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Method for determining the position of a mobile unit and installation for executing a method

US9453933B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 13, 2013
Grant dateSep 27, 2016
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Expiry dateMay 13, 2033

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01R27/26
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for determining the position of a mobile unit which has a first coil, the mobile unit being disposed in a manner allowing movement relative to a stationary second coil, and a system for carrying out a method, the first coil having two part-windings, the second coil likewise having two part-windings, prevailing strengths of the inductive coupling of the part-windings of the first coil, or of the first coil to the part-windings of the second coil or to the second coil being determined, a phase shift of the induced AC-voltage signals being determined, a position range in which the phase shift is a biunique function of the position being determined from the coupling strengths, the position being determined from the phase shift.

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