Thermacore, Inc. has announced that Thermacore Europe is the winner of a silver EEF/Aldermore Future Manufacturing Award. Based in Ashington, United Kingdom, Thermacore Europe was runner-up for the Business Efficiency Award. This award recognizes the company’s successful introduction of new operating practices to boost productivity and business performance. The EEF Future Manufacturing Awards are the…
Keep electronics cool
Developers continue to work on ways to cool sensitive electronic hardware. The latest example is the custom, self-contained Intelligent Thermal Management System (iTMS). This system is based on liquid cooling system technology developed by Thermacore for military applications, such as embedded military computing, radar and image processing applications, laser diodes and power converters. It extends…
Keep fuel cells cool
Operating without moving parts, heat pipes are a thermal management technology used in military/aerospace and commercial applications because of their thermal efficiency, simplicity and reliability. The Therma-Base is a flat, ultra-thin heat pipe developed by Thermacore with the NASA Glenn Research Center under a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract. The titanium-water vapor chamber Therma-Base…
Thermal management preserves accuracy in NASA’s satellite
When NASA’s latest earth-observation satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity mission launched into orbit, it carried mission-critical cooling components from k Technology. Once thoroughly tested in orbit, the satellite will be known as Landsat 8. It will monitor environmental, natural and man-made changes to the Earth’s surface using two sensitive data-collecting instruments, the Operational Land Imager…
Advances in active heat sink technologies
A new generation of compact, custom-built, high-performance, air-cooled heat sinks are the result of a multimillion-dollar development contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The heat sink products reflect advances in the development and commercialization of active heat sink technologies, achieved as part of the DARPA Micro-technologies for Air-Cooled Exchangers (MACE) program. Thermacore…
Cooling High-Power Electronic Components in Small Packages
By Matt Connors, Application Engineering Manager, Thermacore, Inc., Lancaster, PA Using vapor chambers can be an efficient way to manage heat in today’s small, yet high-power electronic devices where effective cooling helps ensure long component life and reliability. Imagine a high-power radar system used by our armed forces in the Iraqi desert. The components are…