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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1996
Tomoaki Kodama, Hadano, JP;
Kazuyoshi Hibiya, Odawara, JP;
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The light selected by a selection circuit 3 at a light emitting side and emitted from a light emitting element 1 such as a LED is converted to a specifically modulated light by an oscillation circuit 11. The light received by a light receiving element 2 such as a phototransistor at the receiving side is amplified by an amplifier circuit 6, and a detection circuit 12 detects whether a specifically modulated light is received. The H/L detection circuit 13 determines the presence/absence of a light interruption to produce a signal of either H (high level) or L (low level). Also, the signal from the oscillator 11 of the emission side is received by the receiving side and compared with the received signal to determine whether the same signal as emitted from the emitting element has been actually received.