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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2000
David Kordecki, Austin, TX (US);
CTS Corporation, Elkhart, IN (US);
Abstract
A position sensor comprises a rotor and shaft connected to a housing for rotation about a rotational axis. A sensor base is fixedly connected to the housing and is spaced from the rotor. A Hall-effect sensor is fixedly connected to the sensor base, and a magnet is connected to the rotor for rotational movement therewith. The magnet has an upper polarized surface that faces the magnetic sensor to thereby generate a magnetic field coincident with the magnetic sensor. The polarized surface is semi-parabolic in shape to form a variable gap between the magnetic sensor and the polarized surface as the shaft and rotor are turned about the rotational axis to thereby vary the strength of the magnetic field at the magnetic sensor. With this arrangement, the strength of the magnetic field sensed by the magnetic sensor is indicative of the amount of relative movement between the rotor and the housing.