Rotational direction is monitored with an encoder disc paired with simple electronics and a dual optical interrupter; with a bit of additional electronics, speed and relative shaft location are ...

Optical encoders are electromechanical motion sensor and feedback devices comprising of a photodetector, LED light source, along with a disc with slot apertures. The benefits of optical encoders ...

Left, a magnetic encoder uses Hall sensors to track the spinning of a magnetic wheel. Right, the transparent disc in an optical encoder is marked with concentric opaque areas.

Optical encoders convert mechanical position into an electrical signal. They comprise a patterned disk, a light source, and photosensitive elements (Fig. 1).

US Digital operators can focus on more important tasks while a new robotic workstation handles disk-picking duty for the company’s new optical kit encoder.

The iC-PXL3212 from iC-Haus is an optical, reflective, lensless encoder IC with integrated HD phased-array photo sensors and a blue LED chip. For the latest generation of these encoder ICs, the chip ...

Nanotec Electronic US Inc. is introducing the NOE1, the first rotary encoder in a new product series of optical encoders.

Moreover, the 512 and 1,000 CPR options retain the E4T's simple and efficient, push-on hub disk assembly process, helping US Digital customers keep installation time, assembly cost and complexity to a ...

TT Electronics has launched FlexSense a technology designed to optimize optical encoder applications. The FlexSense series consists of the FS210 Transmissive Incremental Encoder and the FS310 ...