Wild Leitz Gmbh

Hans-Juergen Mueller

Norbert Becker

A method and circuit arrangement is disclosed for converting Gray code signals into counting pulses, forming a counter status, detecting interference signals infringing the Gray code and for forming an error signal with a network defining a finite automaton according to Moore or Mealy, wherein the network forms no error signal when a Gray code infringement is followed by a second Gray code infringement. The disclosed network arrangement in one embodiment comprises a quadruple interpolator (quadrature decoder) for precision dimension measuring machines with optoelectronic scale scanning. Interruptions of the measuring procedure and errors are reduced by not generating an error signal when a Gray code infringement is followed by a second Gray code infringement.

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Braunfels, Germany

Hans-Juergen Mueller