Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Université Louis Pasteur

Nandiaye Ndao

Laurent Tupinier

Bernard Kress

Olivier R Marroux

Johann Michel

Paul-Antoine Tritschler

An angle sensor for detecting an out-of-round condition includes a disc supporting angle coder rigidly attached to a rotating shaft and at least one fixed optical system including a coherent light source emitting a beam interfering with the angle coder of the support disc in order to code its angular position, a collimator of the said beam before interference and a photo detector of the modulated beam after interference. In one embodiment, two optical systems arranged 90&#xb0; from each other are employed. An alternative embodiment includes one optical system and the disc includes a circular track radially centred in at least one of its angular positions relative to the incident collimated light beam, and a radially orientated photo detector.

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