US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on Oct. 6 for "Optical displacement meter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,014, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical displacement meter" was invented by Akira Fuyuno (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuro Homma (Osaka, Japan), Izumi Mori (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Sube (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optical displacement meter capable of solving problems such as dustproof and safety at the time of an operation and acquiring profiles of a plurality of positions of a workpiece with high accuracy without providing a conveyor or a linear motion mechanism. An optical displacement meter includes a light projecting and receiving module that integrally holds a light p...