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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:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359424 ; 359399 ; 385 88 ;
Abstract
A laser theodolite is provided which comprises a telescope (6), a focusing lens (10) and a reticle (12) provided in the telescope, a polarization beam splitter (13') provided on an optical axis (O) between the focusing lens and the reticle for reflecting a laser beam (S1) in a direction of collimation, and a laser-beam light source portion (16) for emitting the laser light toward the polarization beam splitter (13'). The laser-beam light source portion (16) and the reticle (12) are conjugate with respect to the polarization beam splitter (13').