Patent ID: 7096574

Claim:
An angle measurement system comprising: a drive shaft; an angle encoder comprising an encoder shaft, wherein said drive shaft and said encoder shaft are axially aligned with each other along an axial direction and are self-lockingly braced on each other by a press fit along said axial direction; a device for separating said encoder shaft from said drive shaft, said device comprising: a central fastening screw, which connects said encoder shaft and said drive shaft in said axial direction, wherein said central fastening screw comprises: a head that rests against an end of a blind bore of said encoder shaft that is located at an end of said encoder shaft opposite said press fit; a shank that is received in a bore of said encoder shaft that is adjacent to said blind bore; and a thread that is screwed into an internal screw thread of said drive shaft for bracing said encoder shaft and said drive shaft; and a push-off device is arranged between said head of said fastening screw and a front end of said encoder shaft.