Application Notes

Sensors needs a constant flow of forced air (ambient air) guided along and around them for several reasons. First, the air helps ensure that the sensors remain close to the ambient temperature during operation.

The global market for luggage is growing at a brisk pace and is expected to reach an estimated value of USD $43.4 billion in 2020. As tourist and business traffic see a robust increase, expenditures on luggage, including suitcases, travelling bags, business and computer bags, will continue to grow as well.

You may not be aware of it, but Exergen’s thermal sensors play a role in your everyday life – in some surprising ways! With that in mind, the team at Exergen Global wants to invite you to join us as we “walk you through” a typical day and point out the myriad and diverse ways Exergen sensors are present in nearly everything you do or touch! I hope you’ll join us on our “sensor journey”.

A subset of surgical devices, including surgical drills, cutters and ablation probes, employ heat to incise or cauterize tissue. When using surgical instruments that employ heat, it is a challenge is to ensure that those portions of the instrument that do not need to conduct heat remain cool enough to avoid any negative side effects.

Point-of-care testing (POCT) is medical diagnostic testing performed at or near a patient’s bedside. As opposed to conventional medical testing, which entails sending specimens to laboratories, POCT yields results in minutes instead of hours or days.

Thermoforming is one of the oldest and most common methods of processing plastic materials. Vacuum formed products are all around us and play a major part in our daily lives.

We like our food to be as fresh as can be. Vacuum-Sealing packaging can extend the shelf life of food products by preventing exposure to the natural atmosphere, thereby slowing down the microbial deterioration of the product.

Exergen’s sensors are used in high-end exhaust gas abatement systems around the globe. Many of the special gases used in semiconductor wafer processing and other manufacturing industries are either toxic, pyrophoric or corrosive.

Help Your Customers Increase Safety, Reliability & Speed with Exergen’s IR Sensors For processes such as diagnostic procedures, skin treatments and medical interventions where blood or saline solutions are involved, temperature monitoring and control are essential in the success and reliability of the procedure.

Tire temperature is of critical concern in automotive racing for two reasons: 1) Tire temperature directly affects the tire’s adhesion and wear characteristics...

Infrared temperature sensors are ideally suited for use in manufacturing, textiles, printing and other production settings, providing a highly effective solution to ensure machinery does not overheat or otherwise malfunction. However, oil, thread, dust, airborne chemicals and other debris emitted during production can quickly obscure the IR temperature sensing heads.

In the process of making PET bottles (polyethylene terephthalate) there is a fine line where the high output per bottle blowing machinery and the requested quality of the bottle come together. Taking into account that such machines must be able to produce a broad range of sizes and shapes and produce various quality bottles, it’s obvious that many variables must be kept under control during the process. One of the key parameters to control is the temperature.

During the process of papermaking, a dilute fiber suspension is drained through a screen, creating a mat of randomly interwoven fibers. Water is removed from this mat of fibers by pressing and drying it to eventually make paper.

A flywheel is a rotating mechanical device that is used to store energy. Energy is transferred to a flywheel by applying torque to it, thereby increasing its rotational speed, and hence its stored energy. Conversely, a flywheel releases stored energy by decreasing its rotational speed.

When supplying blood to patients it is essential that the blood’s temperature is carefully warmed to 37°C to ensure patient safety and wellbeing. Blood must be warmed to this temperature prior to infusion, because, depending on its source, the blood can be at room temperature, refrigerated or any temperature in between.

A significant amount of heat is created when PET bottles or other used plastics are ground for recycling using a granulation machines. When operators increase the granulation grinding wheel speed in order to maximize machine throughput, the temperature of the ground plastic increases further.

Flags, carpet, tiles and everything else that is printed on Large Format Printers with protective paint needs to be completely dried, cured or fixated before the end-products can be cut, folded, or otherwise worked on. Depending on the paint, most of the inks are water based and short- or middle wavelength IR lamps can be used for drying.

For high speed graphic processes, the limiting factor on the productivity of the equipment is usually the drying/curing time. To maximize the speed without quality loss, it is important to be able to determine quickly when the substrate is sufficiently dry or cured.

Many medical or cosmetic skin treatment therapies (e.g. hair removal therapies, cellulite and acne treatment, skin rejuvenation) induce heat in one or more layers of the skin.

For many medical biochemical assays performed in hospital laboratories it is essential to monitor and control the temperature of liquid samples accurately. In haematology instruments the results of assays can be affected by temperature fluctuations of the samples, risking faulty diagnosis for patients.

Measuring the temperature of bread and pastry dough while mixing is important since too high a temperature will cause too much rise, resulting in holes in the baked product, and too low a temperature will not allow the dough to rise sufficiently, resulting in a baked product that is flat.

For many plate reader assays performed in (hospital)laboratories it is essential to monitor and control the temperature of liquid samples accurately. In plate readers the results of assays can be affected by temperature fluctuations of the samples, risking faulty diagnosis for patients.

For high speed printing processes, the limiting factor on the productivity of the equipment is usually ink drying time. To maximize printing speed without quality loss, it is important to be able to determine quickly when the printed substrate is sufficiently dry or fused.