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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:
Mar. 01, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356218 ; 3241 / ; 356121 ;
Abstract
A light source degradation detecting apparatus for a laser device monitors drive currents and output laser beams. The degradation detecting apparatus includes drivers for supplying three drive signals to the laser, a photodiode for detecting laser outputs produced in response to the drive signals, a memory for storing measured values and the drive signals, and a discriminator for calculating ratio P from storage data (laser outputs W.sub.n, W.sub.n+1, and W.sub.n+2 produced in response to drive currents I.sub.n, I.sub.n+1, and I.sub.n+2) as follows: