Patent ID: 11927696
Assignee: TAINNOVATION INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 23:
24. A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system, comprising:
a control system contained within a temperature controlled environment, the control system comprising:
control circuitry;
at least one diode laser each operative to emit a light beam in response to control signals provided by the control circuitry; and
a lens that converges each light beam to have an angle less than a threshold;

a scanning system mounted outside of the temperature controlled environment; and
a fiber optic cable coupled to the control system and the scanning system, wherein the fiber optic cable receives a converged light beam from the lens and transmits the light beam to the scanning system,
wherein the scanning system comprises fiber optic cable mounting hardware that aligns two or more fiber optic tips so that beams from the two or more fiber optic tips converge and pass through a reflective mirror, and
wherein the scanning system further comprises steering optics configured to direct the beams passed through the reflective mirror toward outside of the LiDAR system and to direct light returned to the LiDAR system toward the reflective mirror, and the steering optics move relative to the fiber optic tips providing the beams.