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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020

Filed:

May. 18, 2017
Applicant:

Rockwell Automation Limited, Buckinghamshire, GB;

Inventor:

Chris Yates, Edinburgh, GB;

Assignee:

Rockwell Automation Limited, Buckinghamshire, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 3/08 (2006.01); G01B 11/02 (2006.01); G01S 17/10 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/026 (2013.01); G01S 17/105 (2013.01); G01S 7/4818 (2013.01); G01S 7/4866 (2013.01);
Abstract

A distance measuring device and a method for determining a distance are provided. The method includes: illuminating an object with a sequence of the light pulses, capturing one arriving light pulse corresponding to an intensity Iwithin a first integration gate, and outputting a signal value U, capturing another arriving light pulse corresponding to the intensity Iwithin a second integration gate, and outputting a signal value U, capturing one arriving light pulse corresponding to an intensity Iwithin the first integration gate and outputting a signal value U, capturing the other arriving light pulse corresponding to the intensity Iwithin the second integration gate and outputting a signal value U, and calculating the distance between the distance measuring device and the object based on U, U, U, and U.


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