Patent ID: 8836957

Claim:
An optoelectronic sensor ( 10 ), with a plurality of light transmitters ( 14 ) and light receivers ( 26 ) that form between one another a field ( 20 ) of mutually parallel monitoring beams ( 18 ), wherein beam shaping optics ( 16 , 24 ) are assigned to the light transmitters ( 14 ) and the light receivers ( 26 ), characterized in that the optics ( 16 , 24 ) comprise a geometry and arrangement leading to a mutual overlap of the optics ( 16 , 24 ) to the field ( 20 ) where due to the overlap any imaginary line ( 32 ) perpendicular to the field ( 20 ) intersecting a monitoring beam ( 18 ) that is not arranged at an edge of the field ( 20 ) intersects at least one further monitoring beam ( 18 ).