Hybricon Corporation - Enclosures, Backplanes and Custom Engineered Solutions for Military Applications

Hybricon Corporation is an ISO 9001:2000 registered, true solutions company providing integrated system solutions, electronic enclosures, and backplanes for high performance military and ruggedized COTS applications.

Hybricon's wide range of VME, VME64x, CompactPCI, VXS, VPX, switch fabric, MicroTCA and custom enclosure systems are engineered to meet the most stringent design requirements and provide innovative cooling solutions, EMI/RFI containment, and ruggedized construction.

In-depth thermal analysis and validation, structural analysis, and signal integrity simulation provide customers with reliable, high performance solutions, enabling faster time-to-market and lowering total cost of ownership.

Hybricon has a successful track record of proven and deployed COTS solutions that have been designed to meet stringent military requirements. Hybricon has designed and manufactured products for companies such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Mercury Computer Systems, Goodrich Aerospace, Harris, DRS, and Northrup Grumman.

Hybricon products have been deployed on the Apache attack helicopter; F-16, F/A-22 and F35 fighter aircraft; the E-2C Hawkeye, E-3, EA-6B Prowler, Global Hawk, P-3 Orion, ASTOR, and U-2 surveillance aircraft; and the C-130J Hercules and Boeing 767 tanker transport aircraft.

MIXED CONDUCTION-CONVECTION LIQUID COOLED ATR AIRBORNE CHASSIS

This custom liquid cooled ATR chassis was designed by Hybricon for integration into an airborne reconnaissance system. The two-in-one chassis includes two custom VME64x backplanes, each with dedicated I/O, that are air-cooled via a liquid heat exchanger, coupled with a conduction cooled power supply via a liquid cold-plate, and integrated air-cooled boards. Hybricon performed extensive thermal simulation to come up with an innovative cooling design that combines air, conduction and liquid cooling to ensure performance over a challenging environmental range using COTS payload.

• Liquid cooled with liquid-to-air heat exchanger
• Conduction cooled power supply
• 50,000ft operating altitude
• Air-cooled VME64x payload with re-circulating air
• Mercury rugged level 2 RACE++ board installed
• MIL-STD-461
• MIL-STD-810B (M500, M501, M502, M503, M507, M508, M509, M511, M514.2, M513.2, M515.1)

AIRBORNE AIR COOLED ATR

This single board computer ATR designed by Hybricon provides gimbal control for an airborne weapons system. It features 3/4 ATR mechanical configuration, custom VME64x backplane with I/O from J2 and P0, front panel I/O and is forced air convection-cooled with internal high-altitude fans.

• MIL-STD 704 single phase AC power
• MIL-STD-461 EMI containment
• Cooling for 50W per slot at 20,000ft operating altitude
• -40°C to 85°C operating temperature

MIXED CONVECTION-CONDUCTION COOLED GROUND RADAR SYSTEM

This Hybricon designed ruggedized chassis is used in the electronics pod of a surface-to-air missile launching system. It was designed to meet high tactical and operating shock levels. It is mixed convection cooled and conduction cooled with integrated conduction-cooled power supply and electronic keypad.

• Brazed card cage
• Ruggedized construction - machined card guides
• Custom VME64x backplane
• -40°C to 75°C operating temperature
• Shock 20G, 18ms
• Vibration 8.6grms
• MIL-STD-454 Requirement 4: fungus, salt sea atmosphere, sand and dust

FULLY INTEGRATED AIRBORNE VIDEO PROCESSOR SYSTEM

This enclosure system was designed to enable the use of multiple video processing cards in a high-altitude airborne environment. It is FAA certified to airborne shock, vibration, and environmental requirements.

An intelligent temperature control system maintains internal temperatures above 0ºC when operating in a –15ºC environment, with minimal impact on the power budget. The intelligent temperature control and fan speed control also have remote monitoring options. An internal heater and control system allows operation of integrated COTS content below rated minimum operating temperatures.

Redundant power supplies increase system reliability and the system is delivered fully integrated with CPU cards, carrier cards, and multiple video and fiber optic PMC and IP modules

Additional features include:

• Complete cabling of copper and fiber interfacing to rear panel

• 18-slot Hybricon designed VME64x backplane
• Redundant blowers and Hybricon's patented air deflecting card guides provide 300CFM of uniform airflow
• DO-160D, Section 4, 5, 6, 16, 17, 20
• Shock and vibration per tailored versions of DO-160D