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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110242548 | OPTOELECTRONIC POSITION MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND POSITION MEASUREMENT METHOD Optoelectronic position measurement device comprises a code carrier, a radiation source and a detection unit. The code carrier can be moved relative to said sensor unit by one degree of freedom. A refractive optical element having a focusing segment and at least one nei... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20090161121 | POSITION-MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ABSOLUTE POSITION A position-measuring device includes a code and a scanning unit. The code includes a sequence of code elements arranged one after the other in a measuring direction, at least two successive code elements in each case forming one code word having position information. Th... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090079996 | Position measuring arrangement A method for absolute position measuring that includes scanning a code having code elements arranged one behind the other in a measuring direction, wherein the code elements include sequential first and second code elements which define a code word containing absolute p... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090027692 | REFERENCE SIGNAL GENERATING CONFIGURATION FOR AN INTERFEROMETRIC MINIATURE GRATING ENCODER READHEAD USING FIBER OPTIC RECEIVER CHANNELS A fiber optic readhead and scale arrangement for measuring displacement provides a reference position indication. The scale includes a scale track comprising a first type of track portion providing first level of zero order reflectance, such as a grating, and a referenc... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080117440 | POSITION-MEASURING DEVICE A position-measuring device for generating a reference-pulse signal at at least one reference position includes a scanning unit and also a reflection-measuring graduation displaceable relative thereto in at least one measuring direction. The scanning unit for generating... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20070253003 | Eyeglass frame measurement apparatus An eyeglass frame measurement apparatus includes a holding unit; a rotational base and a tracing stylus arranged on the rotational base. Three-dimensional shape of a frame is measured by detecting the movement of the tracing stylus in a radius direction and a warpage di... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070146730 | Method for determining the position of a first moving component relative to a second component and device for applying said method A method for determining the position of one of two components in relative motion with respect to each other, using optical means, comprises: directing at least one light beam emitted by a light source attached to one component towards a diffractive support attached to ... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20050213111 | Position detecting device A position detecting device in which a count value is incremented or decremented on the basis of a pulse output from an encoder every predetermined shift amount of a control target to thereby detect a current value representing a current position of the control target a... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050088667 | Absolute position encoder requiring less than one encoding track per bit An absolute encoder for measuring the position of a surface is disclosed. The encoder includes first and second encoding tracks. Each encoding track includes a code strip imaging system and an array of n photodetectors, where n>1. Each code strip imaging system generate... | 04/28/2005 |
