Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scan module which is used for the purpose of requiring a compact reader. SOLUTION: A non-retroreflective compact scan module in an electro-optical reader includes a laser light source, a photosensor, and an electromagnetic coil which are mounted at one surface of a printed circuit board. The laser emits a laser beam perpendicular to the board and is redirected to an oscillatable sac mirror, which is magnetically centered to a rest position, when the coil is de-energized.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scanning module used for applications requiring a compact reader. SOLUTION: The non-retroreflective compact scanning module of an electro- optic reader includes a laser beam source attached to one surface of a printed circuit board, a photosensor and a electromagnetic coil. The laser emits the laser beam perpendicularly to the circuit board and when the coil is degaussed, the laser beam is directed again to the oscillatable scanning mirror which magnetically comes to a central position of rest.
Abstract:
MODULE OR ARRANGEMENT FOR, AND METHOD OF, READING A TARGET BY IMAGE CAPTURE WITH AN IMAGING READER HAVING OFFSET IMAGING AND AIMING SYSTEMS An imaging sensor of an imaging reader (30) senses return light from a target to be read by image capture along an imaging axis over a field of view that extends along mutually orthogonal, horizontal and vertical axes. Two aiming light assemblies (42, 44, 46) are offset from the sensor and are spaced apart along the horizontal axis at opposite sides of the sensor, and direct two aiming light lines, each having a predetermined brightness, at the target. The aiming lines are collinear along the horizontal axis and have inner linear end regions that overlap on the target to form a bright, linear, aiming mark having a brightness greater than the predetermined brightness to visually indicate a center zone of the field of view, as well as outer linear end regions that visually indicate approximate end limits of the field of view, over a range of working distances.
Abstract:
A workstation (20) electro-optically reads targets by image capture, and includes a housing, a generally planar window (18), an imaging module, and a generally planar fold mirror (38) between the window and the module. The module has an illuminating light assembly for directing illumination light along an illumination path through the window at a target for return therefrom during reading, and an image sensing assembly for detecting return illumination light through the window along an imaging path over an imaging field of view (30) during reading. The fold mirror (18) folds the illumination and the imaging paths. The fold mirror (38) and the window (18) lie in planes that are substantially parallel to each other to prevent reflections of the illumination light off of the fold mirror (38) and the window (18) from entering the imaging field of view as virtual images that degrade target detection by the image sensing assembly.
Abstract:
A checkout system includes a workstation having a first workstation window located in a generally horizontal plane and a second workstation window located in a generally upright plane. The workstation includes a data capture arrangement for capturing through at least one of the workstation windows target data of targets associated with the products. The workstation also includes a rear cover having a first opening and a second opening. The first opening and the second opening are located on opposite side-walls of the rear cover and substantially identical in size. The first opening allows light from additional targets entering an accessory reader from an accessory window facing the bagging area, but the second opening is covered by a side cover.
Abstract:
A raster pattern for reading bar code symbols is created by successively reflecting a light beam off scan mirrors oscillated respectively by a resonant motor drive and by another motor drive driven synchronously with the resonant drive.