US Patent Issued to The Timken on May 27 for "Position sensor system using equidistantly spaced magnetic sensor arrays" (New Hampshire, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,430, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Timken Co. (North Canton, Ohio).

"Position sensor system using equidistantly spaced magnetic sensor arrays" was invented by Alfred John Santos (Keene, N.H.), Lei Wang (Solon, Ohio) and Mark E. LaCroix (Winchester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a position and or speed of a rotating shaft includes a target wheel for securement to a rotatable shaft, the target wheel including a plurality of North/South pole pairs, each pole of each North/South pole pairs being essentially the same size; and a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly includes a first magneti...