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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188729 | Rolling bearing with a rotation sensor In a magnetic sensor 7, a tubular duct 9a for output cables 12 is formed integrally with a sensor housing 9, provided with an opening 14 having a uniform width from a proximal end to a distal end of the duct 9a | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179130 | Magnetic revolution counter A magnetic revolution counter for the unambiguous determination of a definable number of revolutions of a rotating element to be determined. The aim of creating such a revolution counter allowing a determination of any arbitrarily definable number of revolutions, fo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179129 | Position/displacement measuring system with an encoded scale body Position/displacement measuring system, comprising a sensor head and an encoded scale body, the scale body extending in a first direction and in a second direction lying transversely to the first direction, and the scale body having a region for incremental position... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179127 | Method and apparatus to monitor position of a rotatable shaft A rotatable shaft is equipped with a measurement device that generates output signals corresponding to discrete angular positions of the shaft. Rotational angles of the shaft are measured for a complete rotational period. A true angular velocity of the shaft is dete... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179128 | Wheel suspension for a vehicle A wheel suspension for a vehicle which includes a wheel (8) and at least one suspension arm (2) that connects the wheel (8) to the body (7) of the vehicle. The arm (2) is pivotally mounted to the body (7) by an inner part ( | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174257 | Wheel bearing device with rotation detector A wheel support bearing assembly for supporting a wheel, which assembly includes an outer member having rolling surfaces and serving as a stationary member; an inner member having rolling surfaces; a plurality of rows of rolling elements interposed between the respe... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169214 | Angular position sensor An angular position sensor and method that relies on a stationary circular array of Hall sensors and a rotatable circular array of magnets arranged about a common axis. A periodic and simultaneous reading of all of the Hall sensor outputs is used to determine angula... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164327 | Steering angle sensor A steering angle sensor assembly 10 for determining absolute angular position of a steering wheel of a motor vehicle and includes a multi-axis detector 24 having an active operating mode and a standby operating mode and being adapted to measure speed a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159215 | Induction detecting rotary encoder An induction detecting rotary encoder has first to third transmitting windings, first to third receiving windings, and first to third flux coupling winding. The first transmitting winding, the first receiving winding, and the first flux coupling body constitute a fi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8148974 | Pulse generator wheel, preferably for shafts, and method for manufacturing such a pulse generator wheel A pulse generator wheel has a cylindrical wall provided with windows distributed about a circumference of the cylindrical wall and closed axially at a first end by a ring. The ring is made of circumferentially extending profiled sections of profiled parts that are s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148975 | Pickup coil for sensing rotary speed of engine, the coil including adjustable weight member A pickup coil includes a sensing unit having an iron core, a permanent magnet magnetically coupled to a rear end position of the iron core, and a coil for sensing a change of magnetic flux occurring in the iron core; and a supporting frame member. The sensing unit i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148973 | Magnetic resolver A magnetic resolver includes: a plurality of columnar cores disposed on an annular plate; a coil portion disposed around each of the columnar cores; and an annular rotor having a sinusoidal profile that rotates in a plane parallel to the top faces of the columnar co... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8138753 | Measuring arrangement for detecting a 1/rotary momentum of an engine rotor, and associated method A measurement system for detecting a rotary movement of a rotor that is situated in particular in rotatable fashion in a compressor housing of a jet engine, includes the rotor having vane elements that are preferably situated equidistant from one another on its peri... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138751 | Magnetic rotation sensing for meter Embodiments for rotation sensing are provided. A device may include a magnet apparatus including a first and a second magnet. The magnet apparatus may be configured to be coupled to a dial apparatus of a meter. The device may include a first magnetic field sensor an... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138752 | Rotation detection apparatus A rotation detection apparatus for detecting a rotation state of a gear is disclosed. The rotation detection apparatus includes a magnetic sensor, a magnetic filed generation unit, and a self-diagnosis unit. The sensor includes: a bias magnet for generating a bias m... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134359 | Magnetic rotational-angle detector The present invention provides a magnetic rotational-angle detector capable of detecting a position and a rotational angle of a rotating member with excellent accuracy. The magnetic rotational-angle detector includes device arrays (51, 52) constituted by a pl... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129986 | Angle sensor device An angle sensor device is for determining information of a movable object. The information includes angular position information and/or angular speed information. The angle sensor device includes (a) at least one magnetically encoded region arranged on the movable o... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129985 | Position encoder An inductive position encoder is described having first and second members which are relatively moveable over a measurement path, a magnetic device mounted on the first member; a plurality of first windings mounted on the second member; and a second winding. The mag... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120351 | Magnet sensor arrangement for sensing the movement of element moving in linear or rotary fashion A magnetic sensor arrangement (1), having magnetically sensitive sensor elements (7, 8) whose electrical properties are changeable as a function of a magnetic field that a moving, passive transmitter element (11) is able to influence. The magnet... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120352 | Device for self-adjusting and method for arranging an impulse transmitter in relation to a rotor An apparatus for self-adjustment of, and a method for disposing, a pulse-type rotation speed transducer in relation to a rotor are described. The pulse-type rotation speed transducer has a cylindrical sensor head and an adapter to a measurement and power supply cabl... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115479 | Rotation-angle-detecting apparatus, rotating machine, and rotation-angle-detecting method A rotation-angle-detecting apparatus comprising a magnet rotor having 4 or more magnetic poles on the surface, and sensor device for detecting magnetic flux from the magnet rotor, and an electronic circuit for outputting a signal representing the rotation angle of t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111065 | Sensor unit for a rotary encoder and a rotary encoder equipped with such a sensor unit There is described a sensor unit (3) for a rotary encoder which serves for detecting the rotary movements of a drive shaft (1) in both directions and which has a single-stage transmission with an input gear (15) which is arranged concentrically ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111063 | Magnetic rotation sensing Embodiments for rotation sensing are provided. The device may include a magnet apparatus comprising a magnet, the magnet apparatus configured to be coupled to a dial apparatus of a meter. Also included may be a magnetic field sensor configured to be coupled to a dia... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111064 | Magnetic rotational angle transducer A magnetic rotational angle transducer has at least one Hall sensor (14) rotatable in a magnetic field of a given configuration relative to and offset from the rotational axis (16). To enable linearization of the output signal without additional signal... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106649 | Angle detecting apparatus and angle detecting method An angle detecting apparatus includes a rotor fixed to a rotating shaft, a pair of magnetic sensors arranged opposite each other so as to output a first detection signal and a second detection signal, respectively, each of which contains information on the angle of ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106650 | System and method for measuring movement of a component from rings magnetized in a magnetically hard layer A position-sensing system includes a first component (e.g., a cylinder) and a second component (e.g., a piston rod) movably coupled to the first component for movement with respect thereto. A magnetically hard layer on the second component provides a recording mediu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106648 | Non-contact rotational angle detecting sensor There is provided a non-contact rotational detecting sensor comprising a ring-shaped permanent magnet which rotates integrally with a detection object of a rotational angle and of which a magnetic pole changes along the circumferential direction, a ring-shaped insid... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8093887 | Mounting structure for wheel rotation sensor A mounting structure for wheel rotation sensor 40 includes a brake flange 20, a bracket 30, and a wheel rotation sensor 40. The brake flange 20 is disposed near a sensor rotor 10 fixed to an axle of a wheel, includes a flang... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089272 | Angle sensor for measuring angular parameter of rotary member An angle sensor for measuring angular parameters of a rotary member includes a shaft, a rotary disc being connected to the rotary member and rotatable about the shaft, a number of electromagnetic elements disposed on the rotary disc, a precision controller electrica... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089271 | Sense magnet assembly including multiple annular portions with alternating magnetic poles A sense magnet assembly including a generally circular hub portion defining a central axis. The hub portion includes a generally disk-shaped base portion and an outer wall extending axially from an outer edge of the base portion. An elastic magnet material is provid... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085036 | Sensor including two code rings and a magnetic field sensor between the code rings An apparatus includes a shaft and a first code ring including a first number of pole pairs. The first code ring is attached to the shaft. The apparatus includes a second code ring including a second number of pole pairs different from the first number. The second co... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080991 | Sensor device for measuring rotational movements of a wheel bearing The invention relates to a sensor device for measuring rotational movements of a wheel bearing, comprising at least one runner (12) of a plain bearing (12, 14), at least one pulse generator (19), cooperating with a sensor (10) for determi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072210 | Detecting device of the angular position of a rotating member of an electric household appliance A detecting device for detecting the angular position of an electric household appliance rotating member, including a generating apparatus of a magnetic field arrangeable in a fixed position with respect to the rotating member; an interaction apparatus with the magn... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063629 | Method for processing sensor signals subject to an offset and sensor arrangement designed to carry out the method In a method and a sensor arrangement for processing sensor signals of a sensor, which is operated in a plurality of measurement cycles with successive phases with different driving, before the amplification, the sensor signals of n phases of each measurement cycle a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8058868 | Turning device position sensing system and method A system for determining an absolute position of a motor. The system includes first and second multi-polar magnetic rings, first and second processing units, and at least one external sensor. The first multi-polar magnetic ring is concentrically positioned around th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054069 | Self-adjusting multi-event timing apparatus An apparatus for providing an indication of rotational position of a shaft by parameter change. The apparatus includes a resilient, serpentine-shaped middle portion, a first end portion located at one end of the middle portion, and a second end portion at another en... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049493 | Resin-molded products and methods of manufacturing the same The present invention includes a resin-molded product including at least one magnet having opposite faces extending in directions intersecting with a magnetizing direction of the at least one magnet. The present invention also includes a resin portion molded with th... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044659 | Rotational angle sensor and method manufacturing same, and throttle control device with rotational angle sensor A rotational angle sensor and a method for manufacturing the same, and a throttle control device with a rotational angle sensor, which may lower the cost, are provided. The rotational angle sensor includes each sensor IC 50(1), 50(2) for ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040129 | Rotation detector and rotation detector-equipped bearing A rotation detecting device capable of outputting information on the absolute angle using an ABZ phase signal and without extra operation and procedures required, and a bearing assembly having this rotation detecting device incorporated therein are provided. The dev... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040130 | Device for detecting the torque and the angle of rotation of a rotating shaft A device for detecting torque features of an electric screwer comprises a clutch for coupling with the electric screwer and a clutch for applying a resisting torque. The two clutches (11, 13) are connected to one another by a shaft (14) on which there ... | 10/18/2011 |
