coil 5 which is thicker than the support body 1 .
- the thickness of the extension 9 seen in this view is chosen making allowance for the thickness of the terminal platinum 2 and the inserting depth of the detection coil 5 into the terminal platinum 2 , thus that the detection coil 5 either should protrude but on one side—upwards in FIG. 1 —over the width of the support body, while in the other direction should end with the exterior rim of the support body 1 , or should protrude over the width of the support body 1 approximately as much as in the other directions.
- the detection coil 5 has an approximately cylindrical shape with a central cylindrical orifice, opened at least unilaterally, preferably on both sides.
- the positioning of the detection coil 5 must be here supplementary thus chosen that a so called Villary tape 4 should extend approximately centrally longitudinally through this orifice 5 a of the detection coil 5 and should protrude in the direction to the wave guide 3 , and to be attached to it, in particular to be glued or welded, namely on the side of the wave guide 3 opposite in respect of the terminal platinum 2 .
- the detection coil 5 is arranged with its longitudinal central axis transversely to the direction of the wave-guide 3 but parallel to the plane of the terminal platinum 2 .
- terminal platinum 2 there is arranged a terminal pole 6 , therefore a coupling element between the terminal end of the wave guide 3 and the electrically conductive patterns of the terminal platinum 2 .
- a connector 8 arranged on the terminal platinum 2 preferably in the farthest area in respect of the support body 1 , provides the electrical connection of the terminal platinum 2 to an exterior processing unit.
- the terminal platinum 2 has a penetration 12 to attach the detection coil 5 , whose size is thus calculated that the detection coil 5 to be inserted here cannot fall through it but should enter the terminal platinum to the desired theoretical depth.
- the penetration 12 is not rectangular as the corresponding longitudinal section of the detection coil 5 but has at its corners indentation shaped widenings thus that to avoid forming cracks in the platinum because of the sharp rim corners and to allow the detection coil 5 being pressed inside between the flanks between the notches with a relatively great force since these areas are employed as elastic attachment lugs.
- the detection coil 5 can be attached in between but by compression.
- FIG. 3 shows in detail, in an enlarged longitudinal section through the symmetry axis of the detection coil 5 , how on the one hand the coil extends on both sides of the terminal platinum 2 and how the Villary tape 4 , freely console overhanging from the attaching point on the wave guide 3 , is extending, without coming into contact with the detection coil 5 , through its orifice 5 a , protruding on the opposite side.
- FIG. 3 shows too the attachment of the wave guide 3 by means of the terminal pole 6 , a component part of the terminal platinum 2 , on this terminal platinum, and thereby the coupling of the wave guide 3 to the other components on the platinum 2 and to the inverse current conductor 27 arranged between the extension 9 and the rear non-equipped side of the platinum 2 .
- FIG. 3 likewise shows that on one side, the left one in FIG. 3 , the detection coil does not protrude over the width of the support body 1 , unlike the situation in the right side, the equipped side of the terminal platinum 2 , because of the greater diameter of this detection coil in respect of the support body 1 .
- FIG. 4 a further shows a protective profile 20 in two versions, as a rule realized as a profile extruded for example from aluminum or as a profile extruded from a suitable plastic material. Inside such a protective profile there can be inserted the sensitive element as shown in FIG. 5 a.
- the protective profile 20 is symmetrically conceived in respect of its longitudinal median plane 23 which is extending in the profile direction and sits perpendicularly on the greater spread of the transverse section.
- such a flattened protective profile provides the possibility to positioning the position magnet 28 in any angular position on one of the three areas of the circumference of the protective profile narrow side, close to the wave guide 3 there inserted, which makes possible a very flexible application of the sensor in the respective employing situation.
- the exterior surfaces 18 a, b are—not considering if necessary these prominent extensions and the passings towards the remaining contour —smooth, to prevent other objects being hooked.
- the interior opening 19 can be a continuous opening, as shown in the right half of the drawing, with an interior circumference 21 in the shape of an incompletely closed circle at the end from the narrower side of this opening. This interior circumference 21 is thus dimensioned that inside it can be inserted the support body 1 of a sensitive element 22 , as shown in FIG. 5 .
- the loop representing the connection of the interior circumference 21 to the remaining opening 19 , is wide enough and thus arranged that the terminal platinum 2 , unilaterally going away from the transverse section of the support body 1 , together with the components with which it is equipped enters it and thus can enter the central opening 19 , and if necessary is supported by shape with its free end into the corresponding groove 25 , in particular eccentric, from the opposite end of the opening 19 , as best seen in the left half of FIG. 5 b .
- the terminal platinum 2 enters this groove 25 not only joined by shape, but is likewise dampedly attached to it, for example by gluing by means of a mechanical vibrations damping glue 35 .
- this groove 25 can be likewise eccentrically machined in the rib 24 .
- FIGS. 4 b and 4 c show another embodiments of the protective profile:
- a common feature of both solutions from FIGS. 4 b and 4 c is that in transverse section these have a smooth exterior contour without rims, without the extensions 15 according to FIG. 4 a .
- this protective profile 21 ′ in the interior the interior circumference 21 ′ is separated with the opening 19 by a widened rib to form a stiffening wall 31 whose thickness is great enough to bore in it spaced passing orifices 32 from one of the exterior surfaces towards the opposed exterior surface of the protective profile 20 ′, as shown in FIG. 4 b , without the necessity that these passing orifices 32 should have in the interior a connection towards the interior circumference 21 ′ or towards the opening 19 .
- FIG. 4 b While in both terminal areas of the protective profile 20 ′ there is an interior circumference 21 ′, the embodiment according to FIG. 4 c has but one interior circumference 21 ′ and beside it an opening 19 . In both cases one of the ribs 24 between the opening 19 and the interior circumference 21 ′ is formed as a widened stiffing wall 31 equipped with passing orifices, thereby the protective profile 20 ′ according to FIG. 4 b having likewise an asymmetrical shape.
- the grooves 25 from the opening 19 are likewise eccentrically arranged in respect of the transverse median of the opening 19 .
- the protective profile 20 is symmetrically conceived, with a closed interior circumference 21 ′, as shown in the left half of the drawing, such an insertion can obviously be effected but by having the rib 24 previously removed from the terminal area of the front side of the protective profile 20 over a length necessary to insert the terminal platinum 2 .
- This removal is usually mechanically effected, for example by milling, and must be likewise effected over such an axial length that supplementary in respect of inserting the platinum, in the open front end of the protective profile should be inserted a terminal lid 16 too, which seats with the closing plate 16 a in the exterior on the front surface of the protective profile 20 while the plugging element 16 b enters the opening of the protective profile 20 and is tight in respect of the interior circumference of the protective profile 20 , preferably by means of a conventional O-ring joint 36 .
- the plugging element 16 b must have a smooth exterior circumference while the protective profile 20 , in its longitudinal area, a suitable smooth interior circumference.
- the interior contour of the protective profile 20 is milled at least over the longitudinal area of the plugging element 16 b to obtain thus a rectangularly shaped smooth contour 29 with its narrow parts rounded off in the shape of a hemicycle without shoulders, in that the rib 24 and the prominent corners between the opening 19 and the interior circumference 21 are likewise milled, as well as the ribs 17 prominent from the longitudinal sides towards the interior, employed to stiffen the profile and seat the terminal platinum 2 .
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- The invention concerns a magnetostrictive displacement sensor.
- A magnetostrictive displacement sensor comprises a magnetostrictive material made of wave-guide, as a rule filamentary or cannular, extending in the measuring direction, in particular linearly. By a position magnet, in particular brought without contact beside the wave-guide, by the magnetic fields interference there is produced a mechano-elastic wave which is spreading in those two directions along the wave-guide to be detected at its end. Because of the predefined propagation time there can be determined the precise distance of the position magnet in respect of the end of the wave-guide and thereby the position of a mobile constructive unit the position magnet is attached to.
- As to the assemblage, from EP 0 882 212 there is for example known the inserting of the wave guide into a support body, for example a tube, and the terminal platinum into a specific housing connected to the support body at one of its ends. Since firstly the passing between the support body and this terminal platinum has to be conceived very stable from a mechanical point of view too, to the previous constructions this objective was accomplished in that the terminal platinum housing was surrounding in the exterior the support body in its terminal area.
- But this thing raised the costs and thereby the manufacturing price of the sensitive element.
- Supplementary, there can be discarded too a separate coating of the terminal platinum in the shape of a completely closing housing, in particular having its own stability, since this sensitive element—due to the fact that the support body has a limited stability too—will always be included into a considerable more stable protective housing, for example into a protective profile, by having the support body of the sensitive element inserted, whereupon this protective profile always changes its shape according to the employing situation and can be directly made too from parts of the constructive element whose position is to be determined.
- An ideal shape of such a stable protective profile is a protective profile as flattened as possible to have it arranged on the surfaces of another constructive element without occupying a great supplementary volume.
- On the assemblage costs an important role is played by the correlation among the Villary tape, the wave guide and the detection coil as well as their arrangement on or into the terminal platinum respectively, since the Villary tape has to be positioned with a console free overhang from the wave guide through the center of the detection coil orifice and by touching the effect can already be influenced.
- a) Technical Object
- Therefore the object of the present invention is to realize a magnetostrictive sensitive element and a displacement sensor comprising this element (without the position magnet), which is to be both easy and cheap to manufacture and stable enough for different employing situations. Furthermore, there must be provided a method as simple as possible to assembly both such a sensitive element and the finite displacement sensor and/or supplementary having the sensitive element conceived as a modular component element of the sensor and thereby separately employed with an output signal, in particular having a low impedance.
- b) The Attainment of the Object
- This object is attained by features of the
claim - By having the terminal platinum directly attached to a suitable portion, in particular opened, of the support body, for example a channel bar or a tube, there is no more needed a separate stabilization housing or a joining element for the terminal platinum. This thing considerable facilitates the assemblage too.
- In this case the components arranged on the terminal platinum will be freely accessible but since the entire sensitive element never remains open, always being inserted into another stable protective housing, in particular a protective profile, in practice this thing is not a drawback.
- In case that the terminal platinum has to be protected against the elements, the terminal platinum can be coated, preferably after being attached to the support body, for example with a “Conformal Coating”, therefore with a plastic material coating having an essentially constant covering thickness, thing as a rule accomplished by spraying or dipping into a fluid plastic material. The recess for the terminal platinum is machined here in the transverse section of the support body thus that the remanent extension should properly include the terminal platinum, for the extension being provided an increased own rigidity.
- On a cannular support body, according to the size, the thickness of the wall and the material the tube is made of, the recess can extend over more than half of the transverse section thus that the remanent extension should represent an almost flat segment considerable smaller than 180° from the round circumference of the tube, and the terminal platinum should set itself but with its lower side on this almost flat extension.
- Another possibility consists in that, as far as the angular segment in its transverse section is concerned, the recess should be conceived smaller and the terminal platinum should be inserted then into the more curved C shaped extension thus that into the interior circumference of the remanent extension should be included and attached to it not only the marginal area of the lower side but the contiguous narrow side of the platinum too. This thing has the advantage that the stability of the extension, in particular against vibrations, increases hyper-proportionally with the size of its angular segment.
- The cutting surfaces of the recess are extending here preferably in parallel to the longitudinal direction of the support body and that of the tube respectively, which can be either straight or curved, thus that the terminal platinum attached to them should be parallel to this longitudinal direction, the measuring direction of the sensor.
- The terminal platinum will be joined to the extension as rigidly as possible, therefore joined by shape or by force, in particular by gluing, namely both to the cutting surfaces of the extension and to the interior circumference, arranged between them, of the extension as well as to the exterior rims of the extension.
- As long as the shape of the extension's transverse section surrounds here as a C not only the lower side but the terminal platinum narrow side too, this fact provides an outstandingly stable joint.
- If on the terminal platinum there has to be mounted the entire electronics to generate signals included within the value ranges employed in industry or automations respectively (in particular start-stop/0-10 Volts/4-20 mA/0-5 Volts/CAN-Bus/Profi-Bus/Device-Net-Bus /SSI/Endat), the terminal platinum has to be greater but on mounting the components to generate the electric signal.
- In this case the terminal platinum will be enlarged by having it extended along the measuring direction, therefore along the support body, whereupon the terminal platinum is extending in the measuring direction beside the support body, but here the longitudinal rim contiguous to the support body is not preferably joined to the exterior circumference of the support body but enters and is attached, in particular glued, into a slot of the support body arranged in the measuring direction. To a cannular support body, on one side, the slot either completely penetrates the wall of the tube or will represent but a groove in the exterior surface of the tube, or will be directly glued to the support body of the wave guide.
- The terminal platinum is equipped with the components mounted on it, more electric and electronic ones, if possible but on one side, namely on that opposed in respect of the extension, to the end that the entire sensitive element should protrude laterally as little as possible or not at all over the width of the support body. By the recess extending over more than half of the transverse section, this thing is provided when equipping the platinum on the opposite side.
- The only exception is in this case the detection coil, which will not be unilaterally arranged on the terminal platinum but in order to accomplish the same purpose it is arranged into a notch or into a penetration of the terminal platinum and is extending on both sides of its main plane.
- Depending on the diameter of the detection coil, its arrangement in respect of the terminal platinum as well as the width and/or the thickness of the extension are thus chosen that this coil is either inside the width of the support body or per total protrudes laterally as little as possible over it, therefore in particular it should not to be arranged more to the interior of one side while on the other should protrude over the exterior dimensions of the support body which in a transverse section is either opened or closed.
- On the front end, opposed in respect of the terminal platinum, the cannular support body having a closed contour can be tightly closed by a lid. Preferably, the cannular support body, therefore having a closed contour, is opened at least on the rear end, from the terminal platinum, while the wave-guide protrudes there freely, therefore in particular without a straining spring. Thereby there is possible a cheap and simple fabrication from an almost continuous profiled material by a simple cutting off. Here the wave guide can remain more to the interior or can likewise protrude over the end of the support body. On the front end too the transverse section of the support body is usually opened. Further on the terminal platinum there is a connector for connecting an electric or electronic processing unit.
- Thereby the sensitive element can be inserted, preferably joined by shape and thereby propped, with the closed or opened front end of the support body into a suitable protective housing, while on the rear end, namely from the terminal platinum, by means of the connector inside the protective housing there can be taken out an electric connection, for example interrupted by another connector (or cable) being again inside the protective housing, for example from the terminal lid of a suitable protective profile.
- A suitable protective profile has an interior circumference with a preferably closed transverse section, in particular made in one piece, and at least one interior circumference inside which there can be inserted the support body of the element to be held there by shape in the transverse direction thus that to withstand even vibrations or shock like mechanical stresses of the sensor without distorting the measuring signal. In particular to this end, between the protective profile and the sensitive element there is a damper which may consist of a profiled body or from a damping glue too between those two constructive elements.
- For a round tube as support body the interior circumference has the shape of a circular arc and is unilaterally opened for console overhang, in the remaining thus formed opening, of the unilaterally prominent terminal platinum from the support body, or is circularly closed too. In this case, in order to take out the terminal platinum into the main space of the protective profile, in the terminal area of the protective profile in the interior circumference there must be milled a properly dimensioned lateral hatch.
- In case of an interior diameter separated with the remaining opening inside the protective profile, the stiffening wall extending between them can be conceived as thick that to still be possible the boring of some passing orifices—preferably more, uniformly spaced in the measuring direction—in this stiffening wall, which penetrate from an exterior surface towards the opposite exterior surface of the transverse section of the protective profile and have no connection either to the opening or the interior circumference of the protective profile. Through these passing orifices there can likewise take place in a simple manner a screwing of the protective profile to another constructive unit without the necessity of having extensions or prominences for employing catching pieces or the like on the exterior contour of the protective profile, and thereby there can be obtained per total a smooth continuous exterior circumference without shoulders.
- But preferably the protective profile will be formed per total as an extruded profile and will be cut off to the necessary length, while supplementary in the terminal areas of the interior circumference will be widened by milling, in particular on the one hand to make room for the terminal platinum which must be entirely seated inside the protective profile, and on the other hand to include terminal lids to be inserted in the front ends of the protective profile and which—thereby likewise the interior circumference of the protective profile in its terminal area—must have all around a non-passing contour with sharp rims in order to employ as packing an O-ring joint seated into a groove, which leads to a considerable decreasing of the assemblage costs by avoiding the specially formed flat packings which must be previously made.
- The protective profile can be symmetrically equipped with two interior circumferences arranged into a mutually opposed relationship thus that there can be inserted two different sensitive elements into the same protective profile, from example from different front sides, while the sensor thus obtained can be thus conceived redundant.
- The protective profile can be formed asymmetrically too, in particular thus that to have but an interior circumference and an opening arranged beside. Supplementary in the narrow side of the opening, extending in the measuring direction, there can be arranged at least one groove, namely on the narrow side of the opening opposed in respect of the interior circumference. Here the groove is preferably thus dimensioned and arranged, in particular eccentrically arranged, that the terminal platinum of a sensitive element inserted into the interior circumference can be inserted and supported, in particular attached too, for example glued, in this groove, with its free longitudinal rim overhung in console.
- A special necessity is here the forming as flattened as possible of the protective profile, whereupon one of two exterior surfaces parallel each other, in particular the longer ones, can protrude laterally with extensions for attaching to another constructive unit.
- Especially when these extensions are missing while the flattened protective profile has at least at one of its narrow sides an all around smooth exterior circumference, there is thereby obtained the advantage to have a position magnet arranged very close and from all three sides, therefore on a circumference angle of more than 270 degrees, in the exterior on the narrow side of the protective profile comprising the sensitive element, which facilitates much the arrangement of such a sensor on a machine, and which can be displaced in the measuring direction over the entire length of the wave guide and over the length of the terminal platinum.
- c) Embodiments
- An embodiment in accordance with the invention is described in greater detail by way of example hereinafter with reference to the figures. These show:
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FIG. 1 : an upper view of the sensitive element, -
FIG. 2 a: a lateral view according toFIG. 1 , -
FIG. 2 b: an upper view of another embodiment of the sensitive element, -
FIG. 3 : a front view according toFIG. 1 , -
FIG. 4 : section representations of the protective profile, -
FIG. 5 a: the displacement sensor in a front view, -
FIG. 5 b: another embodiment of the displacement sensor in a front view, and - FIGS. 6: a longitudinal section through the terminal area of the sensor.
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FIGS. 1 and 2 show a sensitive element whereupon the support body 1 is a tube having a circular transverse section and which, as like the wave-guide 3 centrally extending inside it, is represented much shortened. In practice, these two constructive elements are conceived very long compared to the diameter since there is necessary that in the measuringdirection 10 they should extend over the entire measuring area. - Instead of a wave guide extending in a straight line inside the support body there can be employed a curved support body, in particular annularly and circularly curved, together with the
wave guide 3 arranged inside it, thereby the measuringdirection 10 could be no more a straight line but a curved one, for example a circle or an almost entire circle. - The
wave guide 3 is centrally supported inside the considerable greater interior hollow of the support body 1 by longitudinally spaced ribs or by having it propped against the interior diameter of the support body 1, propping usually effected for example by means of one or more cannular pieces with a homogenous or cellular structure, for example by means of acellular hose 26. Between the exterior circumference of thishose 26 and the interior circumference of the tube there is arranged an insulated inversecurrent conductor 27. - At the front end, the left one in
FIGS. 1 and 2 , the support body can be tightly closed by afront lid 7 while thewave guide 3 can have at its free front end adamper 13 to avoid thus reflecting the mechanical vibrations arising there in thewave guide 3 and damp them as much as possible. - But for the invention there is important the rear end of both the cannular support body 1 and the
wave guide 3 and their joining to theterminal platinum 2 there arranged, without the necessity to insert this terminal platinum in any type of support or housing, considering that but this housing or the support can be stable joined to the support body 1. The terminal platinum will be directly stable joined without the intermediary housing to theprotective profile 20 by force or form joining. - To this end, at the rear end of the support body 1 there is machined a
recess 11 over a length corresponding at the maximum to the length of theterminal platinum 2. Here, referring to the transverse section of the support body 1, either—as represented inFIGS. 1, 2 a and 3—there is taken a parallel to a tangent, interiorly shifted, and the greater portion thus separated of the transverse section is removed. On the smaller remaining portion of the transverse section, then further remaining in the shape of anextension 9, there is glued theterminal platinum 2. - Since the
terminal platinum 2—seen in the measuringdirection 10, therefore in the extending direction of the support body 1 and of thewave guide 3—is considerable wider than the transverse section of the support body 1, this arrangement of theterminal platinum 2 is effected thus that it should protrude but on side over the width of the transverse section of the support body 1, therefore in particular it should end on the other side with the exterior rim of the support body, in particular with the exterior rim of theextension 9, as best seen inFIG. 3 . - Here, the
glue 14 is preferably arranged not only between the contact surfaces of theterminal platinum 2 with theextension 9, but between theterminal platinum 2 and the interior circumference segment of thisextension 9 too, in order to provide a safe gluing, and reaches preferably around the rims of theextension 9 too, slightly over the exterior surface of the extension. - Another recess type is shown in an upper view in
FIG. 2 b, and as seen in the measuring direction is likewise shown inFIG. 5 b too: - As best shown in
FIG. 5 b, referring to the transverse section, therecess 11 extends but over about 90°-160°, thus that theextension 9 should have an approximately C shaped transverse section theterminal platinum 2 should enter with its edge. Theextension 9 comprises one of the main faces of theterminal platinum 2 as well as thenarrow face 2 b which enters the interior circumference of theextension 9. Theextension 9 reaches here around that main face of theterminal platinum 2 but enough to allow the wave guide there joined to theterminal platinum 2 still remain accessible for joining to theterminal platinum 2, and if necessary to theVillary tape 4 too. - Supplementary, on the solution according to
FIG. 2 b, theterminal platinum 2 is likewise conceived longer in the measuringdirection 10 than in case of the other presented solutions. The enlarged surface of theterminal platinum 2 is used to include there the entire processing electronics thus that from this sensitive element there can be obtained an industrially employed output signal. - But the
recess 11 having thisextension 9 of the cannular support body 1 will not be enlarged, usually representing but a fraction from the length of theterminal platinum 2. In order to stable attach the rest of the length segment to the support body 1, preferably the wall of the cannular support body 1 will be cut off according to the thickness of theterminal platinum 2 while this will enter the slot, preferably through the slot inside the cannular support body 1, with which is thus possible a gluing over the entire length of theslot 34. - As shown in
FIGS. 1, 3 and 2 a, theterminal platinum 2 is equipped with different components, whereupon the equipping is preferably effected but on an exterior surface, namely the exterior surface opposed in respect of theextension 9. A component, thedetection coil 5, is here seated into a penetration of theterminal platinum 2 and is thus extending on both sides of the platinum, whereupon the greater portion of the transverse section protrudes on the equipped side of theplatinum 2. - This is done to the end that the
platinum 2 together with the components it is equipped with—in a lateral view, therefore seen in the plane of theterminal platinum 2—should protrude as little as possible over the width of the support body 1. The element having the greatest width is here thedetection coil 5, which is thicker than the support body 1. Here, the thickness of theextension 9 seen in this view is chosen making allowance for the thickness of theterminal platinum 2 and the inserting depth of thedetection coil 5 into theterminal platinum 2, thus that thedetection coil 5 either should protrude but on one side—upwards inFIG. 1 —over the width of the support body, while in the other direction should end with the exterior rim of the support body 1, or should protrude over the width of the support body 1 approximately as much as in the other directions. - The
detection coil 5 has an approximately cylindrical shape with a central cylindrical orifice, opened at least unilaterally, preferably on both sides. The positioning of thedetection coil 5 must be here supplementary thus chosen that a so calledVillary tape 4 should extend approximately centrally longitudinally through thisorifice 5 a of thedetection coil 5 and should protrude in the direction to thewave guide 3, and to be attached to it, in particular to be glued or welded, namely on the side of thewave guide 3 opposite in respect of theterminal platinum 2. Hence is obvious that thedetection coil 5 is arranged with its longitudinal central axis transversely to the direction of the wave-guide 3 but parallel to the plane of theterminal platinum 2. - Further, on the
terminal platinum 2 there is arranged aterminal pole 6, therefore a coupling element between the terminal end of thewave guide 3 and the electrically conductive patterns of theterminal platinum 2. - A
connector 8 arranged on theterminal platinum 2, preferably in the farthest area in respect of the support body 1, provides the electrical connection of theterminal platinum 2 to an exterior processing unit. - The
terminal platinum 2 has apenetration 12 to attach thedetection coil 5, whose size is thus calculated that thedetection coil 5 to be inserted here cannot fall through it but should enter the terminal platinum to the desired theoretical depth. - Preferably here the
penetration 12 is not rectangular as the corresponding longitudinal section of thedetection coil 5 but has at its corners indentation shaped widenings thus that to avoid forming cracks in the platinum because of the sharp rim corners and to allow thedetection coil 5 being pressed inside between the flanks between the notches with a relatively great force since these areas are employed as elastic attachment lugs. In particular thedetection coil 5 can be attached in between but by compression. -
FIG. 3 shows in detail, in an enlarged longitudinal section through the symmetry axis of thedetection coil 5, how on the one hand the coil extends on both sides of theterminal platinum 2 and how theVillary tape 4, freely console overhanging from the attaching point on thewave guide 3, is extending, without coming into contact with thedetection coil 5, through itsorifice 5 a, protruding on the opposite side.FIG. 3 shows too the attachment of thewave guide 3 by means of theterminal pole 6, a component part of theterminal platinum 2, on this terminal platinum, and thereby the coupling of thewave guide 3 to the other components on theplatinum 2 and to the inversecurrent conductor 27 arranged between theextension 9 and the rear non-equipped side of theplatinum 2. -
FIG. 3 likewise shows that on one side, the left one inFIG. 3 , the detection coil does not protrude over the width of the support body 1, unlike the situation in the right side, the equipped side of theterminal platinum 2, because of the greater diameter of this detection coil in respect of the support body 1. -
FIG. 4 a further shows aprotective profile 20 in two versions, as a rule realized as a profile extruded for example from aluminum or as a profile extruded from a suitable plastic material. Inside such a protective profile there can be inserted the sensitive element as shown inFIG. 5 a. - Usually, the
protective profile 20 is symmetrically conceived in respect of its longitudinalmedian plane 23 which is extending in the profile direction and sits perpendicularly on the greater spread of the transverse section. - In
FIG. 4 a, the two halves of the profile are represented in different versions: - Their common feature is the very flattened transverse section in the shape of an elongated rectangle with rounded narrow sides of the
protective profile 20. Here, of the two longer parallel longitudinal walls, one can be extended on both sides over the ends from the narrower sides and form hereextensions 15 to be used for screwing, gripping or other types of attachment to a constructive element, for example for inserting into a slot too. - Especially when there are no
extensions 15, as shown inFIG. 4 a in the right half of the drawing or inFIG. 4 b, c, such a flattened protective profile provides the possibility to positioning theposition magnet 28 in any angular position on one of the three areas of the circumference of the protective profile narrow side, close to thewave guide 3 there inserted, which makes possible a very flexible application of the sensor in the respective employing situation. - The exterior surfaces 18 a, b are—not considering if necessary these prominent extensions and the passings towards the remaining contour —smooth, to prevent other objects being hooked.
- The
interior opening 19 can be a continuous opening, as shown in the right half of the drawing, with aninterior circumference 21 in the shape of an incompletely closed circle at the end from the narrower side of this opening. Thisinterior circumference 21 is thus dimensioned that inside it can be inserted the support body 1 of asensitive element 22, as shown inFIG. 5 . - The loop, representing the connection of the
interior circumference 21 to the remainingopening 19, is wide enough and thus arranged that theterminal platinum 2, unilaterally going away from the transverse section of the support body 1, together with the components with which it is equipped enters it and thus can enter thecentral opening 19, and if necessary is supported by shape with its free end into the correspondinggroove 25, in particular eccentric, from the opposite end of theopening 19, as best seen in the left half ofFIG. 5 b. Here, theterminal platinum 2 enters thisgroove 25 not only joined by shape, but is likewise dampedly attached to it, for example by gluing by means of a mechanicalvibrations damping glue 35. - In the left side of the drawing from
FIG. 4 a there is represented an embodiment where the analoginterior circumference 21′ is a closed interior circumference, therefore this hollow is separated with theopening 19 by a rib. In therib 24, on its exterior side, therefore towards the opening 19, there can be machined agroove 25 in order to support the free end of aterminal platinum 2 of asensitive element 22 whose support body 1 is in the oppositeinterior circumference 21. - Since the
terminal platinum 2 is attached to the support body and is extending not centrally but shifted in respect of the centre, thisgroove 25 can be likewise eccentrically machined in therib 24. - Further,
FIGS. 4 b and 4 c show another embodiments of the protective profile: - A common feature of both solutions from
FIGS. 4 b and 4 c is that in transverse section these have a smooth exterior contour without rims, without theextensions 15 according toFIG. 4 a. However, in order to attach thisprotective profile 21′ to the contiguous constructive elements, in the interior theinterior circumference 21′ is separated with theopening 19 by a widened rib to form astiffening wall 31 whose thickness is great enough to bore in it spaced passingorifices 32 from one of the exterior surfaces towards the opposed exterior surface of theprotective profile 20′, as shown inFIG. 4 b, without the necessity that these passingorifices 32 should have in the interior a connection towards theinterior circumference 21′ or towards theopening 19. - While in
FIG. 4 b in both terminal areas of theprotective profile 20′ there is aninterior circumference 21′, the embodiment according toFIG. 4 c has but oneinterior circumference 21′ and beside it anopening 19. In both cases one of theribs 24 between theopening 19 and theinterior circumference 21′ is formed as a widened stiffingwall 31 equipped with passing orifices, thereby theprotective profile 20′ according toFIG. 4 b having likewise an asymmetrical shape. - Furthermore, out of the above mentioned reasons, the
grooves 25 from theopening 19 are likewise eccentrically arranged in respect of the transverse median of theopening 19. - If the
protective profile 20 is symmetrically conceived, with a closedinterior circumference 21′, as shown in the left half of the drawing, such an insertion can obviously be effected but by having therib 24 previously removed from the terminal area of the front side of theprotective profile 20 over a length necessary to insert theterminal platinum 2. - This removal is usually mechanically effected, for example by milling, and must be likewise effected over such an axial length that supplementary in respect of inserting the platinum, in the open front end of the protective profile should be inserted a
terminal lid 16 too, which seats with the closingplate 16 a in the exterior on the front surface of theprotective profile 20 while the pluggingelement 16 b enters the opening of theprotective profile 20 and is tight in respect of the interior circumference of theprotective profile 20, preferably by means of a conventional O-ring joint 36. - To this end, the plugging
element 16 b must have a smooth exterior circumference while theprotective profile 20, in its longitudinal area, a suitable smooth interior circumference. - To this end, as shown in
FIG. 6 , the interior contour of theprotective profile 20 is milled at least over the longitudinal area of the pluggingelement 16 b to obtain thus a rectangularly shapedsmooth contour 29 with its narrow parts rounded off in the shape of a hemicycle without shoulders, in that therib 24 and the prominent corners between theopening 19 and theinterior circumference 21 are likewise milled, as well as theribs 17 prominent from the longitudinal sides towards the interior, employed to stiffen the profile and seat theterminal platinum 2. - List of References
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- 1 support body
- 2 terminal platinum
- 2 a inferior side
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- 3 wave-guide
- 4 villary tape
- 5 detection coil
- 5 a orifice
- 6 terminal pole
- 7 front lid
- 8 connector
- 9. 9′ extension
- 10 measuring direction
- 11 recess
- 12 penetration
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- 23 longitudinal median plane
- 24 rib
- 25 groove
- 26 cellular hose
- 27 inverse current conductor
- 28 position magnet
- 29 smooth contour
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