Emech & Enclosures

Rutronik is aiming at 3-phase industrial control cabinets with a DIN-rail mount mains filter series from Schurter. “The housing, with a width of just 44mm, requires extremely little space on the mounting rail,” said distributor Rutronik. “The single-stage filter is available as a standard version or with high attenuation. FPAC RAIL impresses above all with its leakage current of just ...

Pickering has introduced a reed relay that can stand-off 20kV. “The relay features 12.5kV switching at a maximum of 50W,” according to the company. “Tungsten-plated contacts ensure a long and reliable life, supporting up to 100 million operations when cold switching.” Footprint is 63.5 x 19mm, and they have coil terminals on the bottom and the high-voltage contact terminals on ...

EBE Sensors + Motion has introduced a touch sensor evaluation board for challenging environments. It implements a technology branded ‘TCRC’, which is aimed at operating panels in industry, construction machinery, medical environments and kitchens, for example. “Whether in freezing cold, tropical heat, wet, or dusty environments, TCRC sensors work reliably,” claimed EBE. “They can be operated with gloves or dirty ...

Wevo has created three soft potting compounds that can be used “for wire bonds and inductive components such as chokes or transformers, either with or without ferrite cores”, it said, adding that they “offer excellent protection against mechanical stresses [and] also enable thermal management”. All of them are silicones which pour with a standard viscosity of under 5,000mPa·s, suiting them ...

Toshiba has created a pair of highspeed photo relays for pin-switching in semiconductor test equipment. “Improved infrared LEDs and optimised photodiode arrays in these models enable switch-on times to be reduced to 150µs while maintaining signal quality,” according to distributor Rutronik, which is stocking the parts. “In addition, the S-VSON4T package saves space on the circuit board.” – it measures ...

Nanotec has introduced a driver for stepper and brush-less dc (BLDC) motors with sensor-less closed-loop and field-oriented control (FOC). Intended for steppers from NEMA 14 to NEMA 34 and BLDC motors up to NEMA 23 “its sensor-less closed-loop control provides precise management of torque and speed”, according to the company. A additional ‘safe torque off’ (STO) function is in the ...

Same Sky has created an absolute encoder family for motor shafts from 9 to 15.875mm (5/8inch). Called AMT25 and said to be accurate to ±0.2°, the family relies on the same in-house capacitive ASIC for sensing as all of its AMT series encoders, which is claimed to resist environmental particulates. Outputs options are 12 or 14bit, both over a bi-directional ...

Antenna maker Taoglas has started manufacturing enclosures that include antennas. Called the Thunder series, the enclosures allow a router to be mounted outdoors, right next to the antenna “significantly reducing the need for long RF cables – cutting tens of meters per deployment – minimising signal loss”, according to the company. There are 14 ABS enclosures covering seven routers from ...

Not known for making microcontrollers, Allegro Microsystems has picked a 40MHz Arm Cortex-M4 as the processing heart of a series of stand-alone three-phase automotive brushless motor driver ICs for rails up to 90V. The parts are: 60V motor, 5.0V I/O, 252kbyte flash A89211GEVSR 60V motor, 3.3V I/O, 128kbyte flash A89211GEVSR-A 90V motor, 5.0V I/O,  252kbyte flash A89212GEVSR 90V motor, 3.3V ...

Menlo Microsystems is demonstrating a way to scale its MEMS relays – micro electromechanical relays – to “power distribution and control systems to 10MW and beyond” today at PICM in Nuremberg. Based on the company’s MM9200 300V 10A single-pole single-throw switch, the demonstration is of technology behind a 1,000V and 10,000A circuit breaker being designed for the US Navy. According ...