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Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) A microcomputer-based solid-state control system which receives inputs from user-supplied control devices such as switches and sensors, implements them in a precise pattern determined by instructions stored in the PLC memory, and provides outputs for control or user-supplied devices such as relays and motor starters. 

Hermetically sealed electrical devices must be verified by a testing laboratory to meet mechanical abuse and to withstand aging and exposure to expected chemicals. Devices potted with common silicones and similar materials by an end user or even a manufacturer, without testing, and devices merely provided with O-rings seldom meet acceptable criteria. Normally, hermetically sealed devices must be sealed through metal-to-metal or glass-to-metal fusion. Many electrical relays, switches, and sensors are available as hermetically sealed devices for common oil and gas producing facility applications. Hermetically sealed devices are often desirable to protect electrical contacts from exposure to salt air and other contaminants. 

Moonen NNP, Flood AH, Fernandez JM, Stoddart JF (2005) Towards a Rational Design of Molecular Switches and Sensors from their Basic Building Blocks. 262 99-132 Moriyama M, see Kato T (2005) 256 219-236 Moussa A, see Coleman AW (2007) 277 31-88 Murai T (2005) Thio-, Seleno-, Telluro-Amides. 251 247-272... 

Liu S, Shen Q, Cao Y et al (2010) Chemical functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotube field-effect transistors as switches and sensors. Coord Chem Rev 254 1101-1116... 

Given the success of PET switches and sensors of the off-on type (Section 5), there is no fundamental reason why on-off systems cannot grow to be similarly useful. However there is little doubt that off-on systems are more visually appealing. Besides this aesthetic factor, off-on systems and especially the aminoalkyl aromatic family tend to be synthetically more accessible since amine synthons are available in great variety. 

Applications being developed for responsive gels include drug delivery systems, novel separation systems, artificial muscles and the like, switches and sensors. The rate of response to the environmental changes may directly influence the system performance, as in switches and sensors, or indirectly, as in the cases of recyclable absorbents, where cycling times must be minimized to ensure the economic feasibility of the application. Much of the research on responsive gels... 

Theoretical chemistry at York University was strengthened in the 1990s with the appointments of Bill Pietro in 1991 and Rene Fournier in 1996. Pietro wrote part of the Gaussian code as a graduate student and several modules of SPARTAN while an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. While he was in Madison he developed a research program based on molecular electronic devices.236 He expanded his interests to several facets of molecular electronics, including molecular electroluminescent materials, molecular electronic devices (diodes, switches, and sensors), and functionalized semiconductor nanoclusters.237 These new materials not only are scientifically very exciting, but they offer the possibility of revolutionary impact on the future of the electronics industry. 

David N. Reinhoudt Jerusalem, Israel Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Structures for Switches and Sensors... 

In conclusion, this book is intended as an overview of the principles behind and state-of-the-art in interfacial supramolecular chemistry. The book is suitable for researchers and graduate students and focuses on assemblies that demonstrate at least the potential to produce useful devices such as solar cells, electrochromic devices, molecular wires, switches and sensors which are addressable by using electrochemical and optical stimuli. Molecular materials for nanoscale molecular devices remain an intriguing conceptual possibility. 

Someday, the new warm superconductors will be used to replace conventional conductors in anything electric or electronic—computers, transmission lines, the magnets in medical imaging devices, generators in a car, a factory, spaceship, or a hydroelectric dam. All kinds of switches and sensors, is the way Donna Fitzpatrick of the Department of Energy puts it. 

One of the most interesting photoresponsive properties of azo polymers is the photoinduced birefringence and dichroism (Xie et al., 1993). The photoinduced anisotropy is caused by the disparity of the repeated trans-cis isomerization of azo chromophores under linear polarized light irradiation. The most efficient excitation occurs in the polarization direction, which can force the chromophores to continually change their orientation and to be eventually stabilized at the direction perpendicular to the polarization (Natansohn and Rochon, 2002). The effect shows potential applications in areas such as reversible optical data storage, optical switching and sensors. 

Components such as the control boards, solenoid valve, blower, fans, pump, switches, and sensors also need power from the battery during the startup process. These components may need 48,24,12, or 5 V, and DC-EXZ converters are needed to convert the voltage from the internal power supply module to those values. When the fuel cell system is in the idling state, the mother board and various sensors are also powered by the internal power supply module. 

It should be easy to clean the resin storage tank/cylinder, and maintain the components such as seals, pistons, switches and sensors. 

Switches and sensors are generally devices that respond with a change of state to an external input. In ET-based devices, the signal detected is the Inminescence that, in a working device, changes with the change of state. 

PPA is also used in a range of high temperature applications in the automotive electronics sector such as lamp sockets, electronics connectors, high-temperature switches, and sensors. PPA provides high strength, stiffness and impact resistance, plus a heat deflection temperature of 282 °C (540°F). PPA resin is also dimensionally stable and resists corrosion. 

Optical Switches and Sensors Ramamurthy, V. Schanze, K. S., Eds. Marcel Dekker New York, 2001. 

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