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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:
Nov. 09, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yoshio Yoshioka, Hitachi, JP;
Kouji Kuwabara, Hitachi, JP;
Makoto Yano, Mito, JP;
Kiyoshi Saito, Katsuta, JP;
Kiyoshi Okumura, Hitachi, JP;
Minoru Fujimoto, Hitachi, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
353 34 ; 353 20 ; 353 82 ; 359 40 ;
Abstract
A light beam (30) including a random polarization and radiated from a light source, such as laser oscillator (6) is separated into P wave polarization light beam and S wave polarization light beam by a beam splitter 33. After modulated by image information representative of characters to be printed, both the P and S wave polarization beams are merged and the resultant light beam is projected on the surface of a workpiece for marking a pattern.