
B–70114EN/04
2. SAFETY
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1) Potential hazards
Laser oscillator emits CO
2
laser beam(10.6 mm), which is high power
and invisible.
D Being directly exposed to the CO
2
beam could severely burn you.
D The CO
2
beam could bource off your workpiece and burn your eyes
or skin.
FANUC LASER C series have a diode laser. The diode laser beam
is visible (red color) and low power. It is used to ensure that the CO
2
beam is correctly positioned on your workpiece.
D The diode laser beam is not considered harmful to your skin. But
if you stared head on into the laser diode beam, it could harm your
eyes.
2) Safety recommendations
Never expose the eyes and skin to the laser beam. Be careful of the
laser beam when performing the inspection and maintenance.
Do not turn on the power supply to the oscillator when the panel open
and do not drive. It is bleached to radiation of the laser beam and high
voltage.
Do the countermeasure (For instance, installs safety glasses and the
protection gloves) to danger in case of stopped no finish and nor
opening the panel while it energizes the oscillator.
Install beam safety cover after mirror cleaning or replacement. And if
not beam safety cover installation, do not operation and alignment.
Confirm when it does alignment, the protection pipe (Safety cover) is
installed. If it dose not install the protection pipe, it will put the finger
in the laser beam and there is possibility to do the burn.
When entering the area exposed to the scattered beam, wear the safety
glasses. Mount the stand made of acrylic resin or any material which
can absorb the CO
2
laser beam to protect the personnel from the
scattered beam.
Avoid exposure of any part of your body to the CO
2
laser beam.
When testing the beam output, any personnel other than the
maintenance personnel should be out of the working environment.
In designing a material processing machine utilizing FANUC LASER
C series, be sure that the CO
2
laser beam goes from laser to the
workpiece only through the enclosed beam delivery system. This
prevents the exposure to laser beam by the operator switch could
otherwise take place. It is absolutely necessary to include the
instructions given here in the manuals of the laser material–processing
machine as a whole, which are to be read.
3) Position of laser beam emission
Fig. 2.1 (a) is the position of laser beam delivery in C1500B,
C2000B, C2000C.
Fig. 2.1 (b) is the position of laser beam delivery in C3000C,
C3000D.
Fig. 2.1 (c) is the position of laser beam delivery in C4000A.
Fig. 2.1 (d) is the position of laser beam delivery in C6000B.
Fig. 2.1 (e) is the position of panel that laser beam exposure is
occurred without panel in C1500B, C2000B, C2000C,
C3000C, C3000D, when your maintenance.
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LASER BEAM