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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2005
James N Horn, Seattle, WA (US);
James N Horn, Seattle, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A distance measuring device is disclosed which can measure the distance to an object located within a known range. The device uses beam splitters and lenses to focus and direct energy reflected from an object onto at least two bi-sensors. The bi-sensors each have an inner sensing area and an outer sensing area. When the device has been properly calibrated, the reflected energy will be focused such that almost all of it will fall into the inner sensing area of one be-sensor when the object is at the minimum distance in the known range and when the object it at the maximum distance almost all of the energy will fall onto the inner sensing area of the other sensor. The distance to an object is calculated by comparing the ratio of the energy on the inner sensing areas of the two sensors with a table of known ratio verses distance values.