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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1987
Masatoshi Ono, Ibaraki, JP;
Wataru Mizutani, Ibaraki, JP;
Hiroshi Murakami, Ibaraki, JP;
Hiroshi Bando, Ibaraki, JP;
Shigeru Wakiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Fumiki Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Wakatsuki, Tokyo, JP;
Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Seiko Instruments Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A relative displacement control apparatus provides both coarse and extremely fine precise control over displacements between a sample and a detecting probe as required, e.g. in operations of optical instruments, analyzing instruments and scanning tunneling microscopes. This precise fine displacement is produced through a double-lever-action which is created substantially by means of an arm assembly preferably with a piezoelectric drive for precise displacement control, a support pivotally holding the arm assembly, a rigid arm fixed solidly atop the support and a pointed stop or 'foot' fixed in the proximity of the free end of the rigid arm.