MEMSIC Introduces New Acceleration Components

These new sensors provide tip-over and acceleration sensing in a wide range of automotive, industrial and consumer applications, such as motorcycle and off-road vehicle tip-over detection, vehicle navigation and Digital SLR camera horizontal position detection, the company states.

The 624x family offers a full range of functionality, features and performance to serve the diverse needs of different applications. The fully autonomous MXD6240/41 eliminate the need for a micro controller and can replace older mechanical pendulum solutions in motorcycles and off-road vehicles.

“For years, high vibration environments have caused problems for accelerometers, forcing customers to widen the full scale range of the accelerometer to prevent clipping and move to a more powerful and expensive microprocessor capable of higher sampling rates and heavy filtering needed prevent aliasing and recover the signal of interest,” said James Fennelly, MEMSIC product marketing manager. “The 624x family gives customers a new cost effective choice that works well in these high-vibration environments, and is the only accelerometer with these unique vibration-filtering properties.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.