Topcon Corporation

Yasuo Terashima

Nobuyuki Nishita

Yasushi Tanaka

A structure applies a pre-load to a rolling bearing, which makes pre-load control easier than heretofore and enables low cost production. A pre-load applying structure is configured to apply a pre-load to a bearing of a scanning part of a three-dimensional survey device. The three-dimensional survey device includes the bearing having an inner ring to which a vertically rotating shaft is fixed, a scanning mirror attached to the vertically rotating shaft, and a motor for rotationally driving the vertically driving shaft. The pre-load applying structure has a sleeve that engages with an outer ring of the bearing, a plate spring that detachably engages with the sleeve and is fastened to a housing body with a screw, and a ring that detachably join the sleeve and the plate spring. The plate spring applies the pre-load to the outer ring via the sleeve by elastic deforming.

Structure for applying pre-load to rolling bearing and three-dimensional survey device having the same

A technique for more reliably capturing a lost unmanned aerial vehicle in tracking the unmanned aerial vehicle by a surveying device is provided. A UAV search controlling part configured to be used in a search for an unmanned aerial vehicle that flies along a predetermined flight path includes an estimating part and a search controlling part. The estimating part estimates, on the basis of location data of a surveying device that surveys a location of the unmanned aerial vehicle by using laser light and on the basis of the predetermined flight path, a direction of the unmanned aerial vehicle as seen from the surveying device at a specific time. The search controlling part controls to allow the surveying device to search for the unmanned aerial vehicle, on the basis of the estimated direction.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasuo Terashima