IP Library Granted Patent US 12,264,945
Granted Patent B2
US 12,264,945 · App. 17/791,887 · Granted Apr 1, 2025

Inductive rotor position sensor device, drive device

Inventors: Wolfgang Welsch (Heidelberg, DE); Andreas Kurz (Bietigheim, DE); Klaus Lerchenmueller (Rettenberg, DE); Robert Dauth (Heilbronn, DE); Sina Fella (Neuenstadt, DE); Tim Krzyzanowski (Lauffen am Neckar, DE)
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
G01D5/2053G01B7/30G01D5/24438
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Patent No.
US 12,264,945
App. No.
17/791,887
Granted
Apr 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An inductive rotor position sensor device for detecting a rotor angular position of a rotor of an electric machine. The inductive rotor position sensor device includes a transmitter coil for generating electromagnetic waves and a receiver coil for detecting the electromagnetic waves generated by the transmitter coil and influenced by the rotor, and includes a processing unit, which is designed to activate the transmitter coil and to evaluate the electromagnetic waves detected by the receiver coil for determining the rotor angular position. The coils and the processing unit are situated on a shared circuit board. The coils are situated on a front side, and the processing unit is situated on a rear side of the circuit board which faces away from the front side.

Claims (24)

1. An inductive rotor position sensor device for detecting a rotor angular position of a rotor of an electric machine, the inductive rotor position sensor device comprising:

a transmitter coil configured to generate electromagnetic waves;

a receiver coil configured to detect the electromagnetic waves generated by the transmitter coil and influenced by the rotor;

a processing unit configured to activate the transmitter coil and to evaluate the electromagnetic waves detected by the receiver coil for determining the rotor angular position; and

a rigid multi-layer circuit board comprising two outer layers, namely a front side and a rear side which faces away from the front side, and several inner layers, the transmitter and receiver coils and the processing unit being situated on the circuit board, wherein the transmitter and receiver coils are situated on the front side of the circuit board, and the processing unit is situated on the rear side of the circuit board, wherein:

at least one shielding layer for shielding the processing unit against the electromagnetic waves is situated between the coils and the processing unit,

a further shielding layer rests on the at least one shielding layer, each of the further shielding layer and the at least one shielding layer have multiple slots and are configured to be situated on top of one another in such a way that none of the slots overlap, and

the shielding layers are lithographically applied as inner layers to the circuit board and etched out of a copper cladding.

2. The rotor position sensor device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the shielding layer extends over the entire circuit board.

3. The rotor position sensor device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the circuit board has a circular disk-shape configuration.

4. The rotor position sensor device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the circuit board has a circular disk ring-shape configuration.

5. The rotor position sensor device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the shielding layer has multiple radial slots.

6. The rotor position sensor device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the shielding layer is manufactured from copper cladding.

7. The rotor position sensor device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the circuit board is a circuit board which is cut free in a rectangular base circuit board and connected in one piece to the rectangular base circuit board by only one web or by a maximum of four webs and able to be broken out of by destruction of the webs.

8. A drive device for a parking brake of a motor vehicle, comprising:

an electric machine; and

an inductive rotor position sensor device assigned to the electric machine for detecting a rotor angular position of a rotor of the electric machine, the rotor angular position sensor including:

a transmitter coil configured to generate electromagnetic waves,

a receiver coil configured to detect the electromagnetic waves generated by the transmitter coil and influenced by the rotor, and

a processing unit configured to activate the transmitter coil and to evaluate the electromagnetic waves detected by the receiver coil for determining the rotor angular position; and

a rigid multi-layer circuit board comprising two outer layers, namely a front side and a rear side which faces away from the front side, and several inner layers, the transmitter and receiver coils and the processing unit being situated on the circuit board, wherein the transmitter and receiver coils are situated on the front side of the circuit board, and the processing unit is situated on the rear side of the circuit board, wherein:

at least one shielding layer for shielding the processing unit against the electromagnetic waves is situated between the coils and the processing unit,

a further shielding layer rests on the at least one shielding layer, each of the further shielding layer and the at least one shielding layer have multiple slots and are configured to be situated on top of one another in such a way that none of the slots overlap, and

the shielding layers are lithographically applied as inner layers to the circuit board and etched out of a copper cladding.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 22, 2022
From: WELSCH, WOLFGANG; KURZ, ANDREAS; LERCHENMUELLER, KLAUS; DAUTH, ROBERT; FELLA, SINA; KRZYZANOWSKI, TIM
To: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Reel/Frame 061182/0750 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2020 203 275.0 · Mar 13, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230043918A1 · Feb 9, 2023
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