Force Sensor; a Device/Sensor That Is Designed To Translate Applied Mechanical Forces
A force sensor is used to measure the amount of force applied to an object. These sensors are widely used in a wide range of products and applications, such as medical devices, electronic devices, and automobiles, among others. Different types and sizes of force sensors are available for a wide variety of applications. Some of the examples of force sensors are pneumatic load cells, load cells, capacitive load cells, hydraulic load cells, strain gauge load cells, etc. Common approach is to name them after their measuring principle; magnetostrictive, strain, capacitive, inductive, pneumatic, and hydraulic, magnetostrictive.
According to the "Coherent
Market Insights" Global Industry Insights, Trends, Outlook, and
Opportunity Analysis of Force
Sensor Market.
There is also a category of Force transducers. The major difference between
a force transducer and a force sensor is that the transducer converts the
amount of force applied or measured into a measurable small electrical voltage
output signal, while the output of a force sensor is not an electrical voltage.
The most common form of a force sensor is strain gauge force sensor. Force
sensors based on strain gauge technology provide extremely precise measurement
data and also record even the smallest of forces drift-free. This type of force
sensor is used in a wide variety of applications where thermal stability and
longevity are required.
Force sensors are used in almost all industries. The working
principle of a force sensor is that it reacts to the applied force and convert
the values to a measurable quantity. The applied force is determined by finding
the amount of variation in the resistance values of the force sensing
resistors. Thus, there is an increasing demand for force sensors across the
world. For instance, in April 2020, SINTOKOGIO (Japan) started production of a
6-axis force sensor ‘ZYXer’ for industrial robot. ZYXer measures the forces in
vertical, horizontal, and height directions and forces that rotate around its
each direction.
However, it is important to note that all force sensors are
different & work differently, as there are different types of force sensors
available in the market that rely on different detecting components.
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