Abstract: A device for detecting the temperature of an asphalt material to be processed by a road finishing machine includes at least one temperature measuring head, the at least one temperature measuring head being integrated into an ultrasonic sensor for detecting the filling level of the asphalt material.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining an elevation of a working tool relative to a reference plane, includes a rotary laser system, a radio unit and a detector. The rotary laser system emits a rotating laser beam in a plane inclined relative to the reference plane. The radio unit is configured to measure a distance between the working tool and the rotary laser system and the detector is mounted on the working tool for detecting the laser beam. The elevation of the working tool can be determined on a basis of the inclination angle and the distance between the working tool and the rotary laser system.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining an elevation of a working tool relative to a reference plane, includes a rotary laser system, a radio unit and a detector. The rotary laser system emits a rotating laser beam in a plane inclined relative to the reference plane. The radio unit is configured to measure a distance between the working tool and the rotary laser system and the detector is mounted on the working tool for detecting the laser beam. The elevation of the working tool can be determined on a basis of the inclination angle and the distance between the working tool and the rotary laser system.

Abstract: A laser-regulating means for a construction machine for adjusting the height of a height-adjustable machining tool includes three laser measuring heads which are directed to three measuring points being spaced from each other on a reference surface, and an evaluating means, which, from the output signals of the laser measuring heads and from the known geometric arrangement of the laser measuring heads as regards the machining tool, determines the height of the machining tool relative to a reference surface and, from this height and from a target height determines a control signal for a height-adjustment of the machining tool. The construction machine is a road finisher with a height-adjustable plank or a cold planer with a height-adjustable milling drum.

Abstract: A laser-regulating means for a construction machine (2) for adjusting the height of a height-adjustable machining tool (8) includes three laser measuring heads which are directed to three measuring points (50, 52, 54) being spaced from each other on a reference surface (60), and an evaluating means, which, from the output signals of the laser measuring heads and from the known geometric arrangement of the laser measuring heads as regards the machining tool (8), determines the height of the machining tool (8) relative to a reference surface (60) and, from this height and from a target height determines a control signal for a height-adjustment of the machining tool (8). The construction machine is a road finisher (2) with a height-adjustable plank (8) or a cold planer with a height-adjustable milling drum.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling the cutting depth of a road grooving machine by vertical adjustment of both the front and rear travelling gear on the basis of a cutting depth control signal, which is generated by a tracer ski by sampling a reference plane, including at least three ultrasonic sensors arranged one behind the other in the direction of movement of the cutter, and an evaluation means for determining the distances between the ultrasonic sensors and a reference plane to derive therefrom an inclination signal as well as an averaged distance signal. The evaluation means controls the height of the two travelling gears such that the average distance of the cutter drum as well as the position of the machine relative to the reference plane are adjusted.

Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor control unit for a road finishing machine for generating a height control signal for a vertically adjustable beam, the ultrasonic sensor control unit including at least three ultrasonic sensors which are arranged at a considerable distance from the beam in the direction of motion of the road finishing machine. The ultrasonic sensor signals determine the distances between each ultrasonic sensor and a reference surface, the values which lie more than a predetermined distance outside of a plane which is determined by the measuring points associated with the other distances being rejected as faulty measurement. On the basis of the height signals, the mutual distances of the sensors, and the distance between a sensor and the rear edge of the beam, the evaluation means calculates the projected height at the rear edge of the beam. This height is compared with a selectable desired thickness value.

Abstract: A height-position sensing device for use with a contol circuit for controlling the height position of a blade in the case of a motor grader includes a mechanical height-position sensor and a ultrasonic height-position sensor which are connected to a common control circuit via a switch.

Abstract: A control sensor for a construction machine serves for generating height control signals for the height control of a tool of the construction machine along a guide cable and contains at least two supersonic sensors, one of which at least serves as a transmitter/receiver element, whereby the supersonic sensors are connected to an evaluation means and arranged in a right angle to the construction machine's direction of movement and in such a distance to the guide cable that the detection angle of the supersonic cones will lead, at this distance, to their overlapping.

Abstract: A height control device for a fixture which comprises at least a pair of gauging devices each having an ultrasonic transceiver for gauging a certain distance. A signal generator is connected to both gauging devices for generating a signal representative of the change in the level height due to machining. A control device is also provided for elevating or lowering the machining fixture.

Abstract: The invention relates to a depth measuring apparatus for a dredger, comprising an inclination sensor mounted on the dredger arm, a receiver for receiving a radiation establishing a reference level, and an evaluation circuit connected to the receiver and to the inclination sensor. In a known measuring apparatus of this type, the receiver merely serves for calibrating a pressure sensor operative to indicate the position of the dredger arm relative to the body of the dredger. According to the invention, for improving the measuring accuracy the receiver is itself operable to determine the position of the radiation determining the reference level relative to the receiver, the thus obtained information being employed together with the inclination signal for determining the operating depth of the dredger scoop.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an opto-electronic measuring receiver for determining the relative position of the measuring receiver with respect to a radiation plane established by an optical transmitter. The measuring receiver comprises a plurality of opto-electronic receiving units for generating an output signal indicative of the impingement of the radiation plane on a respective receiving unit. Known opto-electronic measuring receivers having a great number of receiving units require a correspondingly extensive circuitry. For avoiding this disadvantage, the invention provides that each receiving unit is connected to a controlled commutator element, that there is provided a control circuit in connection with the commutator elements, that the first and second outputs of each commutator element are connected respectively to the first and second inputs of the control circuit, and that the control circuit includes memory means for storing an information relating to any one of the receiving units.