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Tailorable force sensor based on stress magneto
The amorphous magnetic wires are widely used as magnetic or magneto-mechanical sensors due to their very soft magnetic properties and high sensitivity to stress. 1-4.
A new design of a high sensitivity sensor with high capability to measure applied forces or load is proposed by this paper.
The sensor consists in four pieces of high permeability Co68.18Fe4.32Si12.5B15 amorphous magnetic wire, 120 μm in diameter, 20 mm in length, glued prestressed on a pcb board having 0.3 mm in thickness, 7 mm in width and 30 mm in length (Figure 1). The ends of each wire is soldered on the PCB to form a Wheatstone bridge circuit. The opposite arms of the bridge are placed on the same side of the pcb to increase the bridge unbalance when stressed. Also, all wires forming the bridge arms are parallel and close one to another to minimize the effect of the surrounding magnetic field. By using different PCB support for the bridge, it is possible to tailor the sensitivity and force measuring range. A special designed electronic device was built to power the bridge using a high frequency sinusoidal signal and to extract and amplify the unbalanced voltage of the bridge.
The dependence of the output voltage/gain versus applied force, for a signal excitation frequency of 1 MHz, is shown is showin figure 2. The sensor shows linear behavior between ± 0.15N and sensitivity of 43.7 mV/N, without gain, in the linear region.
Financial support by the NUCLEU Program (PN 19 28 01 01) is gratefully acknowledged.