Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Patent
1998-05-04
2000-11-07
Hofsass, Jeffery A.
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
340429, G08B 2100
Patent
active
061443085
ABSTRACT:
A tilt compensation method, circuit and apparatus utilizes a two axis tilt sensor or two single axis tilt sensors for alerting, a user and/or compensating a surveying instrument for off vertical alignment above a reference point when the instrument support is free to move about the reference point, e.g., when mounted on a monopod support. The sensor comprises a cell having a central electrode and four peripheral electrodes spaced 90 degrees apart around the central electrode. Fluid in the cell chamber changes the conductance of the electrodes with reference to the central electrode. The cell is mounted to the support or to the instrument itself. A microprocessor preferably provides a square wave drive signal selectively to alternate pairs of the opposing electrodes through tristate buffers while at the same time the microprocessor provides a channel select signal to the gate of the tristate buffers to float the idle electrodes. The signal on the central electrode is fed to an ADC and then to the microprocessor. The microprocessor preferably produces an alarm signal if the tilt is more than a user determined value. The microprocessor may use the sensed tilt magnitude and direction to automatically calculate corrections and compensate the distance measurement made by the distance measuring device such as a laser range finder for the off vertical orientation of the range finder.
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Advertisement Brochure "Electrolytic Tilt Sensors" by The Fredericks Company.
Hofsass Jeffery A.
Kubida William J.
Laser Technology, Inc.
Tweel , Jr. John
Wahl John R.
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