Piher Sensors and Controls

The Automotive market is one of the key drivers of Piher’s success. Demanding new and cost effective ideas year on year has shaped the company in to what it is today: proactive and customer driven. Since the seventies Piher has served the key European Automotive OEM’s and component suppliers and has developed an expertise in providing custom Control and Sensor solutions unrivalled in today’s Automotive sector. Those solutions include contact and contactless technology for harsh environments.

Along with the acquisition of a prestigious array of quality awards representative of this sector: ISO 9001, QS9000, ISO 14001 and ISO TS 16949, Piher’s products are listed in the IMDS database providing detailed information on product recyclability.

The Appliance Electronics segment encompasses all domestic electrical and electronic apparatus and appliances excluding Audio/Visual equipment.
A prerequisite for success in this high volume sector is to continuously innovate cost effective and flexible solutions for our customers demands. A broad range of Piher´s resistive and electromechanical solutions help the manufacturers of White Goods in their design process everyday.

The PT product family adapts itself perfectly to this goal: PT's with cut track provide a unique rheostat plus on/off switch solution for light dimmers, vacuum cleaners and any device that requires an electrically isolated power level control; Boilers/ Water Heaters can be economically controlled by PT's with custom shafts and even the effect of vibration in Power Tool applications can be negated by using the detent option. The N-15 SMD endless rotation potentiometer lends itself to demanding Appliance control applications where wide temperature variations and space limitations are inherent. Finally the N6 is universally employed in Home Automation & Security detectors as the lux and sensitivity controls.
Without doubt, wherever you look in your home you'll find Piher.
 

The Multimedia segment relates to all domestic Audio/Visual and Computer equipment. From CD players, Musical Instruments, Stereo Systems & VCR´s through Computer peripherals to TV´s & Monitors you´ll find Piher.

The N6 taped on reel for automatic insertion is used in many different applications in the high volume TV, Set-Top box and Monitor markets displacing the PT10 which now finds itself in a new role as a volume, tone and balance control in multimedia speakers. The PTC-15 is employed as a focus control in high precision monitors, the PC-16 used as a control for Musical Instrument amplifiers and signal processors and the CI-11 providing an innovative solution for Monitors, Amplifiers, Stereo Systems and such the like as a multi-function mode select control allowing the adjustment of all the equipments parameters with the use of a single dial. 

The Professional Electronics sector not only demands quality and high performance components; reliability is a must. That is why Piher has been a tried and trusted supplier to this sector for many years.

Apart from the numerous Control applications for the standard PT series, the N6, emloyed in SMPS and Uninterruptable power supplies and the EMP-10 in Flourescent Lighting Ballasts and Video projectors, there exists an enormous demand for the entire range of Piher products within this sector:
Surface mount, endless rotation potentiometers such as the N-15 can be found as the timebase select on Oscilloscopes & Signal Analysers, the CI-11 incremental encoder as a multi-function switch on Two-way radios, the AA VHF variable attenuator employed to adjust signal strength in CATV and cellular phone repeater stations and detented PT-10´s used extensively in Industrial Relay Timers in place of rotary switches. The list goes on...