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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Hall Effect position sensors Micropac Industries Garland, TX 972-272-3571 www.micropac.com
Micropac’s hermetic Hall Effect devices are being used by Alliance Spacesystems, LLC and Malin Space...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Hi-Shear separation devices Hi-Shear Technology Corp. Torrance, CA 310-326-8110 www.hi-shear.com
Hi-Shear separation nuts and pressure cartridges recently were used on the Phoenix Mars...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The design of enclosures to house networking servers and components should be guided by one overriding concern — heat. Servers, in particular, generate a great deal of heat, so an...
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Prisms are used in countless optical systems — from the pair of binoculars in your closet to cutting edge targeting systems to retroreflectors on the Moon. In modern, high-end optical systems,...
Application Briefs: Energy
Lithium-ion batteries Yardney Technical Products Pawcatuck, CT 860-599-1100 www.yardney.com
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander landed safely near the planet’s north polar...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Constellation Space Suit Station (CSSS) Oceaneering International Houston, TX 281-228-5300 www.oceaneering.com
Oceaneering International has secured a contract from NASA to design...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
QuickSilver Servo Motors Drive Autonomous Vehicles
The design of remotely operated, autonomous battery-powered vehicles places special requirements on motion control systems. High torque at low speeds is needed to climb over obstacles, while higher speed operation is needed for cruise speed. Efficient operation from lower voltages (12V to 48V)...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
What do you do if you’re in the business of producing a wide variety of metal presses to meet special customer requirements? You choose your system components wisely, and...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Maxon’s MCD EPOS integrated power drive was used by a wine and liquor bottling operation to control the cutting of shrink-wrapped film over the bottleneck and cork or cap.
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The Saab Group has 17 business units, which are split into defense and security, systems and products, and aeronautics. Over the years, the company has taken...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Acceptance of telecom industry standards for rack-mounted server equipment — in the form of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturer’s Group (PICMG) standards...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Kodak CCD image sensors Eastman Kodak, Image Sensor Solutions Rochester, NY 585-722-4385 www.kodak.com/go/imagers
Kodak digital technology was used on the Space Shuttle Discovery,...
Application Briefs: Imaging
e2v CCD image sensors e2v technologies plc Elmsford, NY 914-592-6050 www.e2v.com
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is currently on Mars using the probe’s High Resolution...
Application Briefs: Imaging
The use of geo-referenced imagery across the Internet is becoming prevalent thanks to the development of Web-based location servers such as Google Earth,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The term “nanophotonics” is used to encompass the scientific study of the interaction of matter and light at the nanometer scale. It is possible to design nanometer scale devices to slow down,...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
STEREO observatories and Solar Probe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, MD 240-228-5000 www.jhuapl.edu
NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is comprised of two...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Spacecraft leak detection system Invocon Conroe, TX 281-292-9903 www.invocon.com
NASA has selected a spacecraft leak detection system from Invocon that would sense and locate air leaks in...
Application Briefs: Imaging
The Meister Group, a Belgian industrial group supplying the automobile market, successfully deployed Cognex’s machine vision system to help its robotic assembly cell sort out...
Application Briefs: Imaging
IDS Camera Automates Inspection
Until now, machine-based surface inspection methods have checked visual quality by means of direct or transmitted light in conjunction with a camera system. When it comes to the automated inspection of reflective and smooth surfaces, however, these methods involve problems. The resulting reflections need to be either...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
SIDECAR ASIC microprocessor-controlled chip Teledyne Imaging Sensors Camarillo, CA 805-373-4545 www.teledyne-si.com
The electronics that will convert analog signals to digital signals on...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Laboratory for Global Health Observation University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health Birmingham, AL 205-934-4993 www.regardsstudy.org
A partnership between...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Thermal issues are dominating today’s electronic product design landscape as never before. It is easy to see this in Intel’s move to a multi-core architecture as a methodology to manage...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Non-invasive and ambulatory monitoring of body parameters is receiving much interest from the medical, sports and entertainment world. Possible applications are the...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Immersive CAVE™ display system Mechdyne Corp. Marshalltown, IA 641-754-4649 www.mechdyne.com
Mechdyne Corporation has installed a CAVE™ display system in the Fossett Laboratory...
Application Briefs: Software
LDRA tool suite LDRA San Bruno, CA 650-583-8880 www.ldra.com
Aimed at safely transferring astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), the Moon, Mars, and...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
To camouflage an object is to hide it, conceal it so that it blends in with the surrounding environment. For the military, it’s a tactical necessity and can make the difference between a...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Parallel Robotic Systems Company (Hampton, NH) designs and produces high-precision positioning systems to provide effective solutions for difficult motion problems, correct errors in automated...
Application Briefs: Software
A Tier 1 automotive supplier of brake drum assemblies with customers here and abroad has tried a number of different vision systems for brake drum assembly inspection, but have...
Application Briefs: Imaging
As a leading global component supplier to the automotive industry, the Keiper GmbH & Co. Group in Germany develops and manufactures metal seat components and structures for...
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