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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2013
Douglas C. Moore, Chicago, IL (US);
John Jablonski, Chicago, IL (US);
Douglas C. Moore, Chicago, IL (US);
John Jablonski, Chicago, IL (US);
CTS CORPORATION, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
A magnetic sensing device including a U-shaped magnet with a pair of legs and a base defining a first interior channel and a distal plane. A sensor assembly in the first interior channel includes a sensor that extends above the distal plane. The magnet generates a first region of low or no flux above the distal plane in a first position of the magnet, a second region of low or no magnetic flux in the interior channel in a second position of the magnet, and a third region of magnetic flux above the distal plane in the second position of the magnet which causes the sensor to activate a control signal. The base includes steps and a second interior channel that opens into the first interior channel.