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Optical reader optic cleaning systems having motion deployed cleaning elements

  • US 9,494,527 B2
  • Filed: 12/13/2012
  • Issued: 11/15/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A cleaning system designed and configured to clean an optic of an optical reader system, wherein the optic has a cleanable surface in contact with a liquid and the optic reader system has a reading mode and a cleaning mode, the system comprising:

  • a holder designed and configured to be submerged in the liquid in spaced relation to the optic when in operative arrangement relative to the optical reader and to move relative to the optic during use; and

    a cleaning element pivotably engaged with said holder and including at least one cleaning member designed and configured for cleaning the optic;

    wherein said cleaning element is designed and configured to have;

    a neutral position in which, when said holder is in operative arrangement relative to the optical reader system, none of said at least one cleaning member contacts the optic as said cleaning element is moved past the optic by said holder when the optical reader system is in the reading mode; and

    a deployed position in which, when said holder is in operative arrangement relative to the optical reader system, at least one of said at least one member elements contacts the optic as said cleaning element is moved past the optic by said holder when the optical reader system is in the cleaning mode, wherein said deployed position is achieved by motion of said holder.

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