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Würth Elektronik is promoting PCBs with press-fit power connectors as the interconnection technology of choice for high-voltage power distribution in mobile machines and commercial vehicles. It has a design service for vehicle companies seeking custom power distribution units that handle between 60 and 1,000V “that are compact, robust and can be flexibly configured”, it said. “Press-fit technology makes it possible ...

West Midlands-based Kasdon Electronics is to supply 180,000 PCB assembles for the giant SKA-Low radio telescope, to be built in Australia. The two year contact is with Italian receiver maker Sirio Antenne. “Sirio Antenne is a developer of high-quality antennas, and they were picked to design and manufacture the antennas used in the SKA-Low observation product,” according to Kasdon. “After ...

There is a new resource available in the site: a whitepaper from NCAB. It considers how best to maximise the design of your PCB for both manufacture and best performance.

Hirose has designed a miniature hybrid flexible printed circuit (FPC) to board connector family called BK22 that can handle signals and power totalling 100W – for USB fast-charging, for example. By “using an FPC to connect the USB to the PCB, the USB can be placed anywhere within the design of the end-product”, according to the company. “BK22 suppresses heat ...

XP Power has created a family of PCB mount ac-dc power modules for BF (body floating) medical applications such as surgical, patient treatment, patient monitoring and dental equipment. Named MCE, there are four types of single-output PSU in the family: 3W MCE03, 10W MCE10, 20W MCE20 and 40W MCE40. “All the units are specifically designed for medical applications and carry ...

Powell Electronics has announced that will be stocking a second generation  of GDBC (Gigalane direct board contact) one-piece contacts from Gigalane. The “contacts are easy to use in the assembly as they require no SMT”, said Powell. Instead, the connector is installed in the face of an assembly, and then pushed face-down onto the PCB to make coaxial contact – ...

Harwin has added four height options to its multi-directional spring contact range, which now spans from 4 to 10mm. “Although there are already many spring contacts that are suitable for vertical compression applications, it is less common to find parts that can also allow horizontal operation, Support for multi-directional operation is therefore appealing,” according to the company. The new parts ...

An intelligent patch for cardiac monitoring is amongst research projects built on flexible and stretchable PCBs from Würth Elektronik. There are two cardiac monitors, a mini version with three electrodes for short-term monitoring, and one with six electrodes for longer periods. “A completely new approach to integration was developed in this work,” according to Wurth. “It was based on a stretchable ...

Infineon Technologies is testing a biodegradable PCB material based on natural fibres in demo and evaluation boards. The substrate, branded Soluboard, is from UK start-up Jiva Materials, which claims that it would result in a 60% reduction in carbon emissions compared with FR-4, saving 10.5kg of carbon and 620g of plastic per square meter of PCB. Made from undisclosed natural fibres ...

Adafruit has made an I2C interface for four rotary encoders. It comes in the form of a PCB with four footprints that accept one of the most common rotary encoder forms (Bournes PEC11 horizontal style), allowing the user to pick devices with the appropriate step-count per revolution, with or without a push switch. “The [pre-soldered] on-board microcontroller is programmed with ...