Industrial Electronics

Top-quality automation solutions. Inductive sensors – an indispensable element of modern automation Inductive sensors are an extraordinarily important group of control system components that is present in every automated industrial plant, but also more and more commonly in households. Thanks to their simple design and a wide array of sizes they guarantee very long and failure-free work, and the ever ...

CUI has introduced waterproof M12 sized circular connectors for 1Gbit Ethernet. The CDM12 family offers male or female versions with a choice of 3, 4, 5, 8 or 12 pins. The panel-mount A-coded connectors are IP67 rated once mated to deal with harsh industrial and factory automation environments. Operation is over -25 to 80°C. PCB pin, solder terminal and wire lead terminations ...

Omron is aiming at test and measurement with a miniature 200V 350mA mosfet opto-relay. In a 3.4 x 2.1mm P-SON (power small outline no lead) package and operating across -40 to +110°C, “this device can realise a current load of 75% higher than a comparable SOP4 type relay”, said the company, justifying this with the figure 49mA/mm2 for the P-SON relay and ...

TDK-Lambda has extended its CCG series of dc-dc converters further downward with the introduction of 3W and 1.5W models – in 2015 there were 30W CCG converters, reaching 15W the next year. The two new types have a lot in common. Firstly, they share a 15.7 x 10.4 x 11.5mm plastic case, with through-hole or surface-mount terminations (see photo). “On the ...

Binder, the circular connector specialist, has released short versions of its M16 series 423, aimed at use in space-critical applications, including harsh conditions. The shieldable circular connectors with screw locking that meet the IP67 acquirements when mated are suitable for typical, interference-prone industrial environments, says the company. With a length of approximately 47 mm, they are available as 2-pin to ...

Toshiba has introduced a mosfet load switch gate driver in a 1.2 x 0.8 x 0.35mm 6bump WCSP6G the chip-scale package, suiting it to wearables and smartphones, it said. The IC, called TCK421G, can separately drive the gates of a pair of back-to-back n-channel mosfets to make a reverse-blocking switch – useful when multiplexing power sources. If reverse blocking is not needed, ...

Powell Electronics is stocking Full Nelson heat shrink boots and AutoShrink cold-action shrink boots and sleeves from Glenair in Dublin for short lead times across Europe. Operation temperature is -75 to 175°C for heat shrink boots, and -65 to 300°C for cold-action shrink boots and sleeves. Both product ranges are lightweight and flexible, and neither require back-shells or break-out adapters. ...

TDK-Lambda is aiming at large industrial distributed power systems with a 45kW non-isolated ac-dc PSU. Called TPF45000-385 it can operate from can operate from 360 – 528Vac three-phase (delta or Y) and produces a stable 385Vdc. Input to ground isolation is 2kVac. Efficiency is up to 98%, allowing air cooling by internal variable speed fans. Operation is across -10 to +50°C ambients (-20°C start-up). ...

Toshiba has announced a three-phase brushless dc motor driver with sensor-less sinewave control. The IC, called TC78B011FTG, is a ‘pre-driver’ in the company’s nomenclature because it needs six external mosfets wired as a three-phase bridge to switch motor current. Operation is from 5.5 to 27V, and the same IC can implement either closed-loop or open-loop speed control, commanded through a ...

Those compression standards include H.264, VP8, VP9, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and VP8, and the computer’s multiple display options including HDMI and a DisplayPort interface on its USB Type-C connector, with up to 4K video resolution. Inside the box is Seco’s Solon motherboard (also called SBC-C31), and the single board computer’s connectivity options include: 2x Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0/3.0, 2 x RS-232 or RS-485 on ...