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October 20, 2009 |
Volume 5, Issue 39 |
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Meet The New Generation of Bondable Liquid Silicone Rubber |
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In this issue of Designfax:
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Part 2: Development of the MARK 6 MOD1 guidance system
What goes into modifying and modernizing the MARK 6 guidance system for the U.S. Navy's Trident submarine fleet? Todd Jackson from Draper Laboratory gives us the rundown in part two of this two-part story. Draper has been the design agent for all U.S. Navy strategic guidance systems since Polaris and for the U.S. Air Force Peacekeeper missile guidance system.
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Sealing Technologies — Solar: A “hot” topic
Direct use of the sun’s energy via smart energy conversion systems such as solar thermal collectors and photovoltaic modules is an all-round hot project with special sealing components. We look at two solar sealing applications from Simrit.
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Laser Processing with Precision Beam Control |
Radiation-hardened microelectronics to benefit spacecraft
Forget bulky and expensive external shielding. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing ways to harden microchips themselves against damage from various types of cosmic radiation.
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Wheels: BMW fuel tank demonstrates powerful blow-molding and assembly combo
Twin-sheet blow molding is a revolutionary process that integrates the myriad possibilities of the half-shell process with the advantages of blow molding, so you can not only create things like a plastic fuel system for the BMW 7 series 2009 but incorporate baffles, gages, and valves (working components!) during the build.
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Design motors, transformers, sensors & more |
5-Star Product: Mini stickers can simplify assembly of tiny components
Schreiner ProTech has introduced some neat, tiny Double-Sided Adhesive Parts (DSAPs) that offer a new, highly reliable solution to join extremely small parts to other miniature assembly components.
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Engineer's Toolbox: Developer’s kits for world’s smallest linear motor
Cool new developer’s kits from New Scale Technologies let you get your hands on SQUIGGLE linear micro motors and tiny TRACKER NSE-5310 position sensors to consider integrating the technologies into miniature OEM products.
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Explore features, improvements, and how they affect engineers and scientists
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