Adapter with embedded filter components for sensors

• US 10,247,585 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2016
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Company HG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Raukopf, Svenja, Schillinger, Jakob, Schulmeister, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): LaBalle, Clayton E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sanghera, Jas A
• Application Number:
  US15/542,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20170370750A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,162 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B81B 2201/02 Sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/245 Housings for sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 1/026 for speed measuring devices, e.g. pulse generator
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6658 on printed circuit board H01R13/6666 - H01R13/6691 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6683 with built-in sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/16 for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/24 Assembling by moulding on contact members

Abstract

A component for a sensor having a sensor element and having an output interface for the outputting of an electrical signal, which is dependent on a physical variable, from the sensor element to the output interface, including—a circuit with at least one first signal path for receiving the electrical signal from the sensor element and for conducting the electrical signal to the output interface, and a second signal path, which differs from the first signal path, for conducting the electrical signal to the output interface, —wherein an activity of the first signal path or of the second signal path is dependent on a position of the component in the sensor.

Claims

1. A module for a sensor having a sensor element and an output interface for outputting an electrical signal which is dependent on a physical variable from the sensor element at the output interface, comprising:

a circuit having a plurality of signal paths, the plurality of signal paths being larger in number than a number of output connections of the sensor element, the plurality of signal paths including at least one first signal path for receiving the electrical signal from the sensor element and for conducting the electrical signal to the output interface, and a second signal path, which differs from the first signal path, for conducting the electrical signal to the output interface,

wherein an activity of the first signal path or of the second signal path depends on a position of the module in the sensor.

2. The module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the output interface comprises a plurality of output pins larger in number than the number of output connections of the sensor element, and the two signal paths are configured to conduct the electrical signal to different ones of the plurality of output pins.

3. The module as claimed in claim 2, comprising at least one electric component, via which the first and/or the second signal path is/are led.

4. The module as claimed in claim 1, comprising at least one electric component, via which the first and/or the second signal path is/are led.

5. The module as claimed in claim 4, wherein the electric component is configured to filter interference out of the electrical signal.

6. The module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the circuit is encapsulated in an embedding compound.

7. The module as claimed in claim 6, comprising pin areas via which the signal paths are exposed to the outside from the embedding compound in order to make contact with the sensor element and the output interface.

8. The module as claimed in claim 7, wherein the embedding compound is a resin.

9. The module as claimed in claim 6, wherein the embedding compound is a resin.

10. A sensor for measuring a physical variable, comprising:

a sensor element for measuring an electrical signal which is dependent on the physical variable,

a substrate carrying the sensor element and having a conductor track,

an output interface for outputting the electrical signal, and

the module as claimed in claim 1, for conducting the electrical signal from the conductor track of the substrate to the output interface.

11. A control device for a vehicle for controlling a behavior of the vehicle on the basis of a measured physical variable, comprising the sensor as claimed in claim 10 for measuring the physical variable.