Patent Document ID: 20040010928
Application ID: 10432077
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for determining a rotation angle or a path, with the following steps: generation of at least two phase values &agr; 1 (i&equals;1, 2... N) through the scanning of sensors ( 10 ) that are associated with the respective phase values and have different periodicities n i, calculation of a working value k, which can be represented as a whole number, on the basis of the measured phase values &agr; 1 and the periodicities n i associated with them, calculation of at least two—in particular scaled—estimates &phgr; s1 /2&pgr; on the basis of the phase values &agr; i, the periodicities n i, the working value k, and integral working factors k i that set the periodicities n i in relation to one another in a scaling relation, and weighted summation of the estimates &phgr; s1 /2&pgr; in order to obtain a determined estimate &PHgr; meas /2&pgr;, which represents the rotation angle or path to be determined.