Built-in wheel speed sensor structure for a car

• US 4,698,536 A
• Filed: 04/16/1986
• Issued: 10/06/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Oohori, Harumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Salce, Patrick R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): REBSCH, DONALD
• Application Number:
  US06/852,759
• Time in Patent Office: 538 Days
• Field of Search: 310/67 R, 310/67 A, 310/168, 310/77, 310/93, 310/68, 188/181 A, 188/181 C, 188/181 R, 324/164, 324/173, 324/174, 324/208
• US Class Current: 310/168
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 1/06 acting otherwise than on tread, e.g. employing rim, drum, disc, or transmission or on double wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/171 Detecting parameters used in the regulation; Measuring values used in the regulation
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 63/004 comprising a rotor engaged both axially and radially by braking members, e.g. combined drum and disc brakes
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/488 delivered by variable reluctance detectors

Abstract

A built-in wheel speed sensor structure having an internal gear-like sensor rotor integrally fixed to a tire and an electromagnetic car speed sensor fitted to an inner portion of a parking brake and facing the sensor rotor. The wheel speed sensor is supported by an anchor pin of the drum brake so that the sensor rotor may be positioned away from service holes for fastening bolts which have been bored into a brake drum.

Claims

1. A built-in wheel speed sensor structure for a vehicle, comprising:

(a) an internal gear-like sensor rotor fixed to wheel means, said wheel means rotating integrally with a tire; and

(b) an electromagnetic wheel speed sensor fitted to a fixed portion of a parking brake means, said wheel speed sensor being disposed in an anchor pin on a bearing case, said wheel speed sensor fixed in such a manner as to face said sensor rotor, and wherein said sensor rotor and said wheel speed sensor are disposed inside a brake drum of said parking brake means.

2. The built-in wheel speed sensor structure of claim 1, wherein said wheel speed sensor is disposed inside a hollow portion of said anchor pin.

3. The built in wheel speed sensor structure of claim 1, wherein said wheel means includes an axle shaft and a disc rotor connecting said axle shaft rotating integrally with said tire.

4. A built-in wheel speed sensor structure for a vehicle, comprising:

(a) an internal gear-like sensor rotor means formed on a wheel rotating integrally with a tire; and

(b) an electromagnetic wheel speed sensor means mounted on a fixed portion of a parking brake means, said wheel speed sensor means being disposed in an anchor pin on a bearing case, said wheel speed sensor means mounted in such a manner as to face said sensor rotor means, and wherein said sensor rotor means and said wheel speed sensor means are disposed inside a brake drum of said parking brake means.