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Allegro’s new gate driver reduces cooling fan noise and vibration

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Allegro MicroSystems has introduced the new A89307 automotive-qualified gate driver integrated circuit (IC). Designed for battery cooling fans and HVAC systems in EVs and hybrids, the A89307 offers ultra-low noise and vibration by using a Field Oriented Control (FOC) algorithm to drive continuous sinusoidal current to the load.

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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

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Infinite Cooling. Much of the water used in industrial cooling towers at manufacturing sites or power plants leaves the facility as high-density water vapor. Spintex Engineering has mimicked the precision of a spider’s spinnerets to produce artificial spider silk for use in textiles, apparel, aerospace and automotive industries.

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onsemi releases new EliteSiC M3S devices portfolio for EVs

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onsemi , which produces intelligent power and sensor technologies for automotive and industrial applications, has released its newest 1,200 V EliteSiC silicon carbide (SiC) M3S devices for EV power electronics. The modules are suitable for DC-AC, AC-DC and DC-DC high-power conversion stages.

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Additive manufacturing of flexible component retention systems

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For decades, photopolymer additive manufacturing (AM) has been leveraged to accelerate the development of innovative automotive components and systems. The modern vehicle offers many different propulsion systems working in concert with cooling, climate, infotainment, driver information, security systems, and more.

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STMicroelectronics releases SiC MOSFETs for 800 V drive systems

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The devices have a fast intrinsic diode that delivers the bidirectional properties needed for automotive on-board chargers (OBCs) used in Vehicle-to-X (V2X) applications. ST will offer the devices in bare dice form, discrete power packages such as STPAK, H2PAK-7L, HiP247-4L, HU3PAK, and power modules of the ACEPACK family.

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Electric vehicle architecture design

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These include innovations in miniaturization and balancing control of vehicle weight and cost as well as connectivity that will help automotive system architects achieve scalability and durability without sacrificing cost and packaging size. Stack systems provide unparalleled design flexibility for automotive engineers.

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Dana’s e-Valves combine the best of fluid and electronic controls

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On-off e-Valves for automotive applications tend to feature a directly actuated design. These e-Valve designs offer packaging-friendly configurations that adopt to solenoid or motor actuation, with a fail-safe feature and the potential of no-power-consumption to hold position. The company can do so because of its unique modular design.