Small-Business ERC Collaborative Opportunity Package Prototyping of the Environment Resistant Package (ERP) with commercial Inertial Sensor and Oscillator Companies

这项小型企业/ERC合作机会(SECO)赠款将帮助ePack，Inc.将耐环境封装(ERP)商业化，这是无线集成微系统(WIMS)工程研究中心(ERC)开发的一种平台技术。微型传感器(以及许多其他电子元件)很脆弱，对环境中的颗粒水分、振动、冲击和温度变化很敏感。因此，包装是在现实世界应用中保护这些设备并因此使其商业化的关键因素。事实上，封装是新型微机电系统(MEMS)商业化的最大限制因素之一。这就是ePack成立的原因，并于2010年在密歇根大学(University Of M)完全从WIMS-ERC中剥离出来，并拥有ERP技术的独家专利许可证。ERP技术实现了设备的真空包装、隔振和低功率烤箱控制。这笔SECO赠款的目的是在ERP中制作商业惯性传感器和振荡器的原型，以便在几个不同的应用领域展示10/100倍的抗振性或温度稳定性(从而提高了性能)。广泛的影响(技术的应用)这将使下一代成本效益高、高性能和高可靠性的应用成为可能，包括：消防员和军队的手持导航系统；警察、军事和商业应用的无人驾驶飞行器导航；工业机器人的运动控制；以及商用卡车和小型喷气式飞机的移动宽带。

AbstractThis Small-Business/ ERC Collaborative Opportunity (SECO) grant will help ePack, Inc., commercialize the Environmental Resistant Package (ERP), which is a platform technology developed in the Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS) Engineering Research Center (ERC). Microsensors (as well as many other electronic components) are fragile and sensitive to particles moisture, vibration, shock and temperature changes in the environment. Packaging therefore is a key factor for protecting these device in real world applications and therefore for their commercialization. In fact, packaging is one of the biggest limiting factors for the commercialization of new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).This is why ePack was founded and then fully spun out of the WIMS-ERC at the University of Michigan (U of M) in 2010 and has an exclusive license for the patent on the ERP technology. The ERP technology enables vacuum packaging, vibration isolation and low power oven control of devices. The purpose of this SECO grant is to prototype commercial inertial sensors and oscillators in the ERP in order to demonstrate 10 / 100 times improved vibration resistance or temperature stability (and therefore that level of improved performance) in several different application areas.Broader Impact (Applications of the Technology)This will enable a next generation of cost efficient, high performance and high reliability applications including: handheld navigation systems for firefighters and troops; navigation of unmanned air vehicles for police, military and commercial applications; motion control for industrial robots; and mobile broadband for commercial trucks and small jets.