Laser surveying system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9273960-B2
Application number	US-201414502712-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2014
Priority date	Sep 30, 2013
Publication date	Mar 1, 2016
Grant date	Mar 1, 2016

Abstract

A laser surveying system includes a rotational light emitting unit to rotationally emit a laser beam, having a case and a beam emitter supported on the case with an optical axis of the laser beam rotatable relative to the case, and a light receiving unit to receive the laser beam from the rotational light emitting unit and perform surveying of a light-receiving position, wherein the laser surveying system is configured to determine whether or not the laser beam received by the light receiving unit has been properly emitted from the rotational light emitting unit on the basis of a rotational position of the optical axis of the laser beam relative to the case and an angle of site of the laser beam relative to a reference plane including the optical axis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A laser surveying system comprising:
a rotational light emitting unit to rotationally emit a laser beam, comprising a case and a beam emitter supported on the case with an optical axis of the laser beam rotatable relative to the case, and an emit-side controller to acquire a rotational position of the optical axis of the laser beam relative to the case; and
a light receiving unit to receive the laser beam from the rotational light emitting unit and perform surveying of a light-receiving position,
the light receiving unit comprising a receive-side controller to:
acquire an angle of site of the laser beam relative to a reference plane including the optical axis of the laser beam,
acquire a light shielding area in which the laser beam is blocked, wherein the light shielding area is defined by the rotational position and the angle of site, and
determine whether or not the laser beam received by the light receiving unit has been properly emitted from the rotational light emitting unit on the basis of the rotational position, the angle of site, and the light shielding area.

2. The laser surveying system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the emit-side controller is configured to superimpose a position signal indicating the rotational position on the laser beam emitted from the rotational light emitting unit; and
the receive-side controller is configured to acquire the rotational position from the position signal of the laser beam received by the light receiving unit.

3. The laser surveying system according to claim 2 , wherein:
the laser beam emitted from the rotational light emitting unit comprises two beams parallel to each other with an interval on a plane orthogonal to the optical axis and a beam tilted relative to the two beams between the two beams; and
the receive-side controller is configured to acquire the angle of site on the basis of a time interval between the three laser beams received by the light receiving unit.

4. The laser surveying system according to claim 3 , wherein:
the three beams are fan beams expanding as moving away from an exit position.

5. The laser surveying system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the case includes a column over which the optical axis crosses when rotated by the beam emitter;
the light shielding area is set according to a positional relationship between the column and the beam emitter; and
the receive-side controller is configured to determine whether or not the laser beam received by the light receiving unit is in the light shielding area, to thereby determine whether or not the laser beam received by the light receiving unit has been properly emitted from the rotational light emitting unit.

6. The laser surveying system according to claim 5 , wherein:
the case is configured to tiltably support the beam emitter;
the rotational light emitting unit comprises a tilt detector to detect a state of tilt of the beam emitter relative to the case;
the receive-side controller is configured to acquire the state of tilt detected by the tilt detector via the emit-side controller and change the light shielding area in accordance with a change in the state of tilt.

7. The laser surveying system according to claim 6 , wherein the rotational light emitting unit further comprises
a verticality detector to a tilt of the beam emitter relative to a vertical direction, and
a tilt mechanism to adjust a direction and amount of the beam emitter relative to the case.

8. A laser surveying system comprising:
a rotational light emitting unit to rotationally emit a laser beam; and
a light receiving unit to receive the laser beam from the rotational light emitting unit and perform surveying of a light-receiving position, wherein
the rotational light emitting unit comprises an emit-side controller to acquire a rotational angle of a light-receiving position of the light receiving unit in a rotational direction of the rotational light emitting unit; and
the light receiving controller a receive-side controller to:
acquire an angle of site of the laser beam relative to a reference plane including the optical axis of the laser beam,
acquire a light shielding area in which the laser beam is blocked, wherein the light shielding area is defined by the rotational position and the angle of site, and
determine whether or not the laser beam received by the light receiving unit has been properly emitted from the rotational light emitting unit on the basis of the rotational position, the angle of site, and the light shielding area.

Assignees

• Topcon Corp

Inventors

• Kumagai Kaoru
• Kodaira Junichi
• Kamizono Fumihiko

Classifications

• G01C15/008

  combined with inclination sensor · CPC title

• G01B11/026

  by measuring distance between sensor and object (G01B11/0608 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01C15/004 Primary

  Reference lines, planes or sectors · CPC title

• G01C15/002 Primary

  Active optical surveying means (optical plumbing G01C15/105) · CPC title