New Products

Miniature Liquid Point Level Sensor

With its precision thermal sensing capabilities, the new next-generation miniature Model AS—LLE Liquid Point Level Sensor from FCI Aerospace (San Marcos, CA) offers a solution to detecting and alarming liquid level for tanks, reservoirs, sumps and gearboxes in commercial and military fixed wing and rotary aircraft. The AS-LLE Point Level Sensor can be used with most any liquid, including water, oil, hydraulic fluid, coolants, and more. Its titanium (Ti 6AL-4V, per AMS 4928) construction ensures it is rugged, lightweight, and corrosion resistant.

The Model AS-LLE Liquid Point Level Sensor is designed to be installed within the vessel itself. It operates based on an excitation current of 75mA. (ON for 30 seconds, OFF for 120 seconds), which delivers an output signal that corresponds to tank or reservoir level. The Model AS-LLE sensor’s body is designed to fit and go anywhere with a barrel-shaped body that’s only 1.36 inches (34.54 mm) long with a 0.625-inch (15.87 mm) diameter and weighs 1.6 oz (45g).

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Industrial Metal 3D Printer

AMCM (Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany), an EOS Group company, announced the serial production of its AMCM M 4K-1 (single laser) and AMCM M 4K-4 (four laser) industrial DMLS metal 3D printing platforms. Built on the EOS M 400 platform, the AMCM M 4K is tailored to produce large applications, with a height up to one meter (39.37 inches). Out-of-the-box, the AMCM M 4K can produce applications from a wide range of materials, including aluminum (AlSi10Mg), nickel alloy (IN718), and copper alloy (CuCr1Zr).

Prominent features of the new machines include: large building volume of 450 × 450 × 1,000 mm; Yb fiber laser: 1 × 1,000 watt, 4 × 400 watt or 4 × 1,000 watt, optional; wave length of 1,070 nm; scan speed during build process of up to 7.0 m/s (23 ft./sec); and a powder handling option for manual or semi-automatic operation.

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6U VXS Single Board Computer

Abaco Systems (Huntsville, AL) announced the DSP221, an extension of the legacy DSP220, by refreshing to the latest NXP T2081 quad core processor. The DSP221 is a 6U VXS single board computer with Power Architecture™ AMP CPU with eight e6500 virtual cores (4 cores, dual threaded with AltiVec co-processing). It includes 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM with ECC single bank, 512 MB NOR flash, 32 GB NAND flash solid-state drive, 512 kB non-volatile nvSRAM, 2x independent PMC/XMC sites, 2× 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet, 2× RS232 ports, 4× single-ended GPIO (5V tolerant), and has a Baseboard Management Module (BMM). Standard software options including Uboot, PBIT, CIBIT, and VxWorks ® 7 (SR0630). Linux Yocto distribution is available on request.

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Level 5 Lightning Test System

Advanced Test Equipment Corporation (ATEC) (San Diego, CA) will now offer the M Precision Labs ECAT Lightning Test System Level 5.

The M Precision ECAT Lightning Test System for level 5 testing is a modular test platform that tests in accordance with the lightning simulator requirements of RTCA DO-160 Section 22 and 17, meeting most Boeing, Airbus, EUROCAE and other requirements. The ECAT Lightning Test System can perform pin injection, cable bundle, and ground injection testing with single stroke, multiple strokes, and multiple bursts modes from the same module.

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Power Clamps

Destaco (Auburn Hills, MI) is pleased to announce the launch and availability of its Model 84A40-1/84A50-1 Power Clamps. Despite their very compact double-arm design, these pneumatically powered clamps produce high force and tolerance compensation for firmly holding sheet metal together during various critical assembly applications, such as welding. The standard opening angle of the clamp is 90 degrees, but the opening angle of both arms is independently adjustable.

Three different sets of arms are available for the smaller 84A40-1 model and four for the 84A50-1. As with the Destaco 82M-3E and TCC-2E Power Clamp series, the new double-arm power clamps have two-part sensing and are available in three different sensor variants, such as PNP and NPN. The closed design of the clamps also means that they are sealed from external contamination and can be used in harsh operating environments. Lifetime lubrication makes the clamps practically maintenance-free.

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Xeon D-based Single Board Computer

Aitech (Chatsworth, CA) released its latest security-enabled SBC (single board computer) featuring up to 16 lanes of PCIe to handle increased data processing requirements, while protecting the board from data attacks and cyber threats. The new C878 is a 3U VPX board that provides Intel Xeon D level processing in a rugged, industry-standard form factor. Equipped with double the Gen3 PCIe Data Plane lanes as Aitech’s C877, the rugged SBC was specifically designed using a modern, high-bandwidth bus architecture.

The C878 uses the same cybersecurity architecture as the C877—Aitech’s proprietary AiSecure—to provide secure transmission of sensitive data. Intel security includes Trusted Platform and Secure Boot as well as a BIOS Guard based on TXT TPM 2.0 and BIOS security. The onboard SATA SSD, up to 1 TB, supports write protection, secure and quick erase in addition to disk data encryption using AES 256 keys. A battery-backed tamper detection signal ensures system level protection.

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Optical Beamforming Technology

Isotropic Systems (Reading, UK) announced an antenna evaluation and development contract with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to test the ability of its patented multi-beam antennas to unlock high-powered bandwidth aboard next-gen Naval vessels at sea. The DIU is reviewing Isotropic Systems’ patented beamforming antenna technologies and circuits as an enabler to fuse multi-band, multi-orbit commercial and military capacity to deliver intelligence data at the tactical edge over a single platform.

The collaboration contract is focused on the delivery of a low-profile, high-performance, affordable and customizable antenna to support multiple links over multiple bands of satellite capacity, including S-, C-, Ka-, Ku-, X-, and Q-band connectivity. Isotropic Systems’ high-performance terminal features optical lens modules that are conformal to the limited real estate aboard Navy ships, providing an antenna design that delivers seamless make-before-break switching between satellites in multiple orbits, and continuous connectivity during turbulent pitch-and-roll conditions facing vessels traversing rough seas.

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Class AB High-Power Amplifiers

Fairview Microwave Inc. (Irvine, CA), an Infinite Electronics brand, has released a new series of Class AB broadband high-power amplifier modules that incorporate GaN, LDMOS or VDMOS semiconductor technology. Fairview’s comprehensive new line of class AB broadband high-power amplifiers consists of 18 new models spanning frequency bands from 20 MHz to 18 GHz. These designs are unconditionally stable and operate in a 50 Ohm environment. They offer power gain up to 53 dB and saturated output power levels from 10 Watts to 200 Watts. This line includes 2 new heatsink modules with DC controlled cooling fans specifically designed for the 18 new models to ensure optimum baseplate temperature for highly reliable performance.

These compact coaxial packages utilize N-Type or SMA connectors and have integrated D-Sub control connectors for DC bias, enabled with TTL logic control and temperature and current sense functions. The rugged assemblies can withstand relative humidity exposure up to 95% maximum and operate over a wide temperature range from -20°C to +60°C.

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Tabletop Microdispensing Station

nScrypt (Orlando, FL) has delivered and installed a Factory in a Tool (FiT) platform to France’s Center for Technology Transfers in Ceramics (CTTC). CTTC plans to use the FiT to print fine conductive lines conformally on various substrates.

CTTC selected a 3Dn-Tabletop (Single-Head), multi-material, precision ball screw motion platform with a rotary stage, which is outfitted with a SmartPump™ microdispensing tool head and nVision cameras that monitor the tool head for automated in-process inspection and computer vision routines. The system also includes a point laser height sensor for Z-tracking and mapping for conformal printing onto objects of any surface shape.

The FiT’s SmartPump™ microdispensing tool head eliminates drooling with picoliter volumetric control and boasts the widest range of materials available for any microdispensing system: more than 10,000 commercially available materials, ranging from a few centipoise (like water) to millions of centipoise (much thicker than peanut butter). The SmartPump’s™ pen tip has the smallest commercially available diameter of 10 microns.

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