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US 2017/0248997 A1Published application
Sensor and method of heating a sensor
AssigneeSick AG
InventorStefan SEITZ
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Abstract
A sensor (10) is provided that has at least one sensor functional group (12), a heating device (14, 22), and a heating control (14, 20) to control a heating power (Pheating) of the heating device (14, 22). In this respect, the heating control (20) is configured to adapt the heating power (Pheating) to a power consumption (Psensor) of the sensor functional group (12).
Claims17
A sensor that has
- at least one sensor functional group,
- a heating device, and
- a heating control to control a heating power of the heating device, with the heating control being configured to adapt the heating power to a power consumption of the sensor functional group.
A method of heating a sensor, the method comprising the steps of:
- heating at least one sensor functional group of the sensor by a heating device,
- controlling a heating power of the heating device by heating the at least one sensor functional group of the sensor, and
- adapting the heating power to a power consumption of the sensor functional group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.