Method and device for locating the right or left position of a wheel of a vehicle

• US 7,750,623 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2006
• Issued: 07/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive France (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive France (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Dulac, Gilles
• Primary Examiner(s): Aurora; Reena
• Application Number:
  US11/995,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20080197837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,474 Days
• Field of Search: 324/207.25, 324/207.15, 324/207.22, 324/165, 324/173, 340/445
• US Class Current: 324/207.15
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0416 allocating a corresponding wheel position on vehicle, e.g. front/left or rear/right
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0425 Means comprising permanent magnets, e.g. Hall-effect or Reed-switches
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/2033 controlling the saturation of a magnetic circuit by means of a movable element, e.g. a magnet
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 21/02 continuously variable, e.g. variometers
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 21/06 by movement of core or part of core relative to the windings as a whole

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