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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2018
Sensata Technologies, Inc., Attleboro, MA (US);
Mark Allen Pankratz, Bloomington, MN (US);
Edmund Charles O'Neill, Victoria, MN (US);
Joshua Gayle Boltz, Howard Lake, MN (US);
Paul Robert Erickson, Prior Lake, MN (US);
Andrew Reid Daavettila, Delano, MN (US);
Jeremiah Thomas Rau, Elko-New Market, MN (US);
Gerald Scherbing, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Sensata Technologies, Inc., Attleboro, MA (US);
Abstract
An electronic throttle control assembly for a vehicle has a housing that mounts to a handlebar of the vehicle and defines an interior. A rack gear is mounted in the interior for movement in a linear, translational, and/or radial direction. A pinion gear within the interior moves the rack gear upon rotation of the pinion gear. A sensor target is coupled to the rack gear. A sensor detects a position of the sensor target and generates an electric signal for a vehicle control unit. A grip is coupled to the pinion gear, rotation of the grip moving the rack gear and sensor target in a linear, translational, and/or radial direction, the electric signal varying based on the change in position of the sensor target. Opposing springs within the housing resist movement of the rack gear and rest in a normally preloaded state.