US 11,742,853 B2
Housing for an inductive sensor, method of manufacturing a housing for an inductive sensor
Frank Gutmann, Waldkirch (DE); Torsten Neuhaeuser, Waldkirch (DE); Wolfgang Marschner, Waldkirch (DE); Dominik Paul, Waldkirch (DE); and Matthias Kopf, Waldkirch (DE)
Assigned to SICK AG, Waldkirch (DE)
Filed by SICK AG, Waldkirch (DE)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/580,466.
Claims priority of application No. 102021101181.7 (DE), filed on Jan. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0231685 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H03K 17/95 (2006.01); G01R 27/26 (2006.01); G01R 33/02 (2006.01); G01R 15/18 (2006.01)
CPC H03K 17/9505 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A housing for an inductive sensor having at least one sleeve-like housing part and at least one beaker-like end cap for a sensor element,
wherein the beaker-like end cap has a sleeve-like section,
wherein the end cap is of plastic,
wherein the end cap is arranged in the sleeve-like housing part,
wherein the end cap has a peripheral annular pressing surface that has an excess size with respect to an inner diameter of the housing part along an outer diameter of the sleeve-like section so that a press fit is formed between the sleeve-like housing part and the end cap, with a jacket-like outer surface of the sleeve-like section of the end cap not having a step that projects beyond the inner diameter of the sleeve-like housing part,
and wherein the beaker-like end cap has at least one marking at an outer surface of the sleeve-like section for the introduction depth of the end cap into the sleeve-like housing part.