Device for detecting the relative rotational speed of two elements in a vehicle wheel

• US 5,191,284 A
• Filed: 07/01/1991
• Issued: 03/02/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SKF Industrie SPA (ABet SKF)
• Original Assignee: SKF Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Varvello, Angelo, Moretti, Roberto
• Primary Examiner(s): Strecker, Gerard R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): EDMONDS, WARREN
• Application Number:
  US07/723,746
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 324/207.22, 324/207.20, 324/207.21, 324/207.25, 324/174, 324/175, 338/32 R, 338/32 H, 307/309, 188/181 A, 384/448
• US Class Current: 324/174
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 2326/02 Wheel hubs or castors in general B60B
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 33/78 with a diaphragm, disc, or ring, with or without resilient members F16C33/761 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 41/007 Encoders, e.g. parts with a plurality of alternating magnetic poles
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/443 mounted in bearings bearings F16C

Abstract

Device capable of detecting the rotational speed of two elements in relative such as the support elements of a vehicle wheel, in particular the rings of the roller bearing for the support the vehicle wheel, characterized in that an initial deflector or ring integral with the rotating ring of the bearing carries twin magnetized rings with pairs of poles of opposite sign, between which a magnetic sensor carried by a second deflector or support integral with the fixed ring of the bearing being is operatively inserted, the magnetic sensor being located between the n polar expansions, the number of which conforms to the pairs of opposing poles of twin magnetized rings.

Claims

1. Device for use in a braking system capable of detecting the rotational speed of two relatively rotatable rings of a roller bearing having inner and outer relatively rotatable bearings rings supporting a vehicle wheel, comprising a deflector mounted on one bearing ring having twin magnetized rings with pairs of poles of opposite sign on respective rings confronting each other, magnetic sensors carried by a second deflector mounted on the other bearing ring operatively disposed between the twin magnetized rings, said magnetic sensors being located between confronting poles, the number of which conforms to the pairs of opposite sign poles of said twin magnetized rings, said magnetic sensors being separated by multiples or fractions of half the pitch between paris of adjacent poles such that only one sensor at a time is radially aligned with confronting poles of the magnetized rings to produce signals having a frequency proportional to the relative speed of the inner and outer rings.

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the configuration of the deflectors and the sensor is such that the elements which detect the relative speed are integrated with the deflectors and protected against the exterior.

3. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the magnetic sensor is of the Hall-effect type.

4. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the sensor is of the magnetoresistance type.

5. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the pairs of poles of opposite sign on the twin magnetized rings are arranged alternately.

6. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the twin magnetized rings and the sensor inserted between them have an essentially axial longitudinal extension.

7. Device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the twin magnetized rings and the sensor inserted between them have an essentially radial longitudinal extension.

8. Device according to claim 1 wherein the poles of the magnetized rings are circumferentially spaced and are supported by non-magnetized spaces.

9. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that said magnetic sensors are located between pairs of opposing poles.