Displacement Sensor Arrangement for Determining the Position of a Body Moving Along a Movement Path in a Vehicle

A displacement sensor arrangement includes a generating device which generates a magnetic field having two mutually perpendicular components, one of which is perpendicular to a movement path of a body in a vehicle, and a first measuring device sensitive to the components of the generated magnetic field and designed to span at least one measuring plane and to determine a current position of the moving body as a function of respective value pairs of the two components. A second measuring device detects an instantaneous value of one of the two components and compares it with a threshold value to determine a switching point. One of the generating device and measuring devices is configured to be connected to the body to move relative to the others. The switching point is defined by a common alignment of measuring devices with respect to the movement path.