MUMBAI, India, April 4 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202414063719 A) filed by Fuji Electric Co. Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, on Aug. 23, 2024, for 'encoder.'
Inventor(s) include Furuichi, Takuya; Koizumi, Kazuhiro; Morita, Akira; and Masunaga, Yasuyuki.
The application for the patent was published on April 4, under issue no. 14/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An optical encoder (20) for detecting a rotating position of a motor (10) includes: a light-emitting element (22); a slit plate (21) having patterns of bright parts and dark parts, the bright parts reflecting light and the dark parts allowing light to pass through the slit plate (21); a light-receiving elem...