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In-axle vehicle wheel speed sensing device
   
Document Number
US Patent 4689557
Issued Date
August 25, 1987
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A wheel speed sensor comprises a non-magnetic spindle, a rotor of magnetic material carried by the spindle, a stator surrounding the rotor, a permanent magnet, a stationary hub of magnetic material in which the spindle is rotatably mounted, and a wire coil disposed for induction by current by changing magnetic fields caused by rotation of the rotor. The rotor and the hub are superimposed over the total length of the rotor, irrespective of the relative axial positions of the rotor and the hub due to the end float of the spindle. This ensures that the effective length of an air gap between the overlapping faces of the rotor and the hub remains substantially constant irrespective of any such end float. Thus the resistance of a magnetic flux path across the air gap will remain substantially constant.
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Published
August 25, 1987
Application Number
06/824,731
Filed
January 31, 1986
US Classification
324/174   340/671
Int'l Classification
G01P   3/42   (20060101)   G01P   3/488   (20060101)  
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Priority Data
Feb 06, 1985 [GB] 8502944
USPTO Field of Search
73/129   73/121   188/1.11   303/108   160/167   160/174   160/179   310/155   324/174   340/671  
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