Sensors Magazine articles from September 2002

Sensors Magazine archives from September 2002

Funding your innovations. (Guest Editorial).(Editorial)
September 1, 2002... Small businesses can find seed money to fund innovative ideas even in today's challenging economic climate. The National Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program grants thousands of dollars to firms that submit outstanding proposals to...

Termolog. (Business Sense).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Termolog (Newport Beach, CA, www.termolog.cc) is actively pursuing partnerships, distributorships, product licensing, or the sale of the company. Termolog's ADTA wireless temperature system communicates by radio bidirectionally, to 1000...

NEL Frequency Controls Inc. (Business Sense).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... NEL Frequency Controls Inc. (Burlington, WI, www.nelfc.com) has acquired the assets of Ennovation of Wisconsin and the product line Hercules Encoders (www.herculesencoders.com). Hercules produces rotary shaft encoders to support rugged,...

The Deeter Group. (Business Sense).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... British company The Deeter Group (High Wycombe, U.K, www.deeter.co.uk), manufacturer of sensors, special-purpose PCBs, controls, load measuring equipment, and software, has opened its first U.S. office. Located in Massillon, OH, the new branch...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (Business Sense).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, www.ieee.org) has approved the new IEEE Standard 802.3ae. The standard extends the speed of Ethernet operations by an order of magnitude to 10 Gb/s and makes...

Micro Magnetics, Inc. (Business Sense).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Micro Magnetics, Inc. (Fall River, MA, www.micromagnetics.com), has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant by the National Science Foundation for the study of electromigration in integrated circuits. This grant...

Rhomberg Proprietary Ltd. (Business Sense).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Winters Instruments (Toronto, Ont., Canada, www.winters.ca), manufacturer of pressure and temperature instrumentation, has acquired Rhomberg (Pty) Ltd. (Cape Town, South Africa), ISO 9001-certified designer, manufacturer, and supplier of its...

Wabash Technologies. (Business Sense).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Wabash Technologies (Huntington, IN, www.wabashtech.com), an Optek Sensor Group company, and Noliac (Kvistgaard, Denmark, www.noliac.com), developer of application-specific multilayer piezoelectric components, have agreed to jointly develop and...

Thermo Electron Corp. (Business Sense).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Thermo Electron Corp. (Waltham, MA, www.thermo.com) has signed an agreement to acquire the radiation-monitoring products business (RMP) of Saint-Gobain (Paris, France, www.saint-gobain.com) for $30 million in cash. With 2001 revenues of...

Milestone Technology. (Big Deals).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Milestone Technology, a subsidiary of View Systems (Baltimore, MD, www.viewsystems.com), has incorporated National Instruments' (Austin, TX, www.ni.com) LabVIEW software and image acquisition hardware in its SecureScan concealed weapons...

IOtech. (People).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Data acquisition hardware and software developer IOtech (Cleveland, OH, www.iotech.com) has appointed Fran Paez as vice president of worldwide sales. Mr. Paez has extensive experience developing and leading sales and marketing organizations...

One blood drop provides DNA and disease data. (Research & Developments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The tests currently used to detect diseases such as certain types of cancer and adult-onset diabetes generally entail a waiting period that can be worse than the diagnosis. The picture could change. As reported in the Oak Ridge National...

IC [integrated circuit] electromigration and current flow will be studied. (Research & Developments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Micro Magnetics, Inc., has received a Phase I SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation to study electromigration in ICs. The company will use the funds to further develop its scanning magnetic microscope technology to characterize...

Wearable artificial pancreas will mitigate diabetes. (Research & Developments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Researchers at the City University of London (England) led by Dr. Roman Hovorka are developing a wearable artificial pancreas that promises to improve the lives of diabetics. The project, sponsored by the European Commission, has produced a...

Lightning doesn't bug FedEx! (App Snaps).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Near the Memphis (TN) International Airport sprawls the billion-plus square foot SuperHub of Federal Express. FedEx operates on a two-hour turnaround time--shipments arrive, are processed, and are sent out again pronto. Sophisticated...

These little chickens went to market. (App Snaps).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Convergent Label Technology makes advanced weighing, labeling, and systems integration equipment. Some of the company's clients are in the business of weighing and packaging poultry for the table. To serve this market, Convergent offers the...

Chasing the freight train in the sky. (App Snaps).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Sane people living in the Midwest's Tornado Alley make for a cellar when the storm sirens begin to howl. Not Tim Samaras! He chases cyclones around the countryside in an effort to learn their secrets. By figuring out where they are, how they...

The system on a chip. (Intelligent Systems).
September 1, 2002... The tug of war between the demand for custom chip development and the constraints of many low-volume designs makes it your business to know what innovative system-on-a-chip designers are doing and the options this technology offers. Your...

Data acquisition software -- choices, choices; part 1: open vs. closed architectures, proprietary packages, and programming language environments. (Intelligent Systems).
September 1, 2002... You have tremendous latitude when you select from the software packages that are now available on the market. The best choice depends on your computer platform, operating system, programming skills, and application type. While some of these...

An optical timing system: a simple, sensor-based instrument you can build yourself derives speed data by measuring the time between two optical events. (Sensor Technology and Design).
September 1, 2002... The simple, but complete sensor-based measuring instrument design described in this article can be used to indirectly measure the speed of a moving object by measuring the time elapsed between the interruption of two optical beams. I designed...

Choosing and using an inductive proximity sensor. (Sensor Technology and Design).
September 1, 2002... Once you've decided that an inductive proximity sensor will best satisfy your requirements, your next step should be to learn the basic details of how to install and put them to work. With such a variety of inductive proximity sensors on...

Position monitoring with hall effect sensors. (Putting Sensors to Work).
September 1, 2002... Nearly every manufacturing operation today requires some form of automated position monitoring. While the particulars of each application differ from one another, most can be satisfied by a single technology--Hall effect sensors. A Hall...

Reduce, recalibrate, reuse: a displacement transducer with medical applications. (Sensor Technology and Design).
September 1, 2002... A new strain-gauge-based displacement sensor is mounted on a semicircular shim; expansion or compression deforms the gauge geometry, changing its electrical resistance. Because there are no moving parts, out-of-range excursions cause no...

Balanced constant-current excitation for dynamic strain measurements. (Sensor Technology and Design).
September 1, 2002... Balanced constant-current excitation provides an accurate means of measuring dynamic strain with a single active strain gauge and only a 2-wire connection. Cabling and hookup schemes used for strain gauge measurements range from simple...

Controlling your HVAC system. (Putting Sensors to Work).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... You can have the most advanced heating, cooling, and air conditioning equipment in town, but if your control system is not doing its work, occupants of the building or zone will either be panting or reaching for a sweater. Let's take a look at...

Putting sensors a good fir or a bad idea? (Intelligent Systems).(ethernet usage in industrial controls)
September 1, 2002... Ethernet is finding its way into machine control, even though it was never intended for embedded applications. The desire to use widely supported hardware and TCP/IP software means vendors are adding Ethernet ports to smart devices. Here's a...

Organic transistor might be built into food packaging. (Research & Developments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Burger lovers who are nervously eyeing that pound of ground beef in light of the recent massive recall might take heart from some research under way at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Vivek Subramanian and his colleagues are working...

Tumors reveal themselves to Ultrasonic Doppler imaging. (Research & Developments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Ultrasonic Doppler imaging is being investigated by a research team of computer specialists and surgeons at the University of Dundee (Scotland) as a way to detect breast tumors in their early stages, before they metastasize into potentially...

Gunshot residue swab fingers a shooter--on the spot. (Research & Developments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Sandia explosives experts, working with Law Enforcement Technologies, Inc. (LET, Colorado Springs, CO), have devised a way to help police officers determine--quickly and on the scene--just who has recently fired a gun. Reducing the number of...

Latest lab-on-chip research adds microfluidics to chemical analysis. (Research & Developments).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... The lab on a chip is one of the most rapidly developing areas of biomedical technology. Part of the driving force behind its advance must be patients with little patience, those who have medical appointments on Friday after 4 p.m. The...

Exhibitor showcase.
September 1, 2002... Twice a year we ask Sensors Expo exhibitors to provide details on a product that they'll be highlighting at the show. The Exhibitor Showcase is a selection of these. If you're attending the show, here's a sampling of the hundreds of products on...

NASA TechFinder. (Web Picks).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Computational fluid dynamics software. Fetal health monitoring sensors. A MEMS Stirling device as an alternative to TECs. These are just a few of the clever ideas from NASA and its various research centers that are looking for commercial...

Coreco. (Web Picks).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Thank you to Ed Ramsden for suggesting Bob's Brain Snacks. What the heck's a Brain Snack? Well, once upon a time, at a company called Coreco Imaging, there was a series of internal e-mails containing bite-sized discussions about image...

Central bank. (Web Picks).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Need to find out who's the head of the central bank in Hungary? Or who's in charge of the Army in Yemen? Or the name of the President of Finland? The CIA publishes and updates weekly an online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of...

Druck. (Advertisement).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Company: Druck Incorporated Headquarters: 4 Dunham Drive, New Fairfield, Connecticut, 06812 Tel: 203-746-0400 * Fax: 203-746-2494 Email: usa.sales@druck.com http://www.pressure.com Druck Incorporated manufactures a range...

Eaton. (Advertisement).(Eaton Aerospace)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Company: Eaton Aerospace, Engineered Sensors Headquarters: 15 Durant Avenue Bethel, CT 06801-1940 USA Tel: 203-796-6000 800-736-1557 Fax: 203-796-6313 http://www.aerospace.eaton.com We are a leading designer,...

Kistler. (Advertisement).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... measure. analyze. innovate. Company: Kistler instrument Corp. Headquarters: 75 John Glenn Drive Amherst NY 14228-2171 Tel: 71 6-691-5100 Fax: 716-691-5226 E-mail: kicsales@kistler.com http://www.kistler.com...

Measurement Specialties.(advertisement)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Company: Measurement Specialties, Incorporated Headquarters: Sensor Divisions 1000 Lucas Way Hampton VA 23666 Tel: 800-745-8008 Fax: 757-766-1500 Email: sales@msiusa.com http://www.msiusa.com ...

Index of properties sensed. (A-E).(Directory)
September 1, 2002... ACCELERATION, LINEAR A-DAT (Advanced Data Acquisition Corp) AAK Corp. Accumetrics Associates Inc. ACO Pacific Inc. Agilent Technologies, Test & Measurement Call Center Alta Solutions Inc. AMETEK Aerospace ...

Index of properties sensed. (F-W).(Directory)
September 1, 2002... FLAME AMETECK Aerospace Concept Engineering Dexter Research Center Inc. Essel Marketing Hellma Intl. Honeywell Sensing and Control Infrared of New Jersey Inc. Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. ...

Index of technologies used. (A-Z).
September 1, 2002... ACOUSTIC Actodyne General Inc. Advanced Cerametics Inc. Airmar Technology Corp. American Piezo Ceramics Inc. AMETEK Aerospace AMETEK Drexelbrook Applied Technologies Inc. Bruel & Kjaer Campbell...

Index of intelligent systems.
September 1, 2002... DA SYSTEMS SUPPORTED, BENCHTOP/DESKTOP ACCES I/O Products Inc. Acquired Data Solutions Inc. Acromag Inc. Action Instruments Inc. ADIndstruments Adlink Technology America Inc. ADMET Advanced Measurement...

Index of related products. (F-V).(Directory)
September 1, 2002... FIBER-OPTIC COMPONENTS Acquired Data Solutions Inc. AEI North America Inc. AGV Products Inc. Allen-Bradley, Presence Sensing Business Alliance Fiber Optic Products Amorphous Materials Inc. Aromat Corp.,...

Index of related services. (A-V).(Directory)
September 1, 2002... ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIETIES Automated Imaging Assn. Industrial Logic ISA -- The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society MEMS Industry Group National Fluid Power Assn. Sinoceramics ZMD America Inc., Sensor ICs...

Index of manufacturer's representatives.(Directory)
September 1, 2002... SENSORS AND TRANSDUCERS Accu-Tec Sales Company Alpha Controls Inc. Analectro Inc. Analyticon Instruments Corp. Andruss-Peskin Corp. Apollo Technical Sales Inc. Associated Controls Inc. Aurora Engineered...

Company directory. (A-B).(Directory)
September 1, 2002... 4B Components Ltd. Electronics Div. 729 Sabrina Dr. East Peoria, IL 61611 309-698-5611 Fax 309-698-5615 4b@go4b.com www.go4b.com Contact: Johnny Wheat, VP Electronic Products 4B Components provides...

Company directory. (C-E).
September 1, 2002... C & A Transducers Inc. 14329 Commerce Dr. Garden Grove, CA 92643 714-554-9188 Fax 714-554-8364 sales@ca-transducers.com www.ca-transducers.com C&A manufactures magnet speed sensors for space, aircraft, and...

Company directory. (F-K).
September 1, 2002... F. W. Murphy 5311 S. 122 E. Ave. Tulsa, OK 74146 918-317-4100 Fax 918-317-4266 sales@fwmurphy.com www.fwmurphy.com F. W. Murphy provides instrumentation and controls for industrial engines and engine-driven...

Company directory. (L-P).
September 1, 2002... L-3 Communications Telemctry-East 47 Friends Lane, P0 Box 328 Newtown, PA 18940-0328 215-497-8000 Fax 215-968-3214 sales/mktg@te.L-3.com.com www.L-3.com.com L-3 Communications Telemetry-East provides flight...

Company directory. (Q-S).
September 1, 2002... QEL (Quartrosense Environmental Ltd.) 5935 Ottawa St. P0 Box 749 Ottawa, ON K0A 2Z0 CANADA 613-838-4005 x303 Fax 613-838-4018 qel@dedesco.com www.qel@dedesco.com Contact: Gene Quesnel, Acct. Mgr. QEL...

Company directory. (T-Z).
September 1, 2002... Taber Industries 455 Bryant St., PO Box 164 North Tonawanda, NY 14120 716-694-4000 800-333-5300 Fax 716-694-1450 sales@taberindustries.com www.taberindustries.com Contact: Tom Karlinski, App. Eng. Taber...

Maunufacturer representatives directory. (A-W).
September 1, 2002... Accu-Tec Sales Company PO Box 160 Roy, WA 98580 253-843-9143 800-477-4135 Fax 253-843-2976 rdchiefs@aol.com Contact: Phil Dennis, Owner Alpha Controls Inc. PO Box 40500 Cincinnati, OH 45240 ...

Quick poll. (Web Picks).(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... www.sensorsmag.com What is the greatest benefit a sensor manufacturer can provide for you? 42.6% Problem-solving experts 26.4% Wide range of products 16.1% Lowest price 11.7% Universal sensors 2.9% Global support ...

Editor's note.(Editorial)
September 1, 2002... "We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place." Peter Senge Sensors Buyer's Guide aims to help you solve the problem of locating suppliers for your design...