Patent ID: 7921684

Claim:
A magnet-holding structure for a magnetic position detector, the magnetic position detector including a movable member; a support member for supporting the movable member; a magnet attached to one of the movable member and the support member; and a magnetic field detection element, arranged on the other one of the movable member and the support member, for detecting a magnetic field of the magnet, wherein a position of the movable member with respect to the support member is magnetically detected based on an intensity or a direction of the magnetic field detected by the magnetic field detection element; the magnet-holding structure comprising: a magnet receptacle portion formed in a magnetically non-attractive portion of the movable member, for accommodating the magnet, wherein: the magnet receptacle portion is defined by a magnetically non-attractive, non-adhesive material and the one of the movable member and the support member includes a magnetically attractive metal component or metal portion located near the magnet receptacle portion; and the magnet is magnetically held and positioned in the magnet receptacle portion, which is arranged between the magnet and the metal component or metal portion, solely by a magnetic attraction force produced between the magnet and the metal component or metal portion formed from the metal material.