公开(公告)号：US20170075027A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-16

申请号：US15259241

申请日：2016-09-08

Applicant: SICK AG

Inventor： Bernd ROTHENBERGER ,  Jonas RIST ,  Manfred HABERER

IPC: G01V8/10

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of setting a plurality of part regions of a desired protected zone, in whicha) the positions of a plurality of monitoring units are detected, with each monitoring unit detecting a detection zone; b) a maximum size of each detection zone is determined; c) the desired protected zone is fixed in a graphical user interface; d) the part regions to be monitored by the respective monitoring units are fixed with reference to the positions of the monitoring units, to the maximum size of the detection zones and of the desired protected zone; and e) the part regions are assigned to the respective monitoring units.

公开(公告)号：US20150323654A1

公开(公告)日：2015-11-12

申请号：US14704213

申请日：2015-05-05

Applicant: SICK AG

Inventor： Fabian JACHMANN ,  Michael ENGLER ,  Bernd ROTHENBERGER ,  Thomas DOLLMANN

IPC: G01S7/486 ,  G01S7/487 ,  G01S17/08

CPC classification number: G01S7/4865 ,  G01S7/487 ,  G01S7/4873 ,  G01S17/08 ,  G01S17/10 ,  G01S17/42

Abstract: A distance-measuring sensor (10) is provided for detecting and determining the distance of objects (18) in a monitored zone comprising a transmitter (12) for transmitting transmitted pulses; a receiver (20) for generating a received signal from the transmitted pulses remitted in the monitored zone; a first comparator unit (36a) for digitizing the received signal with reference to a first threshold; and a control and evaluation unit (30) which is configured to transmit a plurality of transmitted pulses via the transmitter (12), to collect the received signals thereupon generated by the receiver (20) in a histogram and to determine a received time point from the histogram and thus to determine a measured value for the signal transit time from the sensor (10) to the object (18). In this respect, a second comparator unit (36b) is provided for digitizing the received signal with reference to a second threshold, wherein the first comparator unit (36a), the second comparator unit (36b) and the control and evaluation unit (30) are configured to acquire three digital states of a respective section of the received signal with reference to the first threshold and to weight the contributions of the section to the histogram in dependence on the digital state.

Abstract translation: 提供了一种距离测量传感器（10），用于检测和确定被监测区域中物体（18）的距离，该监视区域包括用于发送发射脉冲的发射器（12） 接收器（20），用于从在被监视区域中传送的传输脉冲产生接收信号; 第一比较器单元（36a），用于参考第一阈值数字化所接收的信号; 以及控制和评估单元（30），被配置为经由所述发射机（12）发送多个发送的脉冲，以收集由所述接收器（20）在直方图中产生的接收信号，并且确定从 并且因此确定从传感器（10）到物体（18）的信号传播时间的测量值。 在这方面，提供第二比较器单元（36b），用于参考第二阈值对接收信号进行数字化，其中第一比较器单元（36a），第二比较器单元（36b）和控制和评估单元（30） 被配置为参考第一阈值获取接收信号的相应部分的三个数字状态，并且根据数字状态对该部分对直方图的贡献加权。