Featuring AgPd solder pads, the AEDR-8000 Series reflective optical encoders suit applications requiring Pb-free components. The parts are available with resolutions of 36, 75, 150, or 180 lines per ...

Avago Technologies, the world's largest privately held semiconductor company, today introduced an enhanced series of cost-competitive ultra-small optical encoder modules with resolutions of up to 360 ...

Analog and digital optoelectronic sensors combine an LED and an optoelectronic integrated circuit in a compact package to enable optical encoders to provide absolute or incremental position detection ...

Optical encoders have been used to measure position, speed, acceleration and motion direction for decades, but now they are finding new applications where high performance and miniaturization are ...

CANTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) announced today that it has launched a new packaged, industrial magnetic encoder designed to provide increased reliability and performance ...

Optical rotary encoders are the most widely used way to transform mechanical rotary motion into electrical signals. There are three basic configurations for optical encoders: incremental, absolute, ...

A new miniature incremental encoder brings metrology-grade precision to space-restricted motion systems, offering high ...

Rotary and linear optical encoders are common in position and motion sensing. Here, a disc or plate containing opaque and transparent segments passes between an LED and detector to interrupt a light ...

Melexis has announced a new model of the MLX90514, a dual-input inductive sensor interface, tailored for robotics, industrial, and mobility applications. Through its SSI output protocol, it produces ...

iC-Haus will demonstrate its latest 26bit resolution optical encoder IC at SPS next month in Nuremberg. iC-RT2624, as it will be known, is aimed at both housed and kit encoders, and will achieve its ...

The fiber itself is used as a transducer in many fiber optic sensing systems (see the section titled “Fiber Sensors,” in ADVANCES IN OPTICAL METROLOGY, the section titled “Optical Fiber Sensors,” in ...