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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:
Jun. 27, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Agfa-Gevaert N.V., Mortsel, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318560 ; 318561 ; 346 / ;
Abstract
Drive system for driving a load (20), the drive system including a motor (10) coupled to a first shaft (11), a second shaft (19) coupled to the load, and an intermediate shaft (15) coupled to the first shaft and coupled to the second shaft. The angular position of the intermediate shaft is converted by a rotational encoder (25) into a drive signal for driving the motor.