ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,087, issued on June 17, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG &Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Clutch actuator, detection system and method for detecting an angular position of a rotary component" was invented by Jie Zhou (Baden-Baden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first sensor signal and a second sensor signal are provided by a sensor unit to an evaluation unit. The first sensor signal is dependent on the angular position, and the second sensor signal is phase-shifted by 90deg with respect to the first sensor signal. A noise value that is superimposed on each sensor signal due to noise in the corresponding sensor ...