Industrial cameras with integrated cooling pipe

Do glass furnaces and silicon wafers have anything in common? Yes, at least in the use of industrial cameras. Both applications call for active camera cooling in inspection tasks. When near to industrial furnaces, temperature-sensitive components must be protected against heat, whereas in wafer bonding thermal stability is a prerequisite for the required high-precision images.
Traditionally for high temperature environments, the camera housing would be surrounded by external cooling components to ensure constant camera temperatures. Such effort is time-consuming and results in additional camera dimensions. To counteract this drawback, Baumer has extended the CX series by cameras with integrated cooling. The patented cooling pipe of the CX.XC cameras winds its way inside the camera housing, saving space and ensuring thermal stability within an instant.