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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2000
Reiner Burgschat, Jena, DE;
Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH, Traunreut, DE;
Abstract
A scanning unit for an optical position measuring device, which is suitable for scanning a scale in a measurement direction. The scanning unit includes a light source, an incremental signal scanning arrangement, disposed symmetrical around the light source and including a plurality of incremental signal detector elements, which are each disposed relative to one another so that phase-offset partial incremental signals are generated from the scanning of an incremental grating line of a scale. A first reference pulse detector element and a second reference pulse detector element, each of which is disposed vertically to a measurement direction and are each adjacent to the incremental signal scanning arrangement and generate an output reference pulse signal from the scanning of a first reference marking and a second reference marking located at one or more defined reference positions of the scale.