Apparatus for detecting speed and direction of rotation with a single magnetic sensor
AssigneeBrose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
InventorRoland Kalb
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process and apparatus for detecting the speed and rotary direction of a rotary drive by using a signal-transmitting or signal-changing element which is connected rotationally secured to the rotary drive. According to the invention, during rotation of the signal-transmitting or signal-changing element a rotary direction coded signal is produced which is detected by a sensor and which is supplied to an electronic evaluator unit. The aim of the invention is to provide a process and device for detecting the speed and rotary direction of a rotary drive which manages with one sensor unit for a high analysis of the speed and rotary direction.
Claims15
Apparatus for detecting speed and direction of rotation comprising:
- a shaft rotating about an axis;
- a permanent magnetic ring having first and second hemicircular sectors of opposite magnetic polarity mounted on the shaft eccentrically about the axis to produce a magnetic flux density distribution around the shaft with at least two unevenly spaced, opposite peaks as a function of angular displacement as the shaft rotates about the axis;
- means spaced from the magnetic ring for sensing the magnetic flux density;
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- means for evaluating the sensed magnetic flux density to determine the speed and direction of shaft rotation.
A device for detecting the speed and direction of rotation of a rotary drive for an adjustment system of a motor vehicle comprising:
- a rotary drive;
- a permanent magnetic signal-transmitting element which consists of equal size sectors of different polarity arranged evenly along the circumference of the signal-transmitting element and which is connected rotationally secured to the rotary drive for generating a periodic, rotary direction coded signal;
- a sensor being locally fixed at a radial distance from the signal-transmitting element, said sensor detecting said periodic, rotary direction coded signal;
- an evaluator unit, the input of which is connected to said sensor for evaluating the speed and direction of rotation of the rotary device from said detected signal;
- said signal-transmitting element being connected eccentrically to the axis of the rotary drive (so that, depending on the direction of rotation of the signal-transmitting element and caused by variations of the distance between the signal-transmitting element and the sensor, a monotonously decreasing or monotonously increasing intensity of the magnetic signal is detected by the sensor).
Apparatus for detecting speed and direction of rotation comprising:
- a shaft rotating about an axis;
- a ring mounted on the shaft, the ring having first and second circumferentially adjacent permanent magnetic sectors of opposite magnetic polarity and a third radially polarized permanent magnetic sector to produce a magnetic flux density distribution around the shaft with at least two unevenly spaced opposite peaks as a function of angular displacement as the shaft rotates about the axis;
- means spaced from the ring for sensing the magnetic flux density;
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- means for evaluating the sensed magnetic flux density to determine the speed and direction of shaft rotation.
Apparatus for detecting speed and direction of rotation:
- a shaft rotating about an axis;
- a ring mounted on the shaft, the ring having first and second permanent magnetic sectors of opposite magnetic polarity that are circumferentially adjacent to each other and third and fourth permanent magnetic sectors of opposite magnetic polarity that are radially adjacent to each other and circumferentially adjacent to the first and second sectors;
- means spaced from the ring for sensing the magnetic flux density;
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- means for evaluating the sensed magnetic flux density to determine the speed and direction of shaft rotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.