Taku Murakami, Masami Kitsunai, Daisuke Yoshida, Koichi Yamashita, Nobuyuki Nagahashi, A Hydraulic Cylinder with a Magnetic Stroke Sensor, SAE Transactions, Vol. 101, SECTION 2: JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL ...

As LVITs are contactless solutions, they do not require machining a cavity in the cylinder piston for a ring magnet of a magnetostrictive sensor or wiper contact of a potentiometer.