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Vision 2024

Stuttgart • 08 OCT '24

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Protective camera enclosure with “flexible” tube for various lens sizes

autoVimation’s new protective camera enclosure Lizard provides tool-free access to the lens settings. The IP67-rated enclosure is based on the established Salamander series, but has a lens tube instead of a screw-down front lid.

Protective camera enclosure with “flexible” tube for various lens sizes

The lens can protrude up to 40 mm from the enclosure body. Conventional tubes, such as those used in IP-protected cameras or other enclosures, are usually either too short or too long in applications with a fixed sensor or camera position. Either the lens does not fit or the front lens sits so far behind the window that corner shading cannot be avoided with wide-angle lenses.

Some manufacturers therefore offer a dozen different tube lengths. The Lizard, on the other hand, allows for completely flexible lengthwise camera positioning, as is typical for autoVimation protective enclosures. This allows short lenses, 30 – 40 mm in length, to be mounted directly behind the front window. To accommodate 60 – 70 mm long lenses, the camera is simply moved back a bit. As with the smaller lenses, the focus and aperture rings can usually be easily reached.

Featuring an internal length of 191 mm, the Lizard offers the same space as a Salamander M. The new camera enclosure thus provides flexible protection for the majority of machine vision installations. The tube is robust, as usual for autoVimation, with thick walls and a 2-mm O-ring. Users can easily exchange the window or swapped it for filters with a 2″ or 50 mm diameter in different thicknesses. The new Lizard of course also features all the advantages of the Salamander enclosures, such as excellent heat dissipation.

autoVimation at VISION Stuttgart, Germany, 8 – 10 October 2024, Hall 10, Booth D02.

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