A plastic optical fiber microbend sensor used as a low-cost anti-squeeze detector

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1262-1267

  Linec, Matjaz ^a   Donlagic, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Automatic door window safety; Automotive sensors; Distributed squeeze deformation sensor; EC 2000 4 EC; Power window safety; Safety sensor; Tactile sensors; Vehicle Safety Standard No. 118

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; DETECTORS; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; STANDARDS;

AUTOMOTIVE SENSORS; OPERATIONAL CYCLES; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER MICROBEND SENSORS; POWER WINDOW SAFETY; SAFETY SENSORS; TACTILE SENSORSS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 34547402443     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2007.901252     Document Type: Article

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