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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:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Douglas L. Harriman, Portland, OR (US);
David F. D. Buck, Ridgefield, WA (US);
Donald G. Walker, Vancouver, WA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/14 ;
Abstract
A unitary, rotary encoder disk provides low cost, ease of manufacture, and resolution capability exceeding through hole encoders and, in one embodiment, equivalent to that achieve in thin film technologies. The unitary construct is molded as a transparent polymer disk, with integrated mounting features. Either molded disk surface features or laser burning is used to facilitate the position graduation mark forming process.