An example of innovation: The New, Narrow Elementary Relay with Force-Guided

Contacts

Until now, the size of elementary relay has always been a limiting factor. Phoenix
Contact, a global market leader and innovator in the field of electrical engineering, has
developed a narrow, force-guided elementary relay which now offers full performance with an
overall width of just 6 mm – with low energy consumption and maximum system availability.
The miniaturization of mechatronic functions allows security concepts to be modularized with
minimum space requirements.

Advantages:
 Compact design and lower costs due to extremely narrow 6 or 12 mm housing
 Switching capacity up to 6 A
 Maximum reliability through diagnostic double contact
 Modular design: now from only one single contact per device
 Design of distributed concepts through installation up to the hazardous area

SEMICON West and the Industry’s Smallest Reed Relay

Living up to the message of staying ahead of the technology curve, Pickering Electronics,
a designer, manufacturer and distributor of high quality reed relays, made Series 124. Series 124
showed considerable improvement from its predecessor. The product sports sputtered ruthenium
reed switches with a 5 watt, 0.5 amp rating. Although these switches were used in other
Pickering devices, they boast a different feature—vertical orientation within the package. This
design choice grants the Series 124 with the highest packing density available. Measuring just
9.5 mm high, it falls under Pickering’s new line of ultra-high density 4 mm 2 TM reed relays, which
take up a minimum board area of 4 mm x 4 mm.

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https://www.ecnmag.com/blog/2018/10/beyond-smart-innovations-semicon-west-2018-
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