KAPAZITIVE LAENGEN- UND WINKELMESSEINRICHTUNG

This device has a measurement value pick-up which consists of a stationary part (1) as scale and a parallel part (2), which can be displaced over its surface at a short distance, as scanning unit. The mutually opposite areas of the scale (1) and of the scanning unit (2) are provided with capacitor foils 5,6,7,8,9. The mechanical quantity to be measured results in a change in area of one capacitor, the resultant change in capacity acting as a variable capacitive reactive impedance in a circuit which changes the phase angle of the electrical signals. If the capacitor area (5,6,7,8,9) is appropriately shaped, a linear function is obtained between the mechanical quantity to be measured and the phase angle of the signals.