INTRODUCTION

Transducers have a great impact in the field of

technology

We are the users of transducers without knowing it ??!!

Have you ever thought how the auto screen rotation in

modern mobile takes place??

How the wireless communication has been made more

effective??

Do you know how proximity switching, positioning, speed

detection, light sensing, sound sensing and current sensing
applications work??
 The seminar aim to describe
Transducers and to make a brief
classification
 What is a TRANSDUCER ??

A transducer is a device, usually electrical, electronic, electro-

mechanical, electromagnetic, photonic, or photovoltaic that
converts one type of energy or physical attribute to another for
various purposes including measurement or information transfer.

for example, pressure sensors

 The term transducer is commonly used in two senses; the
sensor, used to detect a parameter in one form and report it in
another (usually an electrical or digital signal), and the audio
loudspeaker, which converts electrical voltage variations
representing music or speech, to mechanical cone vibration and
hence vibrates air molecules creating sound.
Most of the transducers either convert electrical energy into
mechanical displacement and/or convert some non electrical
physical quantity (such as temperature, light, force, sound etc.)
to an electrical signal.

In an electronic instrumentation system, the

functions of a transducer (being the input device) are
two-fold

1. To detect or sense the presence, magnitude and changes in physical

quantity being measured, and

2. To provide a proportional electrical output signal

Classification of Transducers

 Passive transducers

 Self generating transducers

 Passive transducers

(A) Resistance Variation type

(B) Capacitance Variation type

(C) Inductance Variation Type

(D) Voltage and Current type

 PASSIVE TYPE
(A) Resistance Variation type

Resistance strain Gauge

Resistance Thermometer
Resistance Hygrometer
Hot wire meter
Photo conductive cell
Thermistor
Potentiometer type
(B) Capacitance Variation type

Variable Capacitance pressure gauge.

Dielectric gauge
Capacitor microphone
(C) Inductance Variation Type

Eddy current gauge

Variable reluctance type
Proximity Inductive type
Differential Transformer
Magnetostriction gauge
(D) Voltage and Current type

Photo-emissive cell
Hall effect
Ionization Chamber
 SELF GENERATING TYPE

Photo-voltaic cell
Thermo-couple type or Thermopile type.
Piezo-electric type
Moving Coil type
 Vishnu Prasad.K (vishnukpsd.gmail.com)

 Sachin.R.P (rp_sachin@rocketmail.com)

 Rakesh.R.K (mailrakesh@gmail.com)

 Vaishak .Krishnan
(vaishak.krishnan@gmail.com)

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