# US 10,864,679 B2 · Method of manufacturing an optoelectronic sensor > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,864,679 B2 - Document ID: US10864679B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/035,751 - Filed: 2018-07-16 - Published: 2019-01-24 - Granted: 2020-12-15 - Earliest claimed: 2017-07-21 - Assignees: Sick AG - Applicants: Sick AG - Inventors: Martin Marra; Oliver Ostojic - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10864679B2 ## CPC - B29C 64/393: for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes - B33Y 10/00: Processes of additive manufacturing - B33Y 50/02: for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes - B33Y 80/00: Products made by additive manufacturing - G01S 7/4816: {of receivers alone} - G01S 7/497: Means for monitoring or calibrating - B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00) - B33Y: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES ## Abstract A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic sensor (10) is provided that has a reception unit (22) having a reception optics (24), a light receiver (28), and a diaphragm (26) therebetween, wherein the diaphragm (26) is arranged in a focal plane of the reception optics (24) so that a received light beam (20) generated by the reception optics is incident through the diaphragm aperture (42) of the diaphragm (26) at the point of smallest constriction. The diaphragm (26) is manufactured as an individual diaphragm using the reception optics (24). ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic sensor, the optoelectronic sensor comprising a reception unit having a reception optics, a light receiver, and a diaphragm having a diaphragm aperture, with the diaphragm being arranged between the reception optics and the light receiver, wherein the diaphragm is arranged in a focal plane of the reception optics so that a received light beam generated by the reception optics is incident through the diaphragm aperture at the diaphragm at the point of smallest constriction, the method comprising manufacturing the diaphragm as an individual diaphragm using the reception optics so as to manufacture the diaphragm aperture specifically for the reception optics that is used in the sensor together with the individual diaphragm. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method in accordance with claim 1, the method further comprising the step of: measuring the received light beam in the installation position of the reception optics to acquire a property of the individual diaphragm to be manufactured. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method in accordance with claim 2, wherein the lateral position of the received light beam is measured as the property; and wherein a diaphragm having a diaphragm aperture is manufactured as the individual diaphragm at this lateral position. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The method in accordance with claim 2, wherein the location of the focal plane is measured as the property; and wherein the diaphragm is positioned at this location. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The method in accordance with claim 2, the method further comprising the step of measuring the received light beam using a camera. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The method in accordance with claim 2, the method further comprising the step of: arranging a projection surface at a possible position of the individual diaphragm for the measurement. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method in accordance with claim 6, wherein the projection surface is a ground glass screen. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the individual diaphragm is manufactured in a production line of the sensor. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the individual diaphragm is manufactured by means of 3D printing. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method in accordance with claim 1, the method comprising the further steps of: first arranging a diaphragm blank without a diaphragm aperture in the focal plane of the reception optics, and then generating the diaphragm aperture. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method in accordance with claim 10, wherein the diaphragm aperture is generated using a material processing laser having an optical path, with the optical path being led through the reception optics. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the reception optics and the individual diaphragm are installed in an optics carrier. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the light receiver has at least one avalanche photodiode element that is preloaded with a bias voltage above a breakdown voltage and is thus operated in Geiger mode. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein a light transmitter is arranged in a coaxial or biaxial arrangement with respect to the light receiver whose transmitted light beam generates the received light beam. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method in accordance with claim 14, wherein the reception optics and a transmission optics of the light transmitter are arranged in a common optics carrier. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the sensor is a distance measuring sensor in which a time of flight measurement unit is connected to the light receiver for determining a time of flight. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method in accordance with claim 16, wherein the distance measuring sensor is a laser scanner. ### Claim 18 A method for manufacturing an optoelectronic sensor which has a receiving unit with a receiving optics, a light receiver and a diaphragm between them, the diaphragm being arranged in a focal plane of the receiving optics so that a received light beam generated by the receiving optics falls through a diaphragm aperture of the diaphragm at the point of smallest constriction, the method comprising manufacturing the diaphragm with use of the receiving optics as an individual diaphragm having an aperture specifically for the receiving optics that is used in the sensor together with the diaphragm.