SBIR/STTR Research Award
Helicopter Electric Tail Rotor Drive
Award amount
$499,941Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2015Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- LAUNCHPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-11-05
- Contract end date
- 2016-05-10
- UEI
- Z8W4R9538GG6
- Solicitation number
- 2013.1
- Topic code
- N131-069
Research abstract
LaunchPoint Technologies proposes to build and test a laboratory demonstration of a helicopter electric tail rotor drive for a Bell 206 helicopter. The drive system will consist of a generator attached to the gearbox output for the rail rotor drive shaft and a dual halbach array permanent magnet motor to directly drive the tail rotor propeller. Purpose built power electronics will convert the AC power from the generator to a DC bus and then convert back to variable frequency AC for the tail rotor motor.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Reliable and Lightweight Polyphase Motor and Drive Solutions for eVTOL Propulsion
- Development, Systems Integration, and Flight Testing of an 80 kW Hybrid Electric Aircraft Propulsion System
- Electric Machines and Hybrid Drives for Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Tactical Air Vehicles
- Reconfigurable VTOL Energy Management System
- Electric machines and hybrid drives for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tactical air vehicles
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
33 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2021). Reported award amounts total $7,360,717. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation