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News Release from: Systron Donner Automotive | Subject: Systron Donner Automotive MicroGyro
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 March 2007
Stability sensor tolerates temperature
extremes
The MicroGyro can easily withstand the high temperatures of underhood installations without sacrificing performance.
Any active vehicle safety system is only as good as its sensors Electronic stability control (ESC), for example, is entirely dependent upon its angular-rate sensor, which determines the direction a car is actually headed, compared to where the driver wants the car to go
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The double-ended tuning fork inside the Systron Donner Automotive MicroGyro is machined at the microscopic level from pure crystalline quartz.
Not only does this allow for unparalleled rate sensing precision, but the MicroGyro can easily withstand the high temperatures of underhood installations without sacrificing performance.
This negates the need for passenger compartment mounting, along with the additional cable runs, complexity and cost that such installations necessitate.
The MicroGyro also benefits from Systron Donner Automotive's continuous built-in test technology.
The MicroGyro continually tests and measures its own health at all times while simultaneously sensing angular rate, even during conditions of extreme temperature or strong G-loading.
Other sensors only test at commanded intervals, and relinquish rate sensing capabilities when doing so.
Unlike other products which offer only analogue output, the Systron Donner Automotive MicroGyro provides fully-compensated 3.3V or 5.0V SPI digital output, negating the need for customer-created digitising and compensation schemes of both hardware and software.
Additionally, all performance specifications of the MicroGyro are fully guaranteed, making it the perfect rate sensing solution for applications as varied as ESC, lane keeping systems and rollover airbag systems.
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