Patent ID: 9682724
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B62D,F16H,G01D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A steering angle sensor, equipped for installation in a steering arrangement of a motor vehicle, comprising a rotatably mounted first gearwheel which upon actuation of the steering arrangement rotates about an axis, and at least one rotatably mounted second gearwheel which is in engagement with the first gearwheel and is carried along with a rotary movement of the first gearwheel, so that with reference to a rotary movement of the second gearwheel a steering angle of the steering arrangement can be determined, wherein the teeth of at least one of the gearwheels are tapered in an axial direction along the tooth width such that a respective tooth of the one gearwheel, which is tapered along the tooth width, with wedge action can be fitted into a tooth gap of the gearwheel in engagement therewith, wherein at least one of the gearwheels is elastically pretensioned in the axial direction against the gearwheel in engagement therewith, and wherein the elastically pretensioned gearwheel is movably mounted in the axial direction by means of an axial guide, wherein the axial guide limits an axial movement of the pretensioned gearwheel and comprises an axially extending guide opening formed on the pretensioned gearwheel and a guide element therein, wherein the guide element protrudes from a housing of the steering angle sensor.