Product category:
Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: Omron Electronics | Subject: D6BN-1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 April 2007
Sensor offers handheld interface
possibilities
Subminiature tilt sensor indicates direction of tilt, offering new opportunities to enhance the user interface of mobile phones and other portable consumer electronics.
Omron has extended its range of tilt sensors with a new subminiature model able to tell the direction of tilt - offering new opportunities to enhance the user interface of mobile phones and other portable consumer electronics Aimed at volume consumer electronics including mobile phones, the sensor is also very low profile, with a height of just 2mm
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 May 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new Omron D6BN-1 is a PCB mounting tilt sensor that provides a different output depending on the direction of movement, allowing the system to provide a discriminated response to left or right tilt.
The sensor has an activation angle of between 40 and 80 degrees in either direction, and resets at between 50 and 10 degrees.
The D6BN-1 is based on highly reliable solid state construction using a Hall effect IC, and operates with a low power consumption of just 10uA.
In common with all Omron components, the D6BN-1 is fully RoHS compliant.
The device is protected to IP40, and is rated for operation at -10 to +60C.
As Omron has realised the design with just one Hall effect IC, as opposed to two in previous sensors, the D6BN-1 is also offered at a lower cost than previous Omron tilt sensors.
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