Joral LLC

Joral designs and manufactures Shafted, and Non Shafted magnetic encoders, position sensors, and Tilt Sensors. Joral has been the supplier for CAT timber harvesting computers for 15 years. During a customer visit in 2004, an engineer asked if we could design a better encoder since the current product they were using had a life in the field of several months. Our first shafted encoder product was installed on a harvest head in January of 2005. During 2007, we invented the Non Contact Encoder in the Hockey Puck format, and applied for a patent on the design. We named it that, first because of its unique shape, but also because to prove its ruggedness, we played hockey, using the encoder as the puck. Higher pulse rate encoders, the 18mm form factor, and 30 mm form factor followed. Our latest market innovation is the field programmable magnetic encoder requiring only a simple push of a button and turn of the shaft. Our first shafted encoders were (and still are) installed on timber...