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Angular Rate Sensor suits demanding safety applications.
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Featuring total offset error of ±1.0 deg/sec, High Performance MicroGyro® includes automotive double-ended quartz MEMS tuning fork sensor element, as well as custom-calibrated ASIC, all inside coin-sized package. Unit offers fully compensated SPI digital output and Continuous Built-In Test(TM) technology, which constantly monitors sensor's performance. Able to withstand heat up to 125°C, sensor is suited for active-steering and land-keeping applications.
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Systron Donner Automotive Introduces High Performance MicroGyro®
Phenomenally-Low Bias Rates Ideal for Demanding Safety Applications
CONCORD, Calif. - Systron Donner Automotive, a business unit of Custom Sensors & Technologies (CST) revolutionizes the sensor industry once again with the introduction of its High Performance MicroGyro®. This new angular-rate sensor takes precision to a new level, boasting an astonishing total offset error of ±1.0 deg/sec; that's triple the bias accuracy of the original MicroGyro®. This new degree of performance makes the High Performance MicroGyro® the ideal choice for ultra-demanding safety applications such as active-steering and land-keeping.
The High Performance MicroGyro® is fully self-contained. It includes the unique Systron Donner automotive double-ended quartz MEMS tuning fork sensor element, as well as a custom-calibrated ASIC, all inside a rugged housing the size of a small coin. Like the original MicroGyro®, the new High Performance MicroGyro® offers unique features, such as fully-compensated SPI digital output, and patented Continuous Built-In Test(TM) (CBIT(TM)) technology, which monitors the sensor's performance 100 percent of the time.
Unlike sensors from other manufacturers, only Systron Donner Automotive MicroGyros® are able to withstand the punishing heat of underhood installations, up to 125°C. This eliminates the need for costly and trouble-prone cable runs to the passenger compartment, just as the factory-calibrated output eliminates the need for the customer to create hardware- and software-based compensation schemes.
The High Performance MicroGyro's® specifications clearly illustrate its advantages:
Offset error due to temperature: ±0.5 deg/sec
Scale factor error: ±2%
Total offset error (all effects): ±1.0 deg/sec
Exceptionally low G-sensitivity
All specifications guaranteed
About Systron Donner Automotive
Systron Donner Automotive is the global leader in the design and manufacture of the highest performing inertial measurement products integral to advanced automotive safety applications. Installed in more than 40 mission automobiles on the road today, the Systron Donner Automotive quartz MEMS gyro is the enabling technology behind the industry's most reliable active safety systems. Systron Donner Automotive is now applying this same technology to the marine and off-highway markets, advancing the quality of vehicle safety beyond the automotive industry.
For more information about Systron Donner Automotive, a Custom Sensors & Technologies company, call (925) 682-6161 or visit systronauto.com.
About Custom Sensors & Technologies
Headquartered in Moorpark, CA - Custom Sensors & Technologies (CST) is a global business unit of Schneider Electric and is comprised of industry-leading brands including Crouzet, Kavlico, Crydom, and former divisions of BEI Technologies - Newall and Systron Donner. CST provides sensors, controls, and actuation products for the Transportation, Industrial and Aerospace & Defense markets.
www.cstsensors.com
About Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric is the world's power and control specialist. Through its world-class brands, Merlin Gerin, Square D and Telemacanique, Schneider Electric anticipates and satisfies its customers' requirements in the residential, building, industry and energy and infrastructure markets. Schneider Electric has more than 200 manufacturing sites around the world and supports more than 200 associations. With 120,000 employees and operations in 106 countries, Schneider Electric generated sales of Euros17.3 billion in 2007. www.schneider-electric.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Tom James
T 248-465-0812
tom.james@cstsensors.com
