The draw-wire displacement sensor is also called a draw-wire sensor, a draw-wire electronic ruler, or a draw-wire encoder. The draw-wire displacement sensor is a sophisticated structural construction of a linear displacement sensor. It fully combines the advantages of an angle sensor and a linear displacement sensor to become a sensor with a small installation size, compact structure, large measuring stroke, and high accuracy. The stroke ranges from hundreds of millimeters to tens of meters. A draw-wire sensor (also called a string pot, cable extension transducer）is a linear position sensor that measures the displacement or velocity of a moving object. It works by converting the linear motion of a flexible measuring wire into a rotary motion, which is then translated into an electrical signal.

Because of its unique product characteristics, the draw wire transducer is widely used in many fields, such as machinery manufacturing, construction engineering, aerospace, automation control and so on.