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Distance measuring unit

US8111382B2 · kind B2 · utility

7Cited by

5References

13Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Peter Wolf · Wiesbaden, DE
Uwe Skultety-Betz · Echterdingen, DE
Joerg Stierle · Waldenbuch, DE
Bjoern Haase · Stuttgart, DE
Kai Renz · Echterdingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 24, 2008
Grant date	Feb 7, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 18, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S7/4813
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a distance measuring unit (10) for contactless distance measurement, in particular a handheld unit, with a housing (12, 40), which has a housing front side (14), which points in the measurement direction (32), and a housing rear side (16), which faces away therefrom, wherein the housing rear side (16) forms a first reference plane (AA) for the distance measurement, and with at least one measurement stop (5) of a measurement stop element (4), which can be moved out of the housing (12). The invention proposes that the measurement stop element (46) is mounted in the housing (12, 40) in such a way that it moves automatically out of the housing (12, 40) once a locking apparatus (62, 63, 65) has been released and is optionally moved at least into a first (1) or into a second (1) measurement position.

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