Abstract: The invention concerns a angular position magnetic sensor device, comprising at least one stator (1, 2) and one rotor (3), the gap between said stator (1, 2) and said rotor (3) defining a main air gap (4) wherein move at least two magnetic poles (5, 6) of alternating polarities, said stator (1, 2) including at least one secondary air gap (7, 8) wherein is placed at least one magnetosensitive element (9). The invention is characterized in that said stator (1, 2) consists of two pole shoes (1 and 2) with angular widths respectively substantially equal to 120° and 240°, and that both magnetic poles (5, 6) have each an angular width substantially equal to 120°.

Abstract: An air conditioning valve actuator for a motor vehicle operating on an electric step motor with a permanent magnet capable of delivering mechanical power at least equal to 50 mW, and a reduction unit for decreasing the amplitude of the angular pitch and increase the output torque. The motor is defined by the following relationship: 10?6<?2/R0<, wherein: ? is the torque constant, proportional to the magnet volume and, R0 is the characteristic coefficient of the volume of copper and the length of the average turn of the coils, in which R0=?.Lsp/(Scu.?), ? being the resistivity of copper, Lsp being the length of the average turn of a coil, Scu being the copper section of a coil and ? the filling coefficient of a coil. A controller is cooperative with the motor power supply enabling to accelerate gradually the frequency of the supply of the windings.

Abstract: The invention concerns a polyphase motor comprising M phases, M being equal to 2 or 3, the motor consisting of a stator part (1) excited by electric coils and by a magnetized rotor (2). The invention is characterized in that the rotor (2) has a disc-shaped magnetized part with R pairs of alternately poles magnetized in alternating directions in the thickness, R being equal to n*(M+1) or 5*n, and said stator part (1) has S poles, some of which excited at least by an electric coil, S being equal to 8*n, for even M, and 9*n for odd M, n being an integer not less than 1.

Abstract: The invention concerns a position sensor, designed in particular for detecting a steering column torsion, consisting of a first magnetic structure including a plurality of magnets and a second magnetic structure including two ferromagnetic rings (6, 7) having a plurality of teeth (11, 12) and defining an air gap wherein is placed at least a magneto-sensitive element (15), the two magnetic structures being respectively integral with two parts in relative rotation. The invention is characterised in that the two ferromagnetic rings (6, 7) are nested and have each a substantially tubular part forming axially oriented teeth (11, 123) connected by a flux-closing zone (13, 14), the detecting air gap being delimited by said flux-closing zones.

Abstract: A magnetic position sensor, linear or rotary, including a stator and at least a mobile part along at least a direction OX, with an effective stroke Xc. The stator includes at least two components made of soft magnetic material defining at least a secondary air gap in which is housed at least a magneto-sensitive probe. Each stator part component has a length Xs in the direction OX not less than Xc. The magnets of one mobile part are extended over at least one edge by a mobile ferromagnetic component having a thickness e, in the direction of a magnetization of one magnet, such that 0.1 L<e<0.9 L, L being a length of the magnet in a magnetization direction, and moving parallel to the stator ferromagnetic components at a constant minimum distance and having a magnetization perpendicular to OX and a length in the direction of displacement OX not less than Xc.

Abstract: A position sensor including at least one stator structure defining a secondary gap wherein is housed at least one Hall probe, and a mobile magnet in a main gap. The stator structure includes stator parts defining at least one first secondary gap wherein is housed at least one first Hall probe delivering a signal which is a function of the displacement of the mobile magnet relative to a first degree of freedom, and at least one second secondary gap wherein is housed at least one second Hall probe delivering a signal which is a function of the displacement of the mobile magnet relative to a second degree of freedom.

Abstract: The invention concerns a magnetic position sensor for delivering an electric signal proportional to the position, including of a mobile part having at least a thin permanent magnet movable in a main air gap. The air gap is defined by two ferromagnetic parts and, the ferromagnetic parts defining between them a secondary air gap including a sensor sensible to magnetism. The mobile part is arranged such that penetration on the magnetic part into the main air gap is partial over part of the useful travel so that the sensor sensible to magnetism delivers a signal proportional to the degree of engagement of the magnetic parts in the main air gap.

Abstract: A a rotating electromagnetic actuator with limited stroke, including at least 2N poles on the stator, N being a whole number, energized by at least one energizer coil and N magnetized parts on the rotor arranged in an air gap of thickness E wherein each magnetized part is juxtaposed with at least one ferromagnetic part with a thickness e between 0 and E, defining one or two air gaps with a total length of E-e.

Abstract: A linear uniphase polarized electromagnetic actuator. The actuator includes a coiled stator and one part which is movable in the direction OX with the useful travel of Xc. The movable part is moved according to the current traveling in the coil and the direction of travel depends on the direction of the current. The movable part includes a yoke of soft magnetic material having at least one magnet coupled with the yoke. The magnet is partially set inside a cavity of the mobile yoke on the side of the stator poles at a depth e such that 0.1 L<e<0.9 L, where E is the distance measured perpendicularly to OX between the stator poles and the cavity end pole.

Abstract: A monophase electromagnetic actuator including at least a ferromagnetic part integral with a member movable along a direction Y, a fixed stator part made of soft magnetic material and including at least on electrical coil, and a thin transversely magnetized permanent magnet. The fixed stator part and the ferromagnetic part define between each other at least two air gaps arranged symmetrically with respect to the medial plane perpendicular to the axis of displacement of the movable member and passing through the middle of the permanent magnet. The length of the ferromagnetic part is approximately equal to the length of the permanent magnet.

Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator has four positions which are stable in the absence of a current and moves rapidly between these positions when acted upon by a current. The actuator has a thin, rotatable magnet (3) with two pairs of magnetic poles transversally magnetised in alternate directions, and a stator member having four pole pieces (9-12, 34-37, 48-51) of developed length P, each with an excitation coil. Two consecutive poles of the thin magnet (3) are spaced by a distance d. The thin magnet (3) is movable in an airgap of width E. wherein the size ratio P:E and P:d is greater than 8. The invention is useful for driving a device such as a valve or a switch.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electromagnetic actuator comprised of a stator structure made of soft magnetic material which is unsaturated in rated operating conditions, comprising two stator parts (1 and 2) at least one of the stator structures (1) presenting a central pole (5) having a length Y.sub.C and two side poles (6,7) having a length Y.sub.L said stator parts (1,2) delimiting an air gap E inside which there is arranged a rotor movable member comprising two pairs of poles having a length Y.sub.R comprised of thin permanent magnets (10 and 11) which are transversely magnetized, characterized in that the length Y.sub.C of the central stator pole (5) is longer or equal to the stroke Y of the rotor movable member increased by a length substantially equal to the length E of the air gap, the length Y.sub.