White Goods

April 2010

Ronald Haenssler, Product Marketing Manager, AC Film Capacitors and Dr. Stefan Benkhof, Product Marketing Manager, PTC Thermistors

Anyone who replaces a refrigerator-freezer combination from the year 1990 with an upgrade appliance of energy efficiency class A++ will save about 80 euros per year for a 270-liter model, according

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04/01/2010

Reverse Conducting Drives

Mark Thomas, IGBT Product Marketing Manager, Infineon Technologies

For the low cost / low power consumer drive market, the RC-Drives family of IGBTs from Infineon has been launched. For the first time Infineon's famous "reverse conducting" (RC) IGBT technology

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04/01/2010

Low Cost Motor Control

Massimo Incerti - White Goods Application Specialist and Cristian Ionescu - White Goods Marketing Manager, NXP

Advanced motor control techniques like: Brushless DC and Brushless AC are already used on large scale in industrial applications as they are offering several advantages compared to universal AC motor

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04/01/2010

White Goods Design

Alfonso Camacho, ON Semiconductor

The rising cost of utility bills, as well as government led programs to curb the impact of excessive electricity consumption, are driving consumers to replace household electrical goods with ones

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04/01/2010

White Goods Get Smarter

Dr. Stephan Chmielus, Fairchild Semiconductor, Germany

The European Union has introduced the "EcoDesign of Energy-using Products (EuP)" regulation. The study for circulators revealed that the stringent requirement of energy efficiency can be met with

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04/01/2010

Home Appliance Requirements

Lee Thomas, Industry Marketing Manager - Home Appliance, Molex

As the appliance industry becomes more global, manufacturers are placing a higher priority on their cabling and connector decisions when developing new designs produced on one continent and shipped

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04/01/2010

Coordinated Circuit Protection

Faraz Hasan, Global Industrial & Appliance Marketing Manager, Tyco Electronics Circuit Protection Business Unit

Resettable circuit protection devices can be used to help provide overtemperature, overcurrent and overvoltage protection for the electric motors and fans, controllers, touch-pads, displays and interface

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04/01/2010