Safety switch
AssigneeKeyence Corporation
InventorsChoryon Oh, Yu Babasaki, Lye Tatt Cheah
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Abstract
To realize both toughness and size reduction of a safety switch. A safety switch is a safety switch into and from which a bolt of an actuator is inserted and pulled out. The safety switch includes a casing having a shape elongated along a first direction, a metal head having a receiving space for receiving the bolt of the actuator and provided on a first end side of the casing in the first direction, a detector for detecting a first state in which the bolt is received in the receiving space, a lock mechanism, a switching device and a first attachment portion provided in the head and having a first attachment hole into which a first attachment member is inserted.
Claims11
A safety switch comprising:
- a head having a receiving space for receiving a bolt of an actuator;
- a first attachment portion disposed in the head and having a first attachment hole so that a first attachment member is inserted through the first attachment hole to an external object;
- a wireless detector configured to detect a first state in which the bolt is received in the receiving space by detecting a wireless tag disposed on the actuator;
- a switching device configured to output a signal indicating a safety state based on the first state detected by the detector;
- a lock pin configured to lock the bolt by regulating pull-out of the bolt in the first state;
- a lock driver configured to drive the lock pin to switch, based on an input signal, between a lock state in which the pull-out of the bolt in the first state is regulated and an unlock state in which the pull-out of the bolt in the first state is permitted;
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- a casing having an end wall at one end through which the lock pin is inserted when the bolt is locked, and coupled to the head at the end,
- wherein the casing houses the wireless detector, the switching device, and the lock driver, and the casing has a resin side wall facing the wireless detector,
- wherein the first attachment hole is provided at a center position in a transverse direction of the safety switch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.