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Device for optically scanning and measuring an environment

US8705012B2 · kind B2 · utility

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72References

5Claims

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Assignee

FARO Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

Alexander Greiner · Reichenbach, DE
Philipp Schumann · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 1, 2011
Grant date	Apr 22, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 1, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01B11/24
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

With 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 in the environment of the laser scanner or scattered otherwise, and with a control and evaluation unit which, for a multitude of measuring points, determines at least the distance to the object, the laser scanner has a cooling device with a space between a carrying structure and a shell which serves as a housing, said space opening to the outside by means of an air inlet and otherwise being sealed with respect to the interior of the carrying structure and to the shell.

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