Aircraft Weighing System provides wireless operation.
Press Release Summary:
JetWeigh-W(TM) integrates wireless communication, digital weighing, and load cell technologies. Handheld PC communicates with up to 5 hermetically sealed load cells as well as thermal printer for result printouts. With capacity of 15,000-600,000 lb and operation range of 220 ft, system offers accuracy of ±0.1% of applied load or ±0.02% of channel capacity. It provides CG calculation, library of 200 aircraft types and characteristics, weighing history, and latitude and altitude adjustment.
Original Press Release:
New Vishay Revere JetWeigh-W(TM) Wireless Aircraft Weighing System Has Capacity of 15,000 to 600,000 Pounds (6,500 to 270,000 kg), and Operation Range of More than 220 Feet (70 m)
MALVERN, PENNSYLVANIA December 15, 2006 Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE:VSH) announces the release of the Vishay Revere JetWeigh-W(TM) wireless aircraft weighing system. The new JetWeigh-W system, which integrates wireless communication, digital weighing, and high-accuracy load cell technologies, eliminates the need for cable connections. It is an accurate and easy-to-use system that ensures correct weighing even under severe vibration and oscillation conditions.
Applications include routine weight and center-of-gravity monitoring, weight checking after airframe repairs and modifications, and design-proving weight and center-of-gravity determinations.
The JetWeigh-W wireless aircraft weighing system includes a rugged handheld PC that communicates with up to five hermetically sealed load cells, as well as a thermal printer that provides weight result printouts. The system has a capacity range of 15,000 to 600,000 pounds (6,500 to 270,000 kg), an operation range of over 220 feet (70 m), and accuracy of ±0.1% of applied load or ±0.02% of channel capacity, whichever is greater.
The systems handheld PC features a color touch screen user interface for user-friendly, step-by-step operation. Functions and features include CG calculation, a library of up to 200 aircraft types and characteristics, weighing history, and latitude and altitude adjustment. The systems hermetically sealed, compact, stainless steel load cells provide a conversion rate of 50 conversions per second per load cell. They enable synchronized sampling of all weight channel results that minimizes vibration, oscillation, and wind effects. The JetWeigh-W system is both highly accurate and, because it is wireless, easy to install, operate, and maintain.
About Vishay Revere
Vishay Revere is part of the Vishay Systems division of Vishay Measurements Group. Vishay Measurements Group develops, manufactures, and markets components, instruments, and systems for a wide variety of test and measurement applications. Vishay strain gage products include electrical resistance strain gages for both stress analysis testing and transducer manufacturing applications, as well as strain gage instrumentation. Vishay PhotoStress® coatings and instruments use a unique optical process to detect stress and other physical forces. Vishay transducer products include load cells, force transducers, and instruments. Vishay also manufactures, installs, and services systems for weighing and force measurement and control. These include systems with transducers and instruments to control process weighing in food, chemical, and pharmaceutical plants; force measurement systems to control web tension in paper mills, roller force in steel mills, and cable tension in winch controls; on-board weighing systems that are installed in logging and waste-handling trucks; and special scale systems for aircraft weighing and portable truck weighing. Vishay Measurements Group is part of Vishay Intertechnology.
About Vishay
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH), is one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors (diodes, rectifiers, transistors, and optoelectronics and selected ICs) and passive electronic components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, sensors, and transducers). These components are used in virtually all types of electronic devices and equipment, in the industrial, computing, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Its product innovations, successful acquisition strategy, and ability to provide "one-stop shop" service have made Vishay a global industry leader. Vishay can be found on the Internet at www.vishay.com.
