Registers – Coded record sensors – Particular sensor structure
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-17
2008-12-30
Le, Thien M (Department: 2887)
Registers
Coded record sensors
Particular sensor structure
C235S462250
Reexamination Certificate
active
07469834
ABSTRACT:
A scanner for providing a possibility of detecting a surface relief of an object includes a projector configured to guide a light beam in an illumination line over the surface relief to obtain an illuminated location on the surface relief, the projector being further configured to output a projection signal from which a position of the light beam in the illumination line is derivable. Additionally, the scanner includes a collector having a collector micro mirror stimulatable to oscillate in two dimensions and a point-shaped light detector, the collector micro mirror being oscillatingly arranged in a first direction of the illumination line and in a second direction differing from the first direction such that a reflection of the illuminated location within a scan area of the micro scanner mirror is imagable by it onto the point-shaped light detector, and the collector being configured to output a detection signal from which a position of the illuminated location in the first and second directions is derivable.
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Schelinski Uwe
Scholles Michael
Wolter Alexander
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung
Greenberg Laurence A.
Le Thien M
Locher Ralph E.
Stemer Werner H.
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