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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. 24, 1984
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
George D Haville, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Paul A Johnson, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
BEI Electronics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3403 / ; 2502 / ;
Abstract
An encoder system which provides non-power of two, unambiguous, even counts, the system having a modular configuration to permit a substantial portion of the system to comprise standardized modules, wherein modifications to a minimum of modules provide a wide range of different system counts, the system utilizing a truncated, symmetric, unit step code sequence and a division of processing functions among modules which permits the user to select among system outputs having a number of different processing levels.