Faro Technologies, Inc.

Robert Boschgmbh

Philipp Schumann

Martin Ossig

Reinhard Becker

Alexander Greiner

Bernhard Mader

Steffen Eppler

Oliver Blum

Achim Henkel

Markus Becker

Florian Malchow

Juergen Eckhardt

Tobias Diekhans

Markus Mayer

Moritz Braeuchle

Gabriel Krein

Jürgen Gittinger

Joachim Zeller

The invention relates to an inductive charging device for a vehicle and to a method for monitoring an inductive charging device for a vehicle, wherein a metal object is detected in each case. The method has the steps of: carrying out a passive metal object detection, MOD, while a battery of a vehicle () is inductively charged by generating an electromagnetic field in order to induce a charge current (I) in a receiving coil structure () of the vehicle (); and carrying out an active MOD at points in time at which no inductive charging process is being carried out.

Inductive charging device and method for monitoring an inductive charging device

The invention relates to an energy transmission device () for the contactless transmission of electric energy, comprising several transmitting coils (), several receiver coils (), and a control device () which is designed to sequentially control a predetermined number of the transmitting coils () in an energy transmission mode. The invention further relates to a corresponding energy transmission method.

Energy transmission device and energy transmission method

Method for contactlessly transmitting electrical energy to a load () using a transmission system (), having the steps of: converting alternating current from an alternating current source () into direct current using a primary rectifier (), converting the direct current generated by the primary rectifier () into alternating current using a primary inverter (), changing a primary parameter (di) at a component () of a primary part () of the transmission system, such that the electrical power consumed by a load () is changed as a result, contactlessly transmitting the electrical energy of the alternating current generated by the primary inverter () from a primary coil () to a secondary coil (), converting the alternating current generated in the secondary coil () into direct current using a secondary rectifier (), changing a secondary parameter at a component () of a secondary part () of the transmission system (), such that the electrical power consumed by the load () is changed as a result, supplying electrical energy as direct current to the load (), wherein an A-efficiency of the contactless transmission of energy with respect to a secondary A-parameter is determined, the secondary parameter is then changed from the secondary A-parameter to at least one secondary B-parameter and a B-efficiency is determined for the at least one secondary B-parameter, and that efficiency with the maximum efficiency is selected from the A-efficiency and from the at least one B-efficiency and this selected maximum efficiency is referred to as C-efficiency, and energy is then contactlessly transmitted with a secondary C-parameter assigned to the C-efficiency as an iteration step for determining the secondary C-parameter.

Transmission system for contactlessly transmitting energy

The invention relates to a device for the transferring energy by induction, for a vehicle, between at least one emitter coil and at least one receiver coil of the vehicle, said at least one receiver coil being arranged at a distance from said at least one emitter coil, a field concentrator being arranged between the at least one emitter coil and the at least one receiver coil.

Device for transferring energy by induction comprising a monitoring device

The present invention relates to an inductive energy transfer system and a method for the diagnosis of a foreign object detection of an inductive energy transfer system. For this purpose, a defined fault is introduced into the region to-be-monitored between primary coil and secondary coil of the inductive energy transfer system, and the response of the foreign object detection to said defined fault is then evaluated.

Energy transfer system and method for the diagnosis of an energy transfer system

The invention relates to a device () for inductively charging an electrical storage unit, in particular of a motor vehicle, comprising a stationary primary coil () and a secondary coil that is or can be associated with the motor vehicle, wherein at least one resonance capacitor () is associated with the primary coil () and the secondary coil, respectively. According to the invention, at least one of the resonance capacitors () is designed to at least substantially surround the coil () in question or to at least substantially be surrounded by the coil () in question.

Device for inductively charging an electrical storage unit

In a device for optically scanning and measuring an environment, which device is designed as a laser scanner, with a light emitter, which, by means of a rotary mirror, emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam which is reflected from an object in the environment of the laser scanner, and with a control and evaluation unit which, for a multitude of measuring points, determines at least the distance to the object, the rotary mirror is part of a rotor, which is configured as a hybrid structure.

Device for optically scanning and measuring an environment

With a device for optically scanning and measuring an environment which is designed as a laser scanner, with a light emitter, which emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam which is reflected by an object in the surroundings of the laser scanner or scattered otherwise, with a control and evaluation unit which determines the distance to the object for a multitude of measuring points, wherein the emission light beam is a superposition of three laser beams having different wave lengths, which define the three-dimensional color space.

In a device for optically scanning and measuring an environment, where the device is a laser scanner having a light emitter which, by a rotary mirror, emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam, which, after passing the rotary mirror and a receiver lens which has an optical axis, is reflected from an object in the environment of the laser scanner. The laser scanner also includes a control and evaluation unit which, for a multitude of measuring points, determines the distance to the object. Also, a rear mirror is provided on the optical axis behind the receiver lens, where the rear mirror reflects towards the receiver lens the reception light beam which is refracted by the receiver lens.

With a device for optically scanning and measuring an environment, which is designed as a laser scanner, with a light emitter, which emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam which is reflected from an object in the environment of the laser scanner or scattered otherwise, and with a control and evaluation unit which, for a multitude of measuring points, determines at least the distance to the object, the laser scanner has a cooling device with a space between a carrying structure and a shell which serves as a housing, said space opening to the outside by means of an air inlet and otherwise being sealed with respect to the interior of the carrying structure and to the shell.

In a device for optically scanning and measuring an environment, where the device is a laser scanner having a light emitter which, by a rotary mirror, emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam, which, after passing the rotary mirror and a receiver lens which has an optical axis, is reflected from an object in the environment of the laser scanner. The laser scanner also includes a color camera which takes colored pictures of the environment of the laser scanner, and a control and evaluation unit which, for a multitude of measuring points, determines the distance to the object and links it with the colored pictures, the color camera being arranged on the optical axis of the receiver lens.

In a method for optically scanning and measuring an object by a laser scanner by a procedure in which a emission light beam modulated with a target frequency is emitted by means of a light emitter, a reception light beam reflected or otherwise scattered in some way from an object in the surroundings of the laser scanner is received, with a measuring clock, as a multiplicity of samples by means of a light receiver and in each case at least the distance from the object is determined from the phase angles of the multiplicity of samples for a plurality of measuring points by means of a control and evaluation device, for determining the distances, a phase shift caused by a distance difference of temporal adjacent samples is corrected in order to correct the distances.

Method for optically scanning and measuring an object

A method for determining a distance from an object may include emitting an emission light beam from a light emitter, receiving a reception light beam at a light receiver, and determining the distance on the basis of a propagation time of the emission and reception light beams. The reception light beam may arise as a result of reflection of the emission light beam at the object. The emission light beam may be amplitude-modulated with a rectangular-waveform modulation signal. The modulation signal may have a multiplicity of rectangular pulses which occur in a multiplicity of groups. The groups may occur at varying temporal intervals with respect to one another and have changing numbers of rectangular pulses.

Method and device for determining a distance from an object

A device for determining a distance from an object may include a light emitter for emitting an emission light beam, a light receiver for receiving a reception light beam, and an evaluation unit for determining the distance on the basis of a propagation time of the emission and reception light beams. The reception light beam may arise as a result of reflection of the emission light beam at the object. The light receiver may have a reception optical unit comprising a first lens element and a pinhole diaphragm. A light-impermeable element may shade a central region of the reception optical unit in such a way that the reception light beam is incident in the form of a light ring on the pinhole diaphragm. A second lens element, which is substantially hat-shaped in cross section, is arranged between the first lens element and the pinhole diaphragm.

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