Panasonic Industry has developed a series of 6-axis inertial sensors that provide precise information on the status and movement of a vehicle or machinery and provide essential inputs to a control unit.
This single-chip solution offers significant convenience, freedom of installation and additional functionality to onboard systems.
This is because tomorrow's cars and machines will be equipped with an increasing number of driving aids in terms of safety and comfort.
Sensing is critical to support many purposes such as motion detection, positioning, sensor fusion, tilt detection and more.
Panasonic Industry's new series of reliable and high-quality 6DoF sensors with gyroscope and 6-axis accelerometer, also called '6in1 sensor', is available in a QFN wettable flank package.
This enables high-quality welding and therefore error-free assembly, which is essential for automotive safety (electronic stability control, ABS brakes, traction control), comfort (navigation, head-up display, driver assistance and comfort) and industrial applications (off-highway industry, AGVs, robotics).
The highly robust, shock and vibration resistant device has been designed according to the functional safety aspects of ISO26262 and is fully compliant with AEC-Q100.
Itmeets all the requirements for stability, precision, vibration and long-term shock, as well as the thermal performance of demanding automotive and industrial applications.
The 6in1 sensor requires, due to the high accuracy and functional safety built in, very low power and is designed to operate in an extended temperature range of -40°C up to +125°C with two temperature sensors inside.
It is factory calibrated, highly reliable and uses the latest sensor technology.
Additional technical details include dynamic ranges of 1g ... 16g, 30d/s ... 300d/s, total sensitivity error of less than +/- 3% and drive/sense frequencies of > 20kHz.
The 6in1 sensor series is the result of more than a decade of manufacturing experience in safety-critical automotive applications.
It provideshigh accuracy on key functions such as sensitivity, offset, noise and self-test in a small package.
These factors are fundamental to the sensor technology used in vehicles because the better the vehicle's vision of the future with sensors/communication/sensor fusion, the more efficiently the car can react and avoid accidents or, at least, reduce their effects.
