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.
List of transducers
- Electrochemical:
- Electromechanical:
- actuator[?]
- circuit breaker
- dynamo
- galvanometer
- MEMS
- motor, linear motor
- 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-Müller 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
The Danish Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/)
External links
- whatis: transducer (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213215,00.html)
- Federal Standard 1037C, August 7, 1996: transducer (http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-037/_5539.htm)
- American National Standard for Telecommunications - Telecom Glossary 2000: transducer (http://www.atis.org/tg2k/_transducer.html)
- Search: transducer+definition (http://www.google.com/search?q=transducer+definition)
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