Elementor #6589
MAGNETICALLY INDUCTIVE TORQUE SENSOR - NOT A REVOLUTION, BUT AN EVOLUTION
Many companies in the field of sensor technology are looking for the next step, an improvement in sensor performance, a reduction in manufacturing costs or smaller and more compact designs. This evolutionary development enables manufacturers to maintain their position in the market and to be marketable at all.
How does a revolution in the torque industry succeed?
A start-up that wants to develop a new product in order to break into an established market, or a company that wants to expand its market segments from a strategic point of view, has to think completely differently. These companies must make a revolution in order to rock the boat in the traditional, divided market and to reorganize their market shares. A revolution in a sensor product always succeeds if not only one of the elements price, performance or size changes. In order to succeed in this revolution, it is necessary to try out completely new patterns of thinking and approaches, which also means among other things, to take some risk. Often, however, new technologies are paving the way for a revolution in the sensor area.
How technical revolutions change our history
In the history of humanity, these revolutions can be found again and again, and then, retrospectively, these were mostly these important processes that have fundamentally changed our lives. This certainly includes the industrial revolution, the invention of television, telephoning, the Internet, cars and more.
What innovation has led to a breakthroughin measuring sensor technology?
In sensor technology, such a milestone was the invention of MEMS sensors, which means the conversion of a physical into an electrical quantity, which is integrated in the smallest possible space. Partly in combination with CMOS electronics to output already digital signals. One company using this technology for a revolution is Sensirion, which in 1997 revolutionized the existing market by developing a MEMS moisture sensor. Not only has this revolution meant that the existing market has changed, but also that with this new product, applications have been made that were previously unattainable for commercial or integration reasons. In sensor technology, such a milestone was the invention of MEMS sensors, which means the conversion of a physical into an electrical quantity, which is integrated in the smallest possible space. Partly in combination with CMOS electronics to output already digitalnsignals. One company using this technology for a revolution is Sensirion, which in 1997 revolutionized the existing market by developing a MEMS moisture sensor. Not only has this revolution meant that the existing market has changed, but also that with this new product, applications have been made that were previously unattainable for commercial or integration reasons.
The problems of the torque sensor industry
A similar trend is indicated by the torque measurement. The existing technological possibilities for torque measurement are based on already existing principles for decades and have developed only slightly innovative. These torque sensors are very expensive, that means commercially uninteresting for a serial application and on the other hand very large and thus badly integrated into customer projects.
How can the problem be solved?
The company Magnetic Sense has developed a modular system with a new technology with magnetic inductive components, which has the potential to revolutionize the existing market of torque sensors. The magnetic-inductive torque sensors can be built extremely small and highly integrated and are due to a modular design in a position to be scalable to be manufactured with high-volume processes. This fact now makes it possible to measure the torque directly in many different industrial and automotive applications, thereby making a major contribution to electromobility and increasing efficiency.
MAGNETIC SENSE TORQUE SENSOR
- Contactless measuring principle
- Insensitive to mechanical overload
- Digital literarized output signal
- Robust against interference fields
- no mechanical or magnetic processing
of the measuring point necessary - No specific requirements for the
material of the shaft - No aging effects
