Omron Corporation

Omron Europe B.v.

Gianmarco Grange

Paolo Viviani

Enzo Romano

Kazunori Osako

Keisaku Kikuchi

Satoru Shimokawa

Kazuhiro Kudo

Mohammad Naser

Pasqualino Brunetti

Maurizio Cambursano

Krishnan Ramanathan

Beijeman Hendrik

A monitoring device for monitoring a boundary section of a safety zone for detecting an object at least partially entering or leaving the safety zone through the boundary section is provided. The monitoring device comprises: a light curtain device for detecting an object touching the boundary section; at least one radar device for detecting a movement direction of the object relative to the boundary section and/or a material property of the object; and an evaluation device for emitting an evaluation result based on a radar device signal from the radar device and optionally based on a light curtain device signal from the light curtain device.

Monitoring device for monitoring a boundary section of a safety zone

A method for operating a light curtain arrangement for monitoring a safety area is provided. The light curtain arrangement includes a plurality of first light emitter elements placed at an emitter side of the safety area, and a plurality of second light receiver elements placed at a receiver side of the safety area. The method includes the steps of: assigning a plurality of dedicated light emitter elements to a respective one light receiver element, wherein the assigned light emitter elements form an array; and activating the dedicated light emitter elements of a respective array to contemporaneously emit light, and at the same time, receiving the emitted light from the activated light emitter elements by the respective light receiver element.

Method for operating dedicated light emitter elements to a respective one light receiver element in a light curtain arrangement and light curtain arrangement

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Gianmarco Grange