Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Liquid surface sensing device
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Application No.: US14901667Application Date: 2014-06-30
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Publication No.: US09989399B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Isao Miyagawa
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya, Aichi-pref.
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya, Aichi-pref.
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2013-138098 20130701
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/003453 WO 20140630
- International Announcement: WO2015/001778 WO 20150108
- Main IPC: G01F23/32
- IPC: G01F23/32 ; G01F23/38

Abstract:
A liquid surface sensing device includes a rotational body that is made of resin and rotates according to upward and downward motion of a surface of liquid in a container, a magnet that is held by the rotational body to rotate together with the rotational body, a stationary body that is fixed to the container and rotatably bears the rotational body, and a magnetoelectric conversion element that is embedded in the stationary body and detects a magnetic field generated by the magnet to output an electric signal indicating the liquid surface. The rotational body includes a storage space that accommodates the magnet, a resilient claw that projects into the storage space and is in contact with the magnet in its resiliently deformed state to press the magnet on a storage wall for the storage space, and a projection that projects from an opposite side of the magnet toward the resilient claw in the storage space and expands to be in contact with the resilient claw.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160161321A1 LIQUID SURFACE SENSING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-06-09
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