Sensors

Measuring roll and pitch on an inclined or tilted test track can lead to irregularities in your test results. This can now be compensated by using an RT Inertial and GPS measurement system from OxTS.

Omron Electronic Components Business – Europe is now offering to customise its D6F MEMS mass flow sensor products to suit individual customer requirements in terms of flow rate and non-corrosive gas type. The new customised sensor service is being presented at Sensor and Test in Nuremberg in May 2008. Omron can provide mass flow sensors suitable to measure any flow rate from 1 mm/s to 40 m/s or 1 LPM to 50 LPM of most non-corrosive gasses.

Wilcoxon Research’s new vibration sensor catalog has a handy sensor selection guide to help choose the right accelerometer or 4-20 mA sensor for the application. Also included are technical notes and brochures, all from the industry leader in vibration sensor quality, reliability and expertise.

A unique, non-contact infrared temperature sensor has been launched, which is ideal for measuring the temperature of glass products and surfaces during production, as well as glass substrates used in semiconductor processing and for the manufacture of solar cell panels.

The new RT2502-250 Inertial and GPS system is ideal for measuring slip angle, roll, pitch, position, heading and many more measurements in real-time with high accuracy.

Contrinex has once again pushed back the boundary of sensing technology with the launch of its new ultra-tiny diffuse fibre optic sensor that has a tip diameter of only 0.5mm making it ideal for detecting extremely small targets or features.

The new MPLS180 sensor from Armstrong Optical Ltd of Northampton is now available allowing the fast, high-resolution 3D scanning of surfaces for all types of applications - ranging from wrinkles on skin to complete, populated, printed circuit boards.

BEI's drawworks encoder is now available with a dual output option. This type of encoder is specifically designed to be use with winch-turns counter in the drawworks system of oil rigs. The dual output allows the encoder to supply simultaneous position feedback to two separate systems from a single encoder. These outputs can even have different resolutions through use of interpolation.

Combining the OxTS RT-Range system with ABD's Autonomous Robots solves the problem of repeatable driving for ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) testing.

The FlexTemp 2301 is a temperature transmitter for Pt100 sensors measuring with an accuracy of only 0.25°C tolerance range. With the universal FlexTop versions 2311 and 2321, the input can be configured for RTD sensors as well as for thermocouples, resistance sensors and current or voltage signals. The universal transmitters have a galvanic isolation between input and output. Their accuracy is at 0.1°C.