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Tekscan Offers Design Engineers New Prototyping Option for Embedded Force Sensing

New square FlexiForce sensor rounds out Tekscan’s off-the-shelf force sensor catalog.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Tekscan, Inc. announced its newest off-the-shelf single-element force sensor. The A502, Tekscan’s largest off-the-shelf FlexiForce sensor to date, offers a 50.8 x 50.8 mm (2 x 2 in) square sensing area, affording design engineers more options for testing and prototyping.   In keeping with the standard FlexiForce sensor profile, the A502 sensor is paper-thin at just 0.2 mm (0.008 in) thickness.   “OEM design engineers face a number of challenges in specifying components, but designing in sens...

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