Patent · US Expired

Sensor arrangement

US6131456A · kind A · utility

2Cited by

8References

11Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Bernhard Mattes · Sachsenheim, DE
Siegfried Malicki · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
Lothar Haas
Hans-Dieter Schmid · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 22, 1996
Grant date	Oct 17, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 22, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH01H35/02
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A sensor arrangement for determination of at least one of a position and an acceleration of a moveable body has a housing fixedly connected with the moveable body, an inertia body accommodated in the housing, a detector arranged in the housing for detecting a horizontal displacement of the inertia body, the housing having a base plate on which the detector is arranged so that determination of a vertical displacement of the inertia body is also performed.

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