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Sensor Sense: Cylinder-Position Sensors
Cylinder-position sensors are used in pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders.
Scanning for Ideas: A Modular, Versatile Battery
The Nanobattery from mPhase Technologies, Little Falls, N.J. (mphasetech.com), uses a concept that keeps the electrolyte from touching the electrodes until power is needed.
Sustainable Engineering: More-Efficient Lighting is not Rocket Science
The recent case of a lighting system in a lead-acid battery supplier/recycler shows the kind of energy savings possible without resorting to LELEDs, CFLs, or other superefficient illumination technologies.
Sensor Sense: Ultrasonic Double-Sheet Detectors
Ultrasonic double-sheet detectors distinguish between single and double sheets of paper, plastic, or metal foils to prevent waste or machine damage.
Award Winning Electronic Displays Kick it up a Notch
The Society for Information Display (SID), San Jose, a global organization for electronic-display technology, announced the winners of its 13th annual Display of the Year contest during the recent SID International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition — dubbed Display Week 2008.
Sensor Sense: Grayscale Versus Color Vision Sensors
The imager chip in a grayscale vision sensor acts like thousands of electronic light meters that measure light levels at specific points across an area.
Scanning for Ideas: Compact Linear-dc Servomotor
For applications with limited space, the LM 1247 linear servomotor from Micro Mo, Clearwater, Fla.
(micromo.com), could be the right fit, measuring 12.5 × 47 mm and weighing 56 grams.
What Recession? Sales of ac Drives Still Going Strong
Strong growth continued in 2007 for the low-power ac-drives market thanks to robust investments in manufacturing and infrastructure industries worldwide.
Hot-Wire Anemometer Handles Clean-Room Use
The HHF2005HW hot-wire anemometer features a real-time data logger that accurately records year, month, date, hour, minute, and seconds on up to 16,000 data points.
Sensor Sense: Passive Infrared-Motion Sensors
Passive infrared (PIR) sensors detect infrared energy radiating from objects within their field of vision.
Scanning for Ideas: Fuel Cell Powers Motorcycle
The Crosscage, a concept motorcycle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, was one of the big crowd pleasers at last year’s Tokyo Auto Show.
Scanning for Ideas: Hybrid powertrains for luxury SUVs
General Motors and Cadillac (cadillac.com), in a nod to upscale consumers concerned about the price of gas and the environment, have developed a hybrid powertrain for its Escalade SUV.
Sensor Sense: Resistive Strain Gages
Strain gages make up the fundamental sensing element for many different types of sensors including those for pressure, load, torque, and weight.
How to Control a 27-km-long Machine
The largest machine in the world,
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
covers parts of France and Switzerland
and will cost a staggering
$3.5 billion U.S. to design and
build.
Recording Reality with 700 Megapixels
A digital camera would be useful for examining competitor’s parts, inspecting hard-to-reach installations, or documenting the scene of an accident.
Optics, Packaging Among Topics at Medical Design Show
The 26th annual Medical Design & Manufacturing East show will run from June 3 to 5 in the Javits Convention Center in New York City, with conferences beginning June 2.
Looking Back
Manufacturers See Upside
High-Tech Jobs Slowing But Still Growing
The U.S. gained 91,400 high-tech jobs last year, bringing the total to 5.9 million, according to a report by AeA, a high-tech trade association.
Faster Programming for Pavement Pounder
HydraForce Inc. in Lincolnshire, Ill., says
software from Caterpillar OEM Solutions,
Peoria, Ill., helped it program the electrohydraulics
controls for the Multi-hammer
Processor.
Assault and Batteries
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories must hate batteries: They heat them to extreme temperatures, overcharge them, drive nails into them, and generally do whatever they can to destroy them.
Software Calms Machine Jitters
Electronic commands passed from machine to machine over data networks drive many modern production lines.
Will Hybrids Heat Up the Grid?
The growing number of plug-in hybrid electric cars and trucks may or may not require new electrical plants in the U.S., depending on when they’re charged.
Looking Back
10 YEARS AGO —
MAY 7, 1998
Virtual development for
aircraft: Lockheed Martin
will perfect the Joint Strike
Fighter and other advanced aircraft
with the help of visualization
software from Engineering
Automation Inc.
World Spends Over $100 Billion on Materialhandling Equipment
The global market for materialhandling
equipment will reach
$104 billion by 2010, according to a
report by market researcher Global Industry Analysts Inc.