Encoder having a detection head with a reference detection receiving grating and a phase compensation receiving grating

    公开(公告)号:US09759584B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-12

    申请号:US14978419

    申请日:2015-12-22

    Inventor: Yoshiaki Kato

    CPC classification number: G01D5/34746 G01D5/24438

    Abstract: In a scale, a reference detection pattern and a displacement detection pattern are formed. A detection head outputs a reference detection signal, a phase compensation signal, and a displacement detection signal. A signal processing unit generates a reference signal by amplifying one or both of the phase compensation signal and the reference detection signal and adding up them, and detects a position of the detection head relative to the scale. A combined light receiving grating includes a reference detection light receiving grating and a phase compensation light receiving grating disposed so as to be shifted from the reference detection light receiving grating in the measurement direction. A combined light receiving element includes a reference detection light receiving element configured to output the reference detection signal and a phase compensation light receiving element configured to output the phase compensation signal.

    MEASURING PROBE
    192.
    发明申请
    MEASURING PROBE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20170248402A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-31

    申请号:US15440280

    申请日:2017-02-23

    Abstract: A measuring probe includes two supporting members, each having a rotationally symmetric shape and allowing for an attitude change of a stylus, in an axial direction of a probe housing. Four detection elements are disposed at fourfold symmetric positions in one of the two supporting members that includes four deformable arm parts. A signal processing circuit includes a first processing part that processes outputs of the detection elements to output three displacement signals representing displacement components of a contact part in mutually perpendicular three directions, respectively. The measuring probe capable of reducing measurement directional dependency of sensitivity with a simple configuration while maintaining high sensitivity is thus provided.

    GEOMETRY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, GEOMETRY MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND GEOMETRY MEASUREMENT METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20170241767A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-24

    申请号:US15433508

    申请日:2017-02-15

    Inventor: Kaoru Miyata

    Abstract: The geometry measurement apparatus includes: an image acquisition part that acquires a plurality of captured images generated by imaging an object to be measured, onto which a plurality of respectively different projection patterns are sequentially projected; a quantization part that generates a quantization value of a luminance value for each pixel in the plurality of captured images by comparing the luminance value with a predetermined reference value; a selection part that selects, based on the relationship between the reference value and the luminance value for a plurality of pixels having the same coordinates in the plurality of captured images, a quantization value to be used for identifying the geometry of the object to be measured, from among a plurality of quantization values corresponding to the plurality of captured images; and a geometry identification part that identifies the geometry of the object to be measured based on the quantization value selected by the selection part.

    Phase difference calibration in a variable focal length lens system

    公开(公告)号:US09736355B1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-15

    申请号:US15145682

    申请日:2016-05-03

    CPC classification number: H04N5/23212 G02B7/04 G02F2001/294

    Abstract: A variable focal length (VFL) lens system is utilized to determine surface Z-height measurements of imaged surfaces. A controller of the system is configured to control a VFL lens (e.g., a tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens) to periodically modulate its optical power and thereby periodically modulate a focus position at a first operating frequency, wherein the periodically modulated VFL lens optical power defines a first periodic modulation phase. A phase timing signal is synchronized with a periodic signal in the controller that has the first operating frequency and that has a second periodic modulation phase that has a phase offset relative to the first periodic modulation phase. A phase offset compensating portion is configured to perform a phase offset compensating process that provides Z-height measurements, wherein at least one of Z-height errors or Z-height variations that are related to a phase offset contribution are at least partially eliminated.

    Machine vision inspection system and method for obtaining an image with an extended depth of field

    公开(公告)号:US09726876B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-08

    申请号:US14092862

    申请日:2013-11-27

    CPC classification number: G02B21/367 G02B21/241 G02B21/361 G02B27/0075

    Abstract: A method for operating an imaging system of a machine vision inspection system to provide an extended depth of field (EDOF) image. The method comprises (a) placing a workpiece in a field of view; (b) periodically modulating a focus position of the imaging system without macroscopically adjusting the spacing between elements in the imaging system, the focus position is periodically modulated over a plurality of positions along a focus axis direction in a focus range including a workpiece surface height; (c) exposing a first preliminary image during an image integration time while modulating the focus position in the focus range; and (d) processing the first preliminary image to remove blurred image contributions occurring in the focus range during the image integration time to provide an EDOF image that is focused throughout a larger depth of field than the imaging system provides at a single focal position.

    Form measuring machine and form measuring method

    公开(公告)号:US09719779B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-01

    申请号:US14929588

    申请日:2015-11-02

    CPC classification number: G01B21/045

    Abstract: A form measuring machine includes: a scanning probe including a stylus with a tip ball and a probe body attached with the stylus; a movable slider supporting the scanning probe; a scale detecting a slider displacement of the slider; a tip ball displacement detector detecting a tip ball displacement of the tip ball; and an arithmetic unit calculating a measurement value based on the slider displacement, the tip ball displacement and a correction filter and comprising a correction filter setting section that: calculates a correction matrix diagonal component from the slider displacement and the tip ball displacement detected by calibration of the scanning probe; and calculates a correction factor of the correction filter from the correction matrix diagonal component to set the correction filter.

    Light source array used in an illumination portion of an optical encoder

    公开(公告)号:US09689715B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-27

    申请号:US14716760

    申请日:2015-05-19

    Abstract: A light source array used in illumination portions for optical encoders comprising an illumination portion, a scale grating extending along a measuring direction and receiving light from the illumination portion, and a detector configuration. The light source array comprises individual sources arranged in a grid pattern and coinciding with two transverse sets of parallel grid pattern lines that have two different grid line pitches between their parallel lines. Different instances of the light source array may be mounted with different rotational orientations about an axis normal to the grid pattern, for use in different illumination portions adapted for use with respective scale gratings having different grating pitches along the measuring axis direction. By using the different respective rotational orientations, the individual sources are aligned along respective illumination source lines that are spaced apart by different respective illumination source line pitches along the measuring axis direction.

    MEASURING DEVICE
    198.
    发明申请
    MEASURING DEVICE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20170167840A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-15

    申请号:US15344874

    申请日:2016-11-07

    Inventor: Makoto FURUTA

    CPC classification number: G01B3/004 G01B5/20 G01B21/047 G01B2003/1064

    Abstract: A measuring device which reduces reading errors caused by parallax. The measuring device has a gauge head abutting against an object to be measured, and includes a pointer-type display part which displays displacement of the gauge head obtained by being enlarged by an enlarging mechanism and being converted into a rotation amount of a pointer. The measuring device further includes a transparent cover plate provided so as to cover the pointer-type display part, and the cover plate has an antireflection film on the surface. The cover plate further has an antifouling film on the antireflection film. The cover plate has a flat surface.

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