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Piezoelectric Force Sensors and Accelerometers – FLV
Kistler announced the availability of its three-component force sensors and piezoelectric accelerometers in order to meet the rigorous demands of satellite and spacecraft force limited vibration testing (FLV). The force dynamometer is commonly constructed using several three-component force sensors, the chosen sizes of which are depen...
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Isolated Sensors Measure Automotive Battery Current – HAB Series
HAB Series of current sensors is designed for automotive battery-monitoring applications. The sensors are based on open-loop, Hall-effect transducers that simplify both installation and servicing by removing the need to cut the cable carrying the measured current. The 12 sensors in the family offer primary current measurement ranges fr...
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Protecting Low-Voltage Systems or Sensors Against Short Circuits
Important specifications and concepts has to be considered to protect low-voltage subsystems in consumer applications, including the use of input and output capacitors, thermal performance, and switching impedance. In today's consumer applications, sensors are increasingly being used to validate the user prior to accessing the equipme...
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Closed Loop Wind Tunnel for High Temp Studies
HVPSI Component Sales Division, currently introducing the Kohshin Electric Corp. line of open-loop and closed-loop Hall current sensors to North America, has announced its new two-in-one current sensor lineup. Standing only 0.5 in. above the printed circuit board, the tiny 0.6-in. × 0.9-in. footprint offers the smallest space factor av...
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New Sidewinder AC Current Sensors
Pulse Electronics Corporation introduces its new Sidewinder AC current sensors. Sidewinder products alter from traditional current sense transformers because they do not need have a core. This may cause them lighter, easier to assemble, and less expensive. The sensors give a highly linear output voltage over a very wide dynamic range f...
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High Accuracy and Low Power Digital Temperature Sensor – TSYS01 Series
The highly accurate TSYS01 digital temperature sensor from Measurement Specialties integrates a sensing chip and 24-bit ADC (analog-to-digital) converter into one component. Drawing less than 12.5 µA in a compact QFN16 surface mount package, the fully-calibrated TSYS01 is easily incorporated into a variety of industrial control, HVAC/...
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USB Thermocouple Power Sensors – U8480 Series
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the Agilent U8480 Series, the globe’s fastest USB thermocouple power sensors. Depending on the same front-end design because the Agilent 8480 and N8480 Series power sensors, the brand new U8480 Series offers improved specifications, with a measurement speed of 400 readings per second, ten times fast...
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Temperature Sensor – EMC118X
[caption id="attachment_148" align="alignnone" width="595"] emc118[/caption] A six-member class of temperature sensor ICs from Microchip Technology Inc., designated EMC118X, is said to be the world's first family of temp sensors with 1.8 V SMBus and I2C communications, required for interfacing to the latest generation of sma...
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Automotive Sector Keeps Magnetic Sensors Market Ticking; Revenue to Rise 6 Percent by Year-End
Semiconductor magnetic sensors are saved to track to achieve 7% revenue growth this coming year, due to widespread adoption within the automotive sector, according to a different report from IHS Inc. Global market revenue for magnetic sensors will reach $1.73 billion at year-end, up from $1.62 billion this year. The coming year will d...
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Digital Ambient-light and Infrared Proximity Sensor – MAX44000 Series
Maxim Integrated Products AG introduces the MAX44000, a digital ambient-light and infrared proximity sensor that detects light like a human eye. Designed using the company's proprietary BiCMOS technology, this IC integrates three optical sensors, two ADCs, and digital functionality into a tiny 2mm x 2mm x 0.6mm package. This integratio...