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Fixing structure of coil yoke

US5739616A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 27, 1996
Grant dateApr 14, 1998
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Expiry dateSep 27, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01L3/105
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A torque sensor including a coil bobbin around which a coil is wound, a coil yoke having a first end face and a second end face, the coil yoke accommodating the coil bobbin, a housing having a medium-diameter portion and a small-diameter portion, the housing being shaped to receive the coil yoke and having a receiving surface at one end of the small-diameter portion, the first end face of the coil yoke abutting against the receiving surface, and a seal member that contacts the second end face of the coil yoke and urges the coil yoke toward the receiving surface to fix a position of the coil yoke in the housing, an outer peripheral surface of the seal member being secured to an inner peripheral surface of the housing at the medium-diameter portion of the housing.

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