Solardyne Corp. (Portland, OR) recently announced the new Solar Power Pack, a portable solar power generation system. Solardyne claims that the Solar Power Pack, which weighs 22 pounds, fits in a backpack and provides users with the tools they need to provide 120Wh of power each day. The unit can be used to power electronics […]
BMW (Munich, Germany) and Delphi Automotive Systems (Troy, MI) have unveiled a development vehicle that is equipped with a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The development vehicle uses the SOFC as the key component in an auxiliary power unit (APU), which could generate electrical energy for a wide range of potential vehicle systems and allows […]
Robots developed around Linear Drives Ltd.'s (LDL, UK) tubular linear motors helped push the German Research Centre to success in the recent culmination of the first draft of the Human Genome Project (HGP). The Resource Centre used X, Y, Z cartesian robots driven by LDL's motors for three different tasks: high-density filter spotting, clone-picking, and […]
Power Paper Ltd. (Israel) has developed Power Paper, a new battery technology that allows open-celled batteries to be printed on paper or...
Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Air Liquide (France) announced their agreement to form a joint venture to be based in Sassenage, France, near Grenoble. The company, whose name has not yet been announced, will develop and market, on a global scale, complete power production systems based on fuel cell and fuel processor technology. […]
National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) launched a new series of constant-current switched capacitor power converters, LM2791-H/L and LM2792-H/L. These converters are designed for white LED display lighting and can power both backlight and frontlight LEDs found in color displays for mobile handsets, PDAs and digital cameras. Designed to regulate multiple outputs matched to within […]
Metering Technology Corp. (MTC, San Diego, CA) and NexusData (Grapevine, TX) have announced an agreement to integrate NexusData's electric meter AMR transmitter modules with MTC's solid state electric meters. When integrated with NexusData's FixNet AMR System, the transmitter will read the consumption information from the MTC meter, transmit the information to a receiver site located […]
Taiyo Yuden Inc.'s (San Marcos, CA) power systems group announces the Model LS650, an ultra-compact cold-cathode fluorescent tube (CCFT) inverter for brightness...
ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) announced an addition to their sub-1V IC family. The new NCS2001 is a low-power, rail-to-rail input and output CMOS operational amplifier that provides sub-1V interfaces, active filters, PCMCIA cards, ASIC input drivers and DSP interfaces. The NCS2001 is housed in a SOT-23-5 package with two industry-standard pinouts. Additional features of the […]
AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) recently introduced PolyTect Soft Molding, an engineering-grade polymer for overmolding fully-populated printed circuit boards. AVX claims that PolyTect allows for a one-step process that molds a single piece, replacing the typical application consisting of a two-piece plastic housing and conventional potting. PolyTect Soft Molding can be used to protect fully-populated […]
The power systems department of Eagle-Picher Technologies LLC (Colorado Springs, CO) celebrated the recent successful touchdown of NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)...
Moltech Power Systems (Gainesville, FL) has expanded its power options for portable electronics with its newest lithium-ion standard battery pack. The NI2040A17,...
Duracell (Bethel, CT) recently introduced the Duracell Ultra CR-V3. An extension to the Duracell Ultra line of photo lithium batteries, the CR-V3 was designed to meet the power demands of the growing number of CR-V3 compatible digital cameras. The company claims that the new battery lasts up to twice as long as any other commercially […]
Electrofuel Inc. (Toronto, Canada) has announced its results for the quarter ended December 31, 2000. Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2001 was $123,709, reflecting sales of the PowerPad160 rechargeable laptop computer battery from the Company's low-volume production plant in Toronto. The company had no revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2000. Research […]
ABB Electricity Metering (Raleigh, NC) announced that it has been awarded a $2.2 million contract by the Egyptian Electricity Authority (EEA), a subsidiary of the Egyptian Electricity Holding Co., to provide its AIN ALPHA meters, software and hand-held equipment to support the EEA's Time of Day Metering Project. The AIN ALPHA meters are designed to […]