Slip Rings Function in Aerospace, Defense, and Marine

April 23, 2020
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In the aerospace industry, spacecraft solar arrays use small slip rings that mount at their rotor to panel-moving actuator outputs. In a similar application in defense, slip rings work in armored-vehicle turrets to allow elimination of separate turret or gunner-station batteries. Here, a major environmental challenge is maintaining reliable power, data, and even video-stream connectivity even in the face of vibration.
Slip rings also support the functions of remotely operated vehicles or ROVs and other designs for underwater. Recently, JINPAT is working on a slip ring that needed to be used undersea and exposed to oil while with encode band integrated onto pancake design. It saves thickness and space as much as possible.