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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2009
Thomas Burkhardt, Zell, DE;
Ralph Bauer, Kirchheim/Neckar, DE;
Thomas Burkhardt, Zell, DE;
Ralph Bauer, Kirchheim/Neckar, DE;
BALLUFF GmbH, Neuhausen, DE;
Abstract
Position/displacement measuring system, comprising a sensor head and an encoded scale body, the scale body extending in a first direction and in a second direction lying transversely to the first direction, and the scale body having a region for incremental position determination with an encoding in the first direction and a region for absolute position determination with an encoding in the second direction, the sensor head having a first sensor device with a sensor resolution parallel to the first direction, which is associated with the region for incremental position determination, and the sensor head having a second sensor device with a sensor resolution in a second direction, which is associated with the region for absolute position determination.