Tag: battery industry

Transphorm Inc. announced that it has secured fundamental patents in the area of Gallium Nitride (GaN) power conversion. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent number 8,816,751 titled “Inductive Load Power Switching Circuits” was granted August 26, 2014 and the patent application number 13/887,204 titled “Bridge Circuits and Their Components” was allowed by the USPTO on August 27,

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Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH today announced its plan to establish the R-IN Consortium, aimed at providing global support for the development of industrial equipment incorporating industrial Internet communication functionality, including manufacturing equipment, security cameras, and robots. R-IN is a development platform based on multi-protocol communication chips incorporating the R-IN engine, which combines high-speed, real-time performance and low power consumption, and

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Anvil Semiconductors Ltd. has secured a production source for its proprietary 3C-SiC on silicon epiwafers with commercial SiC wafer and epitaxy supplier Norstel AB. Anvil’s novel process for the growth of device quality 3C-SiC epilayers on silicon wafers has been successfully transferred onto production reactors at Norstel’s state-of-the-art facilities in Norrkoping, Sweden. Wafers grown using Anvil’s patented stress-control techniques support

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GlacialPower, a division of Taiwanese technology manufacturer GlacialTech, today announces the newest addition to its DALI product lineup — the GP-DP004N-16V. A DALI power supply outputting 200mA, the GP-DP004N is enough for a full 64 device DALI network. Compatible with DALI standard IEC62386, the GP-DP004N-16V takes universal AC input from 100- to 240-Vac to provide constant voltage at 16Vdc. With

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Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) today announced a new series of low-profile, rail-to-rail output gate-drive photocouplers for directly driving low- to medium-power IGBTs and power MOSFETs: the TLP5751, TLP5752 and TLP5754. The TLP5751 offers a peak output current of +1.0A and can drive power MOSFETs and low-power IGBTs up to 20A. The +2.5A TLP5752 and +4.0A TLP5754 will drive

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ams AG today introduced the AS5600,a magnetic rotary position sensor which makes it easier to replace a traditional potentiometer with a more reliable contactless alternative. To appeal to manufacturers and users of potentiometers, the AS5600 features a ratiometric output, mirroring the output of a potentiometer (which is a variable resistor). This means that users of a potentiometer do not need

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TE Connectivity announces its low-profile, surface-mount technology (SMT), miniature hermaphroditic connectors. The connectors are designed to provide power between adjacent linear LED lighting strip modules and enable faster and more efficient connections, by allowing customers to mate and unmate linear LED modules strips horizontally and vertically.“The SMT miniature hermaphroditic connectors allow LED-printed circuit board strips to be joined with more

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Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. today announced details on a new AE 3TL inverter accessory that enables solar installers, site designers and project developers to conserve space and increase project yield using an innovative technique to install Advanced Energy (AE) string inverters in a horizontal (0°) orientation. The low-profile accessory, used to install AE 3TL string inverters at the edge of

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Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today introduced the industry’s smallest, lowest power linear battery charger and a tiny, fully integrated dc-dc power module, which consumes only 360nA of quiescent current, to help extend battery run-time in wearable electronics, remote sensors and MSP430™ microcontroller-based applications. The new bq25100 single-cell Li-Ion charger comes in a 0.9-mm by 1.6-mm WCSP package, and achieves a

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China is moving to accelerate its deployment of distributed rooftop solar with new incentives and new financing tools akin to the SolarCity leasing model. The National Energy Administration of China released a policy documentearlier this week which provides extra subsidies for public entities and rural buildings.   China has aimed to add 8 gigawatts of distributed solar and 6 gigawatts of

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