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Assignee: Optex Co., Ltd.


Location: Shiga, JP
No. of patents: 62

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NumberTitleIssue Date
8013309Microwave sensor capable of preventing false alarms due to a bush or tree or the like swaying in the wind
A movement distance measuring device that measures, as a movement distance, an amount of change per unit of time in a distance to a detected detection target object, an alarm signal output control device that performs control such that an alarm signal is outputted w...
09/06/2011
D644548Human body detector lens
09/06/2011
7940178Laser area sensor
A laser area sensor includes a laser range finder, a scanning mechanism that changes a measurement direction of the laser range finder, and a distance data acquiring portion that defines a detection area and acquires distance information in each direction in the det...
05/10/2011
D632600Security sensor assembly
02/15/2011
D626163Surveillance sensor
10/26/2010
7760336Laser area sensor
One embodiment includes: A laser range finder that obtains a distance to an object and a light-reception level of reflected light: a scanning mechanism that changes the measurement direction; a data acquiring portion that periodically performs measurement while chan...
07/20/2010
7760088Intrusion detection sensor
According to an embodiment, an intrusion detection sensor includes a microwave sensor (120) that transmits microwaves toward a detection area, receives the microwaves reflected by an object present in the detection area, and outputs a reflected wave reception...
07/20/2010
7633067Security sensor device having frost protective step
In a security sensor device an element unit (21) including a sensor elements (15, 23) for transmitting or receiving a detection wave (IR) is supported on a sensor body (41) in such a manner as to adjust a horizontal deflecting angle and a vertic...
12/15/2009
7536253Traffic monitoring apparatus
To provide a traffic monitoring apparatus capable of accurately determining the number of objects present in an area under surveillance without being affected by the difference in arrangement of those objects. Included is an object information acquiring device 1
05/19/2009
7476860Outdoor active infrared detection apparatus with adjustable drive frequency
According to an embodiment, a light-projecting apparatus including a light-projector emitting an infrared light beam, a light-projector drive portion pulse-driving the light-projector; and a receiver; and a light-receiving apparatus including a light-receiver receiv...
01/13/2009
7271722Security sensor device having optical axis adjustment capability
There is provided a security sensor device having an optical axis adjusting capability, which device includes a beam projecting unit (1) for projecting sensing waves, to which ID codes for specifying beam projectors (2) are applied, to a beam receiving...
09/18/2007
7259658Passive infrared sensor and obstacle detection system used in the same
According to one embodiment of a passive infrared sensor, a passive infrared sensor 1 where an infrared sensing element 5 and an optical system 4 that sets a detection area A1 of the infrared sensing element 5 are covered with a co...
08/21/2007
7256376Microwave sensor and mutual interference preventing system between microwave sensors
A microwave sensor is provided that transmits microwaves toward a detection area, performs an object detecting operation based on reflected waves from an object being present in the detection area, and outputs an object detection signal based on a result of the abje...
08/14/2007
7250861Crime-prevention lighting device
To provide a security lighting apparatus of a kind capable of easily optimizing the timing at which an alert is carried out, when a human body is detected by a human body detector 1 during the time zone determined by a time zone setting device (19), an...
07/31/2007
7196330Passive infrared sensor
According to one embodiment, a passive infrared sensor includes an infrared sensing element 4, a pair of lenses 5R and 5L that set mutually substantially 180° opposing side detection areas of the infrared sensing element 4, and mirrors
03/27/2007
7193513Alarm system
A transmitter comprises a signaling history information transmission unit. After the transmitter generates a detection signal, the signaling history information transmission unit sends corresponding signaling history information to a regular signal transmission unit...
03/20/2007
D537746Human body detector
03/06/2007
7180468Object detecting device
To provide an object detecting device having a capability of sufficiently adjusting the detection areas to suit to the environment in which it is installed, the object detecting device includes an antenna AT for emitting a detecting beam to the detection areas and r...
02/20/2007
7176829Microwave sensor
In one embodiment of a microwave sensor, when a “low” plants countermeasure is conducted, if an alert has been generated 5 times or more within 1 minute, an object decision move distance is changed to be longer and a “high” plants countermeasure is conducted...
02/13/2007
7170403Tamper switch structure and security sensor including the tamper switch structure
A tamper switch body is disposed in a housing of a PIR sensor. A tamper opening is formed at a position opposite a switch actuating member of the tamper switch body in a base plate of the PIR sensor. An elastic switch member is mounted in the tamper opening. The ela...
01/30/2007
7167008Microwave sensor for object detection based on reflected microwaves
A microwave sensor transmits a plurality of microwaves of different frequencies toward a detection area and carries out an object detection operation based on reflected waves of the microwaves from an object present in the detection area. The microwave sensor includ...
01/23/2007
7164119Security sensor system
A security sensor system includes beam projecting and receiving units (1) and (2). The proper range of the received beam level is adjusted with change in time of the received beam level so that in the case that the received beam level departs from the ...
01/16/2007
D530356Camera image recorder
10/17/2006
7079030Microwave sensor
A microwave sensor transmits a plurality of microwaves having different frequencies to a detection area and performs an object detecting operation based on reflected waves of the microwaves of an object present in the detection area. The microwave sensor includes ob...
07/18/2006
7079029Dual-frequency microwave sensor
A threshold level is set in advance that has varied signal level values of reflected waves for which an object detection signal is to be generated, where the values vary in response to a distance to the object. In regard to discriminating a phase difference of respe...
07/18/2006
D525160Controller for television surveillance system
07/18/2006
7058529Microwave sensor system
Detection error resulting from rain, in the case of clear weather, and in the case of rainy weather are included in measurements by a measurement unit disposed in an MW sensor system. The error resulting from rain sharply increases as a preset Δf becomes larger. Th...
06/06/2006
7030364Optical detection sensor
Sensor(s) may be such that light-projecting component(s) and light-receiving component(s) are arranged therein. Furthermore, such sensor(s) may be provided with optical path varying means for varying projected light optical path(s) and/or received light optical path...
04/18/2006
7026601Sensor system, and sensor apparatus and reception apparatus used in the sensor system
For a carrier wave carrying a microwave from an MW sensor 1, pulse intervals are varied between when the MW sensor 1 generates an alert and when the MW sensor 1 does not generate an alert. When checking a sensing area, an operator carries a rece...
04/11/2006
7026931Microwave sensor
A sensor has a trigger level that is set in advance in which a distance to a detected object and a signal level of waves reflected from the object are associated. The sensor only dispatches an object detection signal indicating that the detected object is an object ...
04/11/2006
7009168Sensor
Sensor(s) may be such that light-projecting component(s), at which light is irradiated from one or more light-projecting elements by way of lens group(s); and light-receiving component(s), at which at least a portion of light irradiated from such light-projecting co...
03/07/2006
6998982Anti-thief security sensor assembly with variable amount of emitted infrared beam
To provide an anti-thief security sensor assembly capable of automatically setting a projecting power in such a manner that a received beam amount of the anti-thief security sensor assembly for detecting an infrared beam interrupted to sense an intruder attains a pr...
02/14/2006
6992577Combined sensor
The combined sensor of the present invention is comprised of an MW sensor and a PIR sensor, in which the frequency difference of two microwaves transmitted by the MW sensor is set such that the phase difference between the IF signals received by the MW sensor is app...
01/31/2006
6965315Anti-thief security sensor assembly
To provide an anti-thief security sensor assembly in which the angle of an optical unit can be adjusted over a wide range without increasing the size thereof and in which an optical axis can easily be adjusted, the security sensor assembly includes an optical unit (...
11/15/2005
6965109Multistage active infrared sensor
In a multistage active infrared sensor, light emitters 11A, 11B, 11C emit infrared signals which contain distinct channel information. These light emitters 11A, 11B, 11C emit the infrared signals at different timings from ea...
11/15/2005
6943685Intrusion detecting device
To provide an intrusion detecting device capable of generating one of different warnings in proper timing dependent on the behavior of an intruder entering an alert region to thereby browbeat the intruder effectively, the intrusion detecting device (1) includ...
09/13/2005
6919567Active infrared sensor
An optical transmitter is equipped with a transmitted pulse modulator at which a plurality of optical transmission patterns have previously been stored. The respective stored optical transmission patterns have mutually different ratios between infrared pulse ON time...
07/19/2005
6909370Intruder detection device and intruder detection method
An intruder detection device provides first and second detection areas which are covered by first and second PIR sensors. When intrusion of an object is detected in these areas, the detection signals are amplified by amplifiers, and then processed in a control unit ...
06/21/2005
6842113Microwave sensor
MW sensor 1 in one or more embodiments of the present invention is equipped with distance identifying means 41 capable of calculating relative distance(s) from the distance identifying means to object(s) at least partially within protected area(s) base...
01/11/2005
D500513Cradle for supporting a monitoring camera
01/04/2005
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