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932Batteries and Portable PowerApollo Installs First Power Plant at Hydrolec
Apollo Energy Systems Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) announced that it has installed a 2.5kW stationary power plant at Hydrolec Inc. (Jacksonville, FL)....
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Batteries and Portable Power
Intersil Opens New Design Center in Dallas
Intersil Corp. (Irvine, CA) announced the opening of a new Dallas-based design center with full front-to-back capabilities including applications, IC design, product engineering and test development, to focus on front-end to back-end Endura power management technologies to further push the company into portable, hand-held and 48V markets. Plans are to staff the facility with about […]
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Automotive Electronics
IR Reports December Quarter 2002 Results
For the quarter ended December 2002, International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) reported net income of $10 million, or $0.16 per share, excluding charges, on revenues of $209.5 million, compared to net income of $10.8 million, or $0.17 per share, on revenues of $172.1 million in the prior-year quarter. Including charges of $179.8 million […]
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Components
IXYS Intros New Discrete NPT 1,700V IGBTs
IXYS Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) has announced the availability of a new line of 1,700V IGBTs, which provide a cost-effective solution for applications requiring 1,700V power switching. The devices are suitable for pulsed lasers, capacitive discharge circuits, defibrillators, as well as other high-voltage industrial and instrumentation applications. The high speed "A" devices are intended for […]
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Communications Power
O2Micro Receives Patent for DC/DC Converter IC
O2Micro International Ltd. (Santa Clara, CA), a supplier of power management and security ICs to mobile computer and communications manufacturers, was granted 23 claims under US patent # 6,459,602 for its Direct Current-to-Direct Current (DC/DC) Converter IC with improved transient response. "This patent grant is key to O2Micro's family of power-efficient, low-cost dc/dc products for […]
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1.1KBatteries and Portable PowerCE+T Debuts New Arcon ST Range Inverters
CE+T s.a. (Wandre, Belgium), a leading company developing digital inverter power solutions, has now completed its range of lower-end, fail-safe, bypass systems....
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Batteries and Portable Power
Grove Fuel Cell Symposium Issues Call for Papers
Contributions are now invited for oral and poster presentations at the Eighth Grove Fuel Cell Symposium – Building Fuel Cell Industries that will take place September 24-26, 2003, in London. Submissions are invited from all sections of the industry and academia, with particular emphasis on the importance of innovation and new ideas in advancing fuel […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
HEDEPS 2003 to Be Held in Nice, France
The High Energy Density Electrochemical Power Sources Conference (HEDEPS) 2003 will be held at the Hotel Negresco in Nice, France, September 17-20, 2003. The deadline for abstract submission is February 16, 2003, the deadline for registration is April 28, 2003, and the deadline for manuscript submission is June 28, 2003. The conference will evaluate the […]
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Power Components
Lattice Semiconductor Launches ispPAC PLDs
Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, OR) announced the launch of a new family of ispPAC® mixed-signal, programmable logic devices (PLDs) for power management, which features in-system programmable analog and logic blocks, and provides optimized power supply management functions critical to the operation of multiple power supply electronic systems. The first device in the ispPAC family, the […]
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917Power Quality ProtectionAPC Issues Safety Recall for Back-UPS CS Products
In cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), American Power Conversion Corp. (APC, West Kingston, RI) is voluntarily recalling certain...
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Batteries and Portable Power
LTC Reports Improved Sales and Profits
Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) announced that net sales for its second quarter ended December 29, 2002, were $145,045,000, an increase of 20 percent over net sales of $121,266,000 for the second quarter of the previous year. The company also reported net income for the quarter of $56,163,000, or $0.18 diluted earnings per share, […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Acumentrics Delivers SOFC UPSs to ChevronTexaco
Acumentrics Corp. (Westwood, MA) has delivered an additional five, fully integrated, rapid-start, solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC), uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) to ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures (Houston, TX) under the terms of a purchase order. Applications for the BB-SOFC™ include outdoor 90Vac broadband backup, and output dc or 120Vac for telecom and computer backup applications. The BB-SOFC™ […]
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Power Quality Protection
AMSC Sells Voltage Regulation System to Nordex
American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC, Westborough, MA) announced the sale of a 1 mega-VAR D-VAR™ voltage regulation system to wind turbine manufacturer Nordex USA Inc. The D-VAR system is one-eighth the power rating of the full-size D-VAR systems AMSC has sold during the last year. The new, lower-power rating system is specially designed to be used […]
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Power Quality Protection
Japan Environment Ministry to Test Hydrogen Method
The Japan Environment Ministry will begin testing a method for mass-producing hydrogen without creating carbon dioxide to meet the fuel needs of hydrogen fuel cells, according to government officials. The Ministry plans to produce hydrogen using electrolysis technology at an offshore wind-power generation facility next fiscal year. The ministry decided to use wind power as […]
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Power Quality Protection
Cape Wind Selects GE Wind Energy
Cape Wind LLC (Yarmouth Port, MA), the nation's first offshore wind farm, has chosen GE Wind Energy (Tehachapi, CA) as the wind turbine manufacturer for its planned net 420MW offshore project on Horseshoe Shoal off the coast of Cape Cod. By selecting the GE Wind offshore wind turbine, Cape Wind will reduce the number of […]
