DATASHEET and Circuit Diagram

The bidirectional DC-DC converter for Hybrid Vehicle is shown in the herein circuit schematic which is operating as a boost converter. This DC-DC converter being designed to operate within modern hybrid and electric vehicle systems and has low weight, small size, high efficiency, and is cost effective.

The schematic appears hard-switched dual-interleaved boost converter with Interphase Transformer (IPT). It such a new DC-DC converter being developed by UK industrial and academic partners since this device can be used to interface the elements in the electric power train by boosting or chopping the voltage levels.

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Herein is an example of a simple, low cost and flexible battery charger circuit using micropower linear voltage regulator device, ADM666A from Analog.

In the ADM666A application note, you can find detailed explanation about this low cost battery charger circuit such as Maximum output voltage, Charge termination voltage calculation, monitoring the battery voltage level, maximizing the circuit efficiency, and etc.

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If you looking for a feature-rich power monitoring device that suits on a wide variety automotive, telecom, and industrial applications you may consider this LTC4151IC from Linear Technology. This power monitor device provides accurate voltage and current monitoring of positive supply rail from 7V to 80V through a simple I2C interface, according to the datasheet.

Such in automotive which has monitoring power in high transient environment, this device is suitable for that purpose as well the high input voltage of the LTC4151. You can see the above circuit schematic, it shows that the device monitoring up to 16A through a 5mOhms sense resistor at an accessory socket and feeding data via I2C microcontroller. And a portable GPS unit is used to illustrate the principle.

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The following information contain MAX6652 datasheet, a system supervisor that monitors multiple power-supply voltages and features an on-board temperature sensor. Using an A/D Converter (ADC), voltages and temperature can be converted into an 8-bit code (digitized signal). This device used to be aplied in workstations, networking, servers, and telecommunication applications due to external supply voltages monitoring ability.

You will have a detailed description regarding this temperature sensor device which is designed to communicate through I2C-compatible/SMBus interface with an external microcontroller, according to the MAX6652 datasheet. It explained sections such ADC and Multiplexer, Temperature Data Format, Voltage Data Format, Temperature Configuration Register, Sensing Circuit Board and Component Temperatures including the typical application circuit and functional diagram.

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Liquid flow sensors is a device which established liquid flow monitoring, liquid handling and liquid dosing, it is for sensing the rate of fluid flow, a fluid analysis device. A sample analysis commonly must be done physically with specialized micro-syringes driven by stepper motors and this is why electronic sensors have been designed to, to automate fluid sample analysis. The article below describe you about this device.

According to the article, the key a element of this device is a microflow sensor device. Microflow sensor device need the following requirement component: Small size, Chemical inertia, Temperature stability, Long-term stability, Simple, easy, fully automated recalibration, and Linear voltage-versus-pressure output. You will be led to sections about pressure measurements which are performed with dual piezo-resistive pressure sensors, prevent error from mechanical-tension forces, digital and user-programmable registers, patented sensor-bridge excitation circuit, a differential analog-output path, a monolithic flow sensor module, and a micro-fluidic dosing and analysis system.

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