PPE AND CURTAINS FOR HAND-HELD LASERS FOR MATERIALS PROCESSING.

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According to the German Occupational Safety Regulations on Artificial Optical Radiation (OStrV), it is obligatory to wear personal

laser protective equipment when operating Class 3B, 3R and 4 laser systems.

Together with the STFI (Saxony Textile Research Institute) and the LZH (Hanover Laser Center), JUTEC developed a testing principle under

the name PROSYSLaser® for testing protective equipment for laser protection textiles and in particular to be able to offer it for this

application. The development for textiles as laser protection clothing, gloves and laser protection curtains is carried out based on this

research.

EN 388

DIN SPEC 91250:2014-11

DIN EN 12254:2012-04

DIN EN ISO 11612

+ LASER TEST

EN 407

+ LASERPRÜFUNG

Standards for protective gloves

against laser radiation

Standard for protective clothing

against laser radiation

Standard for protective curtains

against laser radiation

The task of the laser protection textiles is to absorb the irradiated energy in case of an accidental laser hit in such a way that the

user has sufficient time to move out of the danger area before permanent injuries result.

Applications:

The number of applications of hand-held laser devices (HLD) for materials processing is continually growing. The fields of application

of the HLDs include car manufacturing, shipbuilding, aircraft construction, mechanical engineering and toolmaking.

8 Welding, cutting

8 Cutting applications

8 System modification

8 Soldering

8 Hardening

8 Setting up lasers

8 Surface machining

8 Melting

8 Servicing lasers

8 Cleaning tool molds

8 Laboratory work

8 etc.

8 © Photos: LZH

Based on devices for precision welding, HLDs are used today among other things for: