Tag: battery industry

An integrated residential rooftop solar and electricity storage system will be launched in Germany in December. Hanwha Q Cells rooftop solar and Samsung lithium-ion batteries will be sold together so German citizens can produce their own electricity from the sun and store it at home. The integrated storage technology is called Q. Home. Q. Home will be offered in two

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China, the world’s biggest solar market for two years running, is pushing to install more panels at factories, schools and even greenhouses as it seeks to meet its goals under a historic climate agreement with the U.S. China expects to install as much as 8 gigawatts of small solar systems this year, more than 10 times what was built last

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Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced digital isolation and delta-sigma modulator families that offer reinforced isolation to help protect electronic equipment from high line voltages. The ISO7842 family provides the industry’s highest immunity reinforced isolators and the first to withstand an isolation barrier with a working breakdown voltage of 1,500 Vrms for a minimum lifetime of 40 years. The AMC1304

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Freescale Semiconductor announced the expansion of its system power management portfolio to support key members of its industry-leading embedded networking products. Available now, the highly efficient VR500 regulator is specifically designed to enable comprehensive system solutions leveraging Freescale’s QorIQ Layerscape LS1 processors for a variety of applications including secure infrastructure equipment for the Internet of Things (IoT). Recommended: IGBT Modules

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Power Integrations, Inc. today announced a new class of power-supply ICs. The InnoSwitch™ family of highly integrated switcher ICs combines primary, secondary and feedback circuits into a single, worldwide safety-rated, surface-mount package. With InnoSwitch ICs, designers can easily exceed all global regulatory standards for efficiency and no-load consumption, while minimizing component count and providing highly accurate constant voltage and constant

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Honeywell Sensing and Control today introduced the industry’s first Nanopower Anisotropic Magnetoresistive Sensor ICs that provide the highest level of magnetic sensitivity (as low as 7 Gauss typical) while requiring nanopower (360 nA). When compared to other widely used magnetic technologies, these sensors offer design engineers a number of advantages. Smaller and more durable and reliable than reed switches, at

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After the Rosetta mission’s 10-year space journey from Earth, Saft’s primary lithium battery has woken ESA’s robotic Philae Lander to prepare for its touchdown on a comet nucleus Paris, November 12, 2014 – Saft, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of advanced technology batteries for industry, is celebrating the achievement of the mission-critical primary lithium battery supplied to the CNES

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The concept is simple. The battery lets any existing smoke alarm connect to a home WiFi network so it can alert the owners smartphone if the alarm goes off. Its smart power management will also eliminate 3am wake up calls from an alarm with a dying battery.On November 11, Peeters will test out his Roost smart battery with a Kickstarter

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Electric-car incentives are nothing new, but the city of Seoul has taken an unusual and more aggressive approach as it tries to get more of its residents into zero-emission vehicles. The South Korean capital will offer residents up to 20 million won (about $18,245 at current exchange rates) if they purchase an electric car–but only from one of four designated

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Littelfuse, Inc. will be presenting new technologies, trends and vital components as well as current and future industry requirements in markets such as electrical energy, consumer electronics, automobiles, commercial vehicles and industrial equipment. The company is also rapidly expanding into adjacent markets, such as power control and sensing platforms, heavy-duty switches for commercial vehicles and electromechanical sensors used in the

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