Optics X-Y positioner
AssigneeCandela Laser Corporation
InventorsHarry L. Ceccon, Horace Furumoto
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Abstract
An optics X-Y positioner has an optics support positioned within a housing having sides and front and rear walls. The optics support has a groove on one face which rides in an X direction along a ridge in a sliding guide plate. The guide plate slides within a flat groove in the Y direction in the rear wall of the housing. X and Y direction adjustment screws extend through sides of the frame and abut the optics support. A spring in tension is wrapped about the optics support in a circumferential groove to force the optics support against the adjustment screws.
Claims12
An X-Y positioner comprising a housing having a rear wall, sides and a front wall, at least one wall having a window therein;
- a guide plate within the housing, the guide plate sliding against the rear wall in the Y direction and being restrained from movement in a perpendicular X direction by a Y direction restraining element in the rear wall, the guide plate having an X direction restraining element formed therein along an axis in the X direction;
- an adjustable member positioned for sliding movement between the front plate and guide plate, the adjustable member having in a rear face an X direction restraining element extending in the X direction and complementary with the restraining element of the guide plate;
- a Y direction adjustment screw threaded through a first side of the housing and abutting the adjustable member to force the adjustable member in a Y direction;
- an X direction adjustment screw threaded through an adjacent second side of the housing and abutting the adjustable member to force the adjustable member in an X direction;
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- a spring assembly for forcing the adjustment member toward the X and Y direction adjustment screws.
A optics X-Y positioner comprising:
- a housing comprising a rear wall, sides and a front wall, the front and rear walls having windows therein;
- a guide plate within the housing having a window therein, the guide plate being seated within a flat groove in the rear wall which extends in a Y direction, the guide plate sliding against the rear wall in the Y direction and being restrained from movement in a perpendicular X direction by walls of the flat groove, the guide plate having a ridge formed therein along an axis in the X direction;
- an adjustable optics support positioned for sliding movement between the front plate and guide plate, the optics support having a groove in a rear face extending in the X direction and in which the ridge of the guide plate is seated;
- an X direction adjustment screw threaded through a first side of the housing and abutting the optics support to force the optics support in a Y direction;
- an X direction adjustment screw threaded through an adjacent second side of the housing and abutting the optics support to force the optics support in an X direction;
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- a spring in tension between the first and second sides of the housing and wrapped about the optics support within a curved groove of the optics support to force the optics support toward the X and Y direction adjustment screws.
An optics X-Y positioner as claimed in 11 wherein the guide plate is sheet metal and the ridge is pressed into the sheet metal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.