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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:
May. 26, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Reinhard Waibel, Berneck, CH;
Assignee:
Wild Heerbrugg Aktiengesellschaft, Heerbrugg, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2502 / ; 2502 / ;
Abstract
A plurality of marks are carried on a movable member, the position of which represents a measured quantity. An image of a mark is projected onto a surface having a large number of detectors. The output signals of the detectors are fed into an evaluation circuit, which sequentially determines the intensity distribution on the detector and, thereby, the position of the mark by means of comparison of fixed threshold values with each of the detector signals and determines the centroid of the thus obtained intensity value distribution. The position of the centroid is a measure of the quantity to be measured.