Table 8.
The distribution of the use of encoders in the patents on the Patent-Scope platform, where P represents the total number of patents, and N is the number of patents that use the respective sensor.
Type of Sensor | P = 27 |
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Encoder, (N) | 9 |
Encoder (angle) (N) | 6 |
Encoder (unspecified type) (N) | 2 |
Encoder (linear, rotary) (N) | 0 |
Encoder (magnetic, photoelectric) (N) | 0 |
Encoder (incremental, absolute (N) | 1 |