ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,628, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).
"Inductive encoder with shield structures" was invented by Ted Staton Cook (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive encoder system includes a scale including a periodic scale pattern, and a detector portion configured to move along a measuring axis direction relative to the periodic scale pattern. The detector portion includes a field generating portion configured to generate a changing magnetic flux, and a sensing portion comprising one or more sets of sensing elements and configured to provide detector signals which respond to a local ...