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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
Ksr Ip Holdings, Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Lingmin Shao, London, CA;
KSR IP Holdings, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, an inductive sensor assembly includes a shaft and a multilayered printed circuit board (PCB). The shaft includes a first end. The first end has a bottom surface. A target including a flat forming a straight edge is integrally formed into the first end of the shaft. The PCB includes a transmitter coil and a two part receiving coil. The two part receiving coil has a first receiving coil and a second receiving coil. The first receiving coil is on a different layer of the PCB than the second receiving coil in an axial direction. The target is rotated about a central axis of the two part receiving coil. The straight edge of the target and the bottom surface is detected by the two part receiving coil.