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Brake Pedal Effort Sensor for Vehicle Brake Development, Drivability & Handling

Brake Pedal Effort Sensor for Vehicle Brake Development ...

PCB Piezotronics, Inc.: The Automotive Sensors division of PCB Piezotronics (PCB®) has released a new series of pedal effort load cells for automotive test...

2008-03-31
bks-Sensor - Great performance on the edge

bks-Sensor - Great performance on the edge

microsonic GmbH: Edge sensors are required for web control to detect the edge of the web material and  maintain it on the correct lateral position. With materials such as highly transparent foils, light-sensitive materials, materials with...

2008-03-30
sks-Sensor - This one fits into your biggest plans

sks-Sensor - This one fits into your biggest plans

microsonic GmbH: With the sks-sensor, microsonic has established an ultrasonic sensor innovation that proofs the fact: Flexible settable and high quality ultrasonic sensors don’t need much space! With a size of only 33x16x12mm this sensor can be...

2008-03-29
Printing Control - ultrasonic lcs-Sensor

Printing Control - ultrasonic lcs-Sensor

microsonic GmbH: The ultrasonic sensors of the lcs range by microsonic have been employed in machines and systems for many years. microsonic has now completely re-engineered the lcs sensors and added some interesting new features. The sensors now...

2008-03-28
Series 46B diffuse reflection light scanner sets whole new standards

Series 46B diffuse reflection light scanner sets whole ...

Leuze electronic: Enhanced transmission performance and improved sensor technology in the HRT 46B from Leuze open up scope for impressive operating ranges of up to 2500 millimetres. Characteristic of this scanner is also its high performance...

2008-03-24
Pig detector SONOPIPE 12 from SONOTEC

Pig detector SONOPIPE 12 from SONOTEC

SONOTEC: The ultrasonic pig detector SONOPIPE 12 was developed for pig detection in pipelines. It controls the section of cleaning- and testing pigs in pipes for oil, liquid gases and water. The advantage of this easy and reliable method is the...

2008-03-15
Ten Years of Crystal Growth at Kistler Marked by Commissioning of Third In-House Facility

Ten Years of Crystal Growth at Kistler Marked by ...

Kistler: As members of the calcium gallogermanate family PiezoStar crystals offer superb characteristics compared with conventional quartz, including several times the sensitivity and accurate measurement even at elevated temperatures. They are to...

2008-03-14
Uncooled M8 Pressure Sensor

Uncooled M8 Pressure Sensor

Kistler: With the piezoelectric pressure sensor Type 6045A..., Kistler offers an M8 high-temperature pressure sensor with very high sensitivity and excellent thermodynamic characteristics. Featuring a shoulder seal the Type 6045A… can be...

2008-03-06
Precision, 100pT Resolution Magnetometer

Precision, 100pT Resolution Magnetometer

Autonnic: The A6320 precision, three-channel magnetometer accepts different fluxgate sensing heads and each channel can operate in direct or differential mode. Currently available heads include a single fluxgate for direct measurement of magnetic...

2008-03-01
Precision Inclinometer gives 0.2 arcsec resolution

Precision Inclinometer gives 0.2 arcsec resolution

Autonnic: The A6410 precision 2-channel inclinometer uses patented sensor heads - either single axis or twin-orthogonal axis versions. These can be left in situ with the instrument connected only when readings are needed, allowing a single...

2008-03-01
Pressure Transmitter Configuration with FlexProgrammer

Pressure Transmitter Configuration with FlexProgrammer

Baumer’s product segment Process Instrumentation offers the pressure transmitter E610 with a universal programming interface for the FlexProgrammer 9701. The tool enables direct configuration at any standard PC via...

2008-02-27
Spray cleans quickly for rapid strain gage installation

Spray cleans quickly for rapid strain gage installation

HBM: Mit dem Universal-Messverstärker QuantumX von HBM hat Flexibilität einen neuen Namen. Jeder der acht Universal-Anschlüsse von QuantumX unterstützt mit 24-bit Auflösung die gängigen Aufnehmertechnologien. Ab sofort bietet HBM eine...

2008-02-23
Adhesive simply sticks strain gages

Adhesive simply sticks strain gages

HBM’s hot-curing EP150 epoxy resin is supplied ready for use and is applied directly using a brush integrated in the screw cap. The adhesive can also be sprayed in mass production applications, for example, in transducer manufacturing. EP150 is...

2008-02-22
New sensor generation from Leuze electronic

New sensor generation from Leuze electronic

Leuze electronic: Sensors intended for industrial production and automation applications are required to comply with wide-ranging requirements. They must be hard-wearing and also function reliably in the most hostile environmental conditions. At...

2008-02-10
Strain gages – just set up and go

Strain gages – just set up and go

HBM: The latest improvement to HBM’s modular design of strain gages is the inclusion of an RJ11 plug module to provide maximum flexibility because the installation is simplified and measurements can be taken immediately. Once the strain gage is...

2008-01-26

MLX90333 Triaxis™ 3D-Joystick Position Sensor Recipient ...

Melexis: From the thousands of products introduced in 2007, the editors of Electronic Products have chosen the Melexis MLX90333 as one of the 24 most outstanding products of the year. Introduced in May of 2007,...

2008-01-18
U10M force transducer aids torque measurement

U10M force transducer aids torque measurement

HBM’s U10M tensile/compressive force transducer benefits torque measurement applications where rotating torque transducers are considered unsuitable, such as vehicle test stands. In such applications, the transducer supports the floating base...

2008-01-11
M² magnetic foil sensor

M² magnetic foil sensor

Metallux: Foil technology – proved in automotive and industrial applications - provides robust, low cost solutions for absolute linear and angle position sensing. The idea of combining foil with a magnetic field in order to have a contact free...

2008-01-07
Temperature Humidity probes TH109 for various applications in the standard execution

Temperature Humidity probes TH109 for various applications

B+B Thermo-Technik GmbH: The relative humidity is in most industry domains and in the quality control a decisive quantity. That is why high requirements relatively to measurement accuracy, long time stability and equipment are postulated for...

2007-12-15
The infrared thermometer „Dual Focus Infrared“ Sets new benchmarks in the temperature measurement

The infrared thermometer „Dual Focus Infrared“ Sets new ...

B+B Thermo-Technik GmbH: The Dual Focus Infrared Thermometer is used to measure contact free temperatures within the range between -35°C to +900°C. A switchable, patented laser collimation technique marks exactly the measurement area. In the...

2007-12-15
Easy and fast Temperature measurement with the TC100 measuring system of B+B

Easy and fast Temperature measurement with the TC100 ...

B+B Thermo-Technik GmbH: The temperature measuring system TC100 can be used almost in all domains thanks its large measurement range of -200°C up to 1200°C. The convenience of this system, plug the USB connector and start the B+B ITS-View...

2007-12-04
ISL – Inductive Conductivity Transmitter with 3A Approval for Hygienic Applications

ISL – Inductive Conductivity Transmitter with 3A ...

Baumer: With the ISL 05x, Baumer’s product segment Process Instrumentation offers an inductive conductivity sensor with high accuracy. The compact design in all stainless steel enables installation in pipes from...

2007-11-27
Compass inclinometer

Compass inclinometer

Autonnic: In addition to providing NMEA magnetic heading data, these rugged modules from Fluxgate world also provide both pitch and roll angle up to ±45º from horizontal with a resolution of 0.1º. Expected to have several areas of application...

2007-09-30
OLP Liquid Level Switches Offer Very Cost-Effective Point Level Detection

OLP Liquid Level Switches Offer Very Cost-Effective ...

Sensortechnics' introduces the OLP series of miniature optical liquid level switches. These very cost-effective point level sensors measure the presence or absence of liquid in a wide range of OEM applications. The optical OLP switches use solid...

2007-09-22
Miniature AHRS with integrated GPS

Miniature AHRS with integrated GPS

Xsens: The MTi-G is an integrated GPS and MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit. It contains an internal ultra low-power AHRS processor running a real-time Xsens Kalman filter. The compact sensor provides accurate horizontal and vertical position,...

2007-09-20
Vibration Motor Driver IC creates worldwide buzz in personal handsets with best in class efficiency and ultra small package

Vibration Motor Driver IC creates worldwide buzz in ...

Melexis: Ringtones are a common way to personalize ones cell phone, PDA or iPhone but often a discrete notification of incoming calls or scheduled events require a vibrating alert. Unfortunately the vibrating alert...

2007-09-18
High Capacity Compression load cells

High Capacity Compression load cells

PT Ltd: The HCC is a stainless steel canister load cell, fully welded and sealed to IP68 sealing requirements. Rugged construction houses a very accurate measurement element which provide for better than .03% combined error. With a top capacity of...

2007-09-02
Suppression of interference radiation in radiometric level measurement

Suppression of interference radiation in radiometric ...

BERTHOLD Technologies GmbH & Co. KG: Radiometric level measurements are particularly reliable and have a characteristically high availability. The technique permits non-contact level measurement and is therefore used especially for difficult...

2007-07-27
Radiation Interference Discrimination

Radiation Interference Discrimination

BERTHOLD Technologies GmbH & Co. KG: Radiometric level gauges have proved themselves indispensable, especially in the chemical industry, due to their universal usage and reliability. The measurement is contact-free and requires no changes to...

2007-07-27

Melexis Infrared Thermometer wins prestigious Electron d’Or

Melexis was granted the famous French Electron d’Or for its infrared thermometer sensor. The MLX90614 is the most innovative product in the company’s infrared sensors family....

2007-07-18
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