Optical wide angle sensor head

US4914284A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Messerschmitt Bolkow Blohm GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Thorstein Halldorsson · Munich, DE
• Konrad Altmann · Munich, DE
• Ernst-August Seiffarth · Taufkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 25, 1988
• Grant date: Apr 3, 1990
• Expiry date: Oct 25, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01J1/0271
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An optical wide angle sensor head for directionally sensing optical radiation is made of a plurality of individual sensor optical elements. Each sensor optical element is arranged at an input end of its own fiber optical conductor and has its own light entrance, its own field of view and its own individual optical axis. Neighboring fields of view may overlap each other. The fiber optical conductors lead to a transducer for converting the individual light signals into respective electrical signals. The individual sensor optical elements are arranged on a common mounting member in a housing so that the individual optical axes pass through a common intersection in front of said light entrances. The mounting member is a flat plate or a concave plate having a concave curvature facing in the viewing direction, whereby a spherical mounting is avoided.