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Device for optically scanning and measuring an environment

US8699007B2 · kind B2 · utility

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2Claims

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Assignee

FARO Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

Reinhard Becker · Wiesbaden, DE
Norbert Homann · Pleidelsheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 26, 2011
Grant date	Apr 15, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 26, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S17/42
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for optically scanning and measuring an environment, which is designed as a laser scanner, with a light emitter, which emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam which is reflected from an object (O) in the environment of the laser scanner or scattered otherwise, and with a control and evaluation unit which, for a multitude of measuring points (X), determines at least the distance to the object (O), the laser scanner has a swivel-axis module which, as a pre-assembled assembly, on the one hand is provided with a base resting in the stationary reference system of the laser scanner and, on the other hand, with parts which can be fixed to a carrying structure of the measuring head which is rotatable relative to the base.

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