Gyro-sensor from Epson Toyocom offers two simultaneous output modes
The XV-3700CB is a high-sensitivity gyro-sensor with a wide detection range for use as an input device for motion user interfaces, such as controllers and 3D mice. It has two simultaneous output modes: high-speed with a sensing range of ±1500°/s and low-speed
with a range of ±300°/s.
Epson Toyocom
El Segundo, CA
www.eea.epson.com
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PRESS RELEASE
US-BASED EPSON TOYOCOM TIMING PRODUCTS DIVISION BEGINS VOLUME PRODUCTION OF OPTIMIZED COMBINATION GYRO-SENSOR
XV-3700CB Has Wide Sensing Range, High Stability and Low Noise Characteristics
El Segundo, CA – September 1, 2010 – Epson Toyocom Corporation’s U.S.-based Timing Products Division today announced it has completed commercial development and launched volume production of its newest high-sensitivity gyro-sensor. The critically enhanced XV-3700CB is the industry’s first to combine a high-sensitivity gyro-sensor with a wide detection range that has been optimized as an input device for motion user interfaces. Production level samples are available now. For ordering and additional information customers may contact a local Epson Toyocom representative at www.eea.epson.com.
To-date, existing sensor products have not been able to simultaneously provide both a wide sensing range and good stability and noise characteristics. To facilitate this demand to sense the motion of persons or objects more accurately requires that angular velocity be sensed over a wide range, from slow speeds to fast. The XV-3700CB not only retains the low noise level and outstanding bias stability of Epson Toyocom’s current XV-3500CB but, in addition, accurately senses motion over a wide range by simultaneously outputting two modes, a high-speed mode (sensing range: ?1500 deg/s) with a nominal scale factor of 0.8 mV/(º ?· s-1), and a low-speed mode (sensing range: ?300 deg/s) with a nominal scale factor of 3.624 mV/ (º · s-1).
Used for analyzing human motion or as an input device for a motion user interface that accurately senses, for example, the altitude of a radio-controlled helicopter, the new gyro-sensor will help improve the performance of devices designed for even the most critical and intuitive motion sensing applications, such as controllers and 3D mice.
Main Features
1) Capable of sensing both slow and fast motion, with low-speed and high-speed modes in a single package
2) Supports simultaneous dual signal output thanks to Epson Toyocom’s analog circuit technology
3) Achieves a low noise level yet retains the performance of the XV-3500CB
4) High-precision QMEMS*1 gyro element provides outstanding bias stability
Glossary
(*1)QMEMS
QMEMS is a combination of “Quartz,” a crystalline material with excellent characteristics such as excellent frequency stability and high precision, and “MEMS” (micro electro mechanical system). QMEMS devices, produced via a microfabrication process on a quartz material instead of on a semiconductor material like MEMS, offer high performance in a compact package.
QMEMS is a registered trademark of Epson Toyocom.
About Epson Toyocom
Epson Toyocom Corporation is the global leader in crystal devices, which serve as the heart and pulse for a wide range of electronic products for consumers and industry. Utilizing its innovative hybrid quartz microfabrication technology, QMEMS, Epson Toyocom offers technological expertise in timing, sensing, and optical devices, and maintains its leadership position by providing customer-specific combinations and solutions. http://www.epsontoyocom.co.jp/english/
About Epson Electronics America, Inc.
The Timing Products Business Unit of Epson Electronics America, Inc. (EEA) is the North American sales, marketing, and engineering arm of Epson Toyocom Corporation (Epson Toyocom) and provides a wide array of crystals, oscillators, real-time clock modules, SAW products, optical devices and gyro and pressure sensors. Based in El Segundo, California, the EEA group has more than 40 sales representative offices nationwide and a growing network of exclusive distributors. For more information, please visit www.eea.epson.com and click on the Epson Toyocom center box. Both Epson Toyocom and EEA are part of the Seiko Epson Group, which consists of 108 companies around the world.
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Posted by Lee Mather
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