Clear object sensors

Banner Engineering’s World-Beam QS30 Clear Object Sensors provide reliable clear object detection to solve challenging applications. The Clear Object Sensor utilises an advanced optical design to allow the sensor to see translucent materials, ensuring dependable detection of clear targets including PET bottles and glass containers.

Additionally, the optical design prevents the sensor from being tricked by specular reflections, allowing the sensor to detect optically engineered surfaces such as mirrors, LCD glass with polarising films and semiconductor wafers.

The sensor is easily configurable using either the push-button on the sensor or via a remote input line. The user can select from one of three switching thresholds — light, medium or dark, depending on the target’s transparency level — to optimise detection and maximise sensing stability. The sensor also features an automatic compensation algorithm, which adapts the switching threshold to the sensor’s environment in real time. Small changes due to dust or contamination on the sensor and reflector or small changes caused by ambient temperature shifts are filtered out by the microcontroller. These features ensure long and trouble-free sensor operation.

The QS30 sensor delivers high-accuracy clear object detection in a wide range of applications, including: bottle jam detection, bottle counting, bottle down detection, and food processing and packaging machines.

The sensors feature a rugged housing for harsh environments and are rated IP67 (NEMA 6), 1200 psi washdown per NEMA PW12.