Safety Range Light Curtains and Safety Relays

TE Connectivity provides a safety range designed to ensure the protection of humans, machinery, and the environment. These reliable solutions cover a wide range of safety requirements in the fields of industrial automation, robotics, and machinery. The TE safety range is composed of SLC light curtains that offer reliable sensing and monitoring of functional safety and safety relays that make the interface between safety light curtains or output signal switching devices (OSSD) and control circuits or equipment of the machine or plant.

Safety light curtains provide reliable and cost-effective access protection for hazardous points and hazardous areas. Depending on the variant, different machine functions are integrated or can be selected via safe control solutions. Safety relays are a dedicated interface between safety light curtains and are equipped with self-controlled safety static outputs and control circuits of the machine or plant.

Light curtain features

• Finger, hand, and body protection
• Two safety PNP static outputs
• Fast and easy termination and flexibility
• High level of safety protection
• Includes models with integrated safety functions such as self-monitoring static outputs, control of external contactors (EDM), and selectable automatic or manual restart.
• The resolution of a light curtain is the minimum size of an object that is placed into the controlled area

Safety relay features

• Different safety functions are selectable via a rotary switch
• Selectable manual or automatic restart
• Type 2 and Type 4 safety relays are approved in accordance with EN IEC 61496-1 and UL No. E343620
• EDM feedback input
• Easy to use and a flexible solution
• High safety grades
• High reliability