The TULIP Transducer

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Product Description

The TULIP Transducer is designed to be implanted into the heart of the structure to provide dependable strain sensing. The Press-Fit construction allows easy installation.

This load sensor gives the machine, device or structure an accurate load sensing capability by simply drilling a hole.

The economic solution for:

• Industrial weighing
• Level control systems
• Machine control systems

The idea of developing a sensor capable of being integrated into a mechanical structure has resulted in the TULIP Transducer.

Its unique shape (sensing strain in 2 axes) combined with proven strain gauge technology solves a wide range of actual application problems.

Installation normally requires only machining a suitable hole in the structural part, and insertion of the sensor.

The sensor's accuracy combined with its stainless steel and hermetically sealed housing guarantees success in the worst hostile environments.

The sensor has unchallenged application versatility; virtually any machine, device or structure can use this sensor as a cost effective, accurate solution to your sensing needs. Only the designer's ingenuity limits the application
of this concept.

Compared to similar products in the market like Bolt-On types, the TULIP has specifi c advantages:

• Because of its unique ability to sense strain in 2 axes, zero shift due to thermal effects are greatly reduced.
• The TULIP is hermetically sealed.
• The press-fi t construction allows better long term stability.
• The press-fi t construction allows installation in the neutral axis of the structure.

Applications

• Silo weighing systems
• Tank weighing systems
• Agricultural equipment
• Lift trucks
• Structural load measuring
• Crane weighing
• Crane overload protection sensing
• Rolling mill sensing
• Machine tool wear sensing
• One-off special load cells

. . . and your load sensing application

Key Features

• Capacity ranging from hundreds of kg to thousands of t, all with the same sensor; depending on your structure
• Simple press fi t mounting
• Easily installable in existing structures
• Stainless steel construction
• Hermetically sealed
• Minimal temperature effect
• Measures
  • Compression
  • Tension
  • Shear
  • Bending
  • Torsion
• Easy adaptable in OEM products