GE's new ERCW003A6R 100-watt, one-eighth brick DC-DC converters, the latest addition to its Orca-series family of isolated, board-mounted power amplifier modules. The new high-efficiency converters provide high-voltage and high-power applications with up to 3.6 amperes DC output current at a nominal output voltage of 28 volts DC. The modules have a typical efficiency of ...
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) display technology, renowned for its excellent image quality, is used in more than 80 percent of the world’s digital cinemas. Recent innovations in size, efficiency and brightness now enable this same proven technology to be incorporated into small form factor and battery-powered devices, allowing developers, brands and system inte...
The use of silicon carbide as a semiconductor for mechanical and electrical sensor devices is showing promise for improved operations and safety in harsh working environments, according to new research from Griffith University. Experiments with silicon carbide grown at the Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC) at Griffith University have demonstrated the ...
Software developed with Pengutronix is available for applications with touch displays. A particular characteristic of the embedded module TQMa6x concerns its CPU-internal graphic controller. This controller supports displays with resolutions of up to Full HD. This CPU module also enables the simultaneous connection of up to four displays with the possibility of displ...
They operate over frequencies ranging from 0.5 GHz to 40 GHz, depending on the model, and exhibit CW power handling up to 200W peak. Recovery times range from 10 ns to 100 ns. Consisting of seven limiter designs, the offering features limiting thresholds between 3 to 10 dBm, a leakage power of 10 to 15 dBm, and an operating temperature range from -54°C to +85°C. The 50Ω ...
The Integration Partner Program was introduced initially to bring together the contactless magnetostrictive sensing devices from MTS Sensors and the hydraulic cylinders available from the industry’s most prominent suppliers. Customers thus benefited from the company’s innovative wear-free Temposonics sensor mechanism, while being assured there would be no problem incorpo...
Today’s company networks comprise hundreds of devices: routers for directing data packets to the right receiver, firewall components for protecting internal networks from the outside world, and network switches. Such networks are extremely inflexible because every component, every router and every switch can carry out only the task it was manufactured for. If the network...
Steel, aluminum, magnesium, fiber-reinforced plastics: cars are built from a wide array of materials today. These have to be connected with each other reliably. To wit: even if the joints become loose in a crash, passengers must face no greater risk of injury than before. Manufacturers use their welding equipment for cars made entirely of steel. However, if you want to c...
The specific functions are synchronous operation (1:1 or with gear ratio), camming and positioning of the synchronous axes. The new functions are part of the DCB (Drive Control Block) extension function block library General Motion Control (GMC), which is available for downloading from the Siemens Industry Support web pages. The company says the advanced technology f...
Airports are now subject to careful security surveillance, but many coastal towns and ports are not; they often lack radar installations to keep track of small boats, meaning terrorists could easily use speedboats to approach the coastline and bring explosives on land. Now, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics F...
This will make it possible to precisely reconstruct even the processes going on inside materials and e.g. provide a reliable way of detecting minoscule faults. In medicine, X-rays provide high-resolution images of our insides to help doctors make a definitive diagnosis. Industry uses X-rays, too – as a reliable, non-destructive way of seeing what’s hidden on insid...
We encounter magnetic field sensors everywhere today – but few of us know it. These sensors make sure washing machines run concentrically, that headlights automatically adjust to the correct angle if a car is heavily loaded, or that we are warned if a seatbelt is not fastened right. If a mechanical movement is transformed into a rotation, the magnetic sensor detects this...
The sharper the image, the darker it is. A novel optical approach brings brightness and sharpness together for the first time on screens of any curvature – and additionally allows about 10,000-times faster projection rates. Researchers will be presenting their technology November 4-6 at Vision 2014 in Stuttgart. (Hall 1, Booth G42) The logo glows above the overhan...
They are used, for example, to monitor the status of the engines on airplanes, or for medical implants. They gather the energy they need for this from their immediate environment - from vibrations, for instance. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a process for the economical production of piezoelectric materials. They will unveil a preliminary demonstration model at t...
Fraunhofer researchers intend to boost efficiency with a new approach to digital logistics, without sacrificing the security of air freight operations. Thousands of freight items are shipped by plane every day, around seventy percent of them in airliners. Stringent controls are supposed to prevent hazardous substances such as explosives from being smuggled on boar...
“Wind turbines oscillate with displacements of up to a meter in magnitude, even at normal wind speeds. This represents a large load for the material, which can lead to damage and worst case to failure of an installation,” says Dr. Ilja Kaufmann from the Optronics Department of IOSB in Ettlingen. For this reason, operators continuously check how strong the oscillations ar...
The collaborative engineering and manufacturing firm Local Motors has announced that the car in this illustration will be 3D printed at this year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS). This car design—called “Strati” by its creator, Michele Anoé of Italy—was the winner out of more than 200 entries submitted to Local Motors’ 3D Printed Car Design Challenge....
There is a remarkable density of world-famous companies in San Jose, where names such as Apple, Google, and Facebook can be found. Silicon Valley stands for ingenuity, software developments, and unconventional people. Industry has now discovered this for itself. At first glance, you might think that industry and Silicon Valley would not be compatible. But if you take ...
Abstract What industries would find this most relevant? Chemicals Food, beverage, or tobacco Pharmaceuticals Which of your engineering specialties does this project best illustrate? Automation and control engineering (including designs and implementation) Control panels (including fabrication, installation, and UL listing) Data colle...
Abstract In conjunction with that expansion project, they have also replaced land line transmission to cellular circuits. Because cellular charges are flat rate unlimited usage the City is saving hundreds of dollars per month in telephone charges. What industries would find this most relevant? Chemicals Government or military Utilities or telecommunic...
Hexagon Metrology says its new 7.10.7 SF shop floor CMMs are specially designed to operate in harsh industrial environments. The new CMM’s computer, controller and interface boxes are housed in a self-contained unit for easy transport on the shop floor. It has a measuring stroke of 710mm x 1010mm x 680mm, and uses standard 110/220 volt single phase outlets with no ne...
A door has been opened to low-power off/on switches in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectronic devices, as well as ultrasensitive bio-sensors, with the first observation of piezoelectricity in a free standing two-dimensional semiconductor by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkele...
The Defender line of calibration instrumentation target portable or laboratory applications with DryCal technology for fast, ±1% of reading calibrations. Three instruments are available. The Defender 510 is a volumetric primary flow standard while the Defender 520 is an enhanced volumetric primary flow standard that also records ambient temperature and pressure condition...
