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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 28, 2022
Applicant:

Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;

Inventors:

Yuki Matsumoto, Kariya, JP;

Tsukasa Kono, Kariya, JP;

Atsushi Kobayashi, Kariya, JP;

Tetsuya Ohmi, Kariya, JP;

Michihiro Makita, Kariya, JP;

Naoki Watanabe, Kariya, JP;

Sukhwa Jung, Kariya, JP;

Assignee:

DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/14 (2006.01); G01D 5/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/145 (2013.01); G01D 5/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Magnets are arranged at intervals along a stroke direction with an interposed space. Magnetic pole surfaces of adjacent ones of the magnets have opposite poles. A detector is arranged with a gap in a gap direction against a magnetic pole surface of each of the magnets and acquires a sine signal and a cosine signal as detection signals of phases corresponding to the positions of the magnets, based on a change in a magnetic field received from the magnets according to movement of the detector relative to the detection object in the stroke direction. A signal processor acquires the sine signal and the cosine signal from the detector, generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, an arctangent signal corresponding to a stroke amount of the detection object relative to the detector, and acquires the arctangent signal as a position signal.


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