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Shaft rotary position sensor

  • US 5,300,918 A
  • Filed: 02/04/1993
  • Issued: 04/05/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an assembly including a rotatable main shaft enclosed in a main shaft housing, a position sensor assembly for sensing the rotary position of the main shaft, the assembly including a rotary potentiometer coupled to the main shaft, characterized by:

  • a sensor housing attached to the main shaft housing; and

    the potentiometer is attached to an outside surface of the sensor housing, and the potentiometer having a sensor shaft which extends through a portion of the sensor housing and which is rotatably coupled to the main shaft.

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