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Consumer Electronics for the Engineer in Your Life

November 21st, 2011

In a nod to the start of the holiday shopping season, Audioholics Online A/V Magazine compiled a list of the most unusual, compelling, cute, different, or just plain interesting products across a wide swath of…read more

Storage Solution Freezer Features New Energy Saving Heat Exchanger

July 22nd, 2011

SANYO’s new low temperature freezer, the MDF-U76VC, offers an advanced combination of cabinet design, electronics and refrigeration. A new heat exchanger design allows greater energy savings and efficiency. The design maximizes the surface area for…read more

Low Resistance Connector with Silicone Core

June 13th, 2011

Fujipoly’s Zebra® Gold 8000C Series product is constructed from a low durometer silicone core that is covered with 166 parallel rows of flat, gold-plated wires per inch. This construction allows the connector to accommodate PCBs…read more

8 V P-Channel Power MOSFET

March 4th, 2011

New 8 V p-channel TrenchFET® power MOSFET has the lowest on-resistance achieved for a p-channel device in the thermally enhanced PowerPAK® SC-70 2 mm by 2 mm footprint area (16 mΩ at 4.5 V, 26…read more

New Laptop and iPad™ Cooling Products Introduced

January 10th, 2011

ThermaPAK’s new products incorporate the company’s HeatShift Technology®, which brings down the temperature of long-running electronic devices to comfortable operating temperatures. The HeatShift Technology begins working once the gadget is placed on the pad. Grooved…read more

Resettable Thermal-Magnetic Circuit Breakers with Push-in Bridging

December 27th, 2010

Phoenix Contact’s UT 6-TMC M thermal-magnetic circuit breakers protect electrical circuits from overload or short circuit damage, make wiring easier and eliminate time-consuming troubleshooting. One wire powers all the breakers, which means each circuit breaker…read more

product & industry news

September 13th, 2010

Ultra-Thin Waterproof Piezoelectric Speaker Murata Electronics North America recently launched an ultra-thin waterproof piezoelectric speaker. With a thickness of only 0.9mm, this 19.5mm x 14.1mm speaker enables greater design freedom for the rapidly growing and…read more

what’s happening

September 13th, 2010

Melting-While-Cooling Silicon Could Improve Solar Cells Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently discovered that by dissolving certain metals into silicon, they can add that silicon compound to the relatively short list…read more

Thermal Grease Screen Printers

August 23rd, 2010

Surface Mount Techniques (SMT) announces stencil/screen printers specifically designed for thermal grease applications. Highly concentrated heat sources found in ever shrinking electronic designs have increased the demand for better heat dissipation. The demand is seen…read more

Thermal Gap Fillers Combine High Performance, Low Pricing

August 23rd, 2010

New TP-S30 thermal interface pads from MH&W International provide 3.0 W/mK of thermal conductivity between hot components and heat sinks at lower costs than competing gap filler materials. Pads of TP-S30 thermal gap fillers are…read more

Ultra-Thin Waterproof Piezoelectric Speaker

August 10th, 2010

Murata Electronics North America recently launched an ultra-thin waterproof piezoelectric speaker. With a thickness of only 0.9mm, this 19.5mm x 14.1mm speaker enables greater design freedom for the rapidly growing and evolving mobile market.  The…read more

Influence of Motor Supports on Cooling Performance of Small Scale Fans

July 26th, 2010

Ed J. Walsh, Jason Stafford & Vanessa Egan Stokes Research Institute, Dept. of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Limerick Introduction Today’s marketplace consists of many portable computing devices such as personal digital assistants and…read more

Apple Gets Patent on Method of Cooling Electronic Devices

July 12th, 2010

Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone and the iPad, received a patent on a method of cooling an electronic device by using hinge assemblies that can conduct heat. Patent 7,746,631, which was issued June 29,…read more

High-Accuracy 2.25 V Digital Temperature Sensor with Dual Alarm

June 21st, 2010

STMicroelectronics has announced a super-small and power-efficient temperature sensor allowing portable devices to benefit from features such as intelligent thermal protection. ST’s new STTS751 Digital Temperature Sensor (DTS) is mounted on the circuit board to…read more