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Non-Contact Sensor Technology to Locate Electromagnetic Grids in Ceramics

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W31P4Q-12-C-0097
Agency Tracking Number: A2-4857
Amount: $730,000.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A10-151
Solicitation Number: 2010.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2012
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2012-03-09
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
130 North Main Street Suite 600
Butte, MT -
United States
DUNS: 836287680
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Stephen Galbraith
 Principal Investigator
 (406) 497-5223
 sgalbraith@resodyn.com
Business Contact
 Lawrence Farrar
Title: President&CEO
Phone: (406) 497-5252
Email: lcfarrar@resodyn.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

Electromagnetic grid structures buried in optical ceramic domes may be accurately located using an electromagnetic sensing and detection techniques. Under the Phase I effort, Resodyn Corporation developed a sensor and detection technology that demonstrated position location to within 1 mil is possible. Competing technologies such as capacitive, optical, or sonic lack a key advantage the electromagnetic approach offers - optical ceramic, cutting fluids, dust, and surface conditions are electromagnetically transparent. In a manufacturing environment the sensing technology can be used to direct grinding and polishing machine operations, real-time, where to locate dome surfaces with respect to the buried grid. In a metrology environment the technology can be integrated with a coordinate measuring machine. Under the Phase II effort, Resodyn Corporation proposes to develop two useful prototypes. The first is a low-cost tabletop tool that will locate grid depth from the surface of a dome. The second is a higher cost hybrid sensor that combines the electromagnetic sensor for grid location with a laser sensor for dome surface location. The hybrid sensor could be used with a variety of manufacturing equipment.

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