SBIR/STTR Research Award

MH-60R Sonar NiCad Battery Reliability Improvement

Award identifier 6591145c8229bb36c15c676db5a77e8339d4b8894dd8fbe7ddf1c16209eaf0b4Awarding agency Department of Defense · Navy

Award amount

$1,195,296

Program and phase

SBIR · Phase II

Award year

2012

Award details

Awarding agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Recipient company: CORNERTURN LLC
Proposal award date: 2012-02-08
Contract end date: 2016-04-15
UEI: J5KAG8MBP5Q5
Solicitation number: 2010.1
Topic code: N101-018

Research abstract

The Navy wants to extend the life of the MH-60R ALFS Transducer NiCad battery pack to be sure that failure of the battery pack does not significantly impact the failure rate of the ALFS Transducer. Battery packs typically fail before the expected life of the individual cells because of the lack of observability of the cells during charging and discharging. CornerTurn will add additional circuitry to the existing battery pack to monitor and protect each individual cell in the battery pack during every charge and discharge cycle. The circuitry will: (1) sense when an individual cell is in danger of being overcharged or overdischarged, and (2) electrically remove the affected cell from the circuitry without impacting the voltage or current characteristics of the pack.

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.

Awards with the same topic code

Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.

Research funding history

6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2014). Reported award amounts total $2,345,211. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

Phases: Phase I, Phase II

Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Transportation

Agency intelligence

Department of Defense

Back to SBIR/STTR Research Awards