Aerospace And Defense
- AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CAPABILITIES
The development and engineering of spacecraft, satellites, aircraft, and missiles is a challenging endeavor. Rigorous requirements in harsh environments require thoughtful, calculated design and precise engineering. Each component must be designed to exact specification to satisfy multiple requirements for these critical applications.
As an AS9100:2015 certified and ITAR registered company, Fralock ‘s engineers work as an extension of your engineering team to provide optimal solutions for aerospace and defense applications. With over 50 years of product design, specialty material and process knowledge, we are experts at helping you reach your design and production goals.
Fralock’s Technical Knowledge™ (FTK) allows us to combine seemingly incompatible materials for mission-critical applications. Our pioneered adhesiveless lamination enables production of fully-encapsulated flex circuits and cables, sealing the traces from environmental damage. This type of bonded material provides superior performance over using adhesives, which tend to degrade under extreme environmental and chemical stressors.
- AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CAPABILITIES
As an AS-9100 and ITAR registered company, Fralock ‘s engineers work as an extension of your engineering team to create optimal solutions for aerospace and defense applications. With over 50 years of product design, specialty material and process knowledge, we are experts at first-class engineered solutions.
Fralock’s Technical Knowledge™ (FTK) allows us to combine seemingly incompatible materials for mission-critical applications. Our pioneered adhesiveless lamination enables production of are fully- encapsulated flex circuits and cables, sealing the traces from environmental damage. This type of bonded material provides superior performance over using adhesives, which tend to degrade under extreme environmental and chemical stressors.
Robust Encapsulated Polyimide Flat Flex Cables
Flex Circuits for Defense, Space, and Satellite Applications
Flex Circuits for Defense
Designed to endure extreme temperatures, shock, and vibration that occurs in military environments, flex circuits used in defense applications are essential for providing lightweight, compact solutions for the miniaturization of equipment, allowing for efficient and mobile systems.
Flex Circuits for Space
Flex circuits for space applications are engineered to meet the stringent requirements of wide temperature ranges, high radiation levels, and vacuum environments. Their flexibility and durability ensure electrical integrity despite the mechanical stresses experienced during launch and operation in space. Their low mass also helps to optimize the payload capacity and efficiency of spacecraft.
Flex Circuits for Satellites
Due to their ability to conform to tight spaces and curved surfaces, flex circuits and heaters are ideal for satellites due to the compact and irregular shapes of their assemblies. Their high reliability and performance and reduced weight ensure that satellite systems can operate without failure over long durations in the harsh environment of space.
Cirlex® & White Kapton
Fralock manufactures DuPontTM Cirlex® for use in multiple applications. Cirlex® is a versatile polyimide that is laminated without adhesives and custom fabricated into many shapes and sizes. Highly machinable, with high tolerance of thermal, physical and chemical properties, it can be used in applications such as flex circuit stiffeners or thermal blockers, flex-to-board connectors, thermal and electrical interface applications, thrust washers, shims and spacers.
White Kapton® is a high emissivity Kapton film widely used for space applications, and can be metalized for use in spacecraft and aircraft. Fralock provides white Kapton® film and tape fabricated to your specifications.
Fralock HEK pressure-sensitive adhesive tape made with White Kapton®.
With over 50 years of product design, material and process knowledge, Fralock’s engineering team can overcome your challenges to produce optimal performance with aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and space-based solar arrays.
Solutions Include:
- Flat Flex Cables
- Flex/Rigid-Flex Circuits
- Antenna components
- Solar Arrays
- Solar Array Components
- Zerodur glass optics
- Thermal shock resistant ceramic parts made from aluminum nitride
- Ceramic fluid atomizers and nozzles
- Heaters
- Diode Boards
- Films/Specialty Tapes
- Mechanical Seals
- Foams/Rubbers
- Thin Film Ceramic Substrate RF Circuits
- Thick film Mo/Mn metallization on Alumina and Aluminum Nitride
- EMI, RFI Shielding
- Flat Flex Cables
- Flex/Rigid-Flex Circuits
- Antenna components
- Solar Arrays
- Solar Array Components
- EMI, RFI Shields
- Heaters
- Diode Boards
- Films/Specialty Tapes
- Mechanical Seals
- Foams/Rubbers
- CIRLEX
As the sole manufacturer for DuPontTM Cirlex®, Fralock provides custom fabrications of this versatile polyimide. With high tolerance of thermal, physical and chemical properties, it can be used in applications such as flex circuits, flex-to-board connectors, thermal and electrical interface, thrust washers, shims and spacers.
With over 50 years of product design, material and process knowledge, Fralock’s engineering team can overcome your challenges for optimal performance for aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and space-based solar arrays.
- Flat Flex Cables
- Flex/Rigid-Flex Circuits
- Antenna components
- Solar Arrays
- Solar Array Components
- EMI, RFI Shields
- Heaters
- Diode Boards
- Films/Specialty Tapes
- Mechanical Seals
- Foams/Rubbers
- Flat Flex Cables
- Flex/Rigid-Flex Circuits
- Antenna components
- Solar Arrays
- Solar Array Components
- EMI, RFI Shields
- Heaters
- Diode Boards
- Films/Specialty Tapes
- Mechanical Seals
- Foams/Rubbers
