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Optical noncontacting detector

  • US 4,412,746 A
  • Filed: 03/04/1981
  • Issued: 11/01/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an optical noncontacting detector for detecting the roughness of a surface such as ridges and grooves thereon comprising, a light-projecting system for radiating a beam of light on a surface the roughness of which is to be detected and having a tubular barrel having an open front end through which said beam of light is emitted, an elongated light-transmitting means coaxial with the tubular barrel for transmitting the beam of light out of the open end of the tubular barrel without dispersion of light internally of the tubular barrel, a source of light emitting and transmitting said beam of light through said light-transmitting means, a light-receiving system having light-gathering means on said tubular barrel for gathering into the tubular barrel light rays reflected from said surface when said beam of light radiates said surface and having means for converging reflected light rays at an area of reference internally of said tubular barrel, and said light-receiving system comprising reflected-light transmitting means disposed in said tubular barrel outside of said light-transmitting member and shielded therefrom and symmetrically about the longitudinal axis of said tubular barrel for receiving the reflected light rays and converting them into a selected distribution for eventual transducing thereof.

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