Non-contact position sensors are small but important parts of many modern machines. Researchers have used a phenomenon known as magnetoresistance to develop a practical, low-cost position sensor that ...

Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. offers a variety of small, thin digital and analog optical position sensors, which it has developed by marrying circuit-design skills with its device packaging technology.

The circuit is simple, economical, and built using easily sourced, budget-friendly components. True to form, the onboard test ...

As the demand for increased control and functionality has increased over the years, sensor-instrumented cylinders are becoming more important in the heavy industry, subsea, and mobile equipment worlds ...

Lowering the overall automotive carbon footprint and enabling vehicles to harness lost energy drives the automotive industry today. Due to this worldwide push, manufacturers are now investing in new ...

As the demand for greater control and functionality increases, position-sensor-instrumented hydraulic cylinders are becoming more important in the heavy industry, mobile equipment, and subsea worlds.

Controlling an earthmoving machine to perform a task requires knowing exactly where its bucket or blade contacts the dirt. Therefore, in addition to knowing the machine’s position, it is necessary to ...

Position sensors can play a big role in the durability and longevity of medical device and healthcare systems. Such sensors measure position in practically any device with a lid, drawer, or door. Thus ...

RFID sensors and tags cannot only supply information about what part is on a pallet, they can serve double duty as position sensors. In most applications, radio-frequency-identification (RFID) systems ...

Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to do things that we take for granted nowadays. Motor positioning, for ...

By using a quantum sensor to measure an atom’s position and motion simultaneously, which seemed contradictory to uncertainty ...