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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2014
Applicant:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan M. Saint Clair, Seattle, WA (US);

Mitchell D. Voth, Lake Tapps, WA (US);

William D. Sherman, Surprise, AZ (US);

David C. Soreide, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); G01S 17/66 (2006.01); G01C 11/00 (2006.01); G01B 9/02 (2006.01); G01B 11/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/66 (2013.01); G01B 9/02027 (2013.01); G01B 11/2441 (2013.01); G01C 11/00 (2013.01); G01B 2290/45 (2013.01);
Abstract

A laser metrology system may include a modulated measurement beam, a beam splitter for splitting the measurement beam into a local oscillator beam and a transmitted beam, an optical assembly for projecting the transmitted beam to a measured area on a surface of a target structure and for receiving a reflected beam from the measured area, a beam combiner for combining the reflected beam and the local oscillator beam into a detection beam, a detector for processing the detection beam, the detector including a micro-lens for projecting the detection beam, a photodetector for carrying out coherent detection of the detection beam and detector electronics in communication with the photodetector for generating informational data from the detection beam, and a range processor for computing dimensional data about the measured area from the informational data.


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