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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1978
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
AGFA-Gevaert, AG, Leverkusen, DT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350-7 ; 350285 ; 358 84 ;
Abstract
Light is projected as a beam from a fixed laser source onto a helical reflecting surface continuously rotating about its central axis. The beam impinges the reflecting surface in an incident direction substantially parallel to the rotation axis and is reflected from the surface in a direction skew to this axis. A reflector extending the full axial length of the reflecting surface then reflects the beam back onto the reflecting surface in a direction so oriented that the reflecting surface reflects the beam a second time, but now in a direction generally perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The reflecting surface and the reflector are both concave so as to condense the beam.