Patent ID: 8405519

Claim:
A pulse emission device comprising: an electronic control device operating at an interpolation clock rate, and an electronic triggering device coupled to the electronic control device for data exchange and operating at an internal clock rate greater than the interpolation clock rate, wherein the electronic control device is configured to determine at the interpolation clock rate for at least one axis a corresponding desired position value; determine a time delay corresponding to the desired position value; transmit the time delay from the control device to the triggering device; transmits in addition to the time delay a follow-up time determined from a time derivative of the desired position value determined for the at least one axis and a desired local position distance, so that consecutive trigger pulses are outputted by the triggering device with an equidistant local position distance independent of the interpolation clock rate; wherein the electronic triggering device is configured to monitor an end time of the received time delay at the end time, output a trigger pulse, monitor when the follow-up time elapses following output of a last trigger pulse and outputs an additional trigger pulse, wherein the trigger pulse and the additional trigger pulse are outputted independent of the interpolation clock rate of the control device.