PUTTING CERAMIC TO WORK - VALUE ADDED ASSEMBLIES

VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS, FROM SIMPLE WIRED CERAMIC TO COMPLEX ACTUATOR AND ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLIES, SENSORS AND TRANSDUCERS, ARE SOME OF ITT ACOUSTIC SENSORS' SPECIALTIES.

FEATURED PLATFORMS

Oil and Natural Gas

ITT takes pride in providing robust components for harsh environments.  Our extensive engineering capability has and continues to provide successful components used in the most demanding environments that lie beneath the earths surface.  Products provided to the industry include sensors, stacked actuators, and ceramic shapes that are used in many areas and applications like down-hole wells, seismic components, acoustic monitoring, and test transducers.

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Medical Applications

ITT believes that "Engineered for Life" also means for the life of the patient.  When the needs are critical and repeatability of an assembly is required, ITT should be part of your component decision.  Our engineering and development can provide improvement for new products.  Products provided to the industry include: bending elements and stacked actuators for applications like communicators, enunciators, ultrasonic hand tools, and ultrasonic therapy.

Safety and Protection

"Engineered for Life" means that life is taken seriously.  ITT provides products that insure the well being of Emergency Personnel, Military Service Personnel, and Harbor surveillance activity.  Our full range of products and engineering expertise are applied because nothing short of success is expected.  Areas of use include emergency response components, diver detection, and sonar object detection.

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FEATURED PRODUCTS

Bending elements are small electromechanical actuators or sensors.  Actuators produce controlled movement when regulated power is supplied to the bending element.  The reciprocal of the actuator is a Sensor.  When vibration or movement is present at the bending element, it will product a voltage that is used for monitoring.  Bending elements are used in an array of applications including micro positioning, optical switching, valves, and medical devises.

ITT offers engineered designs to compliment new product designs and special applications.  Please view the ITT Bending Element data sheet for your design concepts.

Bending elements are also known as mono-morphs and bi-morphs.

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Stacked actuators are the answer for precision high force micro movement.  ITT is the industry leader for robust designs and reliable product that will provide service for many years.  Stacked actuators are capable of forces beyond 6,000 Newton's and displacement values to 120 micro meters.  Achievable positioning capability is measured in the Pico Meter scale.  Industries using stacked actuators include down-hole oil well tooling, rotor craft stabilization, interferometric measuring systems, atomic force microscope positioning, Non-destructive testing (NDT), and integrated circuit cutting equipment.

ITT offers engineered designs for the most robust and demanding service applications.

Stacked Actuators are also known as actuators, layered stacks, and ceramic actuators.

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Piezoelectric Micro actuators provide solid state motion and sensing on a very small scale at low cost.

This makes them ideal for micro positioning and acoustic and impact sensors. Low profile tubes are ideal for dense channel packaging where 50 nanometer/volt channel positioning accuracy is required.

Applications
Micro positioning
Acoustic Sensors
Medical Transducers
Impact Sensors
Micro Liter Pumps
Micro actuator arrays can provide multipoint precision movement, fiber optic switching, laser mirror control, fiber optic light path modulation and many ultrasonic imaging applications. We can engineer specific configurations to meet customer requirements.

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Sensors are used for detection of vibration, sonar threats, mechanical motion, and audible tones.  ITT has provided solutions for sensing requirements for over 50 years.  Sensors using piezo electric technology offer wide ranging and robust applications for the most demanding needs and applications.  Areas of use are fuel or fluid presence, vibration, fluid and air acoustics, pressure, high and low force shock events.

Types of sensors using piezo electric ceramic may be as simple as a monolithic block to fully engineered arrays capable of use on the ocean floor.

Sensors are also known as hydrophones, accelerometers, and multi-axis sensors.

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Piezo motors are small modular devises that provide high precision positioning.  ITT provides micro positioning for linear and rotational applications.  Motors achieve forces to 1.1 Newton's per motor and displacements beyond 300 millimeters.  Typical uses are micro machining, optical aperture movement, pick and place, medical devises, and micro stage movement.

ITT offers engineered designs to compliment new product design and special applications.  Please view the ITT Piezo Motor booklet for your design concepts.

Piezo motors are also known as linear motors, fractions motors, stepping motors, inchworm, and servo piezo motor.

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Transducers include hydrophones and sound sources for sonar applications.  ITT has been a supplier of sonar transducers for over 50 years.  Our transducers are engineered for life and provide reliability unsurpassed in the industry.  ITT transducers are used in commercial, industrial, and military applications on board ships, submarines, trawlers, hydroelectric facilities, harbor surveillance, diver detection, and fishery research.

ITT offers engineered designs to compliment new product designs and special applications.  Contact us with your needs and application requirements.

Transducers are also known as sensor, hydrophones, arrays, projectors, sound sources, transmitters, transponders, sonars, receivers, flextensionals, and pingers.

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