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Lake Shore F71/F41 teslameters win R&D 100 Award

Lake Shore Cryotronics recently announced that the company’s F71 and F41  teslameters have been named a 2019 R&D 100 Awards winner in the Analytical/Test category. Since 1963, the R&D 100 Awards have identified revolutionary technologies introduced to the market, honoring great R&D pioneers and their ideas in science and technology. “Being named as one of the R&D 100 is an incredible honor,” said Paul J. Heney, Vice President and Editorial Director for R&D World. “These 100 winning products and technologies are the disruptors that will change industries and make the world a better place in the coming years.”Lake Shore and other winners will be recognized at a Dec. 5 awards dinner in San Francisco.  The F41 and F71 teslameters and their compatible Hall […]

Materials/Manufacturing

THEVA High-Temperature Superconductor Wire Making Breakthroughs in Windpower Turbines and Electrical Transmission Applications

THEVA, a German developer of high-temperature superconducting wire – notably which is very pricey compared to copper wire but has extraordinary magnetic properties, is making important progress in demonstrating the effectiveness of its wire for […]

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Schurter EMI Test Circuit Boards for High-inductance Nanocrystalline Cores

Schurter is now offering test circuit boards for its DKIH-1 and DKIH-3 high-current chokes that enable a product designer to easily set up an electromagnetic interference filter circuit for 1- or 3-phase systems. Its new DKIH series has a nanocrystalline ring core which the company says provides eight times […]

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Stromag Designs New Fail-Safe Electromagnetic Brakes for Ships, Harbors and Other Industrial Applications

To meet the evolving demands of industrial marine operators handling greater loads at higher speeds, engineers at Stromag started from a clean sheet to design a new line of fail-safe electromagnetic brakes.  Modern vessels are equipped with […]

Research & Development

Magnetic Impedance Wire from Aichi Steel Used in Experimental System for Automated Driving

Recent tests of automated passenger buses in Japan have further validated the development of highly sensitive magnetic impedance sensors using Aichi Steel’s amorphous metal magnet wire for guiding the vehicles, especially in places where global […]

Magnetics/Assemblies

Kadant Adds Electromagnetic Products to Its Line of Material Handling Equipment with Syntron Acquisition

Syntron Material Handling Group, a manufacturer of electromagnetic vibrators and feeders for process industries, is now part of much larger Kadant Inc which acquired Syntron for $179 million.  Syntron provides material handling equipment and systems to companies in mining, aggregates, food processing, packaging, and […]

Magnetics/Assemblies

Improved Coil Design Contributes to Higher Power Density in ABB’s New Industrial Motors for Hazardous Locations

ABB has introduced new motors that use its improved coil design for higher power, this time applied to models optimized for making the most of limited operating space in hazardous duty locations such as equipment-crowded […]