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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2005
Uwe Skultety-betz, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Bjoern Haase, Stuttgart, DE;
Michael Mahler, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Ulli Hoffmann, Nieffern-Oeschelbronn, DE;
Reiner Krapf, Reutlingen, DE;
Christoph Wieland, Herrenberg-Kuppingen, DE;
Uwe Skultety-Betz, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Bjoern Haase, Stuttgart, DE;
Michael Mahler, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Ulli Hoffmann, Nieffern-Oeschelbronn, DE;
Reiner Krapf, Reutlingen, DE;
Christoph Wieland, Herrenberg-Kuppingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A locating device, in particular a handheld locating device, for detecting objects enclosed in a medium, includes a first device for detecting objects enclosed in a medium, and having a control and evaluation unit for measurement signals of the locating device. The device has a second detection device that makes it possible to detect a predeterminable distance d of the locating device from a surface of a medium. In addition, a method for calibrating a measurement device, in particular for calibrating a handheld locating device for detecting objects enclosed in a medium, a reference measurement for calibrating the measurement device is carried out only after at least one measurement has been carried out of a distance d of the measurement device from a surface of a medium.