Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. offers a variety of small, thin digital and analog optical position sensors, which it has developed by marrying circuit-design skills with its device packaging technology.

Fashioned for easy installation into circular encoder housings common to industrial motors, the AEDT-9140 three-channel, high-temperature optical incremental encoder modules are available in a variety ...

If you have a motor and you’d like to know where the shaft position is, you are likely to turn to an optical encoder scheme. However, as [lingib] points out, you can also use a magnet and a ...