Overview of Transducer Technology: Passive and Active Transducers • Input and Output Transducers • Examples
of Transducers • Transducer Applications • Efficiency • Resolution and Accuracy • Sensitivity • Response
Time • Hysteresis • Useful Life
Simple Electromechanical Transducers:
Closed-Loop Circuit • Linear or Rotary Inputs • Types
of Potentiometers • Potentiometers as Computers • Diaphragms and Bellows • Electric Motors as Transducers • Electric
Tachometers • Portable Electric Tachometer • Simple
Probes
Properties of Piezoelectric Materials: Piezoelectric
Parameters • Equivalent Circuits • Charge
Sensitivity • Frequency Response • Linearity • Cross-Axis
Sensitivity • Use in Magnetic Fields • Signal
Treatment
Piezoelectric Transducers: Distortion and Electricity • Plate
Action • Selection of Material • Charge and Voltage Modes
The Differential Transformer: Instrumentation • LVDT
Gauge Heads • Economy Gauge Heads-Precision Gauge Heads • Ultra-precision
Gauge Heads-Pneumatically Actuated Gauge Heads-Lever- or Finger-Probe
Gauge Heads • Environment Effects • Advantages
of LVDTs • Rotary Variable-Differential Transformers • Characteristics
of the RVDT • Applications
Digital Transducers: Signal Output • Limitations
of Magnetic Pickups • Rotary Digitizers • The
Dual-Pulse RPG • The Disk and the Signal • Electronic
Interface • Selecting the Right RPG
Photoelectric Devices: Making a Solar Battery • Other
Photovoltaic Cells • Photoconductive Cells • Photodiodes-Phototransistors • Annunciator
Photorelay • Annunciator Relay with “Hold” • Extra-Sensitive
Annunciator Relay • The Opto-isolator • Photoelectric
Controls • Scanning Techniques • Through
Scan • Reflective Scan • Retroreflective
Scan • Specular Scan • Diffuse Scan • Color
Differentiation-Sensitivity Adjustment
Sensors: Temperature Sensing • Thermistor and Resistance
Probes • Ceramic Temperature Sensors • Solid-State
Temperature Sensors • Pyrometers • Heat-Sensitive
Materials • Light Sensors • Proximity
Sensors • Fiber-Optic Tachometer
Thermocouples: Principle of the Thermocouple - Characteristics of
Thermocouples – Construction- Thermocouple Circuits
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