US Patent Issued to Hella on Nov. 18 for "Rotational angle sensor assembly and steering system for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,027, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Rotational angle sensor assembly and steering system for a vehicle" was invented by Henning Irle (Lippstadt, Germany) and Sebastian Forst (Kamen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An angular position sensor assembly for determining an angular position of a shaft when the shaft rotates about an axis of rotation of the shaft. A rotational encoder is connected to the shaft in force transmission and a rotational sensor detects a movement of the rotational encoder. On the shaft, a non-rotatable first gear part of a gearbox of the angular position sen...