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Silicon Valley: Doctor Heal Thyself
Silicon Valley in California spawns the awesome giants that hold the future in their hands but they cannot solve their traffic problem. Airbus Helicopters from Europe has the Vahana project, creating an autonomous flying vehicle platform for individual passenger and cargo transport, mimicking car sharing, with flight tests in 2017. Reliable sense-and-avoid technology is still needed. Airbus predicts global demand of millions, meaning low costs. ...
Li-ion battery challengers: how to access the market?
Today, there is a relatively large variety of different battery technologies that can challenge Li-ion batteries. Under its report entitledBeyond Li-ion Batteries: Present & Future Li-ion Technology Challengers, Yole Développement (Yole) identifies: NAS, Li-S, Na-ion, Mg-ion, Li-air, zinc-air and flow batteries and LIC. Some of these technologies are at the R&D stage and some are already in commercial production.
Facility brings advanced manufacturing jobs to Tennessee
The presence of Ficosa has been boosted in the US by the opening of a manufacturing facility in Cookeville, Tennessee. With an investment of over $50m, the plant is equipped with the sector’s latest technology, becoming the most advanced in Ficosa’s global portfolio.
Industry partnership to enable the connected factory
Track, Trace and Control (TTC) solutions provider for the electronics manufacturing industry, Cogiscan, has announceda strategic initiative in their long-term partnership withPanasonic Factory SolutionsCompany of America. The programme combines both companies’ leading products to enable the connected factory, the cornerstone of Industry 4.0.
Are we on the verge of a worldwide battery crisis?
The worldwide battery market is currently undergoing something of a renaissance thanks to the growing demand for long-life, high power batteries across consumer electronics, industrial, military and the hybrid electric vehicles sectors. Neil Oliver, Technical Marketing Manager, Accutronics, discusses the future of the battery market.
High endurance capacitors suited to low ESR applications
High endurance aluminium electrolytic capacitors of the Panasonic’s new V-FT series are available at Rutronik. They come with high capacitance and extremely low ESR values. The aluminium electrolytic capacitors benefit from a long life time of up to 5,000 hours (2.5 times more than former FT series devices) at temperatures of up to +105°C.
Passives portfolio strengthened by power inductors
The extensive portfolio of high-quality cost-effective passive devices at RS Components has been augmented with a raft of popular ranges from Panasonic. RS is adding 1500 new lines to its current stock of more than 15,500 passive components from Panasonic. These include power inductors and inductor choke coils to add more depth to the existing range of resistors, inductors and capacitors.
BLE & NFC combo module consumes zero power in standby mode
Designed for implementing Bluetooth functionality into various electronic devices, Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe announces a short-range, BLE and NFC combo module. The cost-effective PAN1761 series is based on a leading edge Toshiba SoC and supports both BLE functionality v4.1 and NFC through a NFC Forum Type 3 compliant tag.
Electric double layer capacitors offer low resistance & guaranteed long life
Panasonic announces its HL Series Electric Double Layer Capacitors (ELDCs), which offer low resistance combined with guaranteed long life over a wide temperature range, from -40 to +65°C. Panasonic HL Series gold capacitors are wound radial lead type devices, which achieve far better capacitance compared to aluminium electrolytic capacitors (up to 1,000 times greater) and superior charge and discharge performance compared with secondary batte...
Pain management market continues to grow
It's estimated that 20% of adults are suffering from pain globally and consumers’ choice for at-home treated pain relief has expanded from analgesics to a combination of devices that were once found only in doctors’ or physical therapists’ offices. According to Kline’s recently published Pain Management Devices: Global Market Analysis and Opportunities report series, the consumer market for these devices has grown at a rat...