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Device for optically scanning and measuring an environment

US8730477B2 · kind B2 · utility

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2Claims

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Assignee

FARO Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

Axel Ruhland · Stuttgart, DE
Reinhard Becker · Wiesbaden, DE
Bernd-Dietmar Becker · Berlin, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 1, 2011
Grant date	May 20, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 1, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S17/89
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, at least one shell is provided as part of the housing of the laser scanner, said shell being partially covered on its outer side by at least one yoke which serves as protection.

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