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patent · US6980303

Light-emitting/receiving combined unit and displacement sensors using the same

27 December 2005

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Abstract

The present invention provides a light emitting/receiving composite unit ( 1 ) for emitting and receiving lights, which includes a light source ( 3 ), an optical splitting unit ( 4 ) for splitting returning lights to the composite unit ( 1 ) into a plurality of lights, a polarizing unit ( 5 ) for increasing and decreasing quantity of lights transmitted therefrom corresponding to polarization state of the returning lights, and an optical receiving unit ( 6 ) which has a plural...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2002-02-01
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2005-12-27
Inventors
Hidehiro Kume; Akihito Nakayama; Kayoko Taniguchi; Akihiro Kuroda; Sony Corp; Sony Precision Technology Inc