Industrial Electronics

Electrocube has created a series of metallised polypropylene film capacitors for high power inverters in military and commercial, land and sea, applications. Voltage ratings of 400, 600 and 1,000V are available, and capacitances from 100nF to 10μF, plus 15 and 20μ in the 400V range “Able to handle high surge currents without degrading, Electrocube’s 985B is a rugged, non-inductively wound ...

Rohm has developed a range of five 100V dual mosfets for single-phase or three-phase bridges in fan motor drives. Four of them are dual n-channel in 5 x 6mm or 3.3 x 3.3mm packages, and one has one n-channel and one p-channel mosfet in the same 5 x 6mm package. “Recent years have seen a transition to higher voltages from ...

Powerbox has announced a ruggedised 1,200W ac-dc power supply for ground-based defense applications and harsh industrial environments. Called OFD1200A and suitable for use inside sealed enclosures, it has a metal chassis and requires cooling by conduction though its baseplate – which needs to be maintained between -40 and +95°C (derating applies sometimes – see the product manual). Shock and vibration ...

Aaeon is aiming at industrial automation and digital signage with tiny stripped-down PCs built around Intel’s ‘Processor N-series’ (Alder Lake N) CPUs. Measuring 92 x 64 x 45.2mm ‘Up 7000 Edge’ PCs can be ordered with N200, N97, N100, or N50 processors. The first two get 8Gbyte of LPDDR5 memory and 64Gbyte of eMMC storage, the version with an N50 ...

Ideal Power is aiming to compete with smart IGBT modules, with a 1.2kV 160A (100°C, 240A at 25°C) power module built around its novel ‘B-Tran’ bi-direction semiconductor switch. Called IPA01216DFx-HS, it comes in an industry-standard 62mm package which includes an isolated driver circuit and “has significant advantages compared to IGBT modules, including lower losses and inherent bidirectionality”, according to the ...

Kontron has released an ATX server-class motherboard designed to bring Intel’s 4th and 5th generation Xeon scalable processors to embedded applications. Called K9051-C741, it has Intel’s C741 chipset, and an LGA4677 socket for processors up to 350W. DDR5 RDIMM memory is supported up to 768Gbyte and 5600Mtransfer/s. 10G Ethernet is supported through two RJ45 ports and there are six SATA ...

Nexperia has teamed up with Kyocera AVX to develop an industrial 650V 20A silicon carbide rectifier module. It is aimed at “high frequency power applications ranging from 3kW to 11 kW power stack designs [in] industrial power supplies, electric vehicle charging stations and on-board chargers,” according to Nexperia. It “has a low inductance package and it has been qualified to ...

Nexperia has announced a series of 500mA dual bipolar transistors that include base resistors within the 2 x 2 x 0.65mm package – there is a choice of SOT1118 (DFN2020-6) or AEC-Q101 automotive qualified versions in SOT1118D (DFN2020D-6) with wettable flanks. There are 12 devices, giving every combination of: package, NPN+NPN, NPN+PNP or PNP+PNP pairing and 1 or 2.2kΩ series ...

Schaffner is aiming at robots and other industrial applications with a range of three-phase mains interference filters. “FN3040, FN3041, FN3042 and FN3043 EMC filters are rated for currents of 10 to 30A at 50°C,” according to the company. “The tight-packaged filters are smaller than their predecessors yet offer superior performance.” Size is 128 x 63 x 50mm tall for the ...

Estone Technology has introduced a range of Arm processor 10.1in touch-panel PCs for industrial AI applications with neural network processing, camera interfaces and power-over-Ethernet. Called PPC-4910, computing comes from NXP’s i.MX8M Plus 1.8GHz quad Cortex-A53 core processor, which has an integrated AI/ML neural processing unit (NPU) operating at up to 2.3Top/s “that focuses on edge AI, vision processing and other ...