Line Scan Camera with Scan Sensor Technology
July 31, 2007 10:37 am | Product Releases | CommentsDALSA Corp. announces its Spyder 3 CL line scan camera with camera link interface. Its responsivity addresses low lighting situations. At its core is dual line scan sensor technology that achieves responsivity and throughput of 80 Mega pixels per second. Dual line scan technology offers a clear performance benefit. This camera can be used for applications including glass edge inspection, general purpose web inspection, postal sorting, industrial metrology, pick-and-place applications, and medical and scientific imaging.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysGraphics Display Controller for Automotive TFT LCD Panels
July 31, 2007 10:33 am | Product Releases | CommentsToshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announces its TX4964FG system-on-chip (SoC) targeted at instrument-cluster applications ranging from back-up camera displays to full-size, reconfigurable instrument clusters. It drives and manages the small-size thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD panels increasingly found in instrument clusters in medium- to high-end automobiles. The device integrates the CPU, hardware-graphics engine, TFT LCD panel controller, digital-camera interface and frame-buffer memory in a compact 176-pin QFP package.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysVGA and XGA resolution TFT LCDs
July 31, 2007 10:10 am | Product Releases | CommentsApollo Display Technologies has announced that it can furnish VGA and XGA resolution TFT LCDs backlit by LED rails that are addressable via the company’s standard PRISMA II industrial controller board to switch back and forth between day and night modes. These LCDs can be used in the full range of night vision imaging systems (NVIS) applications including displays in military aircraft cockpits, tanks, trucks, ground mobile applications, communications equipment and electronics.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysBright Sunlight Visible RGB LEDs
July 31, 2007 10:07 am | Product Releases | CommentsLEDtronics introduces the RGB-1007-001, a low profile, four legs through-hole LED that offers full-spectrum red, green and blue LEDs (RGB LED). These discrete LEDs provide high performance and visibility in a compact size of 4.90 mm x 6.5 mm +0.15. The red, green and blue diodes emit high-intensity light in a viewing angle of 120°. The red diode's wavelength is 635 nm, the wavelength of the green diode is 520 nm and the blue operates at 470 nm.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysEye-Safe Diode Lasers
July 31, 2007 10:00 am | Product Releases | CommentsIntense Ltd. announces its HPD Series 2400 1550 nm eye-safe laser diodes that are high peak power, 1550 nm pulsed lasers for use in distance measurement applications that require eye-safe laser sources. The lasers are available in source sizes of 150 µm and 380 µm, and they are designed to operate at pulse widths of less than 200 ns, duty cycles to 0.1 percent.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysForce-Based Touchscreen Surface Selection
July 31, 2007 9:56 am | Product Releases | CommentsQSI Corp. introduces InfiniTouch, a patent-pending Force Panel Technology that enables any semi-rigid material (metal, glass, wood, stone, ceramic, plastic, or any combination of these materials) to sense touch. It also solves the problems of how to handle the non-orthogonal nature of touches, how to adjust for the force variations during touch duration, and it provides a touch surface with the durability and reliability to meet the needs of diverse industries.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & Displays100-Lumen LEDs Available in Volume Quantities
July 31, 2007 9:52 am | Product Releases | CommentsCree, Inc. announces commercial availability of XLamp LEDs with minimum luminous flux of 100 lumens at 350 mA. They are said to be the first LEDs to be available in volume with this level of performance. They can deliver either 25 percent greater brightness with improved efficacy, or they can deliver up to 55 percent greater brightness at the same efficacy when compared to the previous generation of XLamp LEDs.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysHigh Speed Photocoupler
July 31, 2007 9:47 am | Product Releases | CommentsToshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., introduces its 5V, 50 MegaBaud1 (MBd) TLP117 IC photocoupler for high speed digital transmission applications. It specifically addresses applications with isolation and switching speed requirements such as system I/O interfaces and factory automation networks. The device is an optically coupled isolator consisting of a gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAlAs) light-emitting diode and an integrated high-gain, high- speed photo detector.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysCeramic-Substrate SMT LEDs with Heat-Dissipating Capabilities and Wide Angles of Light Emission
July 31, 2007 9:40 am | Product Releases | CommentsLumex introduced KoolBrite SMT LEDs. They use the company’s ceramic substrate material, a unique epoxy lens, and a manufacturing process that can cast the lense directly onto the ceramic substrate. The LEDs are capable of withstanding wave soldering, while providing a useable operating life of 50,000 hours with no loss in light output levels. They virtually eliminate failures due to thermal junction deterioration. These LEDs are appropriate for applications including illumination or indication on PCBs, annunciator and control panels, telecom switches and central office equipment, and medical equipment.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysMulti-lamp Controller for CCFL Displays
July 31, 2007 9:33 am | Microsemi Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsMicrosemi announced a high performance multi-lamp controller designed with features optimized for lighting the cold cathode fluorescent lamps used in large screen LCD TV applications. The LX6501 controller minimizes external components by fully integrating on-chip gate drivers having the capacity to drive N channel power MOSFETs on both the low and high sides of full bridge inverters. Input voltages can be as high as 27V. An on-chip regulator generates internal driver operating voltages that supply the output gate drive circuit.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysLED Series Available in White SMD Package
July 31, 2007 9:29 am | Osram Opto Semiconductors | Product Releases | CommentsOSRAM Opto Semiconductors is adding a white LED to its Golden Dragon ARGUS family. It combines proprietary ThinGaN (indium gallium nitride) technology for brightness and uniformity with the patented ARGUS lens -- specially designed for high efficiency backlighting and illumination -- and the company’s chip level conversion (CLC) technology. Each package contains one HBLED with a thin phosphor coating over the emission area, applied at the wafer level.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysCustom Multifunction LCD Backlight Assemblies
July 31, 2007 9:23 am | Product Releases | CommentsJKL Components enhanced its design and manufacturing capabilities for LCD backlight assemblies to meet demanding and stringent quality specifications for custom requirements. The company’s program for additional control technologies includes NVIS compatible green lamp phosphors, thermistors for temperature control, opto-sensors, wire-wrap heaters, as well as
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & Displays17¨ Touch Panel
July 31, 2007 9:16 am | Product Releases | CommentsFujitsu Components America introduced a 17" (diagonal) product for the growing retail kiosk market. The four-wire, 17" model is the largest in the company’s standard resistive touch panel line. Other applications include desktop touch monitors, Point of Sale, and industrial controls. The panel features 82 percent transmissivity and an anti-glare treatment to enhance viewability in high ambient light.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysStandard, 4.3¨ High-Transparency Touch Panel
July 31, 2007 7:55 am | Product Releases | CommentsFujitsu Components America expanded its resistive touch-panel offering with the introduction of a 4.3¨ (diagonal) film-glass panel for both finger and stylus-based applications. The four-wire device fits Sharp and NEC 4.3¨ LCDs commonly used in handheld applications including popular game devices, and fixed applications suitable for small LCD screens. Featuring 86 percent transmissivity for viewing in high ambient light conditions, the design incorporates a double-layer PET film with 5 percent haze anti-glare hardcoat for durability in both finger and stylus input modes.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & DisplaysLED Clusters Directly Replace Incandescents
July 23, 2007 5:43 am | Product Releases | CommentsLEDtronics announced the R30 LED Reflector spotlight bulb series. These direct replacements for incandescent bulbs combine use standard 25mm Edison bases and are available in 15°, 20°, 30°, 40°, and 95° angles using 120V AC. Other voltages from 12V to 240V, AC or DC, are available for custom orders. Color choices are warm white (3000 Kelvin), pure white (5500 Kelvin), cool white (8000 Kelvin), 633nm red, 592nm yellow, 525nm aqua green, and 470nm blue.
LISTED UNDER: Optoelectronics & Displays
