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US 7,568,835 B2Granted
Temperature sensor
AssigneeOTTO EGELHOF GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsPeter Pils, Ulli Rudischer, Gerhard Waltner
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AssigneeOTTO EGELHOF GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsPeter Pils, Ulli Rudischer, Gerhard Waltner
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Temperature sensor with a temperature-dependent actuating device (12) comprising a capillary tube (14) which is filled with a gaseous or liquid medium which—in case of temperature changes along a measuring distance formed by the capillary tube (14)—effects a pressure or volume change and which comprises a path transmission element (16) which is provided medium-tight at one end of the capillary tube (14) and exerts a stroke movement depending on the pressure or volume in the capillary tube (14), and with a sensor which is designed as a Hall-effect probe (27) and which detects, contact-free, the stroke movement of the path transmission element (16) via a magnet (34) arranged on the path transmission element (16) or a section pointing toward the Hall-effect probe (27) on the path transmission element (16) of a magnetic material, characterized in that the path transmission element (16) is fixed on the housing bottom (25), and that a printed circuit board (28) taking up the Hall-effect probe (27) is arranged—separate from the path transmission element (16)—on a housing section (41, 38) adjacent to or opposite the housing bottom (25) of the housing (24).
Temperature sensor with a temperature-dependent actuating device comprising a capillary tube which is filled with a gaseous or liquid medium which—in case of temperature changes along a measuring distance formed by the capillary tube—effects a pressure or volume change and which comprises a path transmission element which is provided medium-tight at one end of the capillary tube and exerts a stroke movement depending on the pressure or volume in the capillary tube, and with a sensor which is designed as a Hall-effect probe and which detects, contact-free, the stroke movement of the path transmission element via a magnet arranged on the path transmission element or a section pointing toward the Hall-effect probe on the path transmission element of a magnetic material, characterized in that the path transmission element is fixed on the housing bottom, and that a printed circuit board taking up the Hall-effect probe is arranged physically separate from the path transmission element on a further housing section adjacent to or opposite the housing bottom of the housing.
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