April 2020

There are areas of the country under a “stay at home” order. But even so, delivery vehicles, service industries, healthcare workers as well as professionals, like real estate agents, are still burning up the roads of America while burning off their tire tread. So how do you capitalize on this shift in reality? When the people can’t go to the tire store, you bring the tire store to the people.

Having successfully identified the factors that cause natural rubber to emit an odor, Sumitomo Rubber Industries has developed reduced-odor natural rubber – a new type of natural rubber that emits significantly less odor. It is made from a special raw material processing technique, which was devised at Sumitomo Rubber Group’s natural rubber processing plant in Thailand.

Vishay has introduced a series of snap-in power aluminium electrolytic capacitors for use in high power density designs.

As dealerships reopen, dealers naturally are trying to sound optimistic, but China’s auto market faces a tough time for the remainder of 2020, say analysts.

UltraSoC and Agile Analog have teamed-up to deliver hardware-based security against ‘analogue interference’ attacks such as power supply or clock signal tampering. The aim is to combining UltraSoC’s embedded on-chip analytics with Agile Analog’s on-chip analogue monitoring IP. As well as voltage and clock glitching, these side-channel attacks can also include deliberate brown-outs and temperature variations.

Yokohama Tire’s annual spring rebate promotion is back. From now through April 30, consumers can earn up to $100 in the form of a Yokohama Visa Prepaid card or a Visa Virtual Account after purchasing a set of four select Yokohama tires. “The spring rebate is a great promotion for consumers because it includes a variety of products from our Advan, Geolandar and Avid lines,” said Alan Holtschneider, Yokohama’s director of marketing.

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have calculated the parameters of photodetectors comprised by layers of graphene and a combination of black phosphorus and black arsenic. These sensors are able to detect radiation with energy less than the band gap of the constituent layers without graphene.

Boeing approached Solvay due to its experience in the use of advanced composites and adhesive materials on multiple commercial and defence programmes.

Cornell has made even thinner versions of its already thin polymer electrolytic capacitors taking them down to 1mm from the earlier 3mm series. “Cornell Dubilier Electronics’ new PPC Series, designed specifically for applications requiring high ripple current and the thinnest profile possibilities, opens up new product design options,” according to distributor New Yorker Electronics.

A report emanating from the Soviet Academy of Sciences, that a Committee working under Professor Topchiev, the vice- president of the Academy,has achieved a breakthrough in the production of plastics for use in-stead of the normal semiconductors.