PHOTOELECTRIC ANGLE CONVERTER Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: automation and computer engineering. SUBSTANCE: photoelectric angle converter that can be used for analog-to-digital conversion of angular position of shaft into digital code to obtain digital data from controlled entities and to enter it into digital controlling and computing machines has case, shaft being coded which is mounted in ball bearings, coded and read-out disks, holders carrying radiators, photodetectors, and read-out disk, beveled adjusting bushing, and adjusting mechanism in the form of adjusting screws. Shaft being coded mounts aligning ball bearing whose axis is aligned with shaft axis; outer cage of ball bearing is rigidly coupled with coded disk and inner one, with adjusting bushing whose bevels are joined with adjusting screws, the latter being rigidly coupled with case. EFFECT: enlarged functional capabilities. 1 cl, 2 dwg