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Locating device

US8686891B2 · kind B2 · utility

12Cited by

8References

23Claims

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Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Reiner Krapf · Reutlingen, DE
Heiko Braun · Stuttgart, DE
Michael Mahler · Echterdingen, DE
Christoph Wieland · Bukit Mertajam, MY
Ulli Hoffmann · Mühlacker, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 31, 2008
Grant date	Apr 1, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 12, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S13/885
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a locating device, in particular a hand-guided locating device, with a locating unit (36) for detecting the presence of an object (16, 18) arranged in an examination object (14) by means of an examination signal (38), which has a polarization unit (50) provided for a procedure with the examination signal (38), and with a housing (20) for taking up the locating unit (36), which has a longitudinal axis (24). It is proposed that in at least one operating mode the polarization unit (50) specifies at least one first polarization plane (52, 54) aligned obliquely to the longitudinal axis (24).

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