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MA Series of Powered Rugged ATR Enclosures for CompactPCI Systems.
Rugged COTS ATR enclosures and ATR chassis for convection and conduction cooled electronic hardware.
Look no further, you will not find a company better equipped and experienced when it comes to ATR form factor based system enclosures.
Elma-Mektron's highly acclaimed and endorsed range of ATR enclosure products offers System Integrators, Defence Contractors and OEMs alike, a rapid, risk free and highly cost effective route to market, whatever the operational environment and regardless of hardware architecture.
Totally unequalled in the industry, Elma-Mektron can provide ATR based solutions suitable for direct forced-air cooling, indirect forced-air cooling and conduction cooling.
Commercial boards – hostile environment - No Problem!
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General
With the drive from the electronics defence industry for cost effective system solutions, COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) products are being sought across the project spectrum, including the area of rugged system packaging equipment. Elma-Mektron specialise in the design, development and manufacture of turnkey bus-based system enclosures for commercial through to military applications. Elma-Mektron's experience within the military COTS sector has culminated in the tried and tested MA Series (Mektron ATR) of compact, rugged system enclosures that offer outstanding quality and versatility for packaging virtually any commercial bus architecture.
The MA Series of rugged COTS ATR (Air Transport Rack) enclosures is versatile and affordable and caters for a large number of configurable options by adapting the standard or by full customisation. They provide substantial cost savings over full MIL-Spec enclosures without having to compromise quality or performance.
This family of turnkey powered rugged enclosures has been developed to operate under a wide variety of extreme environmental conditions and designed to meet the majority of military specifications for land mobile, seagoing and airborne ATR applications.
They are ideally suited for the safe and reliable deployment of commercial, industrial and military-grade electronic hardware in hostile environments. An extensive range of transportable electronic enclosures and transit cases augment Elma-Mektron's fully integrated packaging service to the defence industry.
Description
Elma-Mektron's extensive family of ATR enclosures and ATR chassis is primarily designed for avionics tray mounting, however, they can be easily adapted to suit other types of support/mounting structures.
Solutions exist to enable the safe, reliable and cost effective deployment of commercial, industrial or military-grade convection cooled hardware in onerous airborne, naval or land mobile (vetronics) applications. Additionally, full military-grade conduction cooled requirements can also be accommodated with Elma-Mektron’s extended and uniquely versatile family of conduction cooled ATR enclosures.
This comprehensive and unequalled range of ATR enclosures and ATR chassis has evolved as a direct result of the company’s widely acknowledged pro-active COTS stance, coupled with extensive applications experience gained through involvement in many major international air, sea and land defence projects.
The MA Series of turnkey powered rugged COTS system enclosures conform to ARINC specifications and offer outstanding quality and versatility for CompactPCI (cPCI) hardware use in rugged systems.
These enclosures are available in various case sizes from 1/4 ATR to 1 1/2 ATR and are suitable for horizontal or vertical/top board load applications. Custom sizes and mounting options are also available. A flexible building block approach enables a comprehensive array of application specific options to be incorporated. Completely assembled, harnessed and configured to customer requirements these enclosures form ideal rugged system packaging solutions for immediate deployment in development or target environments.
General Construction and Features
Generally, all direct and indirect cooled ATR enclosures are fabricated from 2mm (0.08") or 3mm (0.12") sheet aluminium with locking bushes being used throughout to ensure fixing integrity. Internal to the enclosure is a rugged hard-mounted cardframe that can be shock and vibration isolated if required. Constructed from high tensile strength extrusions with screwed-down one-piece aluminium card guides, the cardframe is configurable for either top or side board loading.
The latest EMC design principles and practices are employed thereby guaranteeing an inherently good EMC performance. These enclosures also incorporate Elma-Mektron's own innovative ‘Crush-Fold’ technology for extremely effective EMC integrity. This cost-effective patented technique provides greatly enhanced strength and rigidity and superior EMC performance with minimal fastener count and enhanced aesthetics. All panel interfaces are fully gasketed for optimum EMC and hermetic performance and all external connectors used are EMC tight.
Indirect Forced-Air Cooling
A technique pioneered and patented by Elma-Mektron for ATR use, whereby the ambient air is isolated from the air circulating inside the enclosure. The heat dissipated within the enclosure is pumped out via an active or passive air-to-air heat exchanger. Suitable for the thermal management of commercial, industrial or military-grade convection cooled hardware in environments containing moisture laden or contaminated ambient air.
This range of indirect forced-air cooled ATR enclosures and ATR chassis has been developed to enable the safe and cost effective deployment of electronic hardware in hostile ambient air conditions. High altitude fan options are available for operation at greater than 10,000 feet.
Direct Forced-Air Cooling
This is the most commonly used form of forced-air cooling, whereby ambient air is forced by the use of fans over the heat dissipating electronic hardware. Ideally suited for the thermal management and effective deployment of convection cooled commercial, industrial or military-grade hardware, providing that the ambient air is not laden with unfriendly or harmful contaminants such as moisture and salt fog. High altitude fan options are available for operation at greater than 10,000 feet.
Direct forced-air cooled ATRs can accommodate a number of thermal management options, including front-to-back evacuation/pressurised forced air, or a combination of both to give a ‘push-pull’ arrangement. The range can also be specially adapted for externally generated ducted forced-air via avionics mounting tray/plenum assembly. These ATRs are fitted with honeycomb EMI filters and provision can be made for air filtration if required.
Conduction Cooling
These enclosures are frequently used for very onerous military applications. The heat generated within the enclosure is strategically conducted through to the outer surfaces and ambient air is then used to cool these surfaces. Certain applications may necessitate an external fan to move the ambient air over the enclosure’s outer surfaces. Generally these enclosures are hermetically sealed.
This family of conduction cooled ATR enclosures is manufactured from precision-machined aluminium and incorporate a versatile and patented ‘High Integrity Frame’ construction technique; a revolutionary new approach offering scalability, weight savings, excellent thermal efficiency, inherently high levels of manufacturing flexibility combined with significant cost benefits and reduced lead times.
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