Passives

Available from specialist distributor Switchtec, Hongfa’s HF3FD ‘sugar cube’ relay is aimed specifically at the white goods market and as such will find favour with OEMs, CEMs, manufacturers of brown goods, home automation, domestic products and general equipment manufacturers.

C&K Components has developed a 14-function navigation switch. Designated SensoNav, the switch combines sensitive touch and tactile functions while guaranteeing an extended life span of 1 million actuations per direction.

knitter-switch, has made available a new series of sealed tact switches that are ideal for a variety of industrial and medical systems applications where protection to IP67 is required. According to knitter-switch, the new TS 12 and TSS 12 series are direct equivalents to Rafi’s RACON 12 switches. They provide the user with an excellent tactile feedback and offer a long operational life of at least one million cycles as well as being sealed wit...

TTI, Inc is adding Evox Rifa EMI Metallised Paper (MP) capacitors from Kemet to its extensive product range. Benefitting from Evox Rifa’s 60 year history of commitment to top quality product design, the MP capacitors offer the highest possible level of operational safety regarding passive and active flammability.

TTI, Inc is introducing Bourns’ new 2010mm (0805) MF-PSMF series resettable PTC thermistors, claimed to be the smallest devices of their type available on the market. The new MF-PSMF series compliments Bourns’ 4532mm (1812) sized series of PTCs, MF-MSMF devices, which have long been the standard PTC of choice among USB port designers for industrial I/O devices.

Syfer Technology has won a 2008 Queen’s Award for Enterprise. This highly prestigious award for Innovation is for the development of Syfer’s FlexiCap capacitor termination technology. Syfer joins the ranks of other leading UK innovators recognised this year for making a significant contribution to British industry, including Du Pont, Land Rover, Picsel Technologies and Symbian.

Lorlin's RA series of robust, multi-pole rotary switches has long been a favourite of system designers. With increased demands for application specific designs and competitors raising minimum order vales to meet offshore manufacturing requirements the Lorlin RA series is more competitive switch solution than ever.

Murata’s GRM02 series of 01005 chip capacitors is now available in W4P1 plastic tape packaging. This new tape is 4mm wide and has a pitch of 0.1mm, saving around 75% of the volume of packaging material waste compared to the previous tape packaging. As the new tape is plastic, it reduces the amount of fluff and dust produced by at least 90% over the old paper tape. Class 1000 clean mounting processes can now be applied to the GRM02 series, so th...

The E-T-A 8345 series of single and multi-pole combined toggle switches and magnetic circuit breakers is now available in the UK from Aerco. With a current rating from 0.1A to 125A, which is 25A above the industry norm, at up to 240AC or 110VDC, these compact breakers have a well-proven design, are highly robust and have a fast and accurate switching performance.

TAIYO YUDEN (U.S.A.) INC. has announced the immediate availability of its BRC1608 series of high-current, wire-wound power inductors in EIA 0603 case size. Touted as the smallest power inductors available, BRC1608 devices measure just 1.6 mm L x 0.8 mm W x 0.8 mm H (all dimensions ± 0.2 mm). In addition to small size, the eight models offer an excellent combination of low DC resistance (0.06 to 0.55 Ohms), high inductance (0.2 to 2.2 µH) and h...