Mitutoyo Corporation

Kuniaki Obata

Tatsuya Nagahama

Seiji Shimokawa

Motohiro Osaki

Hirotaka Matsubara

Masaki Tomita

Masaaki Miyashita

A plurality of light emitting elements comprise a number of groups having light emitting colors different from each other. The light emitting element groups are arranged in ring shapes about an optical axis of an optical system in a plane or planes substantially orthogonal to the optical axis. A combining unit combines radiation light beams of different light emitting colors to generate illumination light having a given hue. The combining unit is provided downstream of the light emitting elements along a light emitting direction. A focusing unit focuses the illumination light in the direction toward the optical axis and is provided downstream of the combining unit. Accordingly, it is possible to direct illumination light having uniform and non-irregular hue, the hue corresponding to a surface color of an object to be measured, to the object to be measured.

Ring illuminator

A holographic grating 12 is formed on one surface of a scale substrate 11 in such a manner that a light source is disposed over the other surface of the scale substrate 11. The scale substrate 11 is formed of a transparent material. A reflection film 13 is directly deposited on the grating surface. A protection substrate 15 is adhered to the reflection film 13 on the scale substrate 11 with adhesive agent 14. Thus, a reflection-type hologram scale 1 is accomplished.

Reflection-type hologram scale and optical displacement measuring

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Yokohama, Japan

Kuniaki Obata