GNB Industrial Power (Lombard, IL) announced a new, actively cooled, 48V, sealed lift-truck battery, the Champion battery. The Champion battery is used...
Neckar Motoren (Germany) has released its IP65 range of ac and dc brushless motors and gearboxes. All units have totally enclosed terminal...
Baldor (UK) has announced a new generation of all-in-one drives with integral motion-control capabilities. The new intelligent drives are updated versions of the intelligent drives Baldor released three years ago. They now feature a plug-on configuration of field-bus and encoder interfacing, as well as higher through-put and operation from three-phase supplies.
NEC Corp. (Japan) has developed the NB/P Series of conductive-polymer, solid electrolytic capacitors fabricated using niobium. The initial product, the NBPD0E227M, has a capacitance of 220uF. Its ESR is 55mohms maximum and its dc-rated voltage is 2.5V. It features a D case size, measuring 7.3mm x 4.3mm x 2.8mm. With a shape and structure identical […]
Micrel Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced that it has increased the operating frequency of its SupwerSwitcher SO-8 buck regulator to 500KHz....
H Power (Clifton, NJ) has developed the PowerPEM PS500, a 500W fuel cell supply intended for primary or backup power in telecommunications...
General Semiconductor (Melville, NY) reports that it is developing a 200-million-cell-per-square-inch technology that promises to shrink power MOSFETs in half while simultaneously producing four times as many as before. The devices, called GENFETs, will be suitable for use in cellular phones, notebook computers, PDAs and other wireless devices. The GENFETs are produced using the company's […]
B&K Precision Corp. (Placentia, CA) announced the addition of the light-weight, hand-held Battery Capacity Analyzer Model 600 to its product line. The...
GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA) introduced the latest additions to its VersaMax family of micro PLCs, two new ac-powered CPU models and...
Micrel Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced the first two devices in a new generation of micropower CMOS low-dropout (LDO) regulators for...
Lambda (UK) announced a new series of ultra-compact, quarter-brick, single-output dc/dc power modules. With seven patents pending, the PAQ Series offers a...
Micrel Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) has developed a 4MHz rail-to-rail operational amplifier that operates from a 2.7V supply while consuming 81uW. The...
Baldor (UK) has introduced a new range of servo-motors designed to withstand high-pressure cleaning. Baldor claims that the WBSM Series, introduced at PPMA 2001, delivers higher speeds, accelerations and positioning accuracies. Application areas for the series include bio-pharmaceutical, food packaging and processing lines. Among the protection features incorporated into the WBSM Series are white epoxy […]
Powerline (UK) announced the new Delta SM Series of switch-mode dc power supplies suitable for benchtop- or rack-mounting. The units weigh about 10kg and accept an input-voltage range from 90Vac to 265Vac at 50Hz to 60Hz, or 125Vdc to 380Vdc. Different versions are available with a variety of voltage and current ratings from 15V to […]
Allegro MicroSystems Europe (UK) debuted the A8906CLB, a bi-directional, three-phase, brushless dc motor controller/driver IC with back-EMF sensing. The new device incorporates self-contained, back-EMF sensing motor startup and running algorithms. A programmable digital frequency-locked loop speed-control circuit, together with linear current-control circuitry, provides motor-speed regulation. The device's serial port allows the user to program various […]