Abstract: In order to improve a sensor for detecting an electrically conductive or netizable object with an oscillator comprising a resonant circuit including an inductance and a capacitance, the resonant circuit impedance depending on a damping distance between the inductance and the object and rising steeply in the range of small damping distances, further rising less steeply in the range of medium damping distances and substantially having a constant value in the range of large damping distances, and a closed adaptive loop stage supplying a loop current for the resonant circuit and generating a course of an amplitude value dependent on the damping distance, and an evaluation circuit detecting an oscillator voltage applied to the resonant circuit, such that the oscillator also oscillates in the range of small damping distances and has a characteristic curve, with which the oscillator voltage varies with the damping distance also in the range of small damping distances, it is suggested that the course of the amplitude

Abstract: A proximity switch is provided which has a programmable parameter such as a programmable switching threshold and/or programmable switching function. The device is programmable using a digital signal that is applied to a conventional terminal of the proximity switch. For example, the conventional power signal for operating the proximity switch can be modulated by a programming signal for use in programming the proximity switch parameters. The program signal could also be input to a conventional output terminal of the proximity switch.

Abstract: In order to improve a plug insert for a metal tube housing comprising a cact carrier with plug pins protruding from a first side thereof and solder terminals from a second side thereof opposite the first side, and a protective sleeve insertable in the metal tube so as to surround the contact carrier, with the protective sleeve extending with its front side from the first side of the contact carrier in a first direction parallel to the plug pins at least as far as one end thereof and forming in a second direction opposite the first direction a protective collar protruding beyond the second side of the plug element, such that it is also usable for high insulation voltages, in particular insulation voltages of 250 V and more, it is proposed that the protective sleeve and the contact carrier be two parts which can be put together, that the protective sleeve have a receiving means for insertion and fixing of the contact carrier therein, and that the protective collar protrude in the second direction beyond the sol

Abstract: In order to improve a proximity switch insensitive to interference fields r detecting the position of a machine element with at least one sensor which generates in the proximity of a machine element standing in a position to be detected a total signal having a detection field signal component caused by the machine element and an interference field signal component caused by the interference field and transmits it to a circuit which converts the total signal into an output signal, such that both the gradients of the detection field generated by the machine element and the gradients of the interference field do not affect response of the proximity switch, it is suggested that the conversion of the total signal into the output signal be carried out by the time dependence of the interference field being determined, by a corresponding sequence of scanning pulses being obtained therefrom and the first signal being scanned with these, and by a value which is determined thereby resulting in an output signal indicatin

Abstract: The invention relates to a two-wire switch with a power transistor, in pacular, a VMOS transistor which is arranged in series with an auxiliary impedance between two switch connection lines. In accordance with the invention, a logic circuit with an OR function and an AND function is used in the realization of a kind of phase angle control for the power transistor in the presence of an activating signal of an initiator at the switch input.

Abstract: The invention relates to a two-wire switch for connecting a load to an ac ltage source, and, in particular, to a two-wire switch with an auxiliary voltage source. A capacitor acting as charge storage device can be charged by the auxiliary voltage source which operates on the principle of phase angle control. In accordance with the invention, a series connection comprising a threshold element which can be brought into the conducting state when there is a prescribed minimum voltage across the capacitor, and a diode is inserted into a control current circuit for a controllable semiconductor device on the input side of the bridge.

Abstract: The invention relates to a testing and evaluating circuit for a proximity itch suitable for testing and provided as an element of a machine control means; associated with the proximity switch is a control circuit, by which the proximity switch is alternately switchable between its two operating conditions to generate a timed output signal with a given frequency, an evaluating circuit being provided, by which a clear signal indicating fault-free operation is producable for the duration of a timed output signal from the proximity switch and by which a blocking signal for the machine control means, indicating a fault, is producable in the absence of changes in the potential of the output signal from the proximity switch. The evaluating circuit preferably comprises a relay circuit, to which the output signal from the proximity switch or a signal derived from this is fed via a transformer.