Richardson Electronics is an authorized North American Distributor of Tamura Corporation’s line of Gate drivers and Hall effect current sensors including closed and open loop.

Founded in 1924, Tamura Corporation is one of the largest suppliers of magnetic components in the world.  Its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, and Mexico are designed to support leading-edge technologies.

Tamura’s current sensors feature:

  • Fast response time
  • High-frequency operation with minimal core temperature rise
  • Excellent immunity to dv/dt noise and have magnetic field stability

In addition, these current sensors are of the highest quality, are cost-competitive and readily available.

Tamura has also developed a line of gate drivers for driving IGBT and SiC technologies. Features include:

  • Wide input voltage
  • Low stray capacity
  • High-speed response & accuracy

Tamura has solutions to drive modules rated up to 1700V and now has a driver solution for Fuji Semiconductor IGBT’s New 7th generation modules. Please contact Richardson Electronics to obtain more detail for these solutions.

 

Resources

Videos

PSDtv – Tamura Corporation on their Current Sensor and Gate Drivers at APEC 2019

APEC 2018: Tamura explains how to pick a current transformer

A look at IGBT and SiC gate drivers from Tamura at APEC 2018