Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) announced its new IEC Metric Frame motor range, which provides substantial weight savings compared with cast-iron...
Cree Inc. (Durham, NC) expanded its zero-recovery rectifier product line with the introduction of a 20A, 600V, SiC Schottky diode in a...
Emco Electronics (India) announced its new EE-302 power relay, which can be used for regulating the secondary voltage of power transformers with a motor drive on the load tap charger, and that comes with LED indicators that show pre-signal conditions and relay operations. The microcontroller-based device is programmable through a membrane keyboard, with the commands […]
Nanchang Jiujiu Electronics General Fty (China) announced its new CBB61 Series of metal film capacitors, which are specifically designed for ac current...
ACDelco (Grand Blanc, MI), in conjunction with Daka Development Ltd. (Kowloon, Hong Kong) announced its Faraday Star flashlight, which uses no batteries, no light bulbs and no replacement parts. The flashlight is based on the principal of Faraday's law of induction, which transforms simple motion into light and has only one moving part. The Faraday […]
Caddock Electronics Inc. (Riverside, CA) announced its new 27th Edition of the General Catalog, which contains all of Caddock's newest models of...
LEM USA Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) announced the development of its new LF Series for non-intrusive and isolated current measurement of dc, ac...
LEM USA Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) introduced a new approach for sensors through the HOP, HTR and HT current transducer series. The new...
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) launched the first iNTERO® programmable, isolated-intelligent, power module (PI-IPM), the PIIPM50P12B004, which integrates the power...
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced the new IRIS4009 integrated switcher, which combines a control IC and a low-loss, rugged...
Siliconix Inc. (Santa Clara, CA), a subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA), announced seven new temperature- and current-sensing TrenchFETs in a thermally enhanced D2PAK package. The new 30V to 75V TrenchFETs are designed for any application requiring temperature or current sensing, such as motor drives and valve drives, as well as industrial and automotive […]
Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Township, NJ) and Invensys plc (Chippenham, England) announced that Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) has signed an agreement to acquire Invensys Sensor Systems for $415.0 million in cash. Invensys Sensor Systems, a leading supplier of sensors and controls used in the medical, office automation, aerospace, HVAC, automotive and consumer appliance […]
IXYS Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Advanced Power Technology Inc. (Bend, OR). The complaint alleges infringement of two of IXYS' key patents, Patent 5,486,715 and Patent 5,801,419, both of which are entitled "High-Frequency MOS Device." The patent infringement complaint was filed in the US District Court, […]
Parker Compumotor (Rohnert Park, CA), a division of Parker Hannifin Corp., introduced its new small, low-voltage, digital (SLVD) drives that measure 5.56in...
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL, Northbrook, IL) and China National Import and Export Commodities Inspection Corp. (CCIC, China) signed a joint venture agreement to establish UL Mei Hua Certification Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China). The new company should begin operations in January 2003. UL and CCIC each will have 50-percent ownership of the joint venture and together […]