Detector for an optical detection of at least one object

US10775505B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TRINAMIX GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Sebastian Valouch · Lampertheim, DE
• Ingmar Bruder · Neuleiningen, DE
• Robert Send · Karlsruhe, DE
• Christoph Lungenschmied · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Wilfried Hermes · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Erwin Thiel · Siegen, DE
• Stephan Irle · Siegen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 28, 2016
• Grant date: Sep 15, 2020
• Expiry date: Jan 6, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/549
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a detector (110) containing: at least one longitudinal optical sensor (114), wherein the longitudinal optical sensor (114); and at least one evaluation device (140), wherein the evaluation device (140) is designed to generate at least one item of information on a longitudinal position of the object (112) by evaluating the longitudinal sensor signal of the longitudinal optical sensor (114). Also disclosed herein are articles containing the detector (110), and methods for optical detection of objects using the detector (110).