G01D 2205/70
Position sensors comprising a moving target with particular shapes
Official title: Position sensors comprising a moving target with particular shapes, e.g. of soft magnetic targets
G01D2205/70 (Position sensors comprising a moving target with particular shapes) appears on 289 US grants and 266 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01D- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Inductive long-range position sensors (LR-POS) integrated on flexible and rigid substrates18 Aug 2026US 12,710,290 B2Bourns, Inc.
- Inductive position sensor18 Aug 2026US 12,710,291 B2Melexis Technologies SA
- Position detection for a rotation angle sensor7 Apr 2026US 12,596,018 B2Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Elongate body comprising a cursor band for a vehicle system of a vehicle13 Jan 2026US 12,522,286 B2Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Scale element for an inductive position measuring device21 Oct 2025US 12,449,247 B2Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH
- Single (1x) speed variable reluctance resolver23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210735 A1Zfencoder, Inc.
- Inductive angular position sensing over 360-degree target measurement range using 180-degree sensor area30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118140 A1Microchip Technology Incorporated
- Off-axis magnetic angular sensor using a magnetic sensing probe and multi-pole magnet array2 Apr 2026US 2026/0092992 A1Honeywell International Inc.
- Input device and rotation detection device of the same5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036442 A1Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Sensor and sensing method15 Jan 2026US 2026/0016321 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for determining the position of an object176US 5,187,475 AHoneywell Inc. · 1993
- Magnetic position sensor having opposed tapered magnets120US 6,211,668 B1CTS Corporation · 2001
- Linear position sensor having a permanent magnet that is shaped and magnetized to have a flux field providing a sensor output that varies linearly between opposite end points of relative linear movement between the magnet and sensor117US 6,215,299 B1Britax Rainsfords Pty. Ltd. · 2001
- Two axis position sensor using sloped magnets to generate a variable magnetic field and hall effect sensors to detect the variable magnetic field114US 6,175,233 B1CTS Corporation · 2001
- Position and speed sensors100US 4,737,698 AKollmorgan Technologies Corp. · 1988