Markets and Applications for Thermistors and RTDs

Markets and Applications for Thermistors and RTDs

Automotive

  • Audio amplifiers
  • Automatic climate control
  • Coolant sensors
  • Electric coolant fan temp. control
  • Emission controls
  • Engine block temperature sensors
  • Engine oil temperature sensors
  • Home weather stations
  • Intake air temperature sensors
  • Oil level sensors
  • Outside air temperature sensor
  • Transmission oil temp. sensors
  • Water level sensors

Communication and Instrumentation

  • Amplifier over temperature sensing
  • Cellular telephones
  • Copper coil winding temperature compensation
  • Rechargeable battery packs
  • Oscillator temperature compensation
  • Transistor gain stabilization
  • Transistor temperature compensation

Computer

  • Power supplies (inrush current limiting)
  • Uninterruptible power supplies (over temperature sensing)

Consumer Electronics

  • Home weather stations
  • Oven temperature control
  • Pool and spa controls
  • Rechargeable battery packs
  • Refrigerator and freezer temp. control
  • Small appliance controls
  • Solar collector controls
  • Thermostats
  • Toasters
  • Fire detectors
  • Washing machines
  • Air conditioners
  • Audio amplifiers
  • Cellular telephones
  • Clothes dryers
  • Computer power supplies
  • Dishwashers
  • Electric blanket controls
  • Electric water heaters
  • Electronic thermometers

Food Handling and Processing

  • Coffee makers
  • Deep fryers
  • Fast food processing
  • Perishable shipping
  • Temperature controlled food storage systems
  • Thermometers for use in food preparation

Industrial Electronics

  • Commercial vending machines
  • Crystal ovens
  • Fluid flow measurement
  • Gas flow indicators
  • HVAC equipment
  • Industrial process controls
  • Liquid level indicators
  • Microwave power measurement
  • Photographic processing equipment
  • Plastic laminating equipment
  • Solar energy equipment
  • Thermal conductivity measurement (diamond testers etc.)
  • Thermocouple compensation
  • Thermoplastic molding equipment
  • Thermostats
  • Water purification equipment
  • Welding equipment

Medical Electronics

  • Blood analysis equipment
  • Blood dialysis equipment
  • Blood oxygenator equipment
  • Clinical fever thermometers
  • Esophageal tubes
  • Infant incubators
  • Internal body temperature monitors
  • Internal temperature sensors
  • Intravenous injection temp. regulators
  • Myocardial probes
  • Respiration rate measurement equipment
  • Skin temperature monitors
  • Thermodilution catheter probes

Military & Aerospace

  • Aircraft temperature
  • Bathythermography
  • Fire control equipment
  • Satellites
  • Missiles and spacecraft temperature
  • Physiological monitoring