Jenoptik Jena G.m.b.h.

Wieland Feist

Rolf Roder

Klaus Gurtler

Rudi Heinze

Jost Schuler

The invention relates to a geodetic instrument with a telescope, an objective with a reticle in the focal plane, a clinometer and optoelectronic elements with the objective of avoiding faulty measurements due to a vibrating or oscillating target image, as well as of avoiding hanging or sticking of the pendulum and of achieving a higher measuring accuracy and of facilitating the reading of the pole. The invention is applicable particularly for compensator levels. Its task is to provide the fundamentals for an automated compensator level through the use of optoelectronic components and microprocessors and to carry out measurements on an oscillating substratum. This is accomplished owing to the fact that a luminous area or a light spot is controlled by a clinometer and located in its position by an optoelectronic receiver, and that an electric signal is generated, which triggers the display of a division mark, a pointer or its image in the image field of telescope objective, the straight line connecting the principal point of the objective and the display representing the position of the visual axis of the telescope.

Geodetic instrument

The invention relates to an optical arrangement for a range-finder having an observation path of beams and a measuring path of beams constituted of an objective and a reflection system arranged in the near-axial room behind and in close contact to the objective. The reflection system is laterally displaced in parallel to the objective axis and has a second reflecting face at right angles to the optical axis and a first reflecting face inclined by 45.degree. relative to the optical axis, the extension of the latter at right angles to the optical axis is smaller than the corresponding extension of the second reflecting face.

Optical arrangement for an opto-electronic range-finder

A method and an arrangement for automatic alignment of a geodetic angle measuring device, especially an electronic tachymeter for topographical survey, in the marking and measuring of points. The object of the invention consists in a rapid and precise, yet constructively and technologically simple solution. The novel feature is the utilization of a reference parameter, which at the device position and the target point is the same. Such reference parameters are the north direction and vertical direction, which are fixed at the target point and the device position by a circular or magnetic compass and pendulum or plumb line. In reference to such north direction and/or vertical direction, there is measured the target direction of a reflector at the target point and are formed the complementary angles by which the tachymeter has to be adjusted so that it can aim at the reflector.

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Jena-Lobeda, Germany

Wieland Feist