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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2008
Peter Wolf, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Uwe Skultety-betz, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Joerg Stierle, Waldenuch, DE;
Bjoern Haase, Stuttgart, DE;
Kai Renz, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Peter Wolf, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Uwe Skultety-Betz, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Joerg Stierle, Waldenuch, DE;
Bjoern Haase, Stuttgart, DE;
Kai Renz, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a distance measuring unit () for contactless distance measurement, in particular a handheld unit, with a housing (), which has a housing front side (), which points in the measurement direction (), and a housing rear side (), which faces away therefrom, wherein the housing rear side () forms a first reference plane (AA) for the distance measurement, and with at least one measurement stop () of a measurement stop element (), which can be moved out of the housing (). The invention proposes that the measurement stop element () is mounted in the housing () in such a way that it moves automatically out of the housing () once a locking apparatus () has been released and is optionally moved at least into a first () or into a second () measurement position.