Sensor fixing structure including valve body and pressure sensor

• US 10,421,662 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2017
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nidec Tosok Corporation (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nidec Tosok Corporation (Nidec Corporation)
• Inventors: Osawa, Tomoka, Wakabayashi, Hironobu, Nakamura, Toshiaki, Tatsuta, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Allen, Andre J
• Application Number:
  US15/681,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20180057355A1
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• Field of Search: 73700-756
• CPC Class Codes: B81B 2201/0264 Pressure sensors
• CPC Class Codes: B81B 7/0051 between the package lid and the substrate
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0009 Hydraulic control units for transmission control, e.g. assembly of valve plates or valve units
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/003 using a detachable interface or adapter between the process medium and the pressure gauge
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/143 Two part housings
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 7/18 using liquid as the pressure-sensitive medium, e.g. liquid-column gauges

Abstract

A groove is provided at an outer side of an outer wall of a pressure sensor in a radial direction, and opens at one end side in an axial direction of the pressure sensor. A horizontally extending stopper is provided at an inner wall of a sensor accommodation recessed portion. A fixing portion is provided on the outer side of the outer wall of the pressure sensor in the radial direction, and enters the stopper. The fixing portion protrudes outward in the radial direction from the outer wall of the pressure sensor accommodated in the accommodation recessed portion, and contacts the stopper in the axial direction.

Claims

1. A sensor attachment structure comprising:

a valve body that has an oil passage therein, the valve body including an open end portion of the oil passage and an accommodation recessed portion in a surface of the valve body, the accommodation recessed portion being connected to the open end portion of the oil passage;

a pressure sensor whose external shape is a columnar shape, the pressure sensor being connected to the oil passage with at least a portion of the pressure sensor being disposed in the accommodation recessed portion;

a groove that is provided at an outer side of an outer wall of the pressure sensor in a radial direction, the groove being open at one end side in an axial direction of the pressure sensor;

a horizontally extending stopper that has a form of a groove and that is provided at an inner wall of the sensor accommodation recessed portion; and

a fixing portion that is provided on the outer side of the outer wall of the pressure sensor in the radial direction with respect to the groove, and that enters the stopper,

wherein the fixing portion protrudes outward in the radial direction from the outer wall of the pressure sensor accommodated in the accommodation recessed portion and that contacts the stopper in the axial direction.

2. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 1, wherein the fixing portion is a crimped portion.

3. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 2, wherein the crimped portion is connected to the outer wall of the pressure sensor at a second end thereof in the axial direction, and protrudes outward in the radial direction and contacts the stopper at a first end thereof in the axial direction.

4. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 1, wherein the stopper is provided along an entire periphery of a wall at the accommodation recessed portion.

5. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 2, wherein an end portion of the crimped portion at the one end side in the axial direction has an arc shape.

6. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 5, wherein the stopper in the form of the groove has an inclined portion at an edge at the other end side in the axial direction, and

wherein the crimped portion contacts the inclined portion.

7. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the valve body has a ring-shaped wall that protrudes towards the one end side in the axial direction of the pressure sensor, and

wherein a portion that is surrounded by the ring-shaped wall is the accommodation recessed portion.

8. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the valve body has a recessed portion whose bottom surface is recessed towards the other end side in the axial direction of the pressure sensor with respect to the surface of the valve body, and

wherein the recessed portion is the accommodation recessed portion.

9. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 1,

wherein the valve body includes

an upper body that includes the accommodation recessed portion and the oil passage,

a lower body that is directly superimposed upon the upper body or that is superimposed upon the upper body with a separate plate in between, and

an oil passage that is provided in the lower body and that is connected to the oil passage of the upper body, and

wherein the accommodation recessed portion is provided in an upper surface of the upper body.

10. The sensor attachment structure according to claim 2,

wherein the sensor includes

a lower case that has an oil inlet space that is connected to the oil passage of the valve body, and

an upper case that is attached to the lower case and that accommodates a pressure detection element, and

wherein the lower case protrudes in a form of a flange outward in the radial direction with respect to the upper case, and includes the crimped portion at an outer side of a side wall of the lower case in the axial direction.