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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark E. LaCroix, New Hartford, CT (US);
A. John Santos, Farmington, CT (US);
Stephen T. Podhajecki, Norfolk, CT (US);
Assignee:
The Torrington Company, Torrington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 3/44 ; G01P 3/48 ; F16C 3/200 ; G01B 7/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 3/44 ; G01P 3/48 ; F16C 3/200 ; G01B 7/14 ;
Abstract
A drawn cup wheel bearing is mounted within an axle tube and supports an axle shaft mounted in the drawn cup wheel bearing with a vehicle mounting flange of the axle shaft positioned axially outwardly of the axle tube. An annular target is supported from the vehicle mounting flange of the axle shaft such that the target is positioned axially inwardly of the vehicle mounting flange and is positioned over the axle tube. A sensor is supported from the axle tube over the annular target for sensing rotation of the annular target.