Sensors

With the new Focus, Ford has become the first non-premium automaker to win two Euro NCAP Advanced rewards.

Melexis newest generation of Triaxis sensors bring second generation advancements to challenging applications in harsh environments. The Triaxis technology has proven to be a leading solution to a variety of position sensing requirements. EGR Valves, Turbo Wastegate Actuators, Electronic Throttle Body solutions, Steering angle, Suspension Height, Transmission Clutch; Shift and Fork position and Human Machine Interface are among the successful pro...

New safety systems being fitted to British cars are set to save thousands of pedestrian injuries and dozens of lives each year, it has been revealed.

The continuous shortage on Hall Effect sensors in the market is generating big troubles on the industrial field and, of course, also in PV and eolic inverters manufacturers.

Gentex Corporation has announced that it is supplying auto-dimming mirrors with its SmartBeam® high-beam headlamp assist technology for the all-new 2011 Dodge Durango and Dodge Charger. The Durango, a full-size support utility vehicle (SUV), and the Charger, a world-class performance sedan, are both currently being sold in the United States and Canada.

Gentex Corporation has announced that it is shipping interior auto-dimming rearview mirrors for Nissan's 2011 Leaf. The Leaf, a four-door hatchback being sold around the globe, is available in the U.S. with auto-dimming mirrors on both the SV and SL trim levels.

Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced the TPIC71004-Q1 four-channel squib driver for airbag deployment, providing an optimized integrated catalog device that is reliable and cost-effective. The four-channel squib device is part of a family of multi-squib driver devices that allow flexibility for airbag designers to quickly and cost-effectively scale their design to the needs of their system. The family joins TI’s product portfolio...

Texas Instruments today unveiled the industry’s smallest, most power-efficient digital temperature sensor. The TMP103 consumes 97 percent less power and is 75 percent smaller than the next closest competitor. It also provides global read/write functionality to ease thermal profiling. Using a single command, eight TMP103 devices mounted on the board can simultaneously identify and monitor hotspots. The TMP103 simplifies thermal profiling whi...

Unitronic will present at SENSOR+TEST 2011 in Nuremberg from 7th to 9th June, 2011 (Booth 12-638, Hall 12) a sensor module, with which volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air can be recognized very quickly and with very high accuracy thanks to a special sampling process.

Integrated Device Technology today introduced a new family of low-power, precision temperature sensors targeted at Double Data Rate 2 and 3 (DDR2 and DDR3) memory modules, Solid State Drives (SSD), and computing motherboards. These new devices complement IDT’s PCI Express®, signal integrity, flash memory controller, power management, and timing products to offer a rich set of application optimized enterprise computing solutions.