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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:
Sep. 27, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., , JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C / ; G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250221 ; 250227 ; 3403 / ; 340712 ;
Abstract
An optical path blockage detecting device includes optical conductive members located between light emitting elements and light receptor elements and extending parallel to optical paths defined between the light emitting and receptor elements. Each optical conductive member is combined with a light absorbing member which absorbs undesired beams of light so as to improve the optical directivity of incident light and improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the device.