Transducer
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A transducer is a device that converts one type of energy to another, or responds to a physical parameter. A transducer is in its fundamental form a passive component. If the component is electrical then it generally has two electrical terminals.
See also electronics, gear, sensor
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List of transducers
- Electrochemical:
- Electromechanical:
- actuator
- circuit breaker
- dynamo
- galvanometer
- MEMS
- motor, linear motor
- servomechanism
- switch
- piezoelectric
- quartz
- relay
- strain gauge used in weight/force measuring.
- Electroacoustic:
- Photoelectric:
- Electromagnetic:
- Magnetic:
- Electrostatic:
- Thermoelectric:
- thermocouple
- Peltier cooler
- thermistor (includes PTC resistor and NTC resistor)
- Other:
- [[Geiger-M�ller tube]] used for measuring radioactivity.
- Electronic. These components change one electrical parameter in response to another. By some definitions these are electronic components, not transducers.
- Electrical. These components change one electrical parameter in response to another. By some definitions these are passive electronic components, not transducers.
- Mechanical.
Sources/references
External links
- whatis: transducer
- Federal Standard 1037C, August 7, 1996: transducer
- American National Standard for Telecommunications - Telecom Glossary 2000: transducer
- Search: transducer+definition
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Transducer" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transducer, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
