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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:
Aug. 17, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven G Saxe, St. Paul, MN (US);
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359565 ; 359571 ; 359574 ;
Abstract
A beam shaping system for an astigmatic light source utilizes two lenses, both having diffractive power. A first lens shapes the beam in a first dimension and a second lens shapes the beam in a second dimension perpendicular to the first.