Ecs Engineered Control Systems Ag

Falk Uhlenbruck

Thomas Kammer

A device for detecting the position of a gear step selector lever (') for selecting a gear setting of a motor vehicle has a signal transmitter () arranged at the gear step selector lever (&#x2032;) and a signal receiver () arranged spaced apart from the signal transmitter (). The relative position between signal transmitter () and signal receiver () varies for different gear steps which can be selected. The signal transmitter () may be a magnet and the signal receiver () may be a triaxial Hall sensor system, designed so as to detect the relative position in three dimensions. Where the gear step selector lever (&#x2032;) has a ball joint (), the signal transmitter () is arranged at one ball () of the ball joint (). In this arrangement, a north-south-axis () of the magnet () does not run through a ball center (). The invention further relates to a motor vehicle comprising a corresponding device.

Device for detecting the position of a gear step selector lever and motor vehicle equipped with same

An electromechanical transducer device for a vehicle transmission or drive has a lever () that can be pivotally actuated about at least one first axis () and which is mechanically decoupled from the transmission or drive. The lever is supported by a suspension () on the first axis (). The axis () comprises at least one first component () of a magnetic rotational angle sensor system () at an axial end section to detect angular position or rotational movement of the lever (). A second component () of the rotational angle sensor system is arranged on the suspension () opposite of the end section of the axis (), wherein the axial end section is located within the suspension (). A circuit board () accommodating the rotational angle sensors () is arranged on the suspension (), and the circuit board () comprises at least one flange-like extension () protruding from the circuit board plane.

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