Patent ID: 9631918
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: B60T,F16H,G01B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A sensor device for a pedal, comprising: a sensor arrangement configured to determine at least one actuating variable regarding an operation of the pedal by a user of a device which is actuable using the pedal, and to output information corresponding to the at least one ascertained actuating variable, to determine, as the at least one actuating variable, at least one variable regarding at least one of a position and a change in position of an input rod disposed at the pedal, which input rod is settable into at least a rotary motion by operating the pedal, in relation to a specified spatial direction; wherein the specified spatial direction is a center longitudinal axis of an output rod present in its initial position, which is joined to the input rod so that the output rod is settable into at least a translatory motion using the input rod set into the rotary motion, and wherein the sensor device is configured to specify as at least part of the output information, at least one of: a distance of at least one point of the input rod perpendicularly to the center longitudinal axis of the output rod; a quantity of change in distance of the at least one point of the input rod perpendicularly to the center longitudinal axis of the output rod; an angle representing an orientation of the input rod in relation to the center longitudinal axis of the output rod; and an angle representing a change in orientation of the input rod in relation to the center longitudinal axis of the output rod.