Schaeffler Technologies Ag & Co .kg

Konecranes Plc

Andreas Thölke

Jens Heim

Martin Steigerwald

Jens Schäfer

Wolfgang Braun

Dierk Schröder

Gerhard Geis

A camshaft adjuster for adjusting the phase angle between a crankshaft and a camshaft of an internal combustion engine comprises an actuator, in particular, an electric motor, and an adjustment module, which comprises a drive element, which can be driven by the crankshaft, and an output element, which can be rotated relative to the drive element to a limited extent and which is provided to be securely coupled to the camshaft, wherein a signal generator, which is arranged so as to be fixed in position on the internal combustion engine and which has an inductance, is inductively coupled to a measurement circuit, which is integrated into the adjustment module and which has at least one resonant circuit component having electrical properties that depend on the said phase angle.

Camshaft adjuster and method for determining the setting of a camshaft adjuster

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Nuremberg, Germany

Andreas Thölke