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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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The Architects of Modern Power (AMP) consortium today announced its first standards aimed at establishing common mechanical and electrical specifications for the development of advanced power conversion technology for distributed power systems. The initial standards revealed at electronica, and being demonstrated by AMP Group products on show at CUI’s booth (B2-113), cover digital point-of-load (POL) and advanced bus dc-dc converters.

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ON Semiconductor has further strengthened its portfolio of products for motor control applications with the introduction of two new solutions for a variety of industrial, white goods and consumer applications. The new LV8714TA is an extremely energy efficient dual stepper motor driver with operating voltages ranging from 4V and 16.5V. Also being unveiled at Electronica are the STK5Q4U352J-E and STK5Q4U362J-E

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Vivint Solar announced its third quarter financial results in its first earnings call as a public firm yesterday. Right now, Vivint Solar is the only credible installer-financier of scale that stands as a competitive threat to SolarCity. During the earnings call, Vivint’s CEO said that the firm had gone from zero to 15 percent market share “in three short years”

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Kemet Electronics Corp. introduced today its first automotive grade polymer capacitors at the Electronica 2014 trade fair in Munich, Germany. The T591 High Performance Automotive Grade Polymer Tantalum Series delivers stability and endurance under harsh humidity and temperature conditions. The T591 Series is available today in capacitances up to 220 microfarads and rated up to 10 volts. This series features

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Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems has introduced a new low profile version of its SP-Cap range of specialty conductive polymer aluminum capacitors. Measuring just 0.9mm above the PCB, the devices (LR & SR series) are rated from 2V up to 6.3V with capacitance values of 68 to 220µF. Capacitance tolerance is ±20% (120Hz / +20 degrees C). Recommended: IGBT Modules

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Zilog, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ixys Corporation today introduced its Z8 Encore! XP® F6482 Series microcontrollers (MCUs), the latest in Zilog’s line of Z8 Encore! XP® Flash microcontroller products. These F6482 Series products are based on Zilog’s advanced 8-bit eZ8 CPU core and are optimized for low-power and wireless applications, supporting 1.8V to 3.6V low-voltage operations with extremely low

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