PURPOSE: To detect micro-displacement angles with a small size and high accuracy by amplifying the angular displacements of a turning reflection member by the use of multiple reflections between a stationary reflection member and the turning reflection member facing the same.
CONSTITUTION: A reflecting mirror 1 suspended by a stationary member 2 has reflection surfaces 1a, 1b, and is located in a stationary reflecting mirror 3 having four reflection surfaces 3aW3d. The light from a light source 4 passes through a pinhole 5 and a condenser lens 6 and reflects alternately between both reflecting mirrors mentioned above and forms images on one-dimensional image sensors 9 through a prism 7 and an imaging lens 8. When the member 2 inclines by θ from the vertical direction, the mirror 1 displaces from the mirror 3 and the inclination of the luminous flux made incident to the prism changes largely. When it reflects n times between both reflecting mirrors, the incident angle to the prism changes by 2nθ. This is detected from the extent at which the pinhole image moves on the sensors 9.
OOKI YASUSHI