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Optoelectronics & Sensors
Advantages
- One of the world’s largest manufacturers of infrared components
- IR receivers include a breadth of products and holders, backed by application and technical support
- Optical sensors offer best in class performance and in-house chip manufacturing and assembly, including Vishay’s Automotive Grade product lines
- LEDs offered in a variety of SMD and leaded packages
- Optocouplers and solid-state relays (SSRs) are designed for high reliability, high input to output isolation, and low on-resistance
Applications
- Electrification / renewable energy
- Human machine interface (HMI)
- Semi-autonomous driving
- IoT / connectivity
Automotive ADAS
- IR illumination for Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS)
- IR illumination for Occupant Monitoring Systems (OMS)
- Eye safety function for DMS with proximity sensors
Sensors
Automotive Electrification
- Products and design skills to develop advanced, reliable, and cost-effective automotive systems
- Pre-charge and active discharge circuits for EV
- Electric vehicles, battery management, and isolation monitoring
- Cell balancing
Optocouplers
Sensors
Automotive HMI
- Display backlight controls
- Rain light tunnel sensing
- HUDs
- Smart mirrors
- Force sensing
- Rotary knobs
Sensors
Data Centers / AI
- Ensure reliable, efficient data transmission
- For data integration and managing dependencies between software components
- Connect and manage diverse systems and components
- Enable signal control, noise suppression, and electrical isolation
Power Supplies
Communication Interfaces
Lighting
- Presence detection to automatically turn lights on and off
- Electrical isolation between circuits in lighting applications
- Noise suppression and signal transmission
- Ambient light / RGB sensors to adjust indoor lights based on daylight levels
- Prevent high voltages from affecting sensitive components
Optocouplers
Sensors
Metering
- Accurate measurement and management of energy consumption
- Signal processing
- Power management
- IR communication to read data from meters
- Control and logic
Optocouplers
Sensors
Renewable Energy
- Protect low voltage domain from being damaged by high voltage
- Solar inverters
- Wind inverters
- Energy storage
Optocouplers
Sensors
White Goods
- Optocouplers deliver high isolation ratings, long external creepage distances, high speeds, and very thin package profiles
- Precise temperature control, efficient motor operation, and automated functions
- Ideal for clothes washers and dryers, refrigerators, and microwave ovens
Optocouplers
Sensors
Featured Application Optoelectronics & Sensors
Safe Electrification | Battery Management Systems
Sustainable Power | Renewable Energy
Automotive Reliability | Smart Cockpit
Consumer Applications | Smart Home
Vishay manufactures one of the world’s largest portfolios of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components that are essential to innovative designs in the automotive, industrial, computing, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Serving customers worldwide, Vishay is The DNA of tech.®
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