SENSOR

• US 20120293194A1
• Filed: 06/13/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eagle Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Eagle Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Nitta, Mikio
• Granted Patent: US 8,884,636 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/705
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 7/003 for measuring position, not involving coordinate determination coordinate measuring G01B7/004
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/245 Housings for sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/165 by relative movement of a point of contact or actuation and a resistive track
• CPC Class Codes: H01C 10/30 the contact sliding along resistive element

Abstract

Disclosed is a sensor that can accurately detect displacement and prevents the phenomenon of a contact section between a shaft member and a sliding element receiver being shifted. The sensor comprising: a case having a through hole; a resistance substrate fixed at an inside of said case; a shaft member having a first end portion which is one end of the shaft member placed within said case and a second end portion which is other end of the shaft member exposed to an outside of said case from said through hole, said shaft member being placed at said through hole in a movable manner in an axial direction; and a sliding element receiver having a bearing end contacting with said second end portion of said shaft member, and attached with a brush sliding together with said resistance substrate, said sliding element receiver being capable of moving relatively against said resistance substrate with said shaft member. A hemispherical end face is formed at said first end portion. A hemispherical hole internally contacting with said hemispherical end face is formed at said bearing end.

Claims

1. A sensor comprising:

a case having a through hole;

a resistance substrate fixed within said case;

a shaft member having a first end portion which is one end of the shaft member placed within said case and a second end portion which is other end of the shaft member exposed to an outside of said case from said through hole, said shaft member being placed at said through hole in a movable manner in an axial direction; and

a sliding element receiver having a bearing end contacting with said second end portion of said shaft member, and attached with a brush sliding together with said resistance substrate, said sliding element receiver being capable of moving relatively against said resistance substrate with said shaft member;

wherein a hemispherical end face is formed at said first end portion, and a hemispherical hole internally contacting with said hemispherical end face is formed at said bearing end.

2. The sensor as set forth in claim 1, wherein;

an opening diameter of said hemispherical hole is larger than a diameter of said first end portion.

3. The sensor as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

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1/D_A is satisfied when a curvature of said hemispherical hole is defined as R, and when a distance between a center position of said through hole and a bottom portion of said hemispherical hole under the condition that said shaft member is most exposed to the outside of said case is defined as D_A.

4. The sensor as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

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1/D_A is satisfied when a curvature of said hemispherical hole is defined as R, and when a distance between a center position of said through hole and a bottom portion of said hemispherical hole under the condition that said shaft member is most exposed to the outside of said case is defined as D_A.