Topaq^® Pressure Analysis System

Topaq^® is a revolutionary stress measurement instrument for analyzing force distribution and magnitude. Topaq’s user-friendly Windows based software enables the characterization of how force is disbursed in any process or assembly where two surfaces contact or impact. Sensor Products Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of sensor systems exclusively for tactile pressure monitoring and analysis.

Topaq^® consists of a specially calibrated densitimetric scanner and Windows software. An essential component of the Topaq^® system is the force indicating film commonly known as Pressurex^® or Fuji Prescale^®. These sensor films change coloration permanently and instantaneously in response to pressure being applied to them. The Topaq^® scanner and software is then used to image and interpret the stress marks on the film. From this, Topaq^® renders high resolution, color calibrated images and a wealth of statistical information pertaining to the analyzed film.

A World Of Uses

Sensor Products Inc. draws on over ten years of experience to continuously extend the capabilities of tactile pressure management. With the introduction of Topaq^®, engineers now have a truly affordable tool of unparalleled power and accuracy. Whether your function is R&D, design or quality assurance, Topaq^® improves yield, ensures parallelism, registers the precise characteristics of an impact, validates press uniformity and aids in all types of machine calibration.

               

Information At The Touch Of A Button

One example of Topaq’s powerful, single keystroke features is the ability to determine the pressure profile along a user-defined line. This line can be reduced to the width of a pixel, or expanded as wide as the image itself. This is a useful tool for assessing narrow bands of pressure over unusual or intricate shapes. The region statistics function yields total force, average PSI (or metric Kg/cm) and standard deviation for the entire image or a user-defined region.

Topaq® Software Screenshot - Line Scan	Topaq® Software Screenshot - Pressure Statistics

Take A Closer Look^®

Heat Sealing Impression With Zoom Magnification

This heat seal impression is magnified 300%, enabling a pixel by pixel analysis of its high pressure areas (shown in red). With Topaq, images can be expanded or reduced from 25% to 400%. Topaq’s manual and auto-cropping features allow you to quickly slice off extraneous parts of an image, enabling detailed examination of a specific region of interest. Topaq’s Duplicate zoomed image function utilizes a proprietary algorithm that can enlarge an image without the typically accompanying increase in graininess.

A Better Way Of Looking At Pressure

Topaq^® enables you to view, rotate and flip your application image in two or three dimensional space while choosing among four different color palettes. Images can be further enhanced by varying the number of colors displayed or by utilizing Topaq’s powerful smoothing and threshholding functions. All in an effort to bring out otherwise unseen detail.