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Products: Imaging
Cognex Corp., Natick, MA, offers new features for the DataManTM 100 image-based ID readers. New lens accessories provide magnification flexibility to optimize reading performance. A high-density lens kit allows...
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Products: Imaging
Deposition Sciences, Santa Rosa, CA, has released Iso-SphereTM Antireflection (AR) Coated Ball Lenses for fiber optics, telecom, and datacom applications. The ball lenses are an optical method for collimating the output of an...
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Products: Imaging
Dialight Corp., Farmingdale, NJ, has expanded its line of LED panel-mount indicators with the addition of the 612 and 616 series for front-panel mounting in 12-mm and 16-mm holes and panel thicknesses up to 6.3 mm....
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Products: Imaging
The PresencePLUS® low-angle ring lights from Banner Engineering Corp., Minneapolis, MN, connect to vision sensors or an external power supply to provide optimal illumination of an inspected part by enhancing the contrast...
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Products: Imaging
FLIR Systems, North Billerica, MA, offers the ThermoVision® A320 Research infrared camera system. With the integrated ThermaCAM Researcher Software, the camera system provides a flexible solution for precision...
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Products: Imaging
The 16-megapixel GE4900 ultra-high-resolution CCD camera from Prosilica, Vancouver, BC, Canada, runs three frames per second at 4872 × 3248 pixel resolution over a GigE Vision-compliant Gigabit Ethernet interface. The industrial...
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Who's Who: Robotics, Automation & Control
The NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group (IRG) is dedicated to enabling humans and robots to explore and learn about extreme environments, remote locations, and uncharted worlds....
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Tech Needs
Low-Energy-Curing Technology
A company seeks new and/or advanced curing technologies to incorporate into metal packaging protective coating and decoration processes. Systems could include metal containers for aerosols, beverages, food products, and specialty packaging, all of which require external and/or internal protective coatings. Process...
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Inhibit or Deactivate Plant Enzymes
An organization wants to deactivate or otherwise interfere with the action of enzymes pectin methylesterase and polygalacturonase, which interfere with the processing of certain fruits by degrading fruit pectins. Initial processing of the whole fruit releases the enzymes and release continues during further...
Techs for License
Method of Driving a Field Emission Display
This technology makes possible Field Emission Displays (FEDs) and Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Displays (SEDs) that can use a variety of less expensive cathode materials and types. The technology adjusts the output of the cathodes by using a monitoring circuit between the cathode and the anode (the...
Techs for License
Cost-Effective Wind Turbine Generator
The Cutcher Wind Turbine Generator provides low- and no-cost power by utilizing tall structures such as rural and urban homes, as well as businesses and buildings. Unlike traditional wind-power generators, the Cutcher Wind Turbine Generator utilizes the wind current that is channeled around buildings and tall...
Articles: Software
By Ed Getty Research Fellow Procter & Gamble Cincinnati, OH For almost 165 of Procter & Gamble’s 170-year history, nearly all growth came from innovating within the walls of...
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Articles: Imaging
Most of us have seen still images or slow-motion video of fast-moving objects, such as a missile in flight or a humming bird flapping its wings. Both scenarios...
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Application Briefs: Physical Sciences
TEGAM 1949-0001 ratio transformer TEGAM Geneva, OH 440-466-6100 www.tegam.com The EarthScope Project is an undertaking funded by the National Science Foundation in partnership with the United...
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Application Briefs: Energy
Stretched Lens Array ENTECH Keller, TX 817-379-0100 www.entechsolar.com ENTECH has been awarded a contract from NASA’s Glenn Research Center, which will support the development of an...
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Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Onyx guided parachute designed and manufactured by Atair Aerospace (Brooklyn, NY) is an autonomous precision airdrop system. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) uses motors and planetary...
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Application Briefs: Imaging
As thin-film technology advances, it’s increasingly important to monitor the film’s characteristics. That’s because eliminating irregularities in thin films — used...
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Application Briefs: Imaging
New MP3 players from a global electronics manufacturer like Sony are destined for a demanding consumer market and cannot be compromised in any way. In Malaysia, the company sought...
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Systems designers are always pressing for faster and faster real-time performance, and data acquisition technology continues to evolve to meet that need. Currently available...
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Software developers face constant challenges. Not only must their code be functionally correct, it must also be reliable. In addition, competition among software vendors has taken software quality to significantly higher levels....
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Portable data acquisition applications have to meet a number of stringent requirements not present in traditional laboratory systems. Environmental conditions such as...
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Products
The Astro-Med Test & Measurement Product Group, West Warwick, RI, has introduced the Dash 32HF multi-channel, high-frequency data acquisition recorder. Engineered to capture high-frequency data and transient signals, the unit...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Dual-Core VME Single-Board Computer Delivers Low Voltage
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (Leesburg, VA) offers the SVME/DMV-1901 6U VME single-board computer with the Intel® Core™ Duo processor running at speeds of 1.67 and 2.0 GHz.
Products: Electronics & Computers
The TPA-XMC™ PrXMC/PrPMC Module from Themis® Computer (Fremont, CA) provides dual 64-bit processing and flexible high-speed I/O while consuming as little as 15 watts. The energy-efficient module is based on P.A. Semi's...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
SERCOS International (Santa Rosa Beach, FL) has introduced Easy-I/O, a freely downloadable IP core software for low-cost FPGA chips that allows SERCOS III to be integrated into basic I/O slave devices with...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Trenton Technology (Atlanta, GA) announces five new SHB Express™ and PICMG® 1.3 backplanes designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of fields including medical diagnostics, military, telecom, and...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced the Acqiris DP1400 high-speed digitizer. Designed in a standard short PCI card format, the compact DP1400 combines data converter ASIC technology with component...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
NVIDA (Santa Clara, CA) has released its new family of NVIDA® Tesla™ processors based on a new graphics processing unit (GPU). The family includes the Tesla™ GPU Computing Processor, which is a computing board...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The MTB Series from BlockMaster Electronics (Elk Grove Village, IL) is available in configurations from 2 to 18 poles at a 3.5 mm. pitch, accepting a wire size range of up to 16AWG. Rated voltage is at 300V with a current rating...
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