US 12,411,072 B2
Method for installing one or more optical elements in a housing
Ralf Bernhard, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG, Gerlingen (DE)
Filed by Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG, Gerlingen (DE)
Filed on May 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/318,339.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 112 140.2 (DE), filed on May 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0366808 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G01N 21/01 (2006.01); G01N 15/06 (2024.01); G01N 21/552 (2014.01); G01N 15/075 (2024.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 21/01 (2013.01) [G01N 15/06 (2013.01); G01N 21/552 (2013.01); G01N 15/075 (2024.01); G01N 2021/0106 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6432 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0227 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for installing one or more optical elements in an interior space of a housing, the method comprising:
introducing an assembly into the interior space of the housing in a centering direction extending parallel to a centering axis, wherein the assembly comprises either:
a single element including a single optical element of the one or more optical elements to be installed in the housing; or
two or more elements of the one or more optical elements arranged one on top of the other in a stack in the centering direction, wherein the elements arranged in the stack comprise the single or each optical element to be installed in the housing, and
clamping the assembly in the housing in at least one radial clamping direction extending perpendicular to the centering axis using at least one elastic body, in which the respective elastic body is:
inserted in the centering direction into a recess in the housing, which recess extends parallel to the centering direction and open towards the interior space of the housing; and
subsequently clamped such that the respective elastic body exerts a clamping force acting in the respective radial clamping direction on an outer edge of the, of at least one, or of each element of the assembly that is adjacent thereto in the interior space of the housing and which is to be clamped in the housing.