Catalogs > Safety Products Catalog > Presence Sensing Safety Devices > Safety Edges > Overview
Overview
| Introduction |  |
Operating Principle | |
Sensing Surface | |
Force Travel Relationship | |
| Risk Assessment | |
Selecting the Cushion Factor | |
Typical Applications | |
Cable Termination | |
Typical applications for sensitive edge systems are:
- Sliding doors
- Sliding gates
- Automated guided vehicles
- X-Y tables
- Fence tops
- Scissor jacks
- Loading platforms
The profile is mounted on the leading edge of the moving object. As the profile comes in contact with an object, the sensing surface of the profile deforms. The deformation causes the conductive rubber parts to make contact and reduce the circuit resistance. The control makes contact.
Typically, the edge of the object is leading edge and is moving, like a sliding door or gate. Edge systems have also been used on the leading edges of X-Y tables and automated guided vehicles.
In some applications, a drip edge or seal is needed to reduce wind and rain leaking into a door. The Safedge system accommodates both types of applications. Safedge has three profiles that include a sealing lip.
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Safedge can also be ordered with a rubber cover as shown below. This allows compression of the rubber boot without deforming the profile.
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