System for a detecting wheel rotation

• US 6,339,322 B1
• Filed: 05/21/1999
• Issued: 01/15/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Zydek, Michael, Fey, Wolfgang, Lohberg, Peter, Loreck, Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): SNOW, WALTER E
• Application Number:
  US09/254,158
• Time in Patent Office: 970 Days
• Field of Search: 324/166, 324/173, 324/174, 324/207.12, 324/207.25, 324/160, 324/163, 324/165
• US Class Current: 324/166
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/44 for measuring angular speed G01P3/56 takes precedence

Abstract

An arrangement for determining the rotational behavior of a rotating body or encoder (3) includes a sensor module (1) which comprises a sensor element (2; 2.1 to 2.4), a controllable power source (4) supplying a load-independent current representative of the rotational behavior, a modulator (5) that controls the power source (4) as a function of signals of the sensor element (2; 2.1 to 2.4) and of signals supplied by an external signal source through an additional port (K5), and an evaluating circuit (9). The sensor module (1) is magnetically coupled to the encoder (3). The output signal of the sensor module (1) is a signal, representative of the rotational behavior, with a superimposed status signal and/or additional signal.

Claims

1. System for determining the rotational behavior of a rotating body, comprising;

a sensor element for sensing a rotational characteristic of a rotating body and converting the rotational characteristic into a first signal,

a sensor modulator having first and second input ports wherein said first input port is coupled to said first signal, and wherein said second input port is adapted to receive a second input signal,

a power source coupled to a monitor, wherein said monitor is coupled to said first and second signals and said monitor controls the power source as a function of at least one of said first and second signals, wherein said sensor modulator produces an output signal representative of said first and second input signals, wherein the sensor element includes a plurality of sensor units for scanning a measuring data emitter or encoder according to different criteria or for redundantly identifying measuring values.

2. System as claimed in claim 1, further including evaluating circuit coupled to said output signal wherein the evaluating circuit supplies the operating signal for operating the power source by way of signal lines.

3. System wherein as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor element is configured as a magnetic pick-up for measuring data which is magnetically coupled by way of an air slot to a measuring data emitter or encoder rotating with the body whose rotational behavior shall be measured.

4. System as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor element a plurality of sensor units for scanning the measuring data emitter or encoder according to different criteria or for redundantly identifying measuring values.

5. System as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor module includes an observer which is connected to said signal lines interconnecting the sensor module to the evaluating circuit, wherein the observer receives data by way of said signal lines, and controlls the monitor in response to said data.

6. System as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second signal derived from the rotational movement of the rotating body irrespective of the sensor element.

7. System as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second signal is generated by a status sensor.

8. System as claimed in claim 7, wherein said second signal is conditioned or evaluated by the modulator.

9. System as claimed in claim 7, wherein the transmitting, conditioning and/or evaluating operations of the modulator are controlled by the observer by way of control signals passed along said signal lines.

10. System for determining the rotational behavior of a rotating body, comprising;

a sensor element for sensing a rotational characteristic of a rotating body and converting the rotational characteristic into a first signal,

a sensor modulator having first and second input ports wherein said first input port is coupled to said first signal, and wherein said second input port is adapted to receive a second input signal,

a power source coupled to a monitor, wherein said monitor is coupled to said first and second signals and said monitor controls the power source as a function of at least one of said first and second signals, wherein said sensor modulator produces an output signal representative of said first and second input signals, wherein the sensor module includes an observer which is connected to said signal lines interconnecting the sensor module to an evaluating circuit, wherein the observer receives data by way of said signal lines, and controlls the monitor in response to said data.

11. System for determining the rotational behavior of a rotating body, comprising;

a sensor element for sensing a rotational characteristic of a rotating body and converting the rotational characteristic into a first signal,

a sensor modulator having first and second input ports wherein said first input port is coupled to said first signal, and wherein said second input port is adapted to receive a second input signal,

a power source coupled to a monitor, wherein said monitor is coupled to said first and second signals and said monitor controls the power source as a function of at least one of said first and second signals, wherein said sensor modulator produces an output signal representative of said first and second input signals, wherein said second signal is derived from the rotational movement of the rotating body irrespective of the sensor element.

12. System for determining the rotational behavior of a rotating body, comprising;

a sensor element for sensing a rotational characteristic of a rotating body and converting the rotational characteristic into a first signal,

a sensor modulator having first and second input ports wherein said first input port is coupled to said first signal, and wherein said second input port is adapted to receive a second input signal,

a power source coupled to a monitor, wherein said monitor is coupled to said first and second signals and said monitor controls the power source as a function of at least one of said first and second signals, wherein said sensor modulator produces an output signal representative of said first and second input signals, wherein said second signal is generated by a status sensor.

13. System as claimed in claim 12, wherein said second signal is conditioned or evaluated by the modulator.

14. System as claimed in claim 12, wherein the transmitting, conditioning and/or evaluating operations of the modulator are controlled by an observer.