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

小型企业 ERC 合作机会包与商业惯性传感器和振荡器公司进行耐环境包 (ERP) 原型设计

• 批准号: 1246145
• 负责人: Jay Mitchell
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: ePack, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1246145&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Small; Business; ERC; Collaborative; Opportunity

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.

摘要这个小企业/ ERC合作机会（SECO）赠款将帮助ePack，Inc.，将无线集成微系统（WIMS）工程研究中心（ERC）开发的平台技术--耐环境封装（ERP）商业化。微传感器（以及许多其他电子元件）是脆弱的，对环境中的颗粒水分，振动，冲击和温度变化敏感。因此，包装是在真实的世界应用中保护这些装置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，这就是为什么ePack于2010年在密歇根大学（U of M）成立，然后完全脱离WIMS-ERC，并拥有ERP技术专利的独家许可。ERP技术可实现设备的真空包装、振动隔离和低功率烘箱控制。该SECO资助的目的是为ERP中的商业惯性传感器和振荡器提供原型，以证明其抗振性或温度稳定性提高了10 / 100倍。（从而提高性能水平）在几个不同的应用领域。更广泛的影响这将使下一代具有成本效益、高性能和高可靠性的应用成为可能，包括：用于消防员和部队的手持导航系统;用于警察、军事和商业应用的无人驾驶飞行器的导航;用于工业机器人的运动控制;以及用于商用卡车和小型喷气式飞机的移动的宽带。