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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1997
Willem G Ophey, Eindhoven, NL;
Gerard E Van Rosmalen, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A position detection system (80) is described for detecting movements of an object (20) in at least five degrees of freedom, which system comprises a radiation source (33), a beam splitter (36) for forming a first measuring sub-beam (45) and a second measuring sub-beam (50), a reflector (38) arranged in the path of one of these measuring beams (45, 50) and a composite radiation-sensitive detection system (60). The first measuring sub-beam (45) is used for detecting displacements along three mutually perpendicular axes (X, Y, Z), and the second measuring sub-beam (50) is used for detecting rotations about at least two of these axes.