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Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2007
Applicants:

Shinji Hatanaka, Okazaki, JP;

Kenji Takeda, Okazaki, JP;

Shigetoshi Fukaya, Toyota, JP;

Inventors:

Shinji Hatanaka, Okazaki, JP;

Kenji Takeda, Okazaki, JP;

Shigetoshi Fukaya, Toyota, JP;

Assignees:

DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;

Nippon Soken, Inc., Nishio, Aichi-pref., JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 7/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A rotation angle detecting device is rotated by a rotating object via a gear mechanism to detect a rotation angle of the rotating object. The rotation angle detecting device includes a housing, a magnet rotor unit having a permanent magnet and a central hole, a magnetic sensor unit including a pair of magnetic sensor elements each of which detects magnetic flux density of a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet in a direction different from the other, and a signal processor that calculates a rotation angle of the rotating object from the magnetic flux density. The magnetic rotor unit includes a mechanism for changing the magnetic flux density as the number of turns of the magnet rotor unit changes.


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