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All-Round View Camera System
The 360° Local Situational Awareness System (LSAS) from KTK Kommunikationstechnik and First Sensor consists of four digital HDR-CMOS cameras in specially adapted rugged housings and a software-based video...
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Absolute Encoder Series
Baumer’s absolute HeavyDuty encoder series HMG 10 and PMG 10 offer a resilient housing, optimally spaced fixed/floating bearings on both sides, and generously sized hybrid ball bearings. These features provide...
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PXI Radio Frequency Multiplexers
Pickering Interfaces expands its range of PXI 50Ω 600MHz radio frequency (RF) multiplexers with 18 different configurations including a PXI two slot 32:1 configuration. This new range of PXI RF multiplexers...
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Doing It Again — This Time With 10
Almost exactly a decade after Ford and General Motors initiated production of 6-speed planetary-gear automatics derived from the two companies’ first-ever transmission-development collaboration, the...
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Large-scale Additive Manufacturing for Rapid Vehicle Prototyping
In model-based development of vehicle powertrains, through hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) to mule integration, a new enabling design tool is emerging from recent advances in...
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New NXP System Drives Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Vehicles
Silicon suppliers are stepping up to help facilitate progress in the road to autonomous driving. NXP Semiconductors has unveiled its BlueBox, which handles sensor fusion, analysis...
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Fungus-Inspired Improvements in Battery Performance
Carbon fibers derived from a sustainable source, a type of wild mushroom, and modified with nanoparticles have been shown to outperform conventional graphite electrodes for lithium-ion...
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2017 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-In Is Industry-First
Start of production for the plug-in hybrid Chrysler Pacifica minivan begins in late 2016, marking a milestone as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)’s first mass-produced PHEV and the...
Global Vehicles Transportation
Shell Oil Unveils Radical City Car Concept
Oil companies typically don't announce concept city cars, but days ahead of the 2016 Beijing Motor Show, Shell did just that. A collaboration between Shell, Gordon Murray Design and Geo Technology,...
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New Steel-Intensive Mazda CX-9 Sheds Mass, Debuts New Turbo System
For a mainstream unibody SUV, the 2016 Mazda CX-9 pulls off a neat trick—it adds premium content and features while losing weight compared with its predecessor. The design...
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System Makes Airport Surface Traffic More Efficient
Researchers have developed an optimization system that identifies the optimal timing and taxiing sequences for runway use by a given aircraft. It plans detailed taxiing routes, recommends...
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NASA Tests Technologies to Increase Drone Uses
NASA researchers and drone industry representatives foresee a day when small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are used in wildfire spotting, precision agriculture, wildlife monitoring, and small...
Editorial Manufacturing & Prototyping
Disruption Is One Thing, But...
A late-spring brouhaha that developed between Tesla Motors and an intrepid reporter known for skeptical Tesla coverage blew over fairly quickly—but not before highlighting some unaccounted costs of...
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An X-Plane for Everyone?
Not too, too long ago very few amongst us ever thought we would need a phone that took pictures and video, while more recently, very few amongst us would ever not have a phone with such capabilities. Such...
Product Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Closed-Loop Control for Metal 3D Printing
Sciaky, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries, Inc., is highlighting its patented IRISS closed-loop control, which powers its Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) systems. IRISS,...
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BWI Tackles a Mounting Technology Challenge
Some auto manufacturers call it “downsizing," others insist on the term “rightsizing” as they doggedly pursue smaller engine designs that also include cylinder deactivation and stop-start...
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That 'New Car Smell' Is Forcing Interior Materials Changes
The sensory elements of smell, touch, sound, and sight are influencing material innovations for vehicle interiors more than ever.
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New AUTOSAR Platform Offers More Freedom for Vehicle Electrical Architectures
Connectivity, advanced safety and autonomy are all altering electronic architectures, since they utilize controllers that communicate with each other more...
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New Technique Could Improve Detection of Concealed Nuclear Materials
Researchers have demonstrated proof of concept for a novel low-energy nuclear reaction imaging technique designed to detect the presence of “special nuclear materials”...
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Engineers Design Novel Multi-Field Invisible Sensor
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has invented a novel camouflage technique that effectively hides thermal and electronic sensors without compromising...
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Army Uses Technology to Increase Aerial Delivery Accuracy
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a new system that will enhance the capabilities of U.S. Army Pathfinders as they conduct aerial operations. In...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Lightweight Thermal Camera Core
Boson from FLIR Systems is a small, lightweight, high-performance uncooled thermal camera for OEMs. Boson is claimed to be the first thermal camera core to incorporate a sophisticated, low-power, multi-core...
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Diesel Injector-Seat Cleaning Kit
A 17-piece kit from IPA Tools is designed to clean injector seats and bores on most light-, medium- and heavy-duty diesel engines. The kit is suited for removing carbon, rust and other debris from injector...
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Plasma Process Could Cut Carbon Fiber Costs
Carbon fiber is to composites as steel rebar is to concrete. When a support skeleton of either is embedded inside a solidifying mass of resin or cement, the strong sinews bind everything together...
Product Briefs Automotive
Rapid-Cure Resin for Carbon-Fiber Blanks
Solvay recently launched its new rapid cure thermoset resin system MTR 760, which BMW selected to manufacture the CFRP (carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic) hood of its new M4 GTS. The new resin system was...
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Composite Bonding Adhesive
Dow Automotive Systems has introduced customized structural bonding solutions for weight reduction in high-end multi-material performance vehicles. Among the manufacturers using specially formulated adhesive...
Original Equipment RF & Microwave Electronics
Komatsu Doubles down on Intelligent Machine Control
Komatsu America recently revealed four new machines that expand the company’s new intelligent Machine Control family and help to demonstrate its vision of the "jobsite of the future."...
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Precision Assembly of Systems on Surfaces (PASS)
Chemiresistors represent a powerful class of chemical sensors that can be readily integrated into any electrical system, can be miniaturized, are readily multiplexed, and take nearly zero-power...
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