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News Release from: Panasonic Industrial Europe | Subject: 60/40-type centre-space encoder
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 May 2007
Centre space encoder for automotive
applications
A 60/40 centre-space encoder has a large-diameter knob for easy use.
Panasonic has succeeded in commercialising the 60/40-type centre-space encoder with outer diameter of 60mm and inner diameter of 40mm as control devices used for automotive electronic applications, including temperature control of car air-conditioners and volume control of car audio systems Along with the improvement in safety and operability in the automotive electronic industry, larger diameter knobs on operational panels and centralised control-systems controlling temperatures etc in one position have come into wider use
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The market is demanding incremental encoders with large outer-diameter dimensions and a centre space of approximately 40mm in inner diameter on which other switches or LEDs can be easily mounted.
To meet the market demand, Panasonic has developed the 60/40 type center space encoder with outer diameter of 60mm and inner diameter of 40mm, and now is ready to supply samples.
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