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.
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.
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.
