Product category:
Vision and Colour Sensors
News Release from: SICK (UK) | Subject: LUT series
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 11 April 2002
Luminescence sensors overcome poor
vision
A novel range of luminescence sensors can be used to detect fluorescent materials or markings on any type of product.
A new range of luminescence sensors can be used to detect fluorescent materials or markings on any type of product The LUT series from Erwin Sick is particularly useful in situations where lack of contrast or inconsistency in the colour, pattern or surface of the product make life difficult for standard optical sensors or contrast scanners
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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If the product is not naturally fluorescent, marking agents can easily be added to printing inks or varnishes.
Although invisible to the human eye, these can be reliably detected by the LUT and the resulting signal used for a variety of sorting and positioning tasks.
Erwin Sick is able to supply a list of companies that can provide them.
Housed in a robust die-cast metal housing and protected to IP65, the LUT units have solid-state LED light sources and interchangeable lenses to allow scanning distances from 10 to 90mm.
A high switching frequency of 1500Hz permits fast machine cycle times.
There is an adjustable time delay and outputs can be analogue, PNP or NPN switching.
Typical applications include the alignment of cans on a filling line, label detection, missing part detection on an assembly line for mechanical components, circular saw control and product sorting.
LUT luminescent sensors offer elegant solutions to a variety of sensing requirements in the printing, packaging, pharmaceutical and other manufacturing industries.
(This was Engineeringtalk's Top Story on 10 April 2002).
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