Safety laser scanner and method for front screen monitoring

    公开(公告)号:US12111424B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-08

    申请号:US17169019

    申请日:2021-02-05

    申请人: SICK AG

    摘要: A safety laser scanner (10) for detecting objects in a monitored zone (20) is provided that has a light transmitter (12) for transmitting a scan beam (16), a movable deflection unit (18) for the periodic scanning of the monitored zone (20) by the scan beam (16), a light receiver (26) for generating a received signal from the scan beam (22) remitted by the objects, a front screen (38), and a control and evaluation unit (32) that is configured to acquire information on the objects in the monitored zone (20) from the received signal and to recognize an impaired light permeability of the front screen (38) in a front screen monitoring by evaluating a front screen reflection beam (54) that is generated from the scan beam (16) by reflection at the front screen (38), At least one light deflection unit (56, 58) is provided in the optical path of the front screen reflection beam (54) that guides the front screen reflection beam (54) to the front screen (38) again in a region (60) to be tested so that a twice-reflected front screen reflection beam (62) is produced by reflection at the region (60) to be tested.

    Optoelectronic sensor for detecting an object in a monitored zone

    公开(公告)号:US20240329208A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18618250

    申请日:2024-03-27

    申请人: SICK AG

    IPC分类号: G01S7/481 G01S17/10

    摘要: An optoelectronic sensor for detecting an object in a monitored zone is provided that comprises a light transmitter for transmitting transmitted light, a light receiver having a plurality of light reception elements operable in Geiger mode for receiving transmitted light remitted in the monitored zone, a reception optics arranged upstream of the light receiver and having a diaphragm, and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to determine a distance from the object with reference to a received signal of the light receiver from a time of flight between the transmission of the transmitted light and the reception of the remitted received light, wherein the diaphragm comprises a diaphragm substrate having at least one metallic layer and one diaphragm aperture. In this respect, a contact region of the metallic layer for potential equalization is electrically conductively connected to another component of the sensor.

    Aligned sensor
    4.
    发明公开
    Aligned sensor 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240310487A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US18603437

    申请日:2024-03-13

    申请人: SICK AG

    IPC分类号: G01S7/481

    CPC分类号: G01S7/4812 G01S7/4813

    摘要: A sensor module for a sensor is provided that has a sensor unit having a detection direction and a detection height as well as a module housing having at least a first outer wall for arranging at a planar base surface, whereby then an orientation and a height position of the module housing and thus the detection direction and detection height of the sensor unit are fixed. In this respect, the first outer wall has a three-dimensional contour here that is adapted to the individual detection direction and/or detection height of the sensor unit and tolerances of the sensor unit in the detection direction and/or detection height is/are compensated by the three-dimensional contour on an arrangement of the first outer wall at a planar base surface.

    Optoelectronic sensor and method for detecting an object

    公开(公告)号:US12066573B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17111322

    申请日:2020-12-03

    申请人: SICK AG

    摘要: An optoelectronic sensor for detecting an object in a monitored zone having at least one light source for transmitting transmitted light, a light receiver having a reception optics arranged upstream for generating received signals from light beams remitted at the object, and a control and evaluation unit for acquiring information on the object from the received signals has a beam splitter arrangement arranged downstream of the light source for splitting the transmitted light into a plurality of transmitted light beams separated from one another, wherein the beam splitter arrangement includes a plurality of switchable beam splitters for splitting the transmitted light.

    METHOD FOR MODELING A SENSOR IN A TEST ENVIRONMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20240176927A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18512156

    申请日:2023-11-17

    申请人: SICK AG

    IPC分类号: G06F30/20 G01S17/32

    CPC分类号: G06F30/20 G01S17/32

    摘要: A method for modeling a sensor\ for measuring a distance in a virtual test environment include: defining a simulation model, wherein the simulation model includes a virtual sensor and the virtual test environment, and a virtual transmission signal sent by the virtual sensor is simulated in the virtual test environment; it is determined whether the virtual transmission signal impacts a virtual object at a point of impact in the virtual test environment; in the event of a positive determination, a distance of the virtual transmission signal covered by the virtual sensor up to the point of impact is calculated in the virtual test environment; and at least one output value of the virtual sensor is determined, wherein the determination of the output value takes place based on at least one parameter of the simulation model, wherein the parameter and/or the output value is/are modeled by a probabilistic distribution.

    Safety System and Method Using a Safety System

    公开(公告)号:US20240160865A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-16

    申请号:US18371570

    申请日:2023-09-22

    申请人: SICK AG

    IPC分类号: G06K7/10 G06K19/07 G07C9/27

    摘要: A method is provided using a safety system. The safety system has an electronic access system for a safety zone for objects, at least one radio transponder and at least one radio station to recognize the radio transponder, at least one control and evaluation unit that is connected to the radio station for evaluating the read radio transponder information, and at least one spatially bounded access zone having an access station. The safety zone is only accessible via the access zone so that the access zone can be passed through by the object before reaching the safety zone and after leaving the safety zone, with the access station being actuated when an object passes through the access zone. Permitted objects have the radio transponder, with the radio transponder having an identification whereby the object can be identified. The permitted objects having the radio transponder can pass through the access zone.

    Camera and method for processing image data

    公开(公告)号:US11941859B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US17324743

    申请日:2021-05-19

    申请人: SICK AG

    摘要: A camera (10) comprising



    an image sensor (24) for capturing image data with a plurality of pixels,
    a first processing unit (30) for reading out the image data of the image sensor (24) in an image data stream comprising groups of adjacent pixels,
    a second processing unit (32) for processing the image data, and a memory (34) for storing at least one of the image data and processing results from the image data,
    wherein a neural network (38) is implemented on at least one of the first processing unit (30) and the second processing unit (32)
    and wherein the first processing unit (30) is configured to already process groups of pixels with at least a first layer (42) of the neural network while further groups of the image data are still being read out from the image sensor (24).

    Method and system for producing a sensor

    公开(公告)号:US11940779B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US16986585

    申请日:2020-08-06

    申请人: SICK AG

    摘要: System and method for producing a sensor for a processing machine/plant, wherein a digital twin sensor is provided that is related to the sensor, wherein the digital twin sensor is stored in a database (10), wherein the digital twin sensor forms a data model of the sensor, wherein the data model comprises at least one data building block with data for a sensor housing, for an electronic system, for a control and evaluation unit, for a primary sensor element and/or for mechanical components of the sensor, wherein the digital twin sensor is loaded into a construction program for the processing machine/plant, wherein the digital twin sensor is configured in the construction program, wherein the digital twin sensor is adapted to the processing machine/plant and the adapted digital twin sensor is produced as a real adapted sensor.