MULTITURN ROTARY ENCODER

摘要

The present invention relates to a multiturn rotary encoder having a single-turn code disc (10) which is connected to a shaft (W) such that they rotate together and has a code track (11) which can be scanned by a single-turn scanning unit (12) in order to determine the absolute position within one revolution of the shaft (W), a multiturn unit (18, 118) for measuring the revolution data which is suitable for determining the number of revolutions carried out by the shaft (W), and an evaluation unit (13) which is connected to the multiturn unit (18, 118) via at least two digital interfaces (25, 35, 45, 125, 135) for transmitting the revolution data. The invention is characterized in that the revolution data comprises at least two data words (24, 34, 44, 124, 134) which have a different rate of change during rotation of the shaft (W), in that the interface (25, 35, 45, 125, 135) for transmitting the data word with the highest rate of change to the evaluation unit (13) is a parallel interface and in that the interface (25, 35, 45, 125, 135) for transmitting the data word with the lowest rate of change to the evaluation unit (13) is a serial interface.