Position sensor for a motor vehicle

US6467338B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Henning Irle · Lippstadt, DE
• Norbert Kost · Geseke, DE
• Franz Schmidt · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 15, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 22, 2002
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01D5/246
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A position sensor for a motor vehicle, which generates, as a sensor signal, a pulse-width modulated signal that varies as a function of position, has a total measuring range which is subdivided into multiple, similar, sequentially-adjacent, measuring sections. The position sensor of the invention provides error-free transition between the sequentially-adjacent measuring sections.