摘要:
A method for detecting errors in loading a lenticular material (10) on a printer (60) comprises loading the lenticular material (10) on a vacuum platen (20) and drawing a vacuum on the vacuum platen (20). An airflow is measured on the vacuum platen (20) and compared to a predetermined value.
摘要:
An optical actuator is disclosed for positioning a lens to focus a laser light on a surface of a member, such as an optical disk, with minimum lens tilt error. The optical actuator includes a lens mount for supporting the lens, a plurality of flexures fixed to the lens mount, and a based spaced from the lens mount. The optical actuator further includes a motor structure for operating the actuator in energized and de-energized states. In the energized state, a force is applied to the lens mount to cause the lens mount to move in a focus direction. In the de-energized state, the flexures relax, causing the lens mount to move substantially in the focus direction. The optical actuator further includes an actuator travel stop disposed relative to the base and the lens mount for supporting the lens mount in a downward direction when the actuator is in the de-energized state, to thereby prevent the flexures from creeping in such a way so as to result in lens tilt.
摘要:
An optical actuator adapted to control the position of the actuator in at least two degrees of freedom of motion. The actuator includes a base, a moveable lens holder having a lens, a structure for connecting the lens holder to the base to support movement of the lens holder, and first and second pairs of surface-field motors, each pair of surface-field motors having first and second surface-field motors, each first and second surface-field motor including a surface-field coil and a surface-field magnetic assembly for applying forces to the lens holder to move the lens holder in at least two degrees of freedom of motion relative to the base, the surface-field coil being mounted on either the base or the lens holder, and the corresponding surface-field magnetic assembly being oppositely mounted on either the lens holder or the base to interact with the surface-field coil. Each surface-field magnetic assembly includes two pairs of opposing poles with one pair of opposing poles facing the corresponding surface-field coil, the opposing poles of each pair being separated by a pole dividing line so that the pole dividing lines of the opposing poles facing the surface-field coils of the surface-field magnetic assemblies of the first surface-field motor extend and intersect at a point above the surface-field coils, and the pole dividing lines of the opposing poles facing the surface-field coils of the surface-field magnetic assemblies of the second surface-field motor extend and intersect at a point below the surface-field coils. Currents are selectively applied to the surface-field coils so that the surface-field motors apply forces to the lens holder to control at least two degrees of freedom of motion of the lens holder relative to the base.
摘要:
A robust method for determining a radiation imaging system focus error, that employs a focus sensor and an accompanying curve determined analytically or empirically according to the characteristics of the sensor, is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the focus sensor comprises two beamsplitters, a spacer, and three detectors comprising CCD array. The three detectors are constrained to satisfy radiation path length specifications, with respect to the beamsplitters and spacer. In the method, the curve representing variance vs. focus position is empirically determined. The focus sensor may then be aligned in an unused portion of an imaging system radiation field. The detectors simultaneously image the same scene, sampling it at three different focus positions. These sampled points are then fit to the empirically determined curve; a maximum of the fitted curve is a robust measure of the imaging system focus error.
摘要:
Apparatus for measuring warp of an optical disk is disclosed. The apparatus includes an actuator having a base and a moveable lens holder, the lens holder being moveable in a vertical direction relative to the base. The apparatus further includes a structure for moving the actuator to selected positions relative to the surface of the disk and for measuring the vertical displacement of the disk surface relative to the actuator base at each of the selected positions, a structure for providing displacement signals corresponding to the vertical displacement of the disk surface at each of the selected positions, and a structure responsive to the displacement signals for computing a radial tilt matrix and a tangential tilt matrix of optical disk surface tilt values, the matrices representing the warp of the surface of the disk.
摘要:
A lens actuator for an optical disc storage device including a base; a lens holder assembly movably mounted to said base; said lens holder assembly comprising a lens holder with a single surface-field magnet and a lens mounted thereon; a single surface-field coil set mounted to said base parallel to and proximate said surface-field magnet; whereby a current introduced in a coil of said coil set produces a net magnetic force having a resultant line of action passing through said lens holder assembly.
摘要:
A method for determining a surface topology of a workpiece preferably comprising a general symmetric asphere. The method includes the steps of coupling a projectile to a surface of a workpiece, and imparting a trajectory to the projectile with respect to the surface; sensing the trajectory of the projectile with respect to the workpiece surface, for assessing a locus of positional points over time of the projectile, the locus being a measure of the surface topology of the workpiece; and computing from the locus of positional points over time, the surface topology of the workpiece.
摘要:
An optical recording actuator includes: a base and a lens holder having a lens. A pair of spaced-apart flexible, inextensible, coplanar connecting members are connected between the base and the lens holder. A force is applied to the lens holder in the plane of the connecting members to generate tension in the connecting members. A motor applies forces and moments to the lens holder so that the lens holder can move the lens in a desired manner. The resulting actuator has four controllable degrees of freedom of motion relative to the base: focus, tracking, pitch and roll.
摘要:
An optical actuator is disclosed which includes a base, a moveable lens holder including an objective lens and positioned relative to the base, and at least six planar magnetic coils and a plurality of magnetic assemblies arranged to be associated with the coils, each of the assemblies including magnets having two or more poles fixed to the actuator base, the coils and the magnets being mounted relative to each other on the lens holder and the base. The actuator includes circuitry for applying signals to the coils to induce magnetic fields in the coils for positioning the lens holder and detectors for providing signals representing the four degrees of freedom of positions of the lens holder with respect to the base. A computational circuitry responsive to the detectors determines the coil signals for positioning the moveable lens holder in six degrees of freedom of motion relative to the base.
摘要:
An assembly suitable for statically controlling and dynamically damping an optical element, for example, a secondary mirror. The assembly realizes a novel design technique which treats the problems of static control and dynamic damping of the optical element, as subsumed moments of one independent problem. The one interdependent problem may be solved by way of a single structural design, featuring a unique lever arm, which can provide overlapping functions responsive, at one and the same time, to both moments.