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Patented FLUX GMI technology

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March 2023

Patented FLUX GMI technology combines the ๐™๐™ž๐™œ๐™ ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™š๐™˜๐™ž๐™จ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ performance of an optical encoder with the ๐™ง๐™ค๐™—๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ of an inductive encoder and the large ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ก๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š and ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™š of a magnetic encoder.

๐—•๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜โ€˜๐˜€ ๐—š๐— ๐—œ?

The Giant Magento Impedance (GMI) effect is a phenomenon, based on the skin effect, in which certain materials exhibit a drastic change in impedance when exposed to external magnetic fields. Thus, a signal can be generated in response to the position of the sensor with respect to the scale.

๐—™๐—Ÿ๐—จ๐—ซ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—น๐—น ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€ 
๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—š๐— ๐—œ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ผ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐˜†.


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