Topcon Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon

Naoki Shoji

Masae Matsumoto

Fumio Ohtomo

Tatsuyuki Matsumoto

Jun Abe

Masaho Kikuchi

Takashi Nagao

Fumitoshi Kasahara

The inclination sensor includes a gimbal mechanism rotatably supported around a first shaft and a second shaft, a first motor, a second motor, an acceleration sensor disposed in the gimbal mechanism with an origin point of coordinate axes being coincident with a point of intersection of a shaft center of the first shaft and a shaft center of the second shaft, and a control unit that simultaneously rotates the first shaft and the second shaft to continuously rotate the acceleration sensor around the first shaft and the second shaft and applies frequency analysis to the output values from the acceleration sensor to arithmetically determine the inclination angle with respect to the horizontal direction.

Inclination sensor and data acquisition device

A light wave distance meter according to the present invention includes: a light-emitting element that emits a distance measurement light; a light-receiving element that outputs a light-receiving signal; a frequency conversion unit that includes a bandpass filter; an arithmetic control unit that computes a distance value to a measurement object; a signal generator that generates a signal having a predetermined frequency; a waveform conversion unit that generates a waveform conversion signal; pulse generators that generate pulse signals by pulsating the signal having a predetermined frequency so as to have a waveform profile of a signal constituted of desired frequency components on the basis of the signal output from the signal generator and the waveform conversion signal output from the waveform conversion unit; and a drive unit that emits the distance measurement light based on the pulse signals.

Light wave distance meter

An electro-optical distance measurement method includes: a light emitting step of switchably outputting a first distance measuring light and a second distance measuring light; a photodetection step of receiving a first reflected distance measuring light and a second reflected distance measuring light; an arithmetic step of frequency-converting a photodetection signal to generate a first difference frequency signal and a second difference frequency signal; and a determining step of determining whether identification information indicating a host device is included in the photodetection signal, wherein the light emitting step involves driving a light emitting element so that the identification information is included in a light emission signal, and the arithmetic step involves calculating the distance value when it is determined in the determining step that the identification information is included in the photodetection signal.

Electro-optical distance meter and electro-optical distance measurement method

An electronic distance meter comprises a distance measuring light projecting module, a photodetector, a photodetection circuit, and a control arithmetic module, wherein the distance measuring light projecting module has a light emitter, the light emitter emits a distance measuring light, the photodetector receives a reflected distance measuring light from an object to be measured and produces photodetection signals, the photodetection circuit generates an intermediate frequency signal based on the photodetection signals, and the control arithmetic module controls the photodetection circuit and calculates a distance to the object to be measured based on each of the photodetection signals, and wherein the control arithmetic module coincides a frequency orthogonal to a frequency which a sampling signal has with a frequency of a feedback signal on a curve, which is acquired by performing a DFT processing on the sampling signal acquired by sampling the intermediate frequency signal.

Electronic distance meter and modulated frequency determination method of feedback signal

A phase difference frequency generating method comprising: cutting out a reference signal, which is a continuous signal with a predetermined frequency, in a predetermined time and at a predetermined time interval by a signal for intermitting and creating a first intermittent signal, shifting the signal for intermitting by a time corresponding to &#x3c0;/a (a=natural number) of a fundamental frequency of the reference signal, cutting out the reference signal in the predetermined time and at the predetermined time interval by the signal for intermitting as shifted and creating a second intermittent signal, and carrying out a restoration processing for restoring the second intermittent signal by a time as shifted.

Phase difference frequency generating method, phase difference frequency generating device and electronic distance meter

A staff for electronic level comprises a substrate where a short-range barcodeis engraved, and in the staff for electronic level, said short-range barcode is a barcode obtained by scaling down a barcodefor regular measurement and reversing the monochrome.

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Naoki Shoji