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7622707 Polaroid absolute encoder  
A polaroid encoder system for detecting movement is disclosed. The system includes a movable polarizing code element. A detector module detects an amplitude based on how much illumination passes...
7619745 Optical encoder including aperture with diffusion element and collimator lens  
An optical encoder which is designed to convert light generated from a light source into parallel light rays by using a collimator lens, thereby allowing the collimated light to radiate to gratings...
7619210 Encoder with a combined position and index track  
An optical encoder. The encoder includes a coding element, an emitter, and a detector. The coding element has a track with a track pattern. The track pattern includes a plurality of optically...
7619209 Encoder with a combined position and index track  
An optical encoder. The encoder includes a coding element, an emitter, and a detector. The coding element has a track with a track pattern. The track pattern includes a plurality of optically...
7612331 Code disk with a plurality of tracks having different patterns  
A code disk for a high-resolution encoder that can detect an absolute position and a method for manufacturing a mold to produce the code disk are provided. The code disk is formed by using...
7608814 Optical structure for localising an electromagnetic field and detector or emitter device including such a structure  
An optical structure enabling properties of the surface plasmons to be used is defined from a substantially binary, parameterizable unit pattern M E . The parameters a, b, c, d and h g of the...
7601947 Encoder that optically detects positional information of a scale  
When an incident light is obliquely incident on an index scale, the optical path length of light A becomes longer than the optical path length of light B and an optical path length difference...
7596880 Scanning unit of an optical position measuring device and optical position measuring device  
A scanning unit including a light source for illuminating a scale by a light beam and a detector for detecting the light beam which has been modulated by the scale as a function of a relative...
7573581 Position-measuring device  
A position-measuring device is for measuring the position of two objects that are movable relative to one another. The device includes a measuring graduation, which is connected to one of the two...
7554078 Photoelectric encoder  
A photoelectric encoder using a lens array for dividing an image of a scale pattern into a plurality of regions to be detected and focusing them onto an array of light receiving elements,...
7541564 Optical pickup  
The invention relates to an optical pickup for an optical recording medium, an electrically controlled diffraction grating suitable for use in such a pickup, and to an apparatus for reading from...
7521669 Multi-bit absolute position optical encoder with reduced number of tracks  
An optical encoder includes a coding element having a track with a track pattern that comprises multiple optically distinguishable sections. The optical encoder compares photodetector outputs with...
7504648 Method and apparatus for determining focus of a scanning system  
A non-imaging tool for assisting in determining a focus in a scanning system that scans a planar object with a scanning beam in a fast scan direction, while the planar object is moved under the...
7502127 Sensor device and stage device  
According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a sensor device which is capable of detecting a state of a movable stage using an easily manufacturable reference grating and capable of...
7485847 Displacement sensor employing discrete light pulse detection  
Optical sensors, and methods for operating optical sensors, are disclosed. One such sensor may include: a reflector positioned a distance from a reflective diffraction grating and a light source...
7485845 Photoelectric encoder capable of effectively removing harmonic components  
A three-grating type photoelectric encoder includes a second grating formed on a scale and first and third gratings disposed on a side of a detector. A part of at least the first grating is shifted...
7480060 Interferometric optical position encoder employing spatial filtering of diffraction orders for improved accuracy  
An optical position encoder employs spatial filtering of diffraction orders other than +/− 1st diffraction orders for greater accuracy. The encoder includes a light source, a scale including a...
7477362 Moiré interferometric strain sensor  
A moiré interferometric strain sensor for detecting strain on a specimen, a diffraction grating being on the specimen, the strain sensor including an array of a plurality of microlenses for...
7475489 Scanning system of a position measuring device  
A scanning system of a position measuring device for photo-electric scanning of a measuring graduation, the scanning system including a support carrying measuring components, an adapter including a...
7470892 Optical encoder  
An optical encoder includes an incoherent light source; a first grating, which is an amplitude grating having a first grating period, for spatial amplitude modulation of the incoherent light from...
7462815 Absolute encoder utilizing a code pattern carrier having a varying mixture of phosphors deposited thereon  
An encoder having a code carrier, light source, and detector is disclosed. The code carrier includes a track that emits light at each of a plurality of track points on the track when that track...
7446873 Reflective alignment grating  
A wafer may be aligned with an imaging plate including an alignment grating with a pitch P. A pupil filter in the pupil plane of the optical system may be used so that the periodicity of the...
7446694 System for synchronization of multi-sensor data  
A multi-sensor system includes a first analog sensor sub-system, a second analog sensor sub-system, and a system for synchronizing the outputs of the first and second analog sub-systems. Each...
7443518 Measuring instrument, in particular for transmission measurement in vacuum system  
A measuring instrument, in particular for transmission measurement with transparent substrates, comprises a measuring head with a light emitting element for emitting a light beam and a light...
7440113 Littrow interferometer  
An apparatus and method for measuring displacement includes a light beam directed to an interferometer core that splits the light beam into first and second component beams. The first component...
7433048 Interferometer systems for measuring displacement and exposure systems using the same  
Interferometer systems for measuring displacement include a displacement interferometer. This interferometer includes a displacement converter responsive to a measuring beam of light. The...
7425697 Origin detection method for optical encoder  
An optical encoder equipped with an origin detection apparatus has a scale provided with an optical grating, a plurality of light receiving elements that is provided in association with the pitch...
7417218 Triple grating optical encoder with light transmitting area in optical path  
An optical encoder is a reflecting triple grating type optical encoder. A light projecting section of the optical encoder which includes a combination of a bare chip LED and a first grating of a...
7414731 Microscope and interferometer thereof  
An interferometer comprises a light source unit, a first splitter, a reference beam unit and a detection unit. The light source unit provides a laser beam. The first splitter receives the laser...
7414730 High precision interferometer apparatus employing a grating beamsplitter  
Measurement of a distance change between a reference surface and a target is provided. A substrate has a first surface facing the target and including a grating. The grating and target combine to...
7405392 Optical rotary encoder  
An optical encoder includes: a rotary slit plate having a rotation angle detection track including an optical slit; a light source for applying light to the optical slit; light detecting elements...
7405389 Dense multi-axis array for motion sensing  
The present disclosure describes an optical displacement sensor having a dense multi-axis array of photosensitive elements. Generally, the sensor includes a two dimensional array of multiple...
7394550 Displacement detector  
The displacement detector includes: a light source 140 ; a beam splitter 170 for dividing the light, which is sent from the light source 140 , into two beams of light; reflection mirrors 181,...
7394062 Displacement-measuring optical scale and optical encoder using same  
When a convex lens 13 comes close to 0-th order transmitted light T 0 with rotation of an optical scale 11 , the 0-th order transmitted light T 0 derived from a light beam L emitted from a...
7391011 Optical encoder capable of detecting absolute position  
In two phases signals (A, B) outputted from a scale or a scale having a discontinuous portion provided in its incidental member to a light receiving portion, a region in which amplitudes of the two...
7388181 Apparatus for adjusting applied voltage in display system using diffractive optical modulator  
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for adjusting applied voltage in a display system using a diffractive optical modulator. The apparatus for adjusting applied voltage can measure the intensity of...
7385179 Optical encoder for measuring displacement  
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an optical encoder which includes a first diffraction grating having a desired optical effective aperture ratio at an appropriate gap position so as...
7369253 Systems and methods for measuring sample surface flatness of continuously moving samples  
Measurement of sample surface flatness of a continuously moving sample. A conveyor continuously conveys a sample beneath a grating disposed at a non-zero angle with respect to the plane of...
7358865 Optical encoder and apparatus using optical encoder  
An optical encoder includes a cylindrical reflective scale, a point light source for irradiating the reflective scale, and light-receiving elements for receiving the light beams reflected by the...
7348544 Optical encoder with discontinuous optical grating  
An optical encoder includes a light-emitting unit, a scale with a discontinuous part, and a plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in relationship to a pitch of the scale. In the optical...
7348529 Optical device and optical pickup device  
An optical device diffracts incident light with a hologram element 19 and receives the diffracted light with light receiving regions 20 A to 29 on a light receiving element 12. The light...
7345273 Integrated optical encoder  
A rotary switch including a control element, a light-emitting device arranged on a printed circuit board and configured to emit light, and at least two receivers arranged on the printed circuit...
7332711 Photoelectric encoder, scale therefor and method for manufacturing the same  
A main scale 10 has protrusive grating 12 of a thin film of e.g. Cr formed on a base member 11 . The base member 11 and the Cr thin film constitute a reflecting face which is set to provide...
7332709 Photoelectric encoder  
A photoelectric encoder includes a light source of an illumination light beam. The encoder also includes a movable grating which has grating lines and which is displaceable in a direction...
7329858 Optical encoder and electronic equipment having same  
An optical encoder includes a mobile object having a plurality of aligned slits, a light-emitting portion for emitting light toward the mobile object, and a light-receiving portion 103 for...
7324212 Optical encoder having slanted optical detector elements for harmonic suppression  
An optical encoder includes a source of a light beam, an optical grating that generates a spatial pattern of interference fringes, and an optical detector which includes generally elongated...
7319509 Attenuator for attenuating wavelengths unequal to a used wavelength  
There is provided an attenuator for attenuating electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths Unequal to a used wavelength, including a grating element having i) grating grooves that produce a grating...
RE39978 Scanning phase measuring method and system for an object at a vision station  
A method and system are provided including an optical head which moves relative to an object at a vision station to scan a projected pattern of imagable electromagnetic radiation across the surface...
7312437 Displacement sensor, method for detecting the optimal reference position, and method for judging stability of detecting the reference position of displacement sensor  
A displacement sensor which detects a positional displacement of a movable member, comprises a position signal generating section configured to generate a periodical signal in accordance with...
7297935 Position-measuring device  
A position-measuring device includes: a measuring graduation provided on a measuring standard device arranged around in ring-like fashion; a scanning unit for optically scanning the measuring...