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The full agenda is now available for the upcoming Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS USA 2011 events - hear from speakers covering everything from technical developments to end user applications. This event gives you both broad scope and strong detail, whether you're looking for a glimpse at the whole market or details on your specific industry, we cover it all! Register to Attend by September 30 using 25% Early Bi...
Fraunhofer ISE inaugurates solar hydrogen filling station
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have inaugurated a solar hydrogen filling station. Sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment Baden-Wuerttemberg, the publically accessible filling station serves not only as a demonstration platform but also represents a milestone in the progressive network of hydrogen filling stations being set up in the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
High-speed Laser Scanners for Railways and Roads
Fraunhofer IPM had extremely fast laser scanners on show at the INTERGEO 2010 trade fair in Cologne, Germany. These eye-safe high-tech systems can record more than one million measuring points per second, measuring their distances down to a millimeter if required by customers or the application.
European Commission Backs First Project for Battery Switch
A consortium coordinated by Better Place and including Renault SA, Continental, Ernst & Young, TÜV Rheinland, KEMA and five leading European institutions today announced formal approval from the European Commission for an R&D program to make it easier for European automobile and battery manufacturers to build electric cars with switchable batteries. Today’s announcement is the first project for switchable battery electric cars approved by the ...
RESCAR 2.0 Enhances the Robustness of Electronic Automotive Components
Whether in the powertrain, in central control units or in body and convenience electronics – there is a constant increase in the proportion of electronic components used in the car. This trend is accompanied by growing complexity of the systems installed, meaning that designers are forever faced with new challenges in the fine tuning. Six partners from all levels of the development chain have now joined forces in a quest to come up with overarc...
OLED100.eu research consortium to spearhead the advancement of organic LED technology
OLED100.eu, an integrated research project, brings together a consortium of experts from leading industry and academic organizations to accelerate the development of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies in Europe. It receives €12.5 million funding by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme to form the technological basis for efficient OLED applications for the general lighting industry in Europe.
LASER World of PHOTONICS 2011 will present ultra-short pulsed lasers for micromaterial processing
New laser systems are making processes less energy-intensive and more accurate. In many cases innovative lasers enable certain production steps to be carried out, especially when micromaterial processing is involved – i.e. drilling, milling and cutting in the microscopically small range. The lasers used in this processes do not emit light continuously, they are “pulse” operated, i.e. they emit their light in time-limited, very short “puls...
igus launches wireless system and more
igus reinforced its global position as a leading manufacturer of Energy Chain Systems when it launched numerous new product innovations and extensions at the Hanover show in April. The company revealed it had kept pace with rapid developments in the area of cable-bound chain systems, but also with inductive and wireless data transmission solutions. The key advantages typified by the new product developments included: compact size, easy assembly, ...
Draw-wire sensors used for wind turbine rotor blade testing
Draw-wire displacement sensors from Micro-Epsilon are playing a vital role in the testing of the latest generation of wind turbine blades at the Fraunhofer Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.
Industrial robot turns into precise machining system
Accurate machining is usually carried out with machine tools or machining centers. This means high costs and workpiece sizes limited by geometrical factors. It would be significantly cheaper and more flexible if industrial robots could be used instead, but their inaccuracy has so far made this impossible. This inaccuracy arises from the long serial kinematics chain with only low stiffness. A different approach is now possible. It has not been nec...