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It therefore follows for the radiant power that:
F
e = Ie
= 55.5 mW
The power of 0.025 µW produced by the ambient light is
therefore negligibly low compared with the correspond-
ing power (approximately 55 µW) of the transmitter.
The currents Ic1, Ic2 would result in full reflecting
surfaces, that is, if the sensor’s visual field only measures
white or black typing paper. However , this is not the case.
The reflecting surfaces exist in the form of stripes.
The signal can be markedly reduced by the limited resolu-
tion of the sensor if the stripes are narrow. The suitable
stripe width for a given distance should therefore be
selected from figure 43. In this case, the minimum
permissible stripe width is approximately 3.8 mm for a
distance of 3 mm (position 1, figure 43d). The markings
measuring 4 mm in width were expediently selected in
this case. For this width, a signal reduction of about 20%
can be permitted with relatively great certainty, so that
10% of the difference (Ic1 – Ic2) can be subtracted from
Ic1 and added to Ic2.
Ic1 = 210
A – 18
A = 192
A
Ic2 = 30
A + 18
A = 48
A
The suitable load resistance, RE, at the emitter of the
photo-transistor is then determined from the low and high
levels 0.8 V and 2.0 V for the 74HCTxx gate.
RE < 0.8 V/ Ic2 and RE > 2.0 V/ Ic1,
i.e., 10.2 k
< RE < 16.7 k
12 k
is selected for RE
The corresponding levels for determining RE must be
used if a Schmitt trigger of the 74HCTxx family is
employed.
The frequency limit of the reflex sensor is then deter-
mined with RE = 12 k
and compared with the maximum
operating frequency in order to check whether signal
damping attributable to the frequency that can occur.
Figure 39 shows for Vs = 5 V and RE = 12 k
approxi-
mately, for the TCRT9000, fc = 1.5 kHz.
Sixteen black/ white stripes appear in front of the sensor
in each revolution. This produces a maximum signal
frequency of approximately 400 Hz for the maximum
speed of 3000 rpm up to 50 rps. This is significantly less
than the fc of the sensor, which means there is no risk of
signal damping.
In the circuit in figure 45, a resistor , Rc, can be used on the
collector of the photoelectric transistor instead of RE. In
this case, an inverted signal and somewhat modified
dimensioning results. The current Ic1 now determines the
low signal level and the current Ic2 the high. The voltages
(Vs – 2 V) and (Vs – 0.8 V) and not the high level and low
level 2 V and 0.8 V, are now decisive for determining the
resistance, Rc.
Circuits with Reflex Sensors
The couple factor of the reflex sensors is relatively small.
Even in the case of good reflecting surfaces, it is less than
10%. Therefore, the photocurrents are in practice only in
the region of a few µA. As this is not enough to process
the signals any further, an additional amplifier is neces-
sary at the sensor output. Figure 46 shows two simple
circuits with sensors and follow-up operational amplifi-
ers.
The circuit in figure 46b is a transimpedance which offers
in addition to the amplification the advantage of a higher
cut-off frequency for the whole layout.
Two similar amplification circuits incorporating transis-
tors are shown in figure 47.
The circuit in figure 48 is a simple example for operating
the reflex sensors with chopped light. It uses a pulse
generator constructed with a timer IC. This pulse
generator operates with the pulse duty factor of approxi-
mately 1. The frequency is set to approximately 22 kHz.
On the receiver side, a conventional LC resonance circuit
(fo = 22 kHz) filters the fundamental wave out of the
received pulses and delievers it to an operational ampli-
fier via the capacitor, Ck. The LC resonance circuit
simultaneously represents the photo transistor’s load
resistance. For direct current, the photo transistor’s load
resistance is very low
*
in this case approximately 0.4,
which means that the photo transistor is practically
shorted for dc ambient light.
At resonance frequencies below 5 kHz, the necessary
coils and capacitors for the oscillator become unwieldy
and expensive. Therefore, active filters, made up with op-
erational amplifiers or transistors, are more suitable
(figures 49 and 50). It is not possible to obtain the quality
characteristics of passive filters. In addition to that, the
load resistance on the emitter of the photo transistor has
remarkably higher values than the dc resistance of a coil.
On the other hand, the construction with active filters is
more compact and cheaper. The smaller the resonance
frequency becomes, the greater the advantages of active
filters compared to LC resonant circuits.
In some cases, reflex sensors are used to count steps or
objects, while at the same time recognition of a change in
the direction of rotation (= movement direction) is neces-
sary. The circuit shown in figure 51 is suitable for such
applications. The circuit is composed of two independent
channels with reflex sensors. The sensor signals are
formed via the Schmitt trigger into TTL impulses with
step slopes, which are supplied to the pulse inputs of the
binary counter 74LS393. The outputs of the 74LS393 are
coupled to the reset inputs. This is made in such a way that