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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2007
Applicant:
Joerg Droemer, Bad Urach-Wittlingen, DE;
Inventor:
Joerg Droemer, Bad Urach-Wittlingen, DE;
Assignee:
Leuze Electronic GmbH & Co. KG, Owen/Teck, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to an optical sensor for the detection of objects in a detection range, comprising a transmitter emitting transmitting light beams, a receiver that receives receiving light beams, and an evaluation unit, in which an object determination signal is generated by the evaluation of the receiving signals of the receiver. An optical element, having at least one boundary surface in the form of a free-form surface, is associated with the transmitter and/or the receiver for forming the beams of the transmitting light beams and/or the receiving light beams.