Development of New Technology in Preventing Movie recording Piracy
This new technology would probably put an end to movie piracy, well may be for a while at least. The newly developed technology specifically targets the individuals who record movies at the movie theater by their camcorders. National Institute of Informatics (NII) Associate Professor Echizen and Sharp Cooperation developed a technology for preventing pirates from recording films at movie theaters. This technology focuses on the differences of sensory perceptions between humans and devises through use of near-infrared signal as noise signals which is not harmful to human as well as being invisible to human eyes capable of adding noise to shooting video through CCD/CMOS device. Read more
Suzuki Exhibits its New Fuel-Cell Powered Scooter and Electric Wheelchair
Suzuki put on display series of energy efficient vehicles during the 41st Tokyo Motor Show. Couple of interesting products that grabbed my attention was the Fuel-cell Powered Scooter and Electric Wheelchair. The newly developed scooter, the Burgman Fuel-cell Scooter is based on Crosscage concept motorcycle where the fuel cell generates electricity through reaction between oxygen and hydrogen. The Burgman scooter comes with a structurally simple, compact and light design and it is air cooled. The new scooter is equipped with a 70MPa hydrogen tank, the highest pressure tank which has been used thus far on a bike allowing a usable riding range. The tank is placed within a robust frame for safety reason. The fuel cell itself was developed by British company Intelligent Energy which is a polymer-electrolyte type fuel-cell. The scooter uses a lithium-ion as its secondary battery. Read more
Super tiny Monolithic Ceramic Capacitor by Murata
Miniaturization of mobile devices and introduction of new advanced functionality on such devices making the available surface board real-estate on them rather scarce, forcing the component manufacturer to come up with a ever smaller form factors component design. One such device is capacitor for mobile devices which have been increasing faced with reduction on their mounting space requirements. But manufacturer of capacitance need to reduce the size of capacitance while maintaining their large capacitance capability. Read more
ROHM unveils Industry’s First Compact High-Speed Optical Communication Module
Improved display resolution and camera picture quality as well as capability of video playback on today’s mobile phones making inter-substrate transmission rate among the mobile phone manufacturer an increasingly important characteristic. But the current thin coaxial lines or flexible cables made of copper wiring can handle only about 500Mbps due to various effects such as attenuation and fluctuation from bending. In addition to this shortcoming the copper wiring requires between 40 to 50 wires making it the resulting cable difficult to bend which is an important issue during the assembly. Finally, the connector and cable footprints are large resulting in noise generation or its susceptibility to noise. In order to overcome this, Rohm has developed the industry’s first ultra compact high speed inter-substrate optical communication module capable of transmission rate of 2.5Gbps within portable devices such as mobile phones. Read more
Development of Industry’s First flexible Electronic Paper by Bridgestone
The new manufacturing technology can literally give the same flexibility to the E-paper as regular paper. Well, may be not yet but Bridgestone’s newly developed flexible E-paper take this idea few step closer to reality. The size of the device is 10.7 inch with a thickness of only 5.8mm. All parts of this super thin all flexible electronic paper device such as electronic paper, touch panel, circuit board are flexible. Read more
Development of New Robot Controller by Epson
Seiko Epson made an announcement on development of new robot controller to be used for Epson industrial robots. This is an upgrade to company’s existing model RC180 controller with capability of driving almost all Epson industrial robot automation systems including robots and peripheral equipments as well as multiple manipulators making RC620 to act as a work cell controller resulting in a greater flexibility in building a various range of system. The company is planning to ship the newly robot controller by end of October of 2009. Read more
Development of High Density Mini Point-of-Load dc-dc Converter by FDK
FDK leading Japanese and global electronic component and battery manufacturer made an announcement on development of yet another non-isolated, point-of-load (POL) dc-dc converter with a low profile single in-line (SIP) package. The newly developed FPDK12TR8006PSV dc-dc converter is capable of delivering up to 6 Amperes of output current at a power density of over 950 Watts per cubic inch. Read more
Development of Digital Brightness Sensor IC for Mobile phones by ROHM
With an increasing demand for higher functionality on mobile phones power saving on these little gadget is becoming a mundane task. One way to the over all power usage of the mobile phone is through minimizing it LCD backlight power usage. In order to achieve such power saving objectives manufacturers of mobile phones implement some sort of brightness control usually via a microcontroller and LED driver along with an ambient light sensor requiring a relatively fast bus speed. As result of this, in response to faster internal transmission speeds in mobile phones to keep up with an increasing pace in addition of new functionality on these devices, ROHM made an announcement on development of industry’s first digital ambient light sensor IC compatible with I2C bus Hs (High-speed) mode. Read more
Development of 12.1-inch XGA Color TFT-LCD Module by Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi Electric today made an announcement on development of 12.1 inch XGA color TFT LCD module featuring a reduced size and thickness of 10% and 20% respectively in comparison to the previous model. The new AA121XL01 offers a high brightness of up to 1,000 cd/m2 plus a longer backlight life through incorporation of white LED and its inverter-less construction. The minimum backlight lifespan is 60,000 hours at the 25 degrees Celsius. Additionally, the inverter-less construction helps in eliminating any needs high-voltage inverters resulting in lowering the final product cost. Read more
Development of Continuously Variable Transmission by YAMAHA
Yamaha Motor showcased its new Y.C.A.T. otherwise known for Yamaha Compact Automatic Transmission technology during the 41st Tokyo Motor Show. The newly developed continuously variable transmission (CVT) is ideal for moped type motorcycle of 100 to 125cc class due to its compactness. The CVT units will fit the drive belt which connects the engine drive shaft and rear wheel axel inside the engine assembly resulting in an automatic transmission motorcycle with the same exterior appearance as a moped. Read more
