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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1992
Makoto Takamiya, Kawasaki, JP;
Hidejiro Kadowaki, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuhiko Ishida, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Sugiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for detecting the velocity information of an object comprises a light source; optical system for irradiating beam from the light source, which is provided with a first lens or lens group and a second lens or lens group having an identical focal distance which are arranged apart from each other substantially two times such focal distance along the direction of the optical axis, to irradiate the beam onto the measuring object through the first and second lenses or lens group, and the optical system being arranged so as to make the value of sin .theta./.lambda. substantially constant where .theta. is the incident angle of the beam irradiated onto the measuring object and .lambda. is the wavelength of the beam; and detector for detecting the scattering rays of light from the measuring object irradiated by the above-mentioned optical system to detect the velocity information of the measuring object. With the constituents thus arranged, the apparatus is capable of effectively preventing the deviation of the intersecting position of the beams irradiated on the measuring object to perform a high-precision detection of the velocity information at all times.