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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
Yuji Akishiba, Osaka, JP;
Keyence Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A collimator lens converts a light transmitted from a light source into an almost parallel light. A light receiving lens receives the almost parallel light including a shadow of a measurement object . A one-dimensional image sensor receives a light passing through a diaphragm . A two-dimensional image sensor receives a light split by a beam splitter through a second diaphragm . A signal processing section obtains an outside dimension and a monitor image of a measured portion of the measurement object by processing electric signals sent respectively from the image sensors and . A display section displays the outside dimension and the monitor image of the measured portion of the measurement object