Optical micrometers use a “shadow” measurement principle whereby collimated laser light is transmitted towards a receiver. The edges of the shadow cast by an object in the beam’s path are accurately measured by the detector array inside the receiver unit. Optical Micrometers are non-contact devices that ideally measure diameters of wires, rods and other cylinders in addition to gaps, edge positions and dimensional characteristics of geometric objects.
MAIN FEATURES
2 Up to ±0.3 μm accuracy
3. Up to 10 000 Hz sampling rate
4. RS232/RS485/Ethernet +4...20 mA/0...10V
5. Micrometers with telecentric lens
6. Mutual synchronization of the sensors (master-slave):for multi-axis measurement tasks
7. Service Software:for micrometers parameterization
8. Free SDK and examples:for Windows, Linux, .NET, MATLAB, LabVIEW
9. Dual, three and multi axis Micrometers
10. Air-knife window protection
The micrometers are intended for non-contact measuring and checking of diameters, gaps, displacement/position of the edges of objects.
-Application area-
Precise measurements, synchronous applications, fast measurement processes, Miniature version for tight installation spaces.
-Measuring principle-
The micrometer operation is based on the so-called ‘shadow’ principle. The micrometer consists of two blocks — transmitter, 1 and receiver, 2. Radiation of a LED 3 is collimated by a lens 4. With an object, 5 placed in the collimated beam region, shadow image formed is scanned with a CCD photo-detector array 6. A processor 7 calculates the position (size) of the object from the position of shadow border (s).