Dr. Ing. Rudolf Hell Gmbh

Ing. Rudolf Hell Gmbh

Horst Sievers

Joerg Schulz-Hennig

The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for acoustic supervision of the adjustment of a light bundle with respect to position and/or direction. A measuring surface lying in the beam path of the light bundle is divided into sectors. Apexes of centering angles of the sectors define a rated position. Light components of the light bundle incident into the individual sectors are measured opto-electronically as a measure of the positional deviations. Oscillations are generated for the individual sectors. Respective parameters of the oscillations are modified dependent on the measured positional deviations, and the modified oscillations are made audible as measuring tones. For the directional adjustment of the light bundle, the light bundle is focused onto the measuring surface whereby apexes of the centering angles of the sectors define the point of penetration of the rated direction through the measuring surface.

Method and apparatus for acoustic supervision of adjustment operations

A method and apparatus for acoustic supervision of adjustment of a light bundle with respect to its intensity distribution in a reference plane which is at right angles to the optical axis of the light bundle. The reference plane is subdivided into surface elements. The intensity values corresponding to a rated intensity distribution are prescribed and stored for the individual surface elements of the reference plane. The intensity values for the individual surface elements respectively existing in the adjustment are successively measured in rapid cyclical succession. The intensity deviation from the prescribed intensity value is identified and stored for each surface element. The stored intensity values are read-out in slow cyclical succession and are made audible as measuring tones for the supervision of the adjustment.

A method and apparatus for acoustic supervision of adjustment of a light bundle composed of component beams with respect to its intensity distribution in an expanse of a reference plane situated in a beam path at right angles to an optical axis of the light bundle. Intensity values I of the component beams lying at a margin of the light wave are measured and the differential intensity values .DELTA.I are identified according to amount and operational sign. An oscillation is generated whose parameters are modified dependent on the amounts and operational signs of the respective differential intensity values. The modified oscillation is made audible as a distinguishable measuring tone for amounts and operational signs of the differential intensity values .DELTA.I.

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