Leopold Kostal Gmbh & Co. Kg

Bernd Vom Hedt

Klaus Hirschfeld

Christian Schirp

Martin Deitmerg

Oliver Maier

Stefan Garneyer

Stefan Schroeder

Sven Kober

Marco Rutkowski

Holger Hasselmann

Stefan SCHRÖDER

Thorsten Hoog

Oliver Schmid

A system for detecting the absolute rotational angle of a shaft rotatable more than one revolution includes a drive wheel connected to the shaft to rotate therewith. The drive wheel includes measurement sectors adjacent to one another in a circumferential direction. First and second driven wheels are engaged to the drive wheel. First and second sensors monitor rotational positions of the driven wheels to thereby detect an absolute rotational angle of the shaft. A third sensor monitors a relative angular position of the shaft in relation to a detected one of the measurement sectors to thereby detect the relative angular position of the shaft within one revolution of the shaft. The detected absolute rotational angle of the shaft is refined with the detected relative angular position of the shaft to thereby generate the absolute rotational angle of the shaft with more precision.

Sensor system for detecting absolute rotational angle of a shaft

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Hagen, Germany

Bernd Vom Hedt