SBIR/STTR Research Award
PRESSURE SENSITIVE OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR FOR TORPEDO GEAR TESTING
Award amount
$498,964Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1989Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- FIBERTEK, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DX8KTH7JHYC6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A FIBEROPTIC PRESSURE SENSOR IS DESCRIBED, IN WHICH THE SENSOR ELEMENTS ARE PLACED IN THE ROOTS OF VARIOUS GEARS. THIS PERMITS AN ENGINEERING EVALUATION RELATING THE MEASURED PRESSURE AT THE GEARTOOTH-ROOT INTERACTION TO THE PERFORMANCE OF THE GEAR. THE SUBMINIATURE DESIGN OF THE ELECTRONICS PERMITS ATTACHMENT OF THE DETECTOR PACKAGE DIRECTLY ONTO THE ROTATING GEAR. THE DYNAMIC PRESSURE IS CONVERTED TO A FREQUENCY SHIFT OF AN RF TRANSMITTER. THE RF SIGNAL IS PICKED UP BY AN ANTENNA LOCATED INSIDE THE TRANSMISSION HOUSING. DATA RECORDING AND ANALYSIS IS PERFORMED BY A TABLE TOP ELECTRONICS UNIT LOCATED AWAY FROM THE TRANSMISSION GEARS.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Mars, Lunar Science and ISRU Prospecting
- Optical Wireless Technology for Lunar to Mars
- Space/Aircraft Blue Laser for Underwater Ocean Science, Sensing, and Communications
- Space-Capable Laser for Mars/Lunar ISAM Robotic Vacuum Welding
- Compact Lidar Spectrometer for Lunar Science and ISRU
Research funding history
173 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2025). Reported award amounts total $69,654,466. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contractor profile
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