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Touch Sensing

What sensors are in a modern washing machine? Pt 1

December 9, 2020 By Randy Frank

The number and different types of sensors in cars and smartphones are cited frequently and certainly are impressive. However, sensor usage in many other areas is increasing as well. Appliances, which are not replaced as frequently as vehicles and smartphones, could surprise many people with the  different sensing functions and types of sensors used in […]

Filed Under: Capacitive, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Touch Sensing Tagged With: Microchip Technology

What sensors allow robots to work collaboratively and safely with humans?

December 2, 2020 By Randy Frank

If advanced factories strictly concentrate on the machinery without taking human beings into account, will the robots have to consume the products they build? When Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line to mass produce an entire automobile (Dec. 1, 1913), he more than doubled the wages of assembly line workers to stabilize his […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Image sensing, Smart cameras, Touch Sensing, Vision systems Tagged With: comau

IR sensing demo kit for existing and new designs

September 3, 2019 By Aimee Kalnoskas

touch sensing

The zForce Touch Sensor from Neonode is a laser light-based touch sensor that can be integrated and used in various applications. The sensor characteristics are high scanning frequency, low latency, good touch accuracy and the fact that it can be used on any display or any surface. Accommodating different display sizes is rather straightforward since […]

Filed Under: Touch Sensing Tagged With: neonodeinc

Contactless touch sensing for safer interactions

September 3, 2019 By Aimee Kalnoskas

touch sensing

by Richard Berglind, Sr. Optical Engineer, Neonode Inc. Smartphones and other portable products have made touch the human machine interface (HMI) of choice for many other products. Touch sensing is easy to implement, easy to use, reliable and cost-effective. However, there are many applications and situations where physically touching a device is not desired and, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Touch Sensing Tagged With: neonodeinc

How can you have touchless touch sensing?

July 10, 2019 By Randy Frank

touchless touch sensing

At Sensors Expo 2019 in San Jose, CA, Håkan Persson, CEO of Neonode Inc., demonstrates touchless sensing using his company’s vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) technology. Neonode’s zForce (zero force) patented optical sensing technology uses infrared light, invisible to the human eye to provide a holographic touch screen, essentially making air touchable. The holographic design consists of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Infrared, laser, Touch Sensing Tagged With: neonodeinc, STMicroelectronics

How can lasers be used for touch sensing?

July 9, 2019 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2019 in San Jose, CA, Bengt Edlund, the Vice President of Distribution & Partner Sales for Neonode Inc. demonstrates the touch sensing capabilities that Neonode’s ZForce AIR sensor module can provide to non-glass surfaces. The laser light based touch sensor provides a unique approach to increasingly common touch sensing applications and enables […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Infrared, laser, Touch Sensing Tagged With: neonode

Heilind Electronics stocking Standex Electronics reed switches

October 19, 2018 By Aimee Kalnoskas

reed switches

Heilind Electronics is now offering a broad variety of reed switches from Standex Electronics – a leading manufacturer of custom electromagnetic components and the world’s largest producer of reed switches. Standex’s portfolio includes a diverse selection of magnetic reed switches covering the majority of low power switching requirements. The switches are designed to carry as low […]

Filed Under: Sensor Fusion, Touch Sensing Tagged With: heilindelectronics, standexelectronics

How can you secure a sensing node?

July 30, 2018 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2018 in San Jose, CA, Martin Squibbs, Product Marketing Manager for Microchip Technology discusses the company’s newest SAM L11 microcontroller (MCU), the first on the market to have the Arm Cortex-M23 core with TrustZone. Leveraging TrustZone, the three differentiating features of the 32-bit MCU are high security, parallel capture (through a two-stage […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Sensor security, Temperature, Touch Sensing Tagged With: arm, EEMBC, Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, Microchip Technology, Testonics

How can smart phone type touch sensing be implemented in a home control unit?

January 27, 2017 By Randy Frank

At CES 2017, Tobias Eichenwald, Co-founder and CEO of Senic GmbH, demonstrates a smart home control button that mimics smart phone type touch sensing. In a programmable interface, the touch sensing provides buttons, an analog ring for variable control, touch surface for browsing, and swipe as well as proximity sensing without touch for music, lighting […]

Filed Under: Featured, Touch Sensing Tagged With: Senic GmbH

Process lets sensors be applied by machine

September 29, 2016 By Patrick Curran

kurz-touch-sensor

Until now, plastic parts have predominantly been manually equipped with sensors using mainly the expensive OCA (optically clear adhesives) technology. Integration processes developed by Kurz, however, enable sensors to be applied very quickly and economically by machine. The sensors, including electrical connection (tail), are permanently bonded to the component and are immediately functional. This has […]

Filed Under: Sensors Primers, Touch Sensing, What's Hot Tagged With: kurz

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