Patent ID: 7019517

Claim:
A rotary position sensing system, comprising: a shaft comprising an offset mounting hole; a magnet having a magnetic field that is magnetized across an axis of said magnet, wherein said magnet is and is mounted to said shaft at said off-set mounting hole and oriented to said offset mounting hole; at least one Hall-effect sensing element located at a fixed distance from said magnet to provide a linear output signal proportional to said magnetic field of said magnet and said angular position of said shaft, thereby providing an angular position measurement of a device mated to said shaft; a housing for containing said shaft, wherein said housing is formed from a non-metallic material and said shafts mounted to said housing utilizing a plurality of bearings; and an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip housing assembly, wherein said housing is operatively connected to a termination or end-cap piece and said magnet is surrounded by said IC chip housing assembly, such that said at least one Hall-effect sensing element is surrounded by a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and said IC chip housing assembly.