Patents by Inventor Gero Schusser

Gero Schusser has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9310197
    Abstract: A measuring device and a method for adjusting the measuring device is disclosed. The device includes a first electro-optical component, a second electro-optical component, a beam-shaping optical element, an optics carrier, and a printed circuit board. The optics carrier includes a first receptacle, where the first electro-optical component is mounted in the first receptacle, and a second receptacle, where the beam-shaping optical element is mounted in the second receptacle. The printed circuit board includes a third receptacle, where the second electro-optical component is mounted in the third receptacle. The first electro-optical component and the beam-shaping optical element are adjustable relative to the optics carrier in a direction of a respective optical axis of the first electro-optical component and the beam-shaping optical element and the second electro-optical component is adjustable and fixable in a plane essentially perpendicular to an optical axis of the second electro-optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 9261362
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a distance between a reference mark and a target object is disclosed. The device includes a beam source, which is embodied as an electro-optical component and emits a laser beam along an optical axis, a detector, which is embodied as an additional electro-optical component and receives a reception beam reflected and/or scattered by the target object along an optical axis, a beam forming optics, which forms the laser beam and the reception beam along an optical axis, and a beam splitting optics, which deflects the laser beam or the reception beam. An optics carrier is provided with a first receptacle for mounting a first of the electro-optical components and a second receptacle for mounting the beam forming optics. The optics carrier is monolithic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Roman Steffen, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20140253904
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a distance between a reference mark and a target object is disclosed. The device includes a beam source, which is embodied as an electro-optical component and emits a laser beam along an optical axis, a detector, which is embodied as an additional electro-optical component and receives a reception beam reflected and/or scattered by the target object along an optical axis, a beam forming optics, which forms the laser beam and the reception beam along an optical axis, and a beam splitting optics, which deflects the laser beam or the reception beam. An optics carrier is provided with a first receptacle for mounting a first of the electro-optical components and a second receptacle for mounting the beam forming optics. The optics carrier is monolithic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, ESW Gmbh
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Roman Steffen, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 8767188
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a distance between a reference mark and a target object is disclosed. The device includes a beam source, which is embodied as an electro-optical component and emits a laser beam along an optical axis, a detector, which is embodied as an additional electro-optical component and receives a reception beam reflected and/or scattered by the target object along an optical axis, a beam forming optics, which forms the laser beam and the reception beam along an optical axis, and a beam splitting optics, which deflects the laser beam or the reception beam. An optics carrier is provided with a first receptacle for mounting a first of the electro-optical components and a second receptacle for mounting the beam forming optics. The optics carrier is monolithic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, ESW GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Roman Steffen, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 8467036
    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, a measuring device which emits a laser beam and determines a distance value from the receiving beam coming from the target object, an outlet opening to couple out the laser beam from the housing, a display device to display the distance value and an operating device to operate the laser instrument and to start a distance measurement. The display and operating devices are arranged on an upper side of the housing. The outlet opening is arranged in the upper side, in the lower side opposite from the upper side or in a side surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20130135604
    Abstract: A measuring device and a method for adjusting the measuring device is disclosed. The device includes a first electro-optical component, a second electro-optical component, a beam-shaping optical element, an optics carrier, and a printed circuit board. The optics carrier includes a first receptacle, where the first electro-optical component is mounted in the first receptacle, and a second receptacle, where the beam-shaping optical element is mounted in the second receptacle. The printed circuit board includes a third receptacle, where the second electro-optical component is mounted in the third receptacle. The first electro-optical component and the beam-shaping optical element are adjustable relative to the optics carrier in a direction of a respective optical axis of the first electro-optical component and the beam-shaping optical element and the second electro-optical component is adjustable and fixable in a plane essentially perpendicular to an optical axis of the second electro-optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20120300190
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a distance between a reference mark and a target object is disclosed. The device includes a beam source, which is embodied as an electro-optical component and emits a laser beam along an optical axis, a detector, which is embodied as an additional electro-optical component and receives a reception beam reflected and/or scattered by the target object along an optical axis, a beam forming optics, which forms the laser beam and the reception beam along an optical axis, and a beam splitting optics, which deflects the laser beam or the reception beam. An optics carrier is provided with a first receptacle for mounting a first of the electro-optical components and a second receptacle for mounting the beam forming optics. The optics carrier is monolithic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicants: ESW Gmbh, Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten GOGOLLA, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Roman Steffen, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 8068215
    Abstract: An electro-optic laser distance meter (1, 1?) has a hand-held housing (2), an electric radiation source (3) for generating a bundled light beam (4), and receiving optics (5) with a photoreceiver (7) for receiving parts of the light beam (4) that is backscattered in a reception beam bundle (9) from a measurement object (8), with the photoreceiver (7) being arranged along the reception axis (E) in the focal point (6), extending in a plane transverse to the reception axis (E), and being partially shadowed inside the reception beam bundle (9) by a polarization filter (10, 10?, 10?, 10??).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20100309453
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Publication number: 20100302527
    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, a measuring device which emits a laser beam and determines a distance value from the receiving beam coming from the target object, an outlet opening to couple out the laser beam from the housing, a display device to display the distance value and an operating device to operate the laser instrument and to start a distance measurement. The display and operating devices are arranged on an upper side of the housing. The outlet opening is arranged in the upper side, in the lower side opposite from the upper side or in a side surface of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten GOGOLLA, Andreas WINTER, Helmut SEIFERT, Gero SCHUSSER
  • Publication number: 20090153834
    Abstract: An electro-optic laser distance meter (1, 1?) has a hand-held housing (2), an electric radiation source (3) for generating a bundled light beam (4), and receiving optics (5) with a photoreceiver (7) for receiving parts of the light beam (4) that is backscattered in a reception beam bundle (9) from a measurement object (8), with the photoreceiver (7) being arranged along the reception axis (E) in the focal point (6), extending in a plane transverse to the reception axis (E), and being partially shadowed inside the reception beam bundle (9) by a polarization filter (10, 10?, 10?, 10??).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser
  • Patent number: 6781675
    Abstract: An electro-optical distance measuring system (1, 1′) for large measurement ranges having a para-axial arrangement of a beam source (2) with a transmitting optics (3) and a beam receiver, configured as at least one small-area photodiode (4), with an associated receiving optics (5), which contains the processes for signal extension for the lower distance measurement range for distances (X). The beam source (2), the transmitting optics (3), the small-area photodiode (4) and the receiving optics (5) are each oriented with their optical axes (A1, A2) parallel to the measurement light beam (6). The measurement light beam (6) is directed from the transmitting optics (2) to the measurement object and continues to the receiving optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Martin Penzold, Gero Schusser, Dieter Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20030218737
    Abstract: An electro-optical distance measuring system (1, 1′) for large measurement ranges having a para-axial arrangement of a beam source (2) with a transmitting optics (3) and a beam receiver, configured as at least one small-area photodiode (4), with an associated receiving optics (5), which contains the processes for signal extension for the lower distance measurement range for distances (X). The beam source (2), the transmitting optics (3), the small-area photodiode (4) and the receiving optics (5) are each oriented with their optical axes (A1, A2) parallel to the measurement light beam (6). The measurement light beam (6) is directed from the transmitting optics (2) to the measurement object and continues to the receiving optics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Torsten Gogolla, Andreas Winter, Helmut Seifert, Martin Penzold, Gero Schusser, Dieter Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6603534
    Abstract: A laser range finding device is shown which contains a transmitting channel and a receiving channel. The transmitting channel includes a transmitting lens and a laser light, which is positioned at a focal point of the transmitting lens. The receiving channel includes a receiving lens and a photodiode chip array arranged at a focal point of the receiving lens. The photodiode chip array includes a perforated shutter having at least two shutter apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignees: Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH, Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser, Ullrich Krüger, Martin Penzold
  • Publication number: 20020093638
    Abstract: A laser range finding device is shown which contains a transmitting channel and a receiving channel. The transmitting channel includes a transmitting lens and a laser light, which is positioned at a focal point of the transmitting lens. The receiving channel includes a receiving lens and a photodiode chip array arranged at a focal point of the receiving lens. The photodiode chip array includes a perforated shutter having at least two shutter apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Helmut Seifert, Gero Schusser, Ullrich Kruger, Martin Penzold
  • Patent number: 6281968
    Abstract: Laser distance-measuring instrument for large measuring ranges having a transmitting channel and a receiving channel arranged parallel to one another, the receiving lens being a modified single lens comprising a primary lens region with a primary optical reception axis which is aligned parallel to the optical transmission axis, as well as a secondary lens region with a secondary optical reception axis which is inclined to the primary optical reception axis at an angle &agr;, with the result that a primary focal point and a secondary focal point are produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: JENOPTIK Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Seifert, Martin Penzold, Ullrich Krueger, Gero Schusser