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Title:
METHOD OF DETERMINING ABSOLUTE ANGLE STATE OF STEERING HANDLE OF AUTOMOBILE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2007024880
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To reproduce an angle determining method, where insensitiveness that has increased uniquely to the influence of foreign matter is achieved to contamination or electromagnetic fault impulses.

By the method, a rotational angle, especially an angle state, in the steering handle of an automobile is determined absolutely by a transmission/reception unit including a sensor array having a light source and a number of photoelectric conversion elements, and a code carrier that is arranged rotatably to the unit and has a single-wire code having a unique angle value. In this case, a segment related to the code is mapped onto the sensor array, and is evaluated so that a code word, where the output signal of the sensor array coincides with a real angle value, is detected. The insensitiveness that has increased uniquely to the influence of a foreign matter should be reproduced, especially to the contamination or the electromagnetic fault impulses. The output signal of the sensor array is corrected by a correlation filter having a reference signal indicating the angle information of a code, and the best coincidence positions of the output signal and the reference signal are detected as a real codeword.


Inventors:
BORGMANN UWE
KOESTER MICHAEL
Application Number:
JP2006186328A
Publication Date:
February 01, 2007
Filing Date:
July 06, 2006
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
KOSTAL LEOPOLD GMBH & CO KG
International Classes:
B62D5/04; G01B11/26; G01D5/244
Domestic Patent References:
JP2000068361A2000-03-03
JPH04211874A1992-08-03
JPS59501725A1984-10-11
JP2001526401A2001-12-18
JPS61128111A1986-06-16
JPH09510548A1997-10-21
Foreign References:
US20050078015A12005-04-14
US4715714A1987-12-29
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Mitsufumi Esaki
Okumura Yoshimichi
Blacksmith