Piezo news for November 2006
Bangalore: Indian radiologist spearheads cure for osteoarthritis …
Mangalorean.com - Mangalore,India
… The major stimulus for bone and cartilage formation is a piezoelectric signal generated when these structures are subjected to tension or compression. …
US giant buys into Essex company’s Fort Knox-style lock technology
Business Weekly - UK
… door. Servocell has cunningly updated the same basic technology that makes a quartz watch tick – the piezoelectric effect. Piezo …
Canadian teen innovators honoured for breakthrough energy saving …
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
… Best Business Plan - Shad Lakehead University —– Shad Valley Lakehead developed, a piezoelectric generator designed …
Swiss Invent a Muscular Display
IEEE Spectrum - New York,NY,USA
… Others have experimented with microelectromechanical actuators, based on piezoelectric crystals that expand in response to a change in voltage. …
Brandy, red wine: hangover from hell
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
… rate of specially shaped quartz crystals that vibrate when electrical voltage is applied to their surface, in what is called the piezoelectric effect. …
Sound science behind glowing sugar
PhysicsWeb - UK
… see their mouth glow. That’s because piezoelectric materials such as sugar can emit light when they are broken. Now researchers at …
My knee says I just jumped!
Coolest Gadgets - Newburry,Berkshire,UK
… With a piezoelectric power generator, (that uses the motion of the walker to power the tiny device) the tiny sensors can deduce bending, twisting, compressive …
Remote Charge Converter features ultra low noise design.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York,NY,USA
… long, Model 2771C transforms piezoelectric transducer’s high impedance charge output to low impedance voltage proportional to transducer’s charge output. …
Girl sees invention become reality
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
… in October. As people step on the mats, their weight triggers the piezoelectric elements in the mats, generating electricity. “We …
Smart Shad teens drill for oilsands answers
Business Edge - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
… The Shad Valley Lakehead team created a self-powered hearing aid with a piezoelectric generator designed to replace the conventional hearing-aid battery. …
Project Green Light
Electronic Design - USA
… Wetzel believes he can improve green LED technology by taking advantage of the piezoelectric effect, which allows some materials to produce an electrical field …
Nanotech, Ceramic Armor to be Topics at ACerS Event
Photonics.com - Pittsfield,MA,USA
… advanced ceramic coatings; advanced processing and manufacturing technologies; porous ceramics; advanced dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials …
Air jet dries hands at 400mph
Eureka - Dartfor,Kent,UK
… through an iodine filter. This clean water then drips onto a piezoelectric crystal about the size of a 10p piece. This fast-vibrating …
CTR Developed Sensors for Monitoring Power Lines
Earthtimes.org - USA
… The first installations are currently under way. The SAW sensor is composed of a piezoelectric crystal with metallicstructures. …
HP creates dedicated Graphic Arts division
Graphic Repro - South Africa
… The HP Scitex X2 Print-head with UV curable inks and piezoelectric inkjet technology delivers high ink flows for high quality, high-speed printing. …
World novelty: Durable position measurement of hydraulic pistons
PresseBox (Pressemitteilung)(abonnement) - Rastatt,Germany
… connection is essentially determined. These piezoelectric elements are attached laterally on the hydraulic cylinder. These elements are …
Philips X7-2 Transducer
Medgadget.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
… The other cool thing about the technology is how the piezoelectric material for such transducers is made. Read about it here: PureWave Transducer Technology.
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