Sensors

Point Grey today announced a new addition to the Grasshopper3 camera family, which features high quality, high resolution CCD sensors with a USB 3.0 interface. The new Grasshopper3 GS3-U3-60S6 camera models are based on color and monochrome versions of the fast and highly sensitive Sony ICX694, a 1 CCD featuring 4.54 micron square pixels and capable of sending 2736 x 2192 images at 13 FPS and maximum bit depth.

Measurement Specialties is set to release to production its new MS45x5HRD high resolution, digital pressure sensor modules. These sensors are a new generation of high resolution digital pressure sensors from MEAS with SPI or I2C interface up to 20MHz.

The new A1388 and A1389 linear Hall-effect sensor ICs from Allegro MicroSystems Europe are factory one-time programmable devices which eliminate the need for customers to optimise or program the devices for their finished sensor assemblies. The new sensor ICs are targeted at displacement and angular positioning sensing in the automotive, industrial and consumer market sectors.

Penny + Giles has published a new technical brochure for its latest CAN output contactless rotary position sensor, the SRH520CN. The brochure looks in brief at the features and benefits the SRH520CN offers and includes all ordering and technical information required by OEMs, including dimensions, performance levels, factory-set and configurable options, electrical connections, etc.

Gerhard Steiger, President of Chassis Systems Control, and Dr. Michael Bolle, Executive Vice President Engineering Car Multimedia, at the 61st Automotive Press Briefing in Boxberg, June 2013 All the forecasts agree: the number of vehicles manufactured worldwide will continue to increase, and traffic density with it. Nonetheless, a raft of measures introduced over the past few years have succeeded in significantly reducing the number of road d...

Imec presents a CMOS image sensor capable of capturing 12-bit 4,000x2,000pixel progressive images at 60 frames per second. Based on a stagger-laced dual exposure, the image sensor developed with Panasonic, was processed using imec’s 130nm CMOS process on 200mm silicon wafers to deliver high-speed and high-quality imaging, at reduced output bit rate.

The smallest pressure sensor from Fujikura has “dream dimensions” of 7 x 7 x 6.5 mm, is named the FGM and can be delivered with a measuring range of 0 - 140 mbar up to 10 bar in various subranges. The least expensive FGM model has a Wheatstone bridge which delivers a non-compensated output signal of approximately 100 mV when fed with a constant current of 1.5 mA. With the most convenient version, the XFGM, there is an ASIC directly on the sil...

In 2012, according to the ADAC breakdown statistics, the roadside-assistance crews of German automobile club ADAC had to respond 2.6 million times to one of the most nerve-wracking experiences that can befall a motorist – a breakdown. In one third of those cases – about 900,000 times – motorists summoned the ADAC because they could not start their cars. The reason: a dead or defective battery, making the battery the single most common cause...

TRW Automotive Holdings Corp is now delivering its next generation SPR4 (Snake Pretensioner Retractor) seat belt assembly for its worldwide customers and is launching the product in North America, Europe and China.

Micronas today announces the successful start-up of the TO92UP package line at the production site in Freiburg. The HAL 36xy and HAL 38xy sensor families based on the 3D HAL technology for advanced linear distance and angular measurement will be the first devices available in the TO92UP package.