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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:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
May. 19, 1999
Eiji Osanai, Yokohama, JP;
Kotaro Akutsu, Sohka, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A positioning system includes a movable member being movable along a reference plane containing first and second directions, and a position measuring device for measuring positional information related to the movable member, wherein the movable member includes an element having a reflection surface inclined with respect to the reference plane, and wherein the position measuring device includes a measuring system for causing a measurement beam to be reflected by the inclined reflection surface and for detecting positional information related to the movable member with respect to a direction intersecting the reference plane.
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