Stan Bleszynski Consulting
Sensor Design
Process Control Technology Inc.
Updated 2-Oct-2009
New - Products & Technologies:
1) Product: ULTRADUCER
website , Introduction (pdf)
, Photo1 , Photo2
, User Manual (pdf) ,
Linearity Test . Ultra-high precision
ultrasonic close range proximity sensor available for OEM clients! Non-contact
vernier-caliper replacement. Can also measure gas temperature (~0.02C) or
composition. Volume manufacturing available on-order!
Product available: delivery time 4 weeks (samples), 8 weeks in quantities.
2) New Technology: "R-Ducer" - New low-cost high-efficiency ultrasonic 20-50kHz transducer design available for OEM! Much higher acoustic efficiency - up to 10 times higher signal than a typical ultrasonic level sensor transducer. Suitable for low power/loop power design! Simple design yields to automated production assembly process. No potting!
Customers, OEM, vendors
& distributors! We are open for all enquiries, please phone us
(1-705-6572419) for more information regarding:
- product specifications,
pricing and delivery,
- manufacturing by S&M
PCTI,
- OEM licensing,
- technology transfer.
Introduction:
S&M PCT is a small consulting
business founded in May 1999 to provide services
in industrial research, design and development in the area of sensors,
industrial
automation and process control, automated test equipment in the optical media
DVD and other technologies (in partnership with Quantized Systems Ltd. ), in
vacuum technologies and in the aerospace industry.
Since 1999, S&M PCT
has successfully co-developed and implemented 5 products to-date for 4
different
customers in the area of industrial sensors and automated test equipment.
S&M PCT offers to conduct projects
through all or some of the phases of:
research, specification, development, verification and production, as well as
offering assistance in off-shore manufacturing contracting.
The company offers to share and help implement some innovative and
not widely known but effective R&D project management techniques, if
requested.
Areas of expertise & experience:
Microwave sensors
- Radar sensors and security application imaging,
- FMCW and pulse; cm and millimeter wave range
- Antenna design
- Echo processing software
- Software image processing
- Resonant cavity sensors
Acoustic sensors
- Innovative ultrasonic level sensors and switches
- Ultrasonic propagation in rods
- Low cost ultrasonic transducer design
- New concept in vibrating-fork switches
- Cavitation sensors
- Non-invasive flow sensor
- Non-linear effects in air and liquids
Analog electronics
- Ultrasonic and radar echo processing
- Ultrasonic transmitter design
- Mixers, multipliers and correlators
- 4-20mA two-wire interface
- Low power design techniques
- Industrial EMC and safety standards
- Magnetic drive head signal filtering & processing
- Optical DVD+/-R/RW, CD-R/RW drive, signal processing
- HF radio transmitters and receivers
- Microwave antennas and transmitters, microstrip structures
- Analog-to-Digital conversion
- Circuit simulation
Digital electronics
- Microcontroller circuit design (PIC,M16C,DSP)
- Fast digital logic design
- Altera FPGA/PLD
- High-speed A/D circuit designs
- USB, RS232 and parallel I/O interfacing
- Impedance-matching, transmission lines
- Time-Interval Analysis, bit-jitter logger
- Device network communication (e.g. ASI).
Industrial Safety Standards
& Approvals
- General electrical safety standard (IEC1010)
- Intrinsical Safety Standard
- Explosion-Proof Standard
- NEMA-4
- EMC - Electromagnetic Emission & Susceptibility Standards
PCB Board Layout
- Multilayer or double-sided
- SMT or through-hole
- Low-noise analog layout
- HF digital, impedance matching & decoupling, microwave
- Fast prototyping (sub-contracting)
Software
- Embedded (PIC, Intel, Sharc DSP. M16C/62)
- USB, serial and parallel port communication
- Real-Time Signal proc., FFT, histograms,
- Correlation, curve fitting, regression (C, X86 Assembly)
- Numerical data processing ("Numerical Recipes" etc)
- Data visualization (C/C++, VisualBasic)
- Instrumentation control & user interfaces
- Production testing algorithms & procedures
Vacuum Technology &
Instrumentation
- High Vacuum (10e-8 Torr) techniques
- Ion & electron optics
- Neutral atomic & molecular beams
- Micro-Channel Plates, 2D image converters
- Channeltron Electron Multiplier detectors
Aerospace Technology
- Spacecraft and satellite project development, test & verification methods
- Ground-based test equipment development