MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517064560 A) filed by Renishaw Plc, Wotton-under-Edge, U.K., on July 7, for 'encoder apparatus.'
Inventor(s) include Mcadam, Simon Eliot; Bale, Richard James; and Reeve, Theodore Richard.
The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A position encoder readhead for reading a scale member, the readhead comprising: a primary sensor comprising a substantially continuous array of primary sensor elements for detecting a primary scale signal falling thereon, said array extending along a measuring dimension, the primary sensor configured to output a signal that is dependent on the relative position of the readhead and a scale along the measuring dimension; a secondary sensor comprising at least a first secondary sensor element positioned along the measuring dimension at a location between the ends of the primary sensor, for detecting a secondary scale signal falling thereon; configured such that: i) the influence of the primary sensor elements on the position signal output by the primary sensor varies along the measuring dimension, according to a multimodal distribution that tapers toward its ends; and ii) a first notional line can be identified that extends parallel to the measuring dimension and that passes through the at least first secondary sensor element and, on either side of the at least first secondary sensor element, passes through at least one primary sensor element."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 15, 2023, under International application No.PCT/GB2023/053257.
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