Abstract: Device for detecting parameters of the rotation of a shaft 1 that rotates with respect to a stationary element, there being at least one bearing between the shaft and the stationary element so that the shaft can be mounted to rotate with respect to the stationary element, the said device comprising an encoder means 15 rotated by the rotating shaft, and a sensor means 10 secured to a stationary element and arranged facing and a small air gap away from the encoder means whose passage during rotation is detected by the sensor means. The encoder means and the sensor means are supported by a removable unit 4 independent of the bearing, the said unit being capable of being mounted on the stationary element and having a stationary part 9 supporting the sensor means and a rotating part 13 supporting the encoder means, the rotation of the rotating part being connected to that of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: A member for axially retaining a rolling-contact bearing (6) relative to a mechanical element (13) radially adjacent to the rolling-contact bearing consists of an open metallic ring (21) which can be elastically deformed radially, produced from a thin sheet of metal, and including a substantially cylindrical part (22), at least one end of which is equipped with a radial rim intended to interact both with a circular groove (14) formed in a housing (12) of the mechanical element adjacent to the rolling-contact bearing and with the non-rotating race (11) of the rolling-contact bearing, so as to form an axial limit stop for the latter.

Abstract: The encoder element (8) for a rolling-contact bearing equipped with an information sensor assembly is rendered integral with a rotating race of the bearing and interacts with a sensor of the said information sensor assembly in order to detect the speed of rotation of the bearing. It comprises an annular target (13) made of ferromagnetic material provided with a cylindrical bearing surface (13a) for mounting on the rotating race of the bearing and with a flat disc-shaped radial part (13b) with windows (13c) or slots of identical size and uniformly distributed along the circular path, and an axially magnetized bipolar ring (14) provided with axial crenellations (14b) which are uniformly and circumferentially distributed and which penetrate axially into the said windows or slots in the target.

Abstract: The device for detecting the rotational speed of a rolling-contact bearing includes an encoding element provided with a multipolar ring with axial magnetism secured to the rotating race of the bearing. The device further includes a sensor element provided with a passive sensor with a coil wound in an annular magnetic flux concentrator of U-shaped cross-section, and with a sensor holder secured to the non-rotating race of the bearing. The multipolar ring and the sensor element are located radially with an air gap. The magnetic flux concentrator includes a cylindrical part delimited axially by two collecting branches situated radially outside the cylindrical part. At least one of the collecting branches includes teeth on its periphery. Also, that branch of the flux concentrator which is located on the same side as the rolling elements is inclined toward the adjoining row of rolling elements.

Abstract: The sealing device (1) for a bearing (2) includes a first piece (8) of annular overall shape secured to the non-rotating race (4) of the bearing and supporting a permanent magnet (14), a second piece (9) of annular overall shape secured to the rotating race (3) of the bearing and including an annular part forming a pulse generator and a flexible sealing part in contact with the first piece. In operation the first and second pieces (8, 9) mounted in the radial space between the rotating race and non-rotating race at one end of the bearing provide the sealing of the bearing with respect to the external surroundings, the permanent magnet (14) being arranged facing a sensor (11) which is fixed with respect to the non-rotating race, the pulse generator passing between the permanent magnet and the sensor during the rotation of the rotating race of the bearing.

Abstract: A sensor device of speed of rotation of a rotating member mounted by way of a roller bearing on a non-rotating member, said device comprising a coder element (11) rigid with the rotating race (6) of the bearing and producing an alternating magnetic field and a sensor element (12) rigid with the non-rotating race (7) of the bearing and arranged facing the coder element with an air gap, the coder element (11) comprising two axially magnetized concentric multipole rings (14, 15), and the sensor element (12) comprising an induction coil (17) coaxial with the multipole rings cooperating with a magnetic flux concentrator (18) whose collector branches (20, 21) are oriented axially facing said multipole rings (14, 15) of the coder element. Application to motor vehicle wheel hubs equipped with an ABS system.

Abstract: Device for sensing the rotational speed of a rotating element (4) mounted by means of a roller bearing on a non-rotating element (3), comprising a multipolar ring (17) which is integral with the rotating element, a sensor (19) which is made integral with the non-rotating element, and a magnetic flux concentrating means arranged in the immediate vicinity of the multipolar ring and cooperating with the sensor in order to concentrate and channel the magnetic flux emitted by the multipolar ring. The flux concentrating means is of annular shape and comprises at least a first end shield (24) having a radial part of which one circular edge is provided on its circumference with a sealing lip (25) intended for coming into contact directly or indirectly with the rotating element (4), and a second end shield (26) provided with radial teeth (27) spaced regularly along a circular path.