Aimed at office equipment, home appliances, vending machines, arcade games and medical applications, the photo micro sensors are pre-soldered to a connecting cable. They can be directly wired to a remote PCB and bolted onto the equipment housing. This reduces cost by eliminating the need to create a specific separate PCB assembly for the sensor and increases reliability.
The general purpose EE-SX1088 series features a 0.5mm vertical aperture for the detection of objects moving horizontally into the sensor. A horizontal aperture version (EE-SX1096 series) is also available to detect objects moving vertically through the sensor, as well as an extra wide style with a 9.5mm slot (EE-SX1160 series). The EE-SX1161 series is a dust proof version with a sensing distance of 3.2mm.
All styles are available in Dark-On and Dark-Off formats: Dark-On photo micro sensors switch on when no object is present in the aperture; while Dark-Off devices are activated when object is present. All these new products are available with phototransistor and photo-IC output configurations.