Interchangeable connector panel system for fixed mount industrial scanners

A field-interchangeable fixed mount industrial scanner configured to be fixedly mounted in a manufacturing assembly, the field-interchangeable fixed mount industrial scanner comprising:

• a housing including a first compartment, a second compartment, a mounting mechanism and a coupling mechanism, wherein the coupling mechanism is within the second compartment and the first compartment is hermetically sealed from the environment external to the assembly and from the second compartment;
• an image capture assembly hermetically sealed within the first compartment of the housing, the image capture assembly including an optical assembly, at least one image capture assembly interface, and a tangible machine-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the image capture assembly to capture at least one image of an object and determine a presence or lack of a specified feature associated with the object;
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• a first removable connector module adapted to couple with the coupling mechanism of the housing, the first removable connector module including at least one connector module interface and an input/output (I/O) interface having a first configuration, wherein the first removeable connector module forms a wall of the second compartment;
• wherein the at least one image capture assembly interface is adapted to communicatively couple with the at least one connector module interface to allow transmission between the I/O interface and the image capture assembly, and wherein the first removable connector module is removeable from the assembly such that when the first removeable connector module is removed from the second compartment, the hermetic sealing of the first compartment is not disturbed.

A field-interchangeable fixed mount industrial scanner configured to be fixedly mounted in a manufacturing assembly, the field-interchangeable fixed mount industrial scanner comprising:

• a housing carrying an image capture assembly and including a mounting mechanism and a coupling mechanism to removably receive at least one of:
• 1) a first removable connector module including at least one connector module interface and an input/output (I/O) interface having a first configuration;
• or 2) a second removable connector module including an I/O interface having a second configuration that is different from the I/O interface of the first removable connector module;
• wherein the image capture assembly is disposed in a substantially enclosed first compartment of the housing removed from the coupling mechanism in a second compartment of the housing, where the first compartment is hermetically sealed from the second compartment, wherein the first removable connector module is adapted to be removed without disrupting the first compartment of the housing.