Arrangement of a sensor on a wheel bearing unit

US7287908B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FAG Kugelfischer AG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Niebling · Bad Kissingen, DE
• Jens Heim
• Heinrich Hofmann · Schweinfurt, DE
• Darius Dlugai · Schweinfurt, DE
• Roland Langer · Schwanfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 23, 2004
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2007
• Expiry date: Oct 17, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2326/02
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An arrangement of a sensor on a wheel bearing unit, the sensor is fixed to an outer wheel bearing ring of the wheel bearing unit, and at the sensor is located opposite an encoder of the wheel bearing unit which encoder can rotate with respect to the sensor about an axis of rotation of the wheel bearing unit. The wheel bearing unit has at least a first row of roller bodies and has a second row of roller bodies which is adjacent to the first row in the axial direction of the axis of rotation. The bearing ring engages at the same time around at least one of the rows.