Primary converter - ichijihenkanki

Japanese: 一次変換器 - いちじへんかんき
Primary converter - ichijihenkanki

…The measurand is generally converted into other physical quantities several times before being read on a scale, so it can be said that the measurand passes through a series of physical quantity converters to become the measured value. Among these physical quantity converters, the converter at the front that captures information about the measurand of interest is called the primary converter, or sensor. When the captured data is later processed by a computer, the computer can be likened to the brain and the primary converter to the sensory organs, so the term sensor has recently come to be used more often. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "primary converter" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…測定量は一般に何回か他の物理量に変換されて最後に目盛で読み取られるから,測定量は物理量の変換器の列を通って測定値になるといえる。この物理量の変換器のうちで,最先端にあって対象の測定量に関する情報をとり込む変換器を一次変換器,あるいはセンサーという。とり込まれたデータを後でコンピューターで処理するとき,コンピューターを脳に,一次変換器は感覚器官になぞらえることができるので,最近はセンサーということが多くなった。…

※「一次変換器」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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