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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2003
Pascal Desbiolles, Thorens-Glieres, FR;
Pascal Desbiolles, Thorens-Glieres, FR;
Timken US Corporation, Torrington, CT (US);
Abstract
A device for determining the absolute angular position of a turning device with respect to a fixed structure, including an encoder provided with a main multipolar track and a multipolar track called 'top turn,' and a measurement means. The top turn track includes M singularities. The measurement means measures the angular position of the turning device with an angular uncertainty Δθ, in which the M singularities are each representative of an absolute angular position of the turning device and are distributed over the top turn track with an angular separation between each one greater than 2 Δθ.