Sensors

Standex-Meder Electronics announces its 3-dimensional magnetic mapping capabilities for reed sensors. This process allows designers to more accurately place sensors and magnetic components within a system, thus eliminating any issues that may result in faulty operation.

ams AG manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs and sensors for consumer, industrial and automotive applications, has introduced a new family of magnetic rotary position sensors with advanced safety features for automotive applications requiring ISO26262 compliance.

Microchip announces its patented GestIC technology, which enables the next dimension in intuitive, gesture-based, non-contact user interfaces for a broad range of end products. The MGC3130 is the world’s first electrical-field-based, configurable 3D gesture controller, offering low-power, precise, fast and robust hand position tracking with free-space gesture recognition.

Penny + Giles is helping gearbox specialist Geartronics to significantly improve the shift times and reliability of its motorsport paddleshift system using Penny + Giles SRH280DP Hall effect rotary sensors.

Creating a better signal path is the secret to getting the most of your MEMS sensors. The performance of a MEMS sensor is largely determined by the quality of the MEMS device itself. It seems obvious, does it not? And yet, it’s not true – or rather, it’s not wholly true. In fact, the specifications of the interface to the MEMS device have a large impact on the quality and strength of signal from the MEMS device.

Silicon Laboratories today introduced a digital relative humidity (RH) and temperature “sensor-on-a-chip” solution. The new Si7005 sensor advances the state of the art in RH sensing by combining a mixed-signal IC manufactured on standard CMOS with a proven technique of measuring humidity using a polymer dielectric film.

Pulse have unveiled the latest addition to the Sidewinder product line-up, the PA3209NL. Responding to customer requests to extend this sensor technology to a wider range of their applications, Pulse has created this larger inner diameter product to accommodate current carrying conductors up to 0.750 inches (19.05mm) in diameter, or the industry standard 0.750 in. x 0.093 in. (19.05mm x 2.36mm) buss bar.

Penny + Giles is supplying its STT280 tilt sensors to Stellar Industries for a boom angle positioning application on its range of truck-mounted telescopic winch-line cranes.

Willow Technologies highly acclaims Yamaha’ latest sensational, tiny 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.65mm, Tri-axial Geomagnetic Sensor IC, for smartphones and tablet PCs. Yamaha continues to develop ever smaller sensors to exceed the demands of the smartphone and tablet PC market. The new YAS532 is 56% smaller than its predecessor, the YAS530.

Bosch Sensortec is sampling the absolute orientation sensor BMX055, the first 9-axis sensor in the market with all components – accelerometer, gyroscope and geomagnetic sensor – developed and manufactured in house. With a footprint of 3.0 x 4.5 mm2, the sensor is at the same time the smallest on the market.