US 12,065,206 B2
Steering torque sensor assembly
Thomas Lindenmayr, Nuremberg (DE); Bernd Wittmann, Pommersfelden (DE); and Stephan Neuschaefer-Rube, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG &Co. KG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Appl. No. 17/609,010
Filed by Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/DE2020/100319
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/228887, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 112 422.0 (DE), filed on May 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0212719 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 6/10 (2006.01); B62D 5/04 (2006.01); G01L 3/10 (2006.01); G01L 5/22 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 6/10 (2013.01) [B62D 5/0463 (2013.01); G01L 3/101 (2013.01); G01L 5/221 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A steering torque sensor assembly for a vehicle, comprising:
a magnetically encoded steering shaft section forming a primary sensor,
a secondary sensor configured for converting changes in a magnetic field generated by the primary sensor into an electrical signal, the secondary sensor arranged on a sensor circuit board extending parallel to the steering shaft section and arranged opposite the primary sensor, and the sensor circuit board is divided into two mechanically separate sensor circuit board panels arranged in parallel to the steering shaft section opposite the primary sensor.