Inductive switch

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7701201
APP PUB NO 20080142346A1
SERIAL NO

10571947

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The invention relates to an inductive sensor unit having one or several coils, which are mounted on a printed circuit board in a planar manner. According to the invention, a change in the inductance of a sensor coil due to leakage currents in the inductive actuator is correlated with the position of the actuator in two respects i.e., with the distance x to the sensor coils and with the overlapping y of the sensor coils. As a result, an inductive push button switch and an inductive position switching device (a sliding switch) are provided. The invention also relates to the evaluation of the inductance by means of reactance measurement. A relative evaluation of the influence of adjacent sensor coils increases the precision of response in push button switches and, generally, a relative evaluation of the influence of adjacent sensor coils is carried out in position switching devices.

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  • ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Luber, Thomas Hahnbach, DE 8 109
Pirner, Reinhard Koenigstein, DE 1 14
Zapf, Martin Creussen, DE 8 76

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