Micro Epsilon temperature sensor wins German innovation award

Novel, high-speed temperature sensor wins German innovation award

A novel, high performance, non-contact temperature sensor system has been launched, which not only boasts a temperature range from –40°C up to 975°C, but also offers unique 75:1 infrared optics with a patented, double-aiming laser crosshairs system, for applications where small spot size is critical. The 75:1 optics with selectable focus at distances from 70mm to 1,260mm is generating unbeatable small spots at low temperatures, of 0.9mm at 70mm. Where users need to detect or scan for hot spots in fast-moving objects in production environments, the CT Laser F (Fast) is available with a 9ms exposure time.

Launched at the recent Hanover Fair exhibition in Germany, Micro-Epsilon’s new ‘Optris CT Laser Series’ of non-contact, infrared temperature sensors, combine the accuracy of 75:1 infrared optics (the highest ratio currently on the market for this type of sensor) with small spot sizes, low temperature measurement and precision aiming. In fact, so innovative is the sensor, that it has just been awarded Germany’s ‘Industrial Innovation Prize’ from the ‘Mittlestand Initiative 2007’, beating more than 300 other industrial innovation products from Germany into first place.