Optics: measuring and testing – Range or remote distance finding – With photodetection
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-12
2005-07-12
Gregory, Bernarr E. (Department: 3662)
Optics: measuring and testing
Range or remote distance finding
With photodetection
C356S005010, C356S005020, C356S005030, C356S005150
Reexamination Certificate
active
06917415
ABSTRACT:
A method of and an apparatus for an electro-optical distance measurement in which a laser beam of a laser diode (1) is directed as an intensity modulated train of emitted light pulses onto an object, the reflected measurement pulse train (10) is detected by a light detector (6), which generates, in response to the detection of a measurement pulse train, a first photo-current component, a smaller portion of the intensity modulated pulse train is branched out as a reference pulse train and, after passing a known reference path, is also detected by the light detector (6), which generates in response to this detection a second photo current component, and the light detector converts the measurement pulses, together with a mixer pulse train generated by a local oscillator, into a comparatively low-frequency IF-region that determines, after a corresponding conversion, the measured distance.
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Gogolla Torsten
Seifert Helmut
Winter Andreas
Andrea Brian K
Gregory Bernarr E.
Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
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