TDK offers a full suite of sensors that are perfectly suited for drones of all types from consumer/prosumer models to industrial units.
 
In just a few years, drones have become indispensable in one application after another, including such diverse areas as agriculture, real estate and cinematography. For all this success, drones still have almost unlimited potential given their suitability for a wide variety of uses including delivery, inspection, search & rescue, monitoring, and mapping, to name just a few.
 
Fundamental to drone utility is sensor technology. Drones rely on diverse sets of sensors for two broad purposes. First for their own functionality, notably flight and navigation, and second, for their ancillary capabilities – cameras for vision, motion detectors to sense activity, heat sensors to detect temperature, and so on.

In recent years, optical transmission systems have been adopted at high rate because of the increase in capacity and speed of communication.
Among them, a semiconductor laser that is positioned as an important component requiring a temperature sensor to keep the ambient temperature constant. A thermocouple can be used as a temperature sensor, but the NTCWS series of NTC thermistor is more suited to this application.

The NTCWS series can be mounted by wire bonding, achieving small size, high accuracy and unquestionable reliability.

TAS4240 is a compact, cost-effective, redundant, half-bridge TMR-based sensor for angle and position detection. This article clearly describes and explains the features of TDK's TMR sensors, thus giving valuable information to our customers.

TDK’s ultrasonic Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors integrate a MEMS PMUT (Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer) with an ultra-low power SoC (System on Chip) in a miniature reflowable package.
These sensor solutions are capable of ranging to targets of any composition up to 5 meters in any lighting condition, making them ideal for a variety of applications including: obstacle avoidance, presence detection, robotics, security & surveillance, AR/VR, drones, liquid level sensing, smart home/building, and general IoT.

Die TDK Corporation präsentiert die neue Serie B58101A0109A* (HP100) an Wärmepumpen-Sensoren zur indirekten Messung der Kühlmitteltemperatur über die Oberflächentemperatur der Kühlmittelrohre. Die NTC-basierten Sensoren sind speziell auf die Anforderungen im Automotive-Bereich zugeschnitten. Standardmäßig ist diese Clip-on-Ausführung für Rohrdurchmesser von 12,8 mm ausgeführt, kann in rauen Umgebungen von -40 °C bis +150 °C betrieben werden und ist bis zu 500 Stunden tauchfest in Wasser. Die Ansprechzeit beträgt weniger als 7 s. Die neuen nach AEC-Q200 qualifizierten Sensoren bieten eine hohe Spannungsfestigkeit von 1250 V AC für 10 s, ein wichtiges Kriterium für den Einsatz in EVs. Eine geringe Temperaturtoleranz von ±0,3 K bei einer Nenntemperatur von 85 °C sorgt für eine hohe Regelungsgenauigkeit.

TMR-Winkelsensor sind magnetische Sensoren, die die magnetische Feldrichtung eines Magneten erkennen können.
In diesen Produkte steckt sehr viel Knowhow, das TDK in den Bereichen der Magnettechnologie und Membrantechnologie entwickelt hat. Die Sensoren sind äußerst präzise und zuverlässig und sie besitzen darüber hinaus gute Temperatureigenschaften.
TMR-Sensoren arbeiten daher auch in einem breiten Temperaturbereich sehr zuverlässig. Aus diesen Gründen kommen sie als Bauteile für die Automobilindustrie, die hohe Anforderungen an Zuverlässigkeit und Präzision stellt, in immer mehr Anwendungen zum Einsatz. Da TMR-Sensoren außerdem auch einen geringen Stromverbrauch aufweisen, werden sie nicht nur in Fahrzeugen, sondern auch in Robotern oder in Consumer-Produkten wie Smartphones vielfältig eingesetzt.

Die TDK Corporation präsentiert den kompakten, robusten AFA Drucktransmitter B58620F3800B768 zur Schraubmontage für unterschiedlichste Industrie-Anwendungen. Er ist für einen Druckbereich von 1 bar bis 11 bar und Temperaturen von -20 °C bis +125 °C ausgelegt. Die Abmessungen liegen bei nur 48 x 27 x 24 mm3. Der neue Transmitter bietet eine hohe Messgenauigkeit von ±0,5 Prozent FS (Full Scale) im Temperaturbereich von +20 °C bis +80 °C.

Service robots play an increasingly vital role in society, from transportation and warehouse logistics to home entertainment and security. Regardless of their application, they need to sense changes in their surroundings in real-time to ensure safety while providing a positive user experience. To illustrate how various sensor technologies from TDK’s SmartSensor family can be applied in service robots, this article focuses on a robotic vacuum cleaner (RVC).
Early versions of robotic vacuums had very little intelligence, randomly bumping their way around the home and sometimes missing areas as they did not know where they had been. Often, they would unwittingly become trapped or run out of charge mid-sweep. And, as their dust box is comparatively small to a regular vacuum cleaner, if full, they could be sweeping but not collecting anything up. Over the years, with the innovative use of sensors and motor controllers, vacuum cleaning robots have become much smarter, overcoming these issues.

The TDK Robokit1 combines sensors, processors, and actuators on a single board, making it an ideal robotics platform for quick prototyping and development. RoboKit1 integrates key product offerings such as 6-axis IMU, industrial IMU modules, capacitive barometric pressure sensor, digital I²S microphone, temp sensor, ultrasonic Time of Flight (ToF) sensors, magnetometer, and motor controller on a single PCB.
It also comes equipped with ARM® Cortex®-M7, multiple interfaces, and is compatible with multiple processor platforms such as Raspberry Pi and ASUS Tinker Board. RoboKit1 is not just another dev board—it is the comprehensive TDK solution showcase!

We provide Automotive MEMS sensors which have reliability testing performed according to AEC–­Q100 and provide PPAP and qualification data upon request. These are designed or specifically qualified and tested for the Automotive market with those unique needs in mind. These support the rapid growth of convenience, infotainment, telematics, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems ­(ADAS), and other technological features for the Automobile.