New Flexible Potentiometer from Tekscan for Position Sensing

Tekscan, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of a flexible position sensor to its award-winning line of force and pressure sensitive technology. FlexiPot™, like Tekscan’s renowned FlexiForce^® sensor, is ultra-thin, at just 0.008” thickness. This thin, flexible, low-power linear potentiometer complements the established FlexiForce product line to offer more options to design engineers in the design of OEM products.

Its paper-thin properties in addition to its:

• linearity
• repeatability (± 1% of full scale)
• spatial resolution (± 1% of full scale)
• low power-consumption

make it especially attractive to engineers looking to incorporate a position sensor as a user interface in handheld consumer devices, which continue to get smaller and more lightweight.  Applications include user interfaces in consumer products, such as MP3 players, or in medical devices such as syringes, to detect the volume of fluid remaining in the plunger.

Tekscan offers both standard and custom designs. FlexiPot™ is also available in high-temp versions, withstanding temperatures as high as 420°F (200°C), which is an advantage to engineers designing industrial controls.

View FlexiPot position sensor specifications.