Erwin Sick Gmbh Optik-elektronik

Heinz B Schreyer

Klaus Ostertag

Siegfried Mankel

Aurel Schlick

Optical fault seeking apparatus for material webs uses an optical scanning device to scan the material webs point by point line by line. The optical scanning device consists of a laser light source (17) which projects a light beam via a micro-objective (19), a cylindrical lens (20), and a further objective onto a mirror wheel arrangement (14) which is located substantially at the focus of a strip-like concave mirror (23). A light beam (24) is produced in the image space of the strip-like concave mirror (23) and generates a scanning light bead in a scanning plane through which the material web passes. The mirror wheel arrangement (14) has at least first and second alternately operating types of mirror surfaces which serve to alternately project light beads of different size and/or shape onto the material web thus enabling different types of fault to be reliably detected. The different types of scanning light bead are produced either by different curvatures of the faces (15) and (17) of the mirror wheel arrangement (14) or by the use of other optical means alone or in combination with differently shaped faces of the mirror wheel. Certain embodiments operate using two mirror wheels in tandem.

Optical fault seeking apparatus

A curve-following device having an optical sensing head which senses a guide zone containing the guide line to be followed and having at least a substantial transverse component, and which is movable along the guide zone at a substantially slower speed than the sensing rate and is connected to a control instrument which forms, from the signals delivered by the sensing head, control signals for the movement of the sensing head along the guide line. Marks associated with the guide line and detectable by the sensing head are detected for tripping further control commmands. At least one separate code zone which is sensed separately from the guide zone is provided at the side of the guide zone.

Curve following device

A curve tracer comprising: an optical tracer head for scanning a line having at least a substantial transverse component and at least one marking on the line, with a predetermined scanning speed. The head is moved along the line at a speed substantially lower than the scanning speed. There is a control unit for controlling the movement including an integrator, means for feeding the integrator with a voltage proportional to the speed of the tracer head, and means for supplying a signal proportional to the distance travelled by the tracer head when the head moves over the marking.

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Puchheim, Germany

Heinz B Schreyer