Patent · US Expired

Locating device, and method for calibrating a locating device

US8020425B2 · kind B2 · utility

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6Claims

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Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Uwe Skultety-Betz · Echterdingen, DE
Bjoern Haase · Stuttgart, DE
Michael Mahler · Echterdingen, DE
Ulli Hoffmann · Mühlacker, DE
Reiner Krapf · Reutlingen, DE
Christoph Wieland · Bukit Mertajam, MY

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 21, 2005
Grant date	Sep 20, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 16, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01V3/088
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A locating device, in particular a handheld locating device, for detecting objects enclosed in a medium, includes a first device for detecting objects enclosed in a medium, and having a control and evaluation unit for measurement signals of the locating device. The device has a second detection device that makes it possible to detect a predeterminable distance d of the locating device from a surface of a medium. In addition, a method for calibrating a measurement device, in particular for calibrating a handheld locating device for detecting objects enclosed in a medium, a reference measurement for calibrating the measurement device is carried out only after at least one measurement has been carried out of a distance d of the measurement device from a surface of a medium.

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