Decrease of displacement hysteresis error in magnetostrictive wire type displacement sensor

作者:Wakiwaka Hiroyuki*; Seki Kunitake; Matsubayashi Ryo; Chang Xiaoming; Yajima Hisashi; Hagiwara Katsumi; Komoriya Shigeru; Fujiwara Nobuhiro
来源:Sensor Letters, 2007, 5(1): 226-228.
DOI:10.1166/sl.2007.078

摘要

A displacement sensor using magnetostrictive wire is a sensor which estimates the displacement from propagation time of an elastic wave that is caused and detected by using the magnetostrictive effect. This sensor can be used for measurement up to 60 m in simple structure, therefore it is appropriate for industrial applications. This paper describes the followings; In case of unipolar pulse current used until now, 1.3 mm hysteresis error is produced. Then, new methods for reducing the hysteresis error were examined. The bipolar pulse current was used instead of the unipolar pulse current. As the result, it was found that the hysteresis error could be decreased to 0.3 mm or less.