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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2018
Sick Ag, Waldkirch, DE;
Patrick Erlewein, Waldkirch, DE;
SICK AG, Waldkirch, DE;
Abstract
An optoelectronic sensor () is provided for detecting transparent objects () in a monitored zone () that has a light transmitter () for transmitting a light signal (), a light receiver () for generating a received signal from the received light signal, an evaluation unit () that is configured to evaluate the received signal and to generate an object determination signal that indicates whether a transparent object () has been detected in the monitored zone (), and an output () for outputting the object determination signal. The evaluation unit () is further configured to recognize with respect to the received signal and to a piece of reference information whether a detected transparent object () has an additional feature () and to output a corresponding piece of additional feature information.