Method and arrangement and sensor for determing the postion of a component

An arrangement for determining a position of a first component (14) in relation to a second component (12), comprising at least one first magnetic flux sensor (22), connected to the second component (12), for detecting a first magnetically scannable structure (20) formed on a surface (18) of the first component (14) during a relative movement between the first component (14) and the first magnetic flux sensor (22), wherein the first magnetic flux sensor (22) is embodied as a differential transformer having a primary winding (36) and two secondary windings (40, 42) which are interconnected such that the difference between the signals of the connected secondary windings results directly in their respective output signal, so that the voltages generated by the primary winding in the secondary windings are mutually canceled out when the windings are symmetrically magnetically coupled, wherein the magnetically scannable structure is formed on the metallic surface of the first component in the form of regions of different permeability or magnetic property, such that the magnetic coupling of the windings changes during a relative movement of the differential transformer along the measurement structure, whereby a continuous signal is present at the output of the first differential transformer, the magnitude of which is a measurement of asymmetry, and the relative position of the first component can be determined from the course of this continuous, incremental signal,

• characterized in that
• the second component (12) has at least one second magnetic flux sensor (32), embodied as a differential transformer, for determining the absolute position of the first component (14), in that the first component (14) has at least one second magnetically scannable structure (28) extending along a longitudinal axis (16) of the first component (14), which can be scanned by the second differential transformer (32), wherein the second differential transformer (32) generates a continuous, steady output signal during a relative movement along the second magnetically scannable structure (28), wherein the absolute position of the first component can be determined with the help of the steady output signal of the second differential transformer.