DoE Awards SBIR grant for LMHS™-C
Infinity Physics has been awarded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding for the development of our Linear Media Handling System for Cables (LMHS-C)™ by the US Department of Energy (DoE). LMHS is being developed to increase the fidelity and reliability of wire and tape wound conductors for automated manufacturing. Cables are used in the power transmission and high power electromagnetic devices from electric motors and generators to electromagnets used in particle accelerators. LMHS is aimed specifically to solve the difficulties of winding modern superconductors and thereby unleashing the benefits of zero resistance to the flow of electricity across markets from commercial industry to defense.
Infinity Physics, LLC Moves to Colorado
The Infinity Physics, LLC corporate headquarters was moved from the Austin area of Texas to the greater Denver area of Colorado (CO) in Q1 2014. Infinity Physics was aggressively pursued by the state of CO with multiple funding incentives to assist corporate product commercialization and facility expansion. In particular the Governor’s office is interested in Infinity Physics creating a first ever in the world, “Superconducting Applications Center of Excellence,” which turns CO into a technical world lead for the coming superconducting market. Additionally CO is a hub for our customer base which further incentivized our team.
The Infinity Physics team is proud to be a Colorado based company and views this move as a great step in furthering our corporate expansion.
NSF Awards 2nd SBIR grant to Infinity Physics for portable education laboratory
Infinity Physics in collaboration with Ideation Systems was selected to receive a 2nd Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for further developing the PortaLAB educational family of products.
The PortaLAB™ product line will continue to develop in conjunction with Ideation Systems, LLC. Follow the emergence of this technology and availability of offerings here.
NI Week 2013
Our education team staffed a booth for the 2nd year in a row at National Instruments (NI) Week 2013 highlighting our educational product line, PortaLAB™, and precision winding products and capability product line, MMP-LMHS™. 
This year the booth was shared through the developing relationship with our educational product customer Studica. NI Week 2013 – Academic Forum. Professionals and educators from around the globe reviewed and were impressed with our latest team product release announcements.
NSF Awards SBIR grant for LMHS™-M
Infinity Physics has been awarded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding for the development of our Linear Media Handling System (LMHS)™ by the National Science Foundation (NSF). LMHS is being developed to increase the fidelity and reliability of wire and tape wound conductors for automated manufacturing. Devices with wound conductors are used in the majority of current electromagnetic systems from electric motors and generators of all shapes and sizes to electromagnets used in from particle accelerators and industrial MRI machines. LMHS is aimed specifically to solve the difficulties of winding modern superconductors and thereby unleashing the benefits of zero resistance to the flow of electricity across markets from commercial industry to defense.
NSF Awards SBIR grant to Infinity Physics for portable education laboratory
As the partnership with Ideation Systems continues to develop, a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal was submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) focusing on providing personal laboratory experience into the emerging field of portable education. Infinity Physics in collaboration with Ideation Systems was selected to receive funding for completing the PortaLAB Levitator experiment kit and begin work on 3 additional experiment kits that are expected to offer eagerly awaited value to an expanding market.
The PortaLAB™ product line will continue to develop in conjunction with Ideation Systems, LLC. Follow the emergence of this technology and availability of offerings here.
NI Week 2012
In furthering our developing business relations, Infinity Physics, LLC (InfPhy) and Ideation Systems, LLC (IdeaSys) shared a booth at the week long National Instruments (NI) 2012 annual conference starting on Monday, August 6, 2012. The team booth, shown below, and all presentations were held in the Academic Forum, NI Week 2012 – Academic Forum. Professionals and educators from around the globe reviewed and were impressed with our team pending product release announcements.
InfPhy is supporting all current IdeaSys PortaLAB products releases from basic theory to final design and manufacturing. An example of this growing role includes InfPhy building all electromagnetic (EM) levitation coils for all PortaLAB product line offerings fabricated on the InfPhy LMHS-10 series product.
In addition to IdeaSys and InfPhy team products, other InfPhy winding products were presented. Below are some of the InfPhy inductors developed for the NI ELVIS product line at the NI Week 2012 booth. The NI ELVIS product line has standardized on InfPhy inductors for all specialized ELVIS and associated NI product needs.
Ideation Systems takes Levitators to Middle East
Infinity Physics, LLC (InfPhy) is pleased to announce our developing working relationship with Ideation Systems, LLC (IdeaSys). IdeaSys has standardized on InfPhy developed electromagnetic (EM) levitation coils for their PortaLab product line offerings. IdeaSys was impressed when comparing the InfPhy initial custom product offering to the system they had previously chosen. The InfPhy EM coil, fabricated on the InfPhy LMHS-10 series product, reduced the power requirements by 1/3, provided 6 times the operational levitation range, increased control sensitivity and accuracy by 200 times, decreased the control bandwidth by a factor of 10, and all at a price tag lower than the competing solution. InfPhy identified that further improvements in the prime mover can also be made over time.
The InfPhy team not only supports our customers’ requirements but in most cases we use our ingenuity and vast experience to far exceed our customers’ wishes often at a lowered or equivalent cost competitive range. The IdeaSys staff was so impressed by such quick improvements far beyond their original expectations that they headlined the InfPhy solution when detailing their PortaLAB product during their conference talk and corporate booth setup at the National Instruments (NI) Arabia Academic Day 2012 held in Beirut, Lebanon on May 17, 2012. Educators and corporations throughout the Middle East attend this conference.
Our organizations are already discussing how best InfPhy can support all IdeaSys current and future hardware and software products. The InfPhy team is excited to further this mutually beneficial corporate teaming agreement.
NI Takes InfPhy Inductors to China
Infinity Physics, LLC (InfPhy) is pleased to announce that National Instruments (NI) has standardized on InfPhy developed inductors for their ELVIS product line offering.
NI was impressed with the very high inductance to resistance ratio as well as the top tap lead capability of the InfPhy product offering. The first week of May 2012 NI team members transported InfPhy inductors to their annual internal training session in Shanghai, China to demonstrate the superior performance benefits of these inductors. Later in May NI and InfPhy discussions will lead to multiple inductor variant standards depending on the desired inductor application. These various inductor types will assume the role as a permanent part of the NI ELVIS line of products. The NI website will update with a link to InfPhy as their standard approved supplier for these products at the end of May. At that time NI will formally recommend that all ELVIS products include the InfPhy specially made inductors.
New Product: Inductors Introduced at Silicon Valley Conference
The Infinity Physics team is proud to present our new inductor product line being developed in tandem with a new series of products recently released by the industry leading National Instruments Corporation. The debut of the Infinity Physics inductor family supporting the National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (ELVIS) Digital Electronics FPGA board are showcased at the National Instruments booth #928 at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Design West Summit at the McEnergy Convention Center in San Jose, CA March 26-29, 2012. Power electronics use of NI ELVIS is presented in the following link. (https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/power-electronics-development-center/blog/2012/01/17/learning-inverter-control-with-ni-elvis-ii).
“ESC (The Embedded Systems Conference) is the global electronics industry’s leading event. With cutting edge product demonstrations, visionary speeches and hundreds of essential technical training classes and accreditation opportunities, ESC is the ideal venue for the design engineering community to learn, collaborate and recognize excellence. In addition, ESC Silicon Valley celebrates decades of unique local electronics industry culture, innovation and significant contributions to the global technology industry.”
Our past family of protoboard to power custom made to order inductors, along with multiple other custom customer magnet types from high power superconductors to conventional copper winds, will soon include a full commercial off the shelf (COTS) product line currently under development for both solderless protoboards as well as solder based printed circuit board (PCB). The first offerings of this inductor product line will be made shortly both directly through Infinity Physics as well as directly through the National Instruments family of products.
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These inductors improve upon a half century of protoboard inductors by not only providing the highest inductance per associated parasitic series resistance per inductor volumetric size for any inductor in it’s class as they double the inductance per parasitic resistance ratio over classic protoboard inductors, but they additionally provide optional top of the inductor instrumentation test lead loop taps.
The Infinity Physics 10 Series Linear Media Handling System (LMHS) product line supports the development of this COTS product family as well as any customer custom winding to complete LMHS needs.
Technology to Revolutionize the Superconductor Industry
In 2010 the US DOE announced a cessation of funding in fiscal year 2012 for the development of high temperature superconducting (HTS) wire. This is a strong indication that a sufficient maturity has been reached for commercialization. Particularly with the fragile nature of HTS wire, maturity of working with these materials has not proven sufficient to produce yields and reliability to support commercialization. The delicate nature of the media is even more extreme with the up and coming low temperature superconducting (LTS) reacted wires. Infinity Physics has addressed the material handling shortcomings of historical winding technology. The following table categorizes the compilation of improvements launched with the family of products for linear media handling.
New Website
This article provides a summary of the innovations in our new website. Along with the new look of the background and header, there is some rearrangement and content addition. The most significant addition is blog functionality. Appropriate areas of our research and development presentations will feature comment areas that open our site to dynamic content and conversation. The bottom portion of our main page displays a slideshow of our latest article entries for a continual update of our content.
Opening our site to external input will require the effort of content moderation to highlight the most relevant comments and remove those lacking significance. Hopefully our IT department will be able to address spam and other attacks that target this communication window. We expect that the benefits will outweigh the risks. From the interest of viewers to search provider scores, the web rewards fresh content.