LASER INSTRUMENT FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT

• US 20100309453A1
• Filed: 05/28/2010
• Published: 12/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Hilti Martin Family Trust)
• Original Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Hilti Martin Family Trust)
• Inventors: Seifert, Helmut, Winter, Andreas, Gogolla, Torsten, Schusser, Gero
• Application Number:
  US12/790,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20100309453A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 356/4.01
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4812 transmitted and received beams following a coaxial path

Abstract

A laser instrument for electro-optical measurement of the distance of a target object to a reference mark is disclosed. The instrument includes a housing, where the housing has an outlet opening to couple out a laser beam from the laser instrument, a measuring device which emits a laser beam and determines a distance value from the receiving beam coming from the target object, a display device to display the distance value, an operating device to operate the laser instrument and to start the distance measurement, and an optical sighting device to align the laser beam on the target object. The direction in which a user looks into the optical sighting device is aligned parallel to the optical axis of the laser beam coupled out of the laser instrument via the outlet opening.

Claims

1. A laser instrument for electro-optical measurement of a distance of a target object to a reference mark, comprising:

a housing, wherein the housing has an outlet opening to couple out a laser beam from the laser instrument;

a measuring device, which emits the laser beam and determines a distance value from a receiving beam coming from the target object;

a display device to display the distance value;

an operating device to operate the laser instrument and to start a distance measurement; and

an optical sighting device to align the laser beam on the target object;

wherein a direction in which a user looks into the optical sighting device is aligned parallel to an optical axis of the laser beam coupled out of the housing via the outlet opening.

2. The laser instrument according to claim 1, wherein the direction in which the user looks into the optical sighting device is aligned coaxially to the optical axis of the laser beam coupled out of the housing.

3. The laser instrument according to claim 1, wherein the optical sighting device has a sighting viewer, wherein the sighting viewer and the outlet opening are arranged in opposing surfaces of the housing.

4. The laser instrument according to claim 3, wherein the sighting viewer is arranged in an upper side, in a lower side opposite from the upper side, or in a side surface of the housing.

5. The laser instrument according claim 1, further comprising deflection optics which deflect the laser beam emitted from the measuring device in a direction of the outlet opening.

6. The laser instrument according to claim 5, wherein the deflection optics are predominantly reflective for a narrow range around a wavelength of the laser beam λ

±

Δ

λ

, where Δ

λ

=10 μ

m, and transmittive for other wavelength ranges.

7. The laser instrument according to claim 5, wherein the deflection optics form a first optical element of the optical sighting device.

8. The laser instrument according to claim 7, wherein the optical sighting device has a second optical element which is predominantly reflective for a narrow range around the wavelength of the laser beam λ

±

Δ

λ

, where Δ

λ

=10 μ

m.

9. The laser instrument according to claim 8, wherein the second optical element is connected via a communication connection to an evaluation device of the measuring device and makes information available to the user in a target object image.

10. The laser instrument according to claim 9, wherein the information represents a point of light.

11. The laser instrument according to claim 9, wherein the information represent a distance value.