Laser scanner for motor vehicles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10859677-B2
Application number	US-201615758507-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 2, 2016
Priority date	Sep 8, 2015
Publication date	Dec 8, 2020
Grant date	Dec 8, 2020

Abstract

The invention relates to a laser scanner ( 1 ′) for motor vehicles, having at least two optical transmitters ( 12, 13, 14 ) for emitting in each case one transmitted light beam ( 3, 4, 5 ), and a rotatably arranged micromirror ( 6 ) for deflecting the transmitted light beams ( 3, 4, 5 ) onto the scene to be measured. The laser scanner additionally comprises an optical deflecting device, which is arranged in the beam path of at least one transmitted light beam ( 3, 4, 5 ) upstream of the micromirror ( 6 ) and is configured and arranged such that the transmitted light beams ( 3, 4, 5 ) are guided onto the micromirror ( 6 ).
In order to direct in a laser scanner a plurality of transmitted light beams onto the micromirror with as little distortion as possible, provision is made according to the invention for the deflecting device ( 20 ) to have at least one deflecting mirror ( 21, 22 ) arranged in the beam path of a transmitted light beam ( 3, 4, 5 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A laser scanner for motor vehicles, comprising:
at least two optical transmitters for emitting in each case one transmitted light beam onto a scene to be measured, the at least two optical transmitters comprising a first outwardly located optical transmitter, a centrally located optical transmitter, and a second outwardly located optical transmitter; and
an optical deflecting device arranged in a beam path of at least one transmitted light beam upstream of a micromirror the optical deflecting device comprising a first deflecting mirror and a second deflecting mirror and being configured and arranged such that corresponding transmitted light beams are guided onto the micromirror,
wherein the at least two optical transmitters are arranged in a row such that the first deflecting mirror is assigned to the first outwardly located optical transmitter and the second deflecting mirror is assigned to the second outwardly located optical transmitter, and
wherein the deflecting mirrors are arranged and oriented relative to the respectively assigned optical transmitters such that a first transmitted light beam from the first outwardly located optical transmitter via the first deflecting mirror and a second transmitted light beam from the second outwardly located optical transmitter via the second deflecting mirror are reflected onto the micromirror at a specified non-zero angular distance with respect to a centrally transmitted light beam from the centrally located optical transmitter.

2. The laser scanner according to claim 1 , wherein the deflecting device has a deflecting mirror for each of the transmitted light beams assigned to said deflecting device.

3. The laser scanner according to claim 1 , wherein the deflecting mirrors are situated, as a reflector, such that the micromirror is located between the reflector and the optical transmitters.

4. The laser scanner according to claim 1 , wherein the optical transmitters are configured in the form of lasers.

5. The laser scanner according to claim 1 , wherein arranged downstream of each optical transmitter is a respective collimator lens.

Assignees

• Valeo Schalter & Sensoren Gmbh

Inventors

• Lin Lin
• Horvath Peter
• Schuler Thomas

Classifications

• G02B26/0833

  the reflecting element being a micromechanical device, e.g. a MEMS mirror, DMD (G02B26/0825 takes precedence; micromechanical devices in general B81B) · CPC title

• G01S17/931

  of land vehicles · CPC title

• G02B26/105

  with one or more pivoting mirrors or galvano-mirrors (G02B26/101 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01S7/4815

  using multiple transmitters · CPC title

• G01S7/4817 Primary

  relating to scanning · CPC title