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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2018
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 24/00 (2006.01); A63B 21/062 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 17/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 24/0062 (2013.01); A63B 21/0628 (2015.10); G01S 7/4813 (2013.01); G01S 17/08 (2013.01); A63B 2220/20 (2013.01); A63B 2220/805 (2013.01); A63B 2220/833 (2013.01);
Abstract
A housing for a Time-of-Flight (ToF) range meter includes a wall structure defining a first optical beam path to an emitter of the ToF range meter, and a second optical beam path to a detector of the ToF range meter, and a transmissive optical diffusor configured to cover the beam path to at least one of said emitter and said detector. The housing may be connected to a ToF range meter into a ToF ranging device. Such a ToF ranging device where the ToF ranging device is directed to measure a distance to a reflector member to determine a distance which correlates to the weight of the selectively engaged weights.