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US 4,726,671 AGranted
High resonance adjustable mirror mount
AssigneeThe Perkin-Elmer Corporation
InventorsAnees Ahmad, Richard L. Huse
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Abstract
A mirror mount wherein the mirror is mounted to the housing through tangent bars. The tangent bars have flexure cut-outs at each end thereof to allow the mirror to move relative to the housing. The housing is mounted through blade flexures to a support structure so as to allow the mirror to be translated along its optical axis.
Claims4
A mirror mount comprising:
- a mirror;
- a housing;
- said mirror being mounted to said housing through three individual tangent bars;
- said individual tangent bars having a first end rigidly affixed to said mirror and a second end rigidly affixed to said housing;
- said individual tangent bars being tangent to said mirror at a tangent pint;
- said individual tangent bars being perpendicular to a line through said tangent point and through the center of gravity of said mirror;
- and
- each tangent bar having a universal flexure joint at each end thereof.
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