Tag: battery industry

SunPower Corporation announced today at PV Japan 2015 that the company is making its X-Series Solar Panels available in Japan in early 2016. The X-Series is a product line for the rooftop market that offers 21.2 percent nameplate efficiency. Compared with conventional solar panels, X-Series panels deliver approximately eight to ten percent more energy per rated watt and approximately 70

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Embedded ac-dc and dc-dc converters are a growing technology in the automotive marketplace. For EV and HEV cars that become to be produced at huge volumes, both onboard battery chargers and 14V power supplies are required to ensure the transfer of energy from the 50/60Hz mains when charging to the final equipment used during a drive (ECUs, radio-GPS systems, lightning,

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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced a new series of surface-mount TransZorb® transient voltage suppressors (TVS) in the low-profile DO-214AA package. Vishay General Semiconductor SMBJXXD series TVS achieve ±3.5% breakdown voltage tolerance and very low reverse leakage current. Compared to previous-generation devices, the new series offers excellent clamping features with higher peak pulse surge current and lower clamping voltage for better input

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Microsemi Corporation today announced the availability of the first device in its new family of sensor interface ICs based upon inductive sensing technology. The LX3301A, the first inductive sensor IC in the market utilizing linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) architecture implementations on printed circuit boards (PCB), is designed for applications within the automotive and industrial markets. Recommended: 8-Bit MCUs feature

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Start-up SiliconReef has begun shipping the EH01, a complete power management solution for a variety of energy-harvesting applications, providing a small and simple solution combining power from different sources: a dc wall adapter, photovoltaic cells and a Li-Ion battery. This device enables a simple implementation of a 5V supply, like a USB charger compatible with the ITU standard for the

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TDK Corporation has extended its range of EPCOS frame core power line chokes with the B82733V series in a vertical design. The new series complements the existing horizontally designed B82733F series. The vertical design is particularly advantageous when there is limited space on the printed circuit board. With an insertion height of 27 mm, for example, the new chokes have

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Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has announced a water-repellent monolithic ceramic capacitor developed by applying an innovative surface treatment. Electronic devices are becoming ever more compact and densely packed with components, with this comes an increase in the possibility of malfunctions influencing circuit operation due to ion migration. This capacitor has applications particularly in navigation systems, body control electronic control units

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GE’s Critical Power business has introduced its new QBVE067A0B Barracuda-series dc-dc converters, providing up to 800W of 12-Vdc output power from an input voltage range of 40- to 60-Vdc. The new converters provide the highest power density available in the industry today for 12-Volt solutions. The QBVE067A0B dc-dc converters incorporate digital control, synchronous rectification technology, a fully-regulated control topology and

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TDK Corporation presents a new EPCOS NTC sensor element designed for measuring temperatures up to 650 degrees C. It is based on a high-temperature ceramic sensor element that is connected to a metallized aluminum oxide rod and then glass-encapsulated. The sensor element offers high-precision measurement with a temperature tolerance of about ±1K at 200 degrees C. The component obtains its

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Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced its new Li-ion battery fuel gauge IC, the RAJ240500, designed to extend battery life for connected mobile devices such as tablets, notebook PCs and smartphones. Leveraging its extensive design expertise in fuel gauge and charging ICs for mobile devices, Renesas has developed a single-chip device that delivers high-precision battery charge measurement and control that reduces

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