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Weidmuller has announced a series of battery connectors and battery connector cable assemblies. They are “engineered to handle high currents” and “designed to withstand harsh environmental conditions”, according to the company. Connectors for cables from 16 to 95mm2 are available, with contacts made from copper alloy finished with silver and, approved according to UL 4128. Predicted mechanical connection life, without ...

February is definitely the month for automotive high and low-side drivers, proved beyond doubt as Diodes has just followed Rohm, Toshiba and STMicroelectronics with its contribution: a protected 4A (25A pulsed) high-side switch. Called ZXMS81045SPQ, it operates across 5 – 28V (41V abs max) and responds to both 5V and 3.3V logic inputs. Packaging is SO-8 with an exposed heat sinking ...

It seems to be the week for high and low-side driver announcements, with STMicroelectronics now following on from Toshiba and Rohm. ST’s offering are, like Rohm’s, for automotive use. They are single, double and quad high-side gate drivers in a common 6 x 4.9 x 1.7mm gull-wing thermal pad package, “with pin assignments that simplify scaling circuit designs to add ...

Toshiba has created octal high-side and low-side protected load drivers in SSOP30 packaging (9.7 x 7.6 x 1.2mm, 0.65mm pitch). The company is promoting them as smaller alternatives to SSOP24 packaged drivers like TPD2005F and TPD2007F. The new parts use the company’s latest analogue process which is BiCD – combining bipolar, CMOS and DMOS elements. The high-side switching TPD2015FN (right) ...

Toshiba has introduced a mosfet load switch gate driver in a 1.2 x 0.8 x 0.35mm 6bump WCSP6G the chip-scale package, suiting it to wearables and smartphones, it said. The IC, called TCK421G, can separately drive the gates of a pair of back-to-back n-channel mosfets to make a reverse-blocking switch – useful when multiplexing power sources. If reverse blocking is not needed, ...

Omron has tailored a latching relay for the high in-rush performance needed in smart building automation and switching capacitive loads. Part of the G5RL series, the parts are G5RL-K-EL, where ‘K’ indicates double-winding latching,  and ‘EL’ shows the contacts are tolerant of high in-rush currents. While other relays in the series are available with change-over contacts, EL types are only available as ...

Nichia is claiming better colour rendering without loosing efficacy with technology it has banded ‘H6’. “Indeed, the H6 series delivers a colour rendering index of 90 while maintaining a level of efficacy seen in standard CRI 80 leds,” it claimed. It takes advantage of a red narrow band phosphor, as well as semiconductor and package changes, to “achieve a colour quality better ...

Microchip has introduced some high-side automotive current sense amplifiers, claiming that they have the lowest offset for AEC-Q100 Grade 0 qualified parts. Called MCP6C02, the Grade 0 part comes in a 3 x 3mm 8 pin VDFN package with wettable flank plating and has a maximum offset error of ±12µV, while the 6pin SOT-23 version is AEC-Q100 Grade 1. This max ...

Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a through-hole inductor that can handle 420A for 30% inductance reduction in saturation – all in a 38 x 38 x 22mm ‘1500’ case size. Called IHXL-1500VZ-51, it has a typical dc resistance (DCR) of 0.12mΩ and is rated for continuous operation at 150A and 155°C continuously. Hard saturation can be avoided as saturation (20%) is ...

DLI’s V Series, single layer ceramic capacitor series has been designed to provide higher capacitance in a smaller footprint at high frequency compared with multi-layer (MLCC) types. They are wire-bondable and have a 0.77 x 0.77mm footprint, allowing for high density mounting. “Excellent in high frequency characteristics compared with general purpose MLCC’s, the impedance of this product becomes lower at ...