SBIR/STTR Research Award
Innovative and Affordable Materials/Concepts for Improving Rotorcraft Slip Ring Reliability
Award amount
$79,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- ACREE TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED
- Proposal award date
- 2005-10-11
- Contract end date
- 2006-04-11
- UEI
- VJEBFV1P6286
- Solicitation number
- 2005.2
- Topic code
- N05-106
Research abstract
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the effectiveness of using a conductive, wear resistant coating to improve the lifetime and reliability of slip rings, in particular the slip ring system used in the V-22 Osprey. Acree Technologies Incorporated has developed an innovative, conductive coating that is exceptionally hard, smooth and wear resistant and has a low coefficient of friction. This coating has been shown in previous tests to improve the lifetime of surfaces in sliding contact by greater than five times. Preliminary sliding contact tests have shown that the electrical noise of a coated slip ring is less than 10 mohm, exceeding military specifications.
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.
- Anti-Corrosion Coating for Gas Turbine Compressor Components Operating in Marine Environments
- Anti-Fog Coatings for Spacesuit Helmets
- Advanced High Temperature Sensors for Hypersonic Vehicles
- Anti-Fog Coatings for Spacesuit Helmets
- High Temperature Sensors for Advanced Combustion Turbine Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Innovative and Affordable Materials/Concepts for Improving Rotorcraft Slip Ring Reliability
- Innovative and Affordable Materials/Concepts for Improving Rotorcraft Slip Ring Reliability
- Innovative and Affordable Materials/Concepts for Improving Rotorcraft Slip Ring Reliability
- Innovative and Affordable Materials/Concepts for Improving Rotorcraft Slip Ring Reliability
Research funding history
56 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2025). Reported award amounts total $15,553,513. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation