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TDK Adds Full-Redundancy Safety Features to TMR Angle Sensor Portfolio

TDK Corporation is expanding its tunnel-magnetoresistance (TMR) angle sensing portfolio with the addition of a model that features full redundancy while it simultaneously measures speed, direction and motor position. The redundancy features satisfy newer, more stringent automotive safety requirements. […]

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Magnetic Sensing by Variohm for Modern Agricultural Machinery

As part of the many sensor technologies now widely employed in smart farming, where sophisticated monitoring and control is now universally applied to optimize crop production, mobile agricultural machinery manufacturers are increasingly utilizing precision sensors as part of the equipment and systems they produce to till, seed and harvest crops. Magnetic sensors are fielding many of the challenges. […]

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Paragraf Strides toward Commercializing Graphene-Based Hall Effect Sensors for Highly Precise Magnetic Measurement

In June, Paragraf embarked on a working partnership with the Magnetic Measurement section at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, with both parties set to demonstrate how new opportunities for magnetic measurements are opened up through the unique properties of its graphene sensor, particularly its negligible planar Hall effect. […]

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Spintronics Pioneer NVE Introduces New Magnetic Sensing Capabilities

Spintronics pioneer NVE has introduced two new devices that bring powerful sensing capabilities to design engineers. One is a noncontact tunnel magnetoresistance encoder sensor, depicted above, that can replace optical encoders. The other is an ultraminiature magnetometer sensor that can sense magnetic fields up to a remarkable 1.5 tesla. […]

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Crocus Adds to Family of TMR Sensors for Current and Angular Measurement

The Crocus family of tunnel magneto-resistance sensors continues to grow energetically with several new products introduced recently for current and angular sensing that are based on its XtremeSense technology. Shown above is its CT220 contactless current sensor which enables high isolation, high-resolution and high accuracy measurements for power monitoring applications without the need for magnetic concentrators or shields. […]

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Balluff Unveils New Magnetic Sensing Products for Automation and Welding Systems

Compact, high precision magnetic discs for rotary encoders and a weld-immune magnetic field encoder are two magnetic sensing products recently developed by Balluff. The company specializes in sensing products for automation and industrial applications, many of which use its proprietary magnetizing process for bringing what it says is a new level of accuracy to magnetic encoders. […]