Element provided with portion for position determination and measuring method
10458882 ยท 2019-10-29
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
G02B6/3652
PHYSICS
G01B11/26
PHYSICS
G02B6/4221
PHYSICS
International classification
G01B11/26
PHYSICS
Abstract
A method for measuring a position of a target surface provided with portions for position determination thereon, wherein a diffuse reflectance of the target surface is 0.1% or less, and a diffuse reflectance of the portions for position determination is 5% or more, and wherein the target surface is configured such that a tangential plane at any point on the target surface where each of the portions for position determination is installed forms an arbitrary angle between 15 degrees and 75 degrees inclusive with a certain direction, the method including the steps of illuminating the target surface with parallel light in the certain direction; determining positions of border lines of the plural portions for position determination from an image of the target surface; and determining the position of the target surface from the positions of the border lines of the plural portions for position determination.
Claims
1. A method for measuring a position of a target surface provided with portions for position determination thereon, wherein a diffuse reflectance of the target surface is 0.1% or less, and a diffuse reflectance of the portions for position determination is 5% or more, and wherein the target surface is configured such that a normal to a tangential plane at any point on the target surface where each of the portions for position determination is installed forms an arbitrary angle between 15 degrees and 75 degrees inclusive with a certain direction, the method including the steps of: illuminating the target surface with parallel light in the certain direction; determining positions of border lines of the plural portions for position determination from an image of the target surface; and determining the position of the target surface from the positions of the border lines of the plural portions for position determination.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the target surface is a surface of an element provided with a first plane and a second plane forming an angle between 15 degrees and 75 degrees inclusive with the first plane, the target surface is the second plane, and the element is provided with at least three portions for position determination on the second plane, the portions for position determination being arranged such that spacing between the portions for position determination is great enough to locate the second plane, and wherein in the step of illuminating the target surface, the second plane is illuminated with parallel light that is perpendicular to the first plane.
3. A method according to claim 2, further including the step of determining an angle between the first plane and the second plane using the positions of the second plane.
4. A method for measuring an angle according to claim 2, wherein the position of each of the border lines of the at least three portions for position determination is obtained using plural pixels in the image.
5. An element having a first plane and a second plane that is at an angle between 15 degrees and 75 degrees inclusive with the first plane, wherein the second plane is provided with at least three portions for position determination thereon, the portions for position determination being arranged such that spacing between the portions for position determination is great enough to locate the second plane, and wherein a diffuse reflectance of the second plane is 0.1% or less, and a diffuse reflectance of the portions for position determination is 5% or more.
6. An element according to claim 5, wherein the at least three portions for position determination are arranged on the periphery of the second plane.
7. An element according to claim 5, provided with four portions for position determination.
8. An element according to claim 5, wherein each of the at least three position markers corresponds to a single portion for position determination.
9. An element according to claim 8, wherein the length of the border line of each position marker is from 0.1 millimeters to 3.0 millimeters and the length of each position marker in the direction of the border line is equal to the length of the border line.
10. An element according to claim 5, provided with at least two position markers including at least one position marker corresponding to plural portions for position determination.
11. An element according to claim 5, used for optical applications.
12. An element according to claim 11, wherein at least one of the first plane and the second plane is a prism plane, a plane for arranging a lens or a plane for installing an optical fiber.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
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DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
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(13) The four position markers 101A 101B, 101C and 101D are used to measure the angle that the plane 203 forms with the reference plane 201. The reference plane 201 corresponds to a first plane, and the plane 203 corresponds to a second plane. The angle that the first plane and the second plane form is greater than 0 degree and smaller than 90 degrees.
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(15) In step S1010 of
(16) In step S1020 of
(17) In general, a position of a plane can be determined if the number of portions for position determination is three or more.
(18) The four position markers 101A 101B, 101C and 101D are arranged such that spacing between them is great enough to locate the position of the second plane by the four sets of x, y and z coordinates. The four position markers may be arranged on the periphery of the second plane.
(19) In step S1030 of
(20) Further, in general, according to steps S1010 and S1020 of
(21) How to determine the x, y and z coordinates of the four position markers will be described below. By way of example, a method in which an image measuring system is used will be described.
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(23) In step S2010 of
(24) In step S2020 of
(25) In step S2030 of
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(28) In the description given above, an x-axis and a y-axis that are orthogonal to each other are determined in the first plane (reference plane) 201, the second plane 203 is illuminated by light travelling in the direction that is perpendicular to the first plane 201, and an image of the second plane 203 is taken from the direction that is perpendicular to the first plane (reference plane) 201. In general, an x-axis and a y-axis that are orthogonal to each other may be determined in a virtual plane that is perpendicular to the direction in which parallel light is made to travel for illumination. In this case, the first plane as the reference plane is not required.
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(30) According to the embodiment of the present invention, a position of a border line represented by plural pixels are clearly displayed in an image of an image measuring system so that x and y coordinates of the border line can be easily recognized. Further, at plural points of measurement that correspond to plural pixels, plural sets of x, y and z coordinates are determined, and the average value of the x coordinates, an average value of the y coordinates and the average value of the z coordinates are defined respectively as x, y and z coordinates of the position marker. Thus, variations in measurement values can be expected to be reduced by the use of the plural sets of x, y and z coordinates.
(31) The surface generating diffuse reflection will be described below.
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(33) An amount of luminous flux of light caused by diffuse reflection by a surface generating diffuse reflection will be estimated below. The whole amount ED of luminous flux of diffuse light is represented by the following equation.
E.sub.D=E.sub.0E.sub.TE.sub.SE.sub.A(1)
E.sub.0 represents an amount of luminous flux of incident light, E.sub.T represents an amount of luminous flux of transmitted light, E.sub.S represents an amount of luminous flux of light caused by specular reflection, and E.sub.A represents an amount of luminous flux of absorbed light. The amounts of luminous flux described above are those for the unit area of the surface generating diffuse reflection, and the unit is lux. 1 lux equals to 1 lumen per square meter. E.sub.0 corresponds to an amount of illuminance of the surface generating diffuse reflection.
(34) Table 1 shows ratios of amounts of luminous flux of respective terms of Equation (1) to the amount E.sub.0 of luminous flux of incident light for a plane without diffuse structure and surfaces generating diffuse reflection that are provided with various types of diffuse structure. The ratio of the amount of luminous flux of diffuse light to the amount E.sub.0 of luminous flux of incident light, that is, the diffuse reflectance should preferably be 5.0% or more. When an element is manufactured by injection molding, a diffuse structure may be formed on a mold by etching, electrodischarge machining or the like so that the diffuse structure is transferred to a surface of the element.
(35) TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Type of diffuse structure E.sub.D E.sub.0 E.sub.T E.sub.S E.sub.A Plane without 0.0% 100.0% 94.2% 5.8% 0.0% diffuse structure Structure 16.7% 100.0% 83.3% 0.0% 0.0% produced by etching Structure 7.9% 100.0% 92.1% 0.0% 0.0% produced by electrodischarge machining Structure 50.0% 100.0% 50.0% 0.0% 0.0% produced by sand blasting White sheet 96.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.0% (perfect diffuse reflection)
(36) Intensity of light in the direction at an angle .sub.0 with respect to a normal to the surface generating diffuse reflection, that is, luminance is represented by the following equation.
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(38) The unit of luminance is candela per square meter. Candela is the unit of luminous intensity that represents luminous flux per solid angle, and corresponds to lumen per steradian. Accordingly, the unit of luminance is also lux per steradian.
(39) When an angle of incidence of L1 to the position marker 101A in
(40) Table 2 shows values of L.sub.R obtained by Equation (2) for various values of angle of incidence and for surfaces generating diffuse reflection that are provided with various types of diffuse structure. The values of L.sub.R are represented as relative values that have been obtained by substituting the values of E.sub.D (unit of which is percent) in Table 1 into E.sub.D of Equation (2). Angle of incidence in Table 2 means .sub.0 in Equation (2).
(41) TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Angle of Angle of Angle of Angle of Angle of Type of diffuse incidence incidence incidence incidence incidence structure 45 15 30 60 75 Plane without 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% diffuse structure Structure 1.88% 2.57% 2.30% 1.33% 0.69% produced by etching Structure 0.89% 1.21% 1.09% 0.63% 0.33% produced by electrodischarge machining Structure 5.63% 7.69% 6.89% 3.98% 2.06% produced by sand blasting White sheet 10.80% 14.76% 13.23% 7.64% 3.95% (perfect diffuse reflection)
(42) In Table 2, the minimum relative value of luminance is given in the case of structure produced by electrodischarge machining and for the value of angle of incidence of 75 degrees. The minimum relative value of luminance is 0.33%. Assuming a general case in which illuminance of the surface generating diffuse reflection is 50,000 lux when the angle of incidence is 0 degree (normal-incidence), the luminance in the case described above is 165 lux per steradian, which can be detectable without difficulty by a CCD or CMOS detector. On the other hand, in general, the diffuse reflectance of a surface on which a position marker is arranged, such as the second plane 203, is 0.1% or less. Accordingly, a position marker including the surface generating diffuse reflection can be recognized using light of diffuse reflection.
(43) Table 3 shows typical values of depth (roughness) of various types of diffuse structure. Depth of any type of diffuse structure is less than 1 micrometer.
(44) TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 Type of diffuse structure Typical value of depth Structure produced by 0.56 m etching Structure produced by 0.80 m electrodischarge machining Structure produced by sand 0.04 m blasting White sheet (perfect diffuse Size of molecular reflection) structure
(45) An influence of roughness of a surface generating diffuse reflection on an accuracy in measurement of angle of the plane 203 will be studied below. A sufficient accuracy for measurement of angle is 0.3 degrees or less.
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When the angle .sub.1 is 75 degrees, the following value is obtained.
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(49) On the other hand, when the diffuse structure is present, a position of the bottom of the diffuse structure is represented as A, and a value of the angle the measured using point A and point B is represented as .sub.2. The angle .sub.2 should be 74.7 degrees or more in order that a difference between the angle .sub.1 and the angle .sub.2 is 0.3 degrees or less. Provided that s is sufficiently greater than d, the following relationship holds concerning the measurement value of the angle .sub.2 as shown in
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Accordingly, .sub.2 is greater than 74.7 degrees when the following relationship holds.
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In this case, the following value is obtained.
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(53) Accordingly, assuming that d is 1 micrometer, a difference between the angle cu and the angle .sub.2 can be made less than 0.3 degrees provided that s is 770 micrometers or more.
(54) When the angle .sub.1 is 45 degrees, the following value is obtained
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(56) The angle .sub.2 should be 44.7 degrees or more in order that a difference between the angle .sub.1 and the angle .sub.2 is 0.3 degrees or less. .sub.2 is greater than 44.7 degrees when the following relationship holds.
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(58) In this case, the following value is obtained.
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(60) Accordingly, assuming that d is 1 micrometer, a difference between the angle cu and the angle .sub.2 can be made less than 0.3 degrees provided that s is 271 micrometers or more.
(61) The distance between point A and point B corresponds to a distance between position markers. Accordingly, when a distance between position markers is 1 millimeter or more, measurement values of angle are not affected by roughness of the surface independently of the value of the angle 1.
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(63) Table 4 shows measurement values of an angle of a prism plane, which are obtained by a conventional method in which an angle is measured in a cross section of an element and the method according to the present invention. Numbers 1, 2 and 3 represent the first, the second and the third measurement values, respectively. The unit of angle is degree. Average value in Table 1 represents the average value of the three measurement values. The values of 6 in Table 1 are obtained by estimating values of (standard deviation) from the three measurement values and multiplying the values by 6. CP represents a process capability index that is a ratio of variation to the tolerance range. The values of CP in Table 1 are obtained by dividing the tolerance range by 6.
(64) TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 Tolerance Average range 1 2 3 value 6 CP Present 0.6 44.99 45.03 44.92 44.98 0.35 1.72 invention Prior art 0.6 44.80 44.99 44.75 44.85 0.76 0.79
(65) In general, it can be determined that variations in measurement will sufficiently fall within the tolerance range if the value of CP is 1.33 or more. Accordingly, it is determined that a tolerance range of 0.6 degrees, that is, measuring accuracy of 0.3 degrees can be obtained by the method according to the present invention.
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(67) In the embodiments described above, a single position marker forms a single portion for position determination. In general, a single position marker may have plural portions for position determination.
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(69) Further, in general, a position of a surface including a curved surface can be determined by the present invention. A surface the position of which is determined is defined as a surface A. Plural portions for position determination are provided on the surface A. Each of the portions for position determination includes a surface generating diffuse reflection. The diffuse reflectance of the surface A is 0.1% or less, and the diffuse reflectance of the portions for position determination is 5% or more. When the surface A is illuminated by parallel light in a predetermined direction, rays of light are reflected in the direction of illumination only when they are reflected on a portion having a tangential plane that is perpendicular to the direction of illumination. Further, the portions for position determination are installed on a portion of the surface A the normal to which is at an angle in the range from 15 degrees to 75 degrees with the predetermined direction. Accordingly, if an image is taken from the direction of illumination, coordinates of the border lines of the portions for position determination can be obtained by the method shown in the flow chart of