Rotation angle sensor provided with pedestal and rotary machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9702733-B2
Application number	US-201514692086-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2015
Priority date	Apr 25, 2014
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

A rotation angle sensor for detecting a rotation angle of a shaft of the motor or shaft of a machine which is driven by a motor, equipped with a detected part at an outer circumferential part of a rotary body attached to the shaft and a detection element facing the detected part provided on a pedestal which is surrounding the shaft, wherein a recessed part which is provided at the pedestal is formed with an abutting surface which abuts against an end face of the detection element at the side far from the shaft of the detection element, the distance of the abutting surface from the axial line is made different along the peripheral direction of the pedestal, and a position of the detection element abutting against the abutting surface is moved in the peripheral direction so as to adjust the difference between the rotary body and the detection element.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rotation angle sensor which detects a rotation angle of a shaft of a motor or a shaft of a machine which is driven by a motor, said rotation angle sensor comprising:
a rotary body which rotates attached to said shaft and is provided with a detected part at its outer circumferential part;
a detection element which is set on a line which perpendicularly intersects an axial line of said shaft and faces said detected part; and
a pedestal which is provided at its center part with an opening part through which said shaft is inserted and which attaches said detection element, wherein
said pedestal is formed as a pedestal which is provided with a recessed part to which said detection element is attached,
around said recessed part, an abutting surface which abuts against an end face of said detection element at a far side from said shaft is formed, and
said abutting surface is formed so that a distance from an axial line of said shaft changes along a peripheral direction of said pedestal.

2. The rotation angle sensor according to claim 1 wherein said abutting surface is formed from a plurality of abutting surfaces so that a distance of said abutting surface from the axial line of said shaft which changes along the peripheral direction changes in stages.

3. The rotation angle sensor according to claim 2 wherein said plurality of abutting surfaces are circumferential surfaces of the same radii.

4. The rotation angle sensor according to claim 2 wherein said plurality of abutting surfaces are flat surfaces which perpendicularly intersect a line which perpendicularly intersects the axial line of said shaft.

5. The rotation angle sensor according to claim 3 wherein in said detection element, the shape of the end face of said detection element at the side far from said shaft is a shape which is attached to said plurality of abutting surfaces without gap.

6. The rotation angle sensor according to claim 1 wherein said pedestal can be attached to said shaft reversed and the back surface side of said pedestal is formed with an abutting surface of a shape different from said abutting surface which is formed at the front side of said pedestal.

7. The rotation angle sensor according to claim 1 wherein said opening part is a circular hole with an inside diameter which is larger than the outside diameter of said shaft.

8. The rotation angle sensor according to claim 1 wherein said opening part has a semicircular part with an inside diameter which is larger than the outside diameter of said shaft and a cutaway part which continues from said semicircular part, has the same width as the diameter of said semicircular part, and is cut away up to the outer circumferential part of said pedestal.

9. A rotary machine which is provided with a rotation angle sensor which detects a rotation angle of a shaft of a motor or a shaft of a machine which is driven by a motor, said rotation angle sensor comprising;
a rotary body which rotates attached to said shaft and is provided with a detected part at its outer circumferential part;
a detection element which is set on a line which perpendicularly intersects an axial line of said shaft and faces said detected part; and
a pedestal which is provided at its center part with an opening part through which said shaft is inserted and which attaches said detection element, wherein
said pedestal is formed as a pedestal which is provided with a recessed part to which said detection element is attached,
around said recessed part, an abutting surface which abuts against an end face of said detection element at a far side from said shaft is formed, and
said abutting surface is formed so that a distance from an axial line of said shaft changes along a peripheral direction of said pedestal.

Assignees

• Fanuc Corp

Inventors

• Nishioka Akira

Classifications

• G01D5/14 Primary

  influencing the magnitude of a current or voltage · CPC title

• G01D5/24442 Primary

  by mounting means · CPC title

• H02K11/21

  Devices for sensing speed or position, or actuated thereby (specially adapted for machines having non-mechanical commutating devices H02K29/06, H02K29/14) · CPC title