Bruker Analytik Gmbh

Dieter Hoepfel

Volker Reiss

Hans-Joachim Kleeberg

A device and a method for characterizing and identifying an object, e.g. a container, with a surface visible from outside the object, onto which is disposed an optically readable one-dimensional bar code consisting of bars and spaces, are characterized in that the bar code is disposed in an annular range ( ) of the surface, that the bars and spaces extend in a star-like manner from a center of the annular area ( ) to the outside and that the bar code is read in the circumferential direction of the annular area ( ). This device and method enable automatic detection, recognition and identification of objects, like e.g. sample bottles for spectroscopic analysis in a simple technically undemanding and cheap manner, wherein automatic identification of hollow, in particular hollow cylindrical objects can also be easily realized.

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Knittlingen, Germany

Dieter Hoepfel