Panasonic Electronic Components Encoders
Panasonic Electronic Components' Encoders convert the manual rotary operation of an actuator or knob into coded signal outputs. The operation is similar to
Tag: Sensors And Transducers
Thinking outside the chip for MEMS design success
This is the first article of a series addressing key issues in creating systems employing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices . .
Smart accelerometer needs less than half of previous devices’ board space
Said to be the world’s smallest LGA-packaged accelerometer, the BMA220 MEMS digital triaxial g sensor has a 2 x . .
Smart MEMS sensor makes handhelds aware of both location and movement
Said to be the first three-axis gyroscope with an embedded hardware accelerator engine for motion processing, the MPU-3000 motion-processing . .
Flexible, high-temperature force sensor opens new measurement possibilities — Tekscan
Technologies such as load cells are too bulky or obtrusive to measure loads in some tight spaces; that’s where . .
MEMS device combines linear, angular motion sensing in one package
The MEMS-based LSM320HAY30 multiaxis motion-sensor module combines a three-axis digital accelerometer and a two-axis analog gyroscope in a single . .
Project MEMS
From simple RC oscillators, accurate to about 30,000 ppm, to atomic clocks with accuracies of greater than 0.001 ppb, . .
MEMS gyro packs 360 degrees of freedom in a single package
Said to be the first high-performance analog three-axis gyroscope, the LYPR540AH aims to promote widespread adoption of realistic-motion user . .
Multi-touch interfaces
Multi-touch human interfaces promise to impact the world in much the same way the first graphical user interfaces did. . .
MEMS modeling from design to manufacturing
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are rapidly becoming an indispensable part of the design and fabrication of intelligent systems. Bridging the . .