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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1998
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A laser beam type distance measuring device comprising a laser beam emitter; a laser beam receiver having a going laser beam sensor and a returning laser beam sensor; an electrical signal processing circuit connected to the going and returning laser beam sensors; a returning laser beam guide way leading to the returning laser beam sensor; a polygon mirror for reflecting a going laser beam from the laser beam emitter toward a remote object and reflecting a returning laser beam from the object toward the returning laser beam guide way along which the returning laser beam travels to the returning laser beam sensor; and a reference optical track having one end directed to the laser beam emitter and the other end directed to the going laser beam sensor, so that a first part of the going laser beam from the laser beam emitter travels to the going laser beam sensor through the reference optical track. In the present invention, there is further provided a laser transmitting member, such as an optical fiber, which is arranged in parallel with path to and from the object. The laser transmitting member has one end directed to the laser beam emitter and the other end directed to the returning laser beam sensor, so that a second part of the going laser beam from the laser beam emitter travels to the returning laser beam sensor through the laser transmitting member.