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Inductive position sensor having multiple receiving geometries

  • US 6,384,598 B1
  • Filed: 09/01/2000
  • Issued: 05/07/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Inductive position sensor for a motor vehicle, comprising:

  • an oscillator circuit that generates a periodic alternating voltage signal and couples it into an exciting coil;

    several receiving coils each of which forms a periodically repeating loop winding structure and whose overall arrangement forms a receiving geometry;

    an evaluation circuit for evaluating signals induced in the receiving coils; and

    a movable inductive coupling element which influences the strength of an inductive coupling between the exciting coil and the receiving coils, wherein the position sensor includes two receiving geometries and two coupling elements, the periodicity of the loop winding structures of the receiving coils is different in the two receiving geometries, and over a total measuring range of the position sensor the numbers of periodic repetitions in the loop winding structures of the receiving coils of the two receiving geometries exhibit a non-integer ratio in relation to one another.

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