Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Scale, encoder, lens apparatus, and image pickup system having a plurality of patterns with different modulating periods
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Application No.: US14014483Application Date: 2013-08-30
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Publication No.: US09778035B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Chihiro Nagura
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP
- Priority: JP2012-190833 20120831
- Main IPC: G01D5/347
- IPC: G01D5/347 ; G01C11/06

Abstract:
A scale (20) has a plurality of patterns so as to spatially modulate an energy distribution, and the scale includes a first pattern having a first modulation period in a moving direction, and a second pattern having a second modulation period different from the first modulation period in the moving direction, a relative phase between the first pattern and the second pattern changes in accordance with a direction perpendicular to the moving direction, each of the first pattern and the second pattern is configured by including a reflective portion (26) that reflects light and a non-reflective portion (25) that does not reflect the light, and a width of the reflective portion (26) in the moving direction at a first position is different from the width at a second position different from the first position along the direction perpendicular to the moving direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140064565A1 SCALE, ENCODER, LENS APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2014-03-06
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