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Product portfolio
Subminiature sensors
- Sized 4 mm and up
- Smallest adjustable optical sensor
- All- integrated electronics
- Sensing range up to 80 mm
Miniature sensors
- Sized 10 mm and up
- All-integrated electronics
- Extensive sensing range up to 10 m
- 0.1 mm laser spot for tiny objects
- Large selection of variants
Standard sensors with extra power O300/O500
- Powerful microcontroller
- 7 sensor principles, 4 light sources, line or point beam shapes
- Easy to install and operate
- IO-Link – Industry 4.0 and IoT-ready
Cylindrical M18 sensors
- Sensors in M18 housing with excellent price-performance ratio
- 6 sensor principles to choose from
- Plastic, brass or stainless steel housing
- Extensive sensing range up to 55 meters
Standard sensors
- Large selection of product variants
- Designs from 12.9 to 25 mm
- White light, red light and laser sensors
- Sensing range up to 25 m
Laser sensors
- PinPoint positioning with 0.01 mm accuracy
- 0.1 mm laser beam to detect even tiny objects
- Laser line for seamless object detection
- Short response times of < 0.1 ms
Light barriers without reflector – SmartReflect
- Safe and easy referencing on machine parts
- Short response times of < 0.25 ms
- Sensing range up to 1.9 m
- Insensitive to dirt
- Extremely easy setup
Transparency detection
- For bowls, PET bottles, foils
- Plastic or stainless steel housing
- Short response times of < 0.25 ms
- Up to 1 m with SmartReflect
- Up to 7 m with retro-reflective light barrier
Robust washdown design
- Robust stainless steel housing
- Long-term sealing thanks to proTect+
- IP 69K and Ecolab tested
- Different sizes and sensor principles
- Benefits by SmartReflect light barrier without reflector
Hygiene design
- EHEDG certified, FDA-compliant, Ecolab tested
- Long-term sealing thanks to proTect+
- IP 69K
- Different sizes and sensor principles
- Benefits through SmartReflect light barrier without reflector
Fork and angle sensors
- Through-beam sensor in one device
- No adjustment of transmitter nor receiver required
- No misalignment caused by machine vibration
- Laser versions for very small components and positioning operations in the 1/100 mm range
Differential, contrast and color sensors
- Differential sensors to monitor position tolerances
- Fast print mark detection
- Detection of very weak contrasts or color shades
- Small-sized designs 10 mm and up
- Laser product variants for precision tasks
Your benefits
- Increased system performance with Smart & Small optoelectronics
- Top performance in a compact design from 4 mm with integrated evaluation electronics
- Miniature sensors with long ranges up to 8 m
- Numerous laser sensors with up to 0.1 mm fine laser beams
- Reliable function in harsh environments
- Microprocessors with power reserves
- Large selection of sensors in hygiene or washdown design
- The first light barrier without a reflector and thus reduced service costs
- Your application is optimally solved
- The most suitable sensor variant can be selected: seven sensor principles and four light sources in different designs and ranges
- Reliable detection of transparent objects
- Easy and cost-effective to implement
- Simple and reliable qTeach teach-in procedure
- Easy to install, standardized designs
- qTarget aligned optical axis to reduce construction cost
Applications
Extremely versatile photoelectric sensors for object detection:
- Presence check in the process in any object position
- Extremely fast and accurate position detection even of the smallest objects
- For use in robotics and with electronics components
- Automatically configured object detection, e.g. in the case of format adjustment
- Reliable object detection even over a large distance
- Reliable object counting even with slightest gaps
- Highly accurate referencing of movements
- Detection of different object materials, colors and contrasts
- Detection of even transparent objects and uneven, pitted or rough surface
- Monitoring of gradual changes in the production process and automated testing
- Detection of objects into very small openings
Technology
Photoelectric sensor principles and light sources
The optimum solution in a photoelectric sensor application calls for selecting the best-matching sensing principle and the appropriate light source. Each sensor principle and light source provides specific benefits.
Properties of the 4 available light sources:
Standard LED: Diffuse light spot for robust position-tolerant object detection, for example in parts feeding
Baumer PinPoint LED: Small, homogeneous light spot with sharp edges for high-precision position feedback
Infrared LED: Invisible light beam e.g. for light barriers in the public area
Laser: Highly focused, easily visible light beam for positioning tasks in the micrometer range
7 sensor principles for optical object recognition:
Diffuse sensors with background suppression
- Based on the triangulation principle
- Transmitter and receiver in one device
- Evaluation of the angle of incidence of the light
- Detection regardless of the object color, surface or background
The light barrier without a reflector - SmartReflect
- Beam interruption between sensor and e.g. machine part
- Very reliable object detection regardless of form, color and surface
- Maximum operating safety, no standstill caused by dirty or defective reflector
Diffuse sensors with intensity difference
- Light re-emitted from the target object triggers the sensor
- Transmitter and receiver in one device
- Dependent on object color, surface and degree of gloss
Retro-reflective sensor
- Beam interruption between the sensor and the reflector
- Transmitter and receiver in one device
- Detection regardless of the object color or surface
- Detection of glossy and reflective objects thanks to polarization filter
Through-beam sensor
- Beam interruption between the transmitter and the receiver
- Detection of objects over long distances
- Transmitter and receiver in one device
Transparent detection without reflector
- SmartReflect Transparent – the light barriers without reflector
- Specially optimized sensor principle to reliably detect transparent bowls, foils and bottles
- Maintenance-prone reflector is not required
Transparent detection with reflector
- Retro-reflective sensors with reflector
- Specially optimized sensor principle to reliably detect transparent bowls, foils and bottles
Downloads
Brochures / Catalogs
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Catalog – Photoelectric Sensors
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Catalog – Product Overview – Innovative Sensor Solutions
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Flyer – Optical sensors Series FHDK 04
Technical and Application Reports / White Paper
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Technical Report – Sensors featuring hygienic design with IO-Link provide advantages in the food industry
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Application Report – Driving into new dimensions with miniature sensors FHDK04
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Application Report – New solutions thanks to dot-shaped and linear scanning Series10
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Application Report – IO-Link sensors – innovation with real added value
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Application Report – Food Safety by Design
