Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Topcorn
  • Patent number: 6108075
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotary laser beam emitting apparatus capable of being inclined in a direction coinciding with the direction of a reflector. A light emitting unit emits a laser beam, a rotary laser beam projecting unit projects and turns the laser beam emitted by the light emitting unit in a plane, a first photodetector receives at least part of the laser beam projected by the rotary laser beam projecting unit from a predetermined direction, a second photodetector detects a reflected laser beam reflected from a reflector, and a data processing means determines an error in the direction of a main body relative to the reflector on the basis of detection signals provided by the first and the second photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcorn
    Inventors: Fumio Otomo, Kunihiro Hayashi