This paper reviews the state of the art of electric drives technology in three specific areas (a) technical requirements of high−performance ac machines control, (b) most popular electrical machines and (c) control techniques. Key development trends including the dominance of ac adjustable speed drives in new applications,...
Published: Feb 21, 2019
Versatile hybrid connectors provide a new level of flexibility when cabling highly automated systems. Along with the established application for cabling servo motors, M23 and M40 hybrid connectors are well suited for a variety of sophisticated tasks.
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Published: Jul 17, 2018
QMatrix devices are digital charge-transfer (QT) ICs designed to detect touch using a scanned, passive matrix of electrode sets to achieve a large number of touch keys driven by a single chip.
This configuration leads to a high pin count efficiency in the sensing chip and allows for a small number of connections between...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
The range of battery-powered devices extends from powerful hand tools for craftsmen, to sensors for room surveillance all the way through life-saving medical aids. The safety of such devices presents quite a challenge.
To ensure the safe operation of standalone devices, SCHURTER offers two SMD fuses with low power...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Large- and medium-sized enterprises have been widely deploying 10G Ethernet for several years. Their data center infrastructure has been primarily architected around duplex OM3 and OM4 multimode fiber (MMF), since most of the switch port interfaces are multimode 10GBASE-SR using the SFP+ transceiver form factor.
As...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
For testing new designs of battery holders, MPD fabricated min-max sized battery slugs. The slugs proved to be a great aid to our engineering staff in several ways. First off is saving time and money by not having to shop for several brands of batteries to confirm that your design works with common batteries.
They...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Monitoring and managing are becoming ever more important aspects of our modern world. Nowhere is this more important than within buildings where sensors are being deployed to monitor and manage the environment in which we live and work as well as provide security and management of energy usage.
However, despite the...
Published: Jul 20, 2021
Fiber-optic circular connectors optimize data transmission from the field to the control level. As the required data volumes and transmission speeds increase with the automation level, copper-based data cabling has its limits. New M12 Optic connectors meet the requirements of complex automation processes. Based on...
Published: Jul 18, 2018
This whitepaper includes a review of differential pair properties and how they differ between tightly and loosely coupled pairs. Also a description of test set-up used to look at signal integrity through several different differential pair architectures. The results are then shown and the information is concluded. ...
Published: Jul 17, 2018
Utilizing high quality pressure, load, and torque sensors, and selecting the correct design and installation for the application are critical to ensuring data integrity for the measurement system. To be successful, the following information must be understood: the basic operating parameters of pressure, load, and torque...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
TE Connectivity’s new POWER TRIPLE LOCK (PTL) connector solution directly responds to the appliance industry’s desire for increased reliability and functionality, security and ease of use.
The world demand for major household appliances, or white goods, is forecast to rise 3.6% annually through 2015, exceeding...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
It is apparent that many older specifcations for government and military security contacts were based around the misconception that Balanced Magnetic Switches (BMS) or Triple balanced reed switches provide the highest possible security. While it is true that BMS / Triple balanced reed devices do provide “better”...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
A Heat Sink’s thermal rating can be effectively improved by increasing air flow over its exposed surface area.
Closed extrusion profiles or so called “chimney” designs can arguably improve convection air flow verses “open” profiles by virtue of increased convection air velocity...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
We’re seeing connectivity reaching everywhere and reaching further, with Internet traffic volume exploding and data-storage needs growing at hard-to-comprehend rates.
The amount of physical infrastructure, connectivity and electrical power required to support this growth is astounding. This infrastructure —...
Published: Jul 24, 2018
