The market for military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also commonly referred to as unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has seen major growth over the past decade. As a critical element of defense, UAV and UAS systems place a high priority on reliability. Ensuring that reliability means that critical factors such as friction and leakage are...
If you’re developing an electrical connector for a defense or commercial aviation application, contact springs can help address any size, weight, and power (SWaP) consumption challenges you may face. Our Bal Spring® is at work in some of today’s most advanced land, sea, and air platforms. It has been helping designers like you achieve...
Electrical connectors often employ separate mechanical latching and EMI/RFI shielding components, which adds to their size and weight. In the presentation below, we’ll discuss how contact springs can deliver significant benefit for use in electrical connector applications by reducing size, weight and power consumption challenges. Electrical Connector Design Challenges Electrical connectors consist of a...
To maximize gimbal performance, it’s essential to use a gimbal seal that protects your equipment in harsh environments and enables precision targeting in extreme conditions such has high speed, high vibration, and adverse weather conditions. With the Bal Seal® spring-energized seal, you can finally achieve the elusive balance between friction and sealing effectiveness. Our...
Design engineers have long employed gimbals, pods, and pan-tilt systems as a means to protect payloads. But gimbal design requirements are being driven by advances in technology, requiring increased precision and pointing stability. The Gimbal Seal Dilemma Gimbals rely on good sealing design and engineering to ensure that they are able to...
To perform at peak accuracy, the sensitive electronics inside gimbals and pods must be protected from the temperatures, pressures, and media they can encounter in air and space, on land, and at sea. This infographic will show you how the right seal can help you optimize sealing effectiveness in your gimbal and pod design,...
Watch this short video and see how a Bal Seal® spring-energized seal, with its extremely low coefficient of friction and wear-regulating canted coil spring energizer, enables more accurate, stiction-free oscillating and rotary operation. With our seal, you’ll finally be able to reduce friction and meet strict torque requirements.
At Bal Seal Engineering, we help designers reach new heights and achieve out-of-this-world objectives in space exploration and orbital satellite installation. We’re proud of our contributions to the success of countless critical missions, and we can’t wait to see what’s next. These days, NASA isn’t the only organization with its eye to the skies....
Recently, a seasoned mechanical engineer at Motiv Space Systems told us, “When I work with you, I don’t have to think about seals.” That’s music to our ears, because it means we’re helping designers stay focused on bigger things – like landing a rover on Mars. But maybe you’re not quite ready to let...
When designing aviation, space, and defense equipment, finding the elusive balance between low friction and sealing effectiveness is critical to maintain high equipment performance. Check out this short presentation, where we leverage more than 60 years of application engineering experience to share common design mistakes and pitfalls to avoid as you prepare to seal...
