Capacitive coder

Claim 1

A CAPACITIVE TRANSDUCER FOR AN ANALOG POSITION-TODIGITAL CONVERTER COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF CAPACITOR SECTIONS, EACH OF SAID SECTIONS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ROTOR AND STATOR ELEMENTS ON INTERLEAVED PARALLEL PLANES, AN INPUT SHAFT, ALL OF SAID ROTOR ELEMENTS BEING ELECTRICALLY DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO AND SUPPORTED ON SAID SHAFT SO THAT SAID ROTOR ELEMENTS ARE ALL AT THE SAME POTENTIAL, SAID ROTOR ELEMENTS OF THE SECTION EMPLOYED TO GENERATE A FIRST BIT INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF EQUALLY SPACED, EQUAL-SIZE RADIAL SECTORS, SAID STATOR ELEMENTS OF THE SECTION EMPLOYED TO GENERATE THE FIRST BIT INCLUDING RADIALLY EXTENDING, EQUALLY SPACED AND EQUAL SIZE SECTORS AT LEAST SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF ROTOR SECTORS OF THE SAME SECTION, SAID STATOR ELEMENTS EMPLOYED TO PRODUCE THE FURTHER BITS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF RADIALLY EXTENDING, EQUALLY SPACED AND EQUAL-SIZE SECTORS, SAID LAST-MENTIONED SECTORS BEING DIVIDED INTO PLURAL SEGMENTS ELECTRICALLY INSULATED FROM ONE ANOTHER.