Patent ID: 8007179

Claim:
A wheel bearing arrangement, comprising: a hub having a rotational axis and a radial flange mounted about the rotational axis; at least one non-rotating outer ring; and at least one encoder being fixed on the hub where the radial flange leads radially away from the hub, wherein the encoder surrounds an annular section of the outer ring in a circumferential manner radially on an outside face of the outer ring without contact, and wherein the encoder is surrounded radially, without contact, by a protective sleeve, the protective sleeve having a first hollow-cylindrical section and a second hollow-cylindrical section, the first hollow-cylindrical section being connected integrally to the second hollow-cylindrical section by an additional section providing a space between the first hollow-cylindrical section and the second hollow-cylindrical section with the encoder being positioned in the space between the first hollow-cylindrical section and the second hollow-cylindrical section, the first hollow-cylindrical section being a radially outer most member and the second hollow-cylindrical section being radially inward relative to the first hollow-cylindrical section, and the second hollow-cylindrical section being fixed axially on the outside face of the outer ring.