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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2017
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., New Britain, CT (US);
Michael J. Murray, Vernon, CT (US);
Aliaksei Chernyshou, Farmington, CT (US);
Gabriel A. Haboubi, Towson, MD (US);
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., New Britain, CT (US);
Abstract
A tape rule assembly includes a linear optical encoder for sensing human-readable graduations of length disposed on a surface of a tape, without requiring any other machine-readable indicia to be present on the tape. The optical encoder includes two optical sensors disposed in a sensor holder pivotably disposed in the tape rule housing and configured to be displaced relative to one another in the housing along both the 'x' axis and the 'z' axis, a set of intersecting “x”, “y” and “z” axes being defined relative to a tape exit in the tape rule housing.