ACCELERATION TRANSDUCER Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: moving-object acceleration metering in brake systems of various vehicles. SUBSTANCE: acceleration transducer has housing; two flat magnetically permeable plates mounted on shaft for angular displacement relative to housing and to one another with their centers of gravity shifted relative to shaft; plate displacement limiters; plate vibration dampers in the form of two permanent magnets, each being mounting on housing opposite to peripheral part of respective plate and degrees of plate vibration damping being different; selector switch made in the form of two facing radiation sources and photodetector each disposed on respective disk at equal distances from axis of revolution with relative offset in disk plane. EFFECT: simplified design and enhanced reliability of transducer. 5 cl, 1 dwg