Optical encoder having slanted optical detector elements for...

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2008-01-29

2008-01-29

Connolly, Patrick (Department: 2877)

Optics: measuring and testing

By light interference

For dimensional measurement

C356S521000, C250S23700G

Reexamination Certificate

active

07324212

ABSTRACT:
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 detector elements that sample the interference fringe pattern at spatially separated locations along the direction of motion of the grating. Each detector element has one or more segments slanted along the direction of motion of the grating by an integer multiple of the period of an undesirable harmonic component of the fringe pattern, thereby spatially integrating the harmonic component and suppressing its contribution to an output of the detector. One specific detector type includes parallel elongated rectangular elements in a rectangular array that is rotated slightly about a Z axis; another type includes detector elements arranged to form a non-rectangular parallelogram. Another type of detector includes detector elements that each have multiple elongated rectangular segments which may be arranged into two non-parallel sets. The two sets can be further arranged in an alternating fashion so as to impart a zig-zag or chevron shape to each detector element.

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