Ultrasonic sensors – the most versatile object detection
Product portfolio
Miniature sensors
- Best-in-class blind zone of 15 mm
- Optimum sensor setting thanks to enhanced functions such as sonic cone adjustment or disruption filter
- Efficient integration and additional data via the IO-Link interface
- Sensing distances up to 500 mm
Robust ultrasonic sensors with flexible parameterization
- The extremely resistant sealed sensor element
- Very short blind range of 20 mm
IO-Link functionality for flexible parameterization and easy installation - Also available with 2 output switches, as a retro-reflective or through beam sensor
- Sensing distances up to 2000 mm
Ultrasonic sensors with teach button
- Extremely compact, flat housing designs
- Cylindrical versions in M18 or M30 housings with connector or cable output
- With teach-in or potentiometer
- Sensing distances up to 2000 mm
Large sensing distances
- A high degree of signal reliability thanks to the narrow sonic beam
- Available with 2 independent switching outputs
- Easy one-button configuration
- Sensing distances up to 6000 mm
High-speed sensors
- World’s fastest ultrasonic sensor
- Response time of only 1.3 ms
- Sensors with sonic nozzle for small openings
- Vertical and horizontal repeat accuracy of 0.5 mm
- Sensing distances up to 70 mm
Sensors with sonic nozzles
- Very narrow sonic beam for openings up to Ø3 mm
- Detection of the smallest objects
- Narrow housing for close arrangement (stacking)
- Resolution up to 0.1 mm
- Sensing distances up to 150 mm
Sectors and application areas
packaging industry
- Increase plant availability and master variant diversity: Ultrasonic sensors detect objects regardless of material, color, transparency, and gloss, as well as surface properties. The parameter server function and fast parameterization via the IO-Link interface allow simple and fast format changes.
- Save development time and costs: Fast design-in of the ultrasonic sensors thanks to a very short blind region with a long-range, small design, and standard hole spacing.
Electronics industry
- Save development time and costs: Fast design-in of the ultrasonic sensors thanks to a very short blind region with a long-range, small design, and standard hole spacing.
- Maximize plant availability: Ultrasonic sensors detect objects regardless of material, color, transparency, and gloss, as well as surface properties.
- Increase throughput: Short response times and high repeatability enable maximum throughput.
Feeding technology
- Highest process safety: Safe object detection independent of the object. Not affected by dust, light, or moisture.
- Save development time and costs: Thanks to integrated adjustment and filter options, various application requirements can be optimally met with one sensor type. This reduces the variety of sensors and thus warehousing costs.
Technology
Ultrasonic proximity switches
The transmitter and receiver are integrated into one housing. The sensor switches as soon as the sonic signal is reflected back by an object within the adjusted sensing range (background suppression principle).
Advantage: simple installation, low cabling efforts
Ultrasonic retro-reflective sensors
Transmitter and receiver are integrated in the same housing. The sensor detects the sound reflected by a fixed reflector. The sensor switches as an object interrupts the distance between sensor and reflector.
Advantage: Independent of object attributes, reliable signal even with extremely weak or diffuse reflective or sound-absorbing objects
Ultrasonic through beam sensors
The transmitter and receiver are mounted opposite each other in two housings. The sensor switches as soon as an object interrupts the sound waves.
Advantage: shortest response times of all ultrasonic sensor principles, longer ranges than in the size comparable retro-reflective sensors or proximity switches
Mounting of ultrasonic sensors
Ultrasonic sensors offer a high degree of flexibility in installation. Learn more about what you should consider when mounting ultrasonic sensors.
