US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on Feb. 10 for "Measurement head and confocal displacement sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,587, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Measurement head and confocal displacement sensor" was invented by Hideto Takei (Osaka, Japan), Yoshihisa Minamigawa (Osaka, Japan) and Takumi Koga (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a measurement head and a confocal displacement sensor which are capable of suppressing a decrease in reliability of measurement in a high-temperature environment of the confocal displacement sensor. The measurement head is a measurement head for a confocal displacement sensor having a white light source. The measurement head has a configuration in which a plurali...