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Road Rules, a San Francisco start-up, explores world of car APIs

2015-04-30

A key to connecting smart phones to third-party software developers' mind-boggling array of mobile applications is the application programming interface. The husband and wife team behind Road Rules discuss discuss a range of topics from car hacking that is mostly overblown to apps that use more car data.

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Continental's Matschi: mobility is changing

2015-04-24

Traffic gridlock, accident fatalities, and vehicle emissions are not good things. So the underlying challenge for the auto industry is to develop and use technologies appropriately for society. Matschi was the Thursday morning keynote speaker in the AVL theater inside Detroit’s Cobo Center at the 2015 SAE World Congress.

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Projected-capacitive touch panel

2015-04-17

The new 8.4-in XGA developed by NLT Technologies is an amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor LCD module with a "Wet & Glove" projected capacitive (PCAP) touch sensor bonded to the front.

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EtherCAT slave controller

2015-04-18

Microchip Technology Inc. announced the LAN9252 standalone EtherCAT slave controller with two 10/100 PHYs.

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Annual traffic safety forum looks at NHTSA data, OE teen driving aids

2015-04-21

Although 30% of traffic fatalities are alcohol-related, and electronic Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety has appeal, more targeted approaches to reducing them are being taken by car makers. Programs aimed at reducing teen driver accidents and death were described at the 25th annual World Traffic Safety Symposium during the New York Auto Show.

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GM prognostics use 4G for data acquisition, cloud analysis

2015-04-24

Initial focus is on battery, starter, and fuel pump to provide early warnings of impending issues with starting a car, as discussed in a 2015 SAE World Congress panel. The 4G connection in 2016 Chevrolets obtains data, cloud server holds the analysis algorithms.

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Conveyor coating system

2015-04-17

mycon developed a new coating system that is suitable for coating and painting longer parts, e.g., wires, belts, tubes, rods, and profiles.

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Counterfeit electronic parts: Manufacture of and avoidance

2015-02-25

The inventors of semiconductor chips or electronic parts most likely never imagined that over 50 years later, the aviation, space, and defense industries would be faced with the availability or proliferation of counterfeit electronic parts in their supply chains.

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Polymer capacitors

2015-03-31

Type RA Angstor multilayered polymer capacitors for 125°C (257°F) operation from Cornell Dubilier are impregnated with a microcrystalline polymer sealant and exterior tape wrap to protect the capacitor element from moisture.

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Variable frequency drive

2015-03-24

The EFC 3600 variable frequency drive from Bosch Rexroth offers a solution for efficient process control application.

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Military technologies aid the fight for improved off-highway efficiencies

2015-04-01

Although many of the technologies used to great success in military applications--such as SWIR, RGI, and LIDAR--are costly, the cost could go down drastically if put in full production for off-highway equipment.

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Condition monitoring sensor

2015-03-31

Gill Sensors & Controls offers the GScondition monitoring sensor range family to reduce unplanned breakdowns in industrial machine applications.

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Flight vision system for rotary-wing aircraft

2015-07-23

The system is based on Elbit’s ClearVision EFVS for fixed-wing platforms and provides helicopter pilots with increased situational awareness.

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Sikorsky to provide an ALIAS to DARPA

2015-03-11

The objective of DARPA’s ALIAS program is to develop and insert new automation into existing aircraft to enable operation with reduced onboard crew. Sikorsky is leading a team for Phase 1 development.

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Xerox eyes DSRC for vehicle infrastructure support

2015-05-12

Many companies are planning for the eventual adoption of vehicle-to vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, with Xerox targeting tolling and commercial vehicle monitoring.

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QinetiQ technology the driver behind ESA space taxi

2015-03-20

QinetiQ’s onboard computer, core of the flight control system with a reliability rate of 99.997%, ensured the IXV’s fully automated return to Earth.

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Editorial: High-voltage developments

2015-03-05

Tightening vehicle efficiency and emissions regulations and increasing demand for onboard electrical power means that higher voltages, in the form of supplemental 48-volt subsystems, may soon be nearing production.

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Stacked capacitors

2015-03-31

AVX extends the high-temperature SMX Series of stacked switch mode power supply multilayer ceramic capacitors.

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SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Rice is nice for IGBTs

2015-02-24

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Semiconductor power-device analyzer

2015-03-18

Keysight Technologies has enhanced its B1505A power-device analyzer/curve tracer, allowing it to characterize all key parameters of on-wafer and packaged devices for semiconductor development.