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High resolution remote position detection using segmented gratings

US5654540A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 17, 1995
Grant dateAug 5, 1997
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 17, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01D5/38
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Remote positioning to submicron accuracy is based on comparison of two interference gratings, the first of constant phase, and the second segmented. Positioning corresponds with equal segment-by-segment overlap of an image of one grating superimposed on the other.

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