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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2005
Reinhard Waibel, Berneck, CH;
Reinhard Waibel, Berneck, CH;
Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, Schaan, LI;
Abstract
A beam catcher () for a light beam () includes a photodetector () having a plurality of photodiodes () which are offset along a line in a defined manner with respect to a reference point (), an evaluating unit () having a parameter set (P) of at least one associated line laser transmitter () for emitting the light beam, a quantity determining module () for determining an energy quantity associated with the detected light energy E of the light beam (), and an error estimating module () for estimating an error estimate value (F) depending upon the energy quantity, and an offset display () for displaying the offset of the light bean () with respect to the reference point ().