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Monnit takes gold in 2020 LEAP Awards’ Switches & Sensors category

October 6, 2020 By Mike Santora

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The winners of the 2020 LEAP Awards (Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program) were announced yesterday in a digital ceremony, with products across 12 categories. Critical to LEAP’s success is the involvement of the engineering community. No one at WTWH Media selected the winners. Instead, our editorial team did the arduous work of assembling a top-notch […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: FUTEK, microchiptechnology, Monnit Corp.

Designing and manufacturing haptic sensors for robotic surgery platforms

July 9, 2019 By Paul Heney

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is a modern technique that allows surgeons to perform operations through small incisions (usually 5-15 mm). Although it has numerous advantages over older surgical techniques, MIS can be more difficult to perform. Some inherent drawbacks are: limited motion due to straight laparoscopic instruments and fixation enforced by the small incision in […]

Filed Under: What's Hot Tagged With: FUTEK

Load Cell Comes in Rugged Ultra-Miniature Package

April 29, 2016 By Randy Frank

FUTEK LCM100 in-line load cell is an ultra-miniature threaded design that has a capacity range of 1000g to 25 lb. Utilizing metal foil strain gauge technology, the sensor can be used in both tension and compression applications. The design’s very low deflection allows it to provide high response rates and superior settling times. The sensor […]

Filed Under: Featured, Load cell Tagged With: FUTEK

Webinar: Sensing Trends in Industrial Applications

July 10, 2013 By Randy Frank

Sensing has changed considerably for industrial applications within the past few years. Specific trends include the transition to wireless sensing, changes in sensing approaches and the application of new sensing technologies but there are many more. By attending this special, free 1-hour webinar, you will gain a better understanding of the trends that are emerging […]

Filed Under: Featured, What's Hot Tagged With: FUTEK, Honeywell, TSI Technologies

Load Cells Measure Mouse Movements

March 11, 2013 By Randy Frank

Behavioral researchers looking for alternative techniques to measure the reaction of laboratory mice may have a solution using load cells. A concept developed by Futek engineers uses four if it’s LSB200 Miniature Load Cells. With the sensors installed at the corners of the mouse’s cage, the measured data indicates the behavioral patterns of the mouse […]

Filed Under: Featured, Load cell Tagged With: FUTEK

FUTEK Sensors Help Produce Aerial Images of Hurricane Sandy

November 9, 2012 By Patrick Curran

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FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc. was commissioned by NASA to design and develop two cryogenic load cells to operate aboard the satellite producing aerial images of Hurricane Sandy. NASA’s Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is one of five instruments currently in use by the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environment Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project. The […]

Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: FUTEK

Monitoring Medical Fluids for Patients

September 18, 2012 By Randy Frank

In medical applications, monitoring fluid input and output is a common requirement. Although it is performed frequently, high precision is required for patient monitoring. FUTEK has developed a complete system to weigh intravenous (IV) or saline bag fluids. The LSB200 Miniature S-Beam Load Cell provides the sensing capability to measure the tensile force applied to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Load cell Tagged With: FUTEK

In-Line Amplifier Targets Strain Gauges

February 14, 2012 By Randy Frank

If you work with strain gauges, you usually have to amplify the output to achieve a useable signal for the rest of the system. FUTEK’s recently improved its CSG110 Strain Gauge Amplifier to simplify the process and improve the matching requirements of the amplifier to the application for full-bridge strain-gauge sensors with a mV/V output. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Signal Conditioning Tagged With: FUTEK, strain gage, strain gauge amplifier, strain gauges

Vampires vs. Zombies Who will be the Deadliest?

October 28, 2011 By Editor

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For centuries there existed two iconic enemies on a ghoulish and archaic battlefield: the vampire and the zombie. And as sheer happenstance would have it, the two would oppose forces once again on none other than Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior.  With battle merits in agility, endurance, and overall combative tactics, the two archenemies wait on […]

Filed Under: Other, Pressure Tagged With: Deadliest Warrior, FUTEK, sensors

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