Humidity and temperature sensor targets high production volumes
May 11, 2012 3:40 pm | Product Releases | CommentsSensirion announced the SHT20, a low-cost member of the SHT2x family of sensors. With a typical accuracy of 3 percent RH, the new sensor is appropriate for price-sensitive applications. The SHT20 humidity and temperature sensor offers
LISTED UNDER: Sensors & ActuatorsSWS launches development platform for MEMS inertial sensors
May 11, 2012 9:52 am | Product Releases | CommentsSi-Ware Systems is launching its Inertial Sensor Development Platform, the SWS61111 (formerly SWP210). For the first time sensor developers have a tool that can be used to evaluate an inertial sensor, such as a gyroscope or accelerometer, to understand the behaviour of the sensor and its performance with complete interface electronics.
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High-accuracy temperature & dual-voltage monitor provides flexible alert outputs
May 8, 2012 10:07 am | 3M Electronics Solutions Division | Product Releases | CommentsLinear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2995 high accuracy temperature sensor and dual supply monitor for low voltage systems. The LTC2995 measures a remote diode’s temperature with ±1°C accuracy and its own die temperature with ±2°C accuracy, while rejecting errors due to noise and series resistance.
LISTED UNDER: Sensors & ActuatorsComparison of Semiconductor Particle Counting Technologies
May 7, 2012 11:02 am | News | CommentsReducing or eliminating the presence of particle contaminants is an important step in tool qualification.
LISTED UNDER: Sensors & ActuatorsMetrology tool family enables faster measurements
May 3, 2012 9:55 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe MicroProf is the successful model from the FRT metrology tool family and is in use more than 400-fold in the industrial sector. In time for the Control show, the leading trade fair for industrial metrology in Germany, FRT is presenting the new version of the internationally established multisensor measuring device.
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IC detects lightning up to 40 km away, targets portable apps
April 30, 2012 10:36 am | Product Releases | Commentsaustriamicrosystems introduced what it asserts is the world’s first lightning sensor IC, the AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor with an embedded intelligent algorithm. The IC provides people with advanced warning of approaching electrical storms giving them additional time to take shelter.
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Ultrasonic clear-label sensor includes OLED onboard display
April 30, 2012 9:37 am | Product Releases | CommentsTri-tronics Company has introduced the first Ultrasonic Clear Label Sensor with a High Performance OLED onboard display. Users are provided with an unprecedented view of the sensor's performance, options, program modes, and helpful simple instructions.
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Thru-beam sensors deliver reliable sensing up to 8 m
April 27, 2012 2:23 pm | Product Releases | CommentsPepperl+Fuchs introduces BB10 Series Plug-In Through-Beam Sensors. These affordable sensors provide quick snap-in installation. They deliver reliable sensing up 8 m, even in temperature extremes from -40 degrees C up to 60 degrees C. This makes them well suited for use in door, turnstile, elevator and escalator applications...
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austriamicrosystems launches ambient light sensor for intelligent daylight harvesting
April 16, 2012 12:59 pm | Product Releases | Commentsaustriamicrosystems today introduced the TSL4531 ambient light sensor family at the Light+Building exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany, which enables sophisticated daylight harvesting for intelligent lighting systems and luminaires. The sensor family – developed by TAOS...
LISTED UNDER: Sensors & ActuatorsFlexible touch sensors enable a new era of capacitive touchscreen designs
April 9, 2012 2:13 pm | Atmel Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsAtmel Corporation announced that it is sampling to select customers XSense, its revolutionary, highly flexible film-based touch sensor. XSense touch sensors will not only enable a new generation of smartphones and tablets, but also extend touch capabilities into a wider array of new consumer and industrial products.
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Hall Effect sensing devices serve automotive applications
April 5, 2012 12:08 pm | Product Releases | CommentsThe MLX92221 and MLX92241 Hall Effect sensors from Melexis are designed to deliver the high levels of performance and robustness needed for the stringent automotive requirements of applications such as seat positioning systems...
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Signal conditioner for LVDT position sensors features virtually effortless fingertip calibration routine
April 4, 2012 5:21 am | Product Releases | CommentsMacro Sensors (www.macrosensors.com) announces the release of the most user-friendly LVDT signal conditioner currently on the market. Employing a virtually effortless fingertip calibration routine, the EAZY-CAL Signal Conditioner are quickly calibrated in mere seconds...
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High-Power IR Emitters Tout Very Uniform Optical Beam
April 2, 2012 7:31 am | Product Releases | CommentsOpto Diode introduced the second product in the super-high-power series of gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAlAs) infrared (IR) emitters, the OD-110W. Featuring a very uniform optical beam, the new device is
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Piezoresistive accelerometers support low-frequency shock measurement requirements
March 30, 2012 5:50 am | Product Releases | CommentsMeggitt Sensing Systems, a Meggitt group division, has introduced the Endevco model 7265A series, a family of low mass piezoresistive shock accelerometers, weighing just six grams, designed to support the low-frequency shock measurement requirements...
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Miniature Piezoelectric Force Sensor Features Single-Wire Technology
March 21, 2012 7:54 am | Product Releases | CommentsKistler has introduced the Type 9211BE miniature quartz force sensor with single-wire technology, designed for high-reliability dynamic and quasi-static mold cavity measurements of up to 3,000 bar (43,511 psi), over a range of 0 to 2,500 N, in support of
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