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US 6,144,027 AGranted
Structure of a steering-angle sensor module
AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorPetra Weber
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Abstract
The present invention is concerned with a steer angle sensor for determining the steer angle in automotive vehicles. Sensors of the afore-mentioned type are required for controlling the driving stability. It is the object of the invention to arrange a code disk in a simple way opposite the housing of the sensor. This problem is solved, in the practice of the invention, in that the code disk is arranged directly on the housing. Advantageous developments refer to possible designs of the bearing.
Claims13
A steer angle sensor module, comprising:
- a first housing section, including a housing bottom, a second housing section including a housing lid,
- a rotatable code disk disposed within a space defined between said first and second housing sections,
- an electric circuit including at least one scanner for scanning the code disk, wherein the code disk is rotably arranged directly on the first housing section in spaced relationship therefrom, wherein the first housing section includes a circular hole on an edge of which a ring wall which faces the interior of the first housing section wherein the code disk is supported on the front face of the ring wall facing an interior of the housing, and further including
- locking struts projecting from the code disk by way of ring wall, by radially outwardly extending locking hooks, engage an outer face of the housing bottom.
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A steer angle sensor module, comprising:
- a first housing section, including a housing bottom, a second housing section including a housing lid,
- a rotatable code disk disposed within a space defined between said first and second housing sections,
- an electric circuit including at least one scanner for scanning the code disk, wherein the code disk is rotably arranged directly on the first housing section in spaced relationship therefrom, wherein the circular code disk includes a central circular passageway conforming to a bottom hole, from the edge of which a locking strut project with circular sector-shaped support walls standing between the locking struts arranged in groups on the circular edge of the passageway, with the support walls carrying circular-sector-shaped transport ears protruding into the circular hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.