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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Junji Shigeta, Utsunomiya, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, , JP;
Abstract
A position detector which detects the position of a movable member relative to a fixed member includes a signal detector configured to detect periodic signals which respectively indicate predetermined values concerning the position of the movable member relative to the fixed member and change at different periods in accordance with a position change, a signal processor configured to generate displacement signals based on the periodic signals detected by the signal detector and sequentially output the generated displacement signals while switching the signals at a predetermined period, a position calculator configured to calculate a position of the movable member relative to the fixed member based on the displacement signals, and a reliability determining unit configured to determine that the reliability of the position calculated by the position calculator is low, if the displacement amount of the movable member in the predetermined period is larger than a predetermined threshold.