World renown component distributor, TTI Inc. have increased their selection of receptacles for distribution. TTI has been fortunate enough to join links with Amphenol, a US company, to further distribute Amphenol’s receptacles through their European resources. This partnership was believed to increase both company’s revenue and increase TTI’s selection to help them provide their customers with premier products. The newly added receptacles are known as Amphenol’s FCI, Minitek 2.0mm.
Lane Electronics Ltd. a leading connector company from the UK is now to carry new innovative connectors. Lane has been a top competitor in the connector industry and has expanded its doors to many more projects. Working hand in hand with connector manufacture Souriau technologies to be able to produce these newer connectors. Their new addition to their family of connectors is a series of high-performance circular connectors. All the latest connectors will meet the MIL-DTL-38999 Series III standard. The connectors are differentiated by the type of material they are composed of such as aluminum, composite, marine bronze and stainless.
International Airlines Group, one of the world’s largest airline groups, paired with LEVEL, a low-cost airline to produce low cost, long-haul international flights. International Airlines Group has selected the Airbus Aircraft A330-200 to further expand its operations. The A330-200 has a range of 13,450 miles with seating for up to 247 customers. The A330-20 has one of the most spacious cabins, providing a great space for its customers. LEVEL just begin operations in June of 2017 with only two flights from Barcelona to Los Angeles, and San Francisco to Buenos Aires and Punta Cana.
The semiconductor company by the name of Broadcom and its associates have prepared themselves for the biggest expansions their company has ever seen. Broadcom has teamed up a private US equity firm, Silver Lake Partners to be place a bid of an approximate 2.2 trillion yen which calculates to be 20 billion US dollars. There has been speculation that Japanese Gov. would have preferred to have a US company bid this appose to a country like South Korea, China or Taiwan.
ICP Electronics Australia has released the ICP DAS’s XP 8331-CE6 and 8731-CE6 series of embedded compact PCs. The new embedded PCs are the new generation of Windows CE 6.0-based PACs from ICP DAS. They come complete with an x86 CPU, VGA connector for video output, 2x USB 2.0 port, 2x Ethernet ports and 4x serial ports and 1/3/7 I/O slots for high-performance parallel I/O modules and serial I/O modules.
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft is showcasing its best-in-class C Series cabin and the newly redesigned CRJ cabin at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany from April 4 to 6, 2017.
Patrick Baudis, Vice President of Marketing for Bombardier Commercial Aircraft said, “We are pleased to be participating in the Aircraft Interiors Expo for the first time in our history and we are proud to be unveiling our C Series cabin mock up at AIX - the only brand new cross-section cabin to be displayed at the show. We are equally proud to present the newly redesigned interior for the CRJ regional aircraft. We are pushing the market towards new cabin comfort standards with the C Series and the new CRJ cabins that were both designed around the passenger.”
When flying in an aircraft, there are many safety factors to consider. For the passenger, it is unsettling when they begin to feel turbulence and experience a rocky ride. For the most part, turbulence is not necessarily dangerous. However, there are moments when there can become dangers and threats to the safety of an airplane. One factor is the chances of lightning striking an aircraft. To many people’s shock, aircrafts are actually very likely to be struck by lightning during their flight. Some reports state that active aircrafts will be struck at least once a year around the world. However, we rarely hear of such stories and their impacts on aircrafts.
The rise in technology is always an exciting topic. It is surprising how much the world has progressed in terms of innovation and technological advances within the past 50 years. However, the momentum has not stopped and innovation today is a much more accessible concept because of the vast access to data each person has compared to generations before them. Last month, Molex unveiled their new Impulse Orthogonal Direct Backplane Connector System. They were showcased at Design Con 2017 and featured backplane connectors that were designed for high-volume data center applications. Traditional in-line interfaces usually have insertion loss but this new impulse connector increases the resonance and delivers higher connectivity speeds.
At ASAP Semi, we deal will all types of electronics like cables and connectors. These are a little hard to price since they don’t work the same after time because they are easily damaged. We like to broker these parts because the demand for some situations can be high, since everything is ran electronically now a day. A new chip called FTDI was placed into products to give support within the X-chip portfolio, this help hold data is the component were to crash.
Mill-Max has released its lowest profile target connectors yet with an above-board height of only 0.087 in. (2.21 mm). Target connectors are used in place of SMT pads on a PCB as the mating surface for spring-loaded pins. They provide expanded endurance and are useful in achieving specific distances between boards.