Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. won a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the US Army Tank-automotive Armaments Command.
Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. won a Small Business Innovation
Research contract from the US Army Tank-automotive Armaments Command.
The six-month "Microlubricity Test System for Fuel Evaluation"
project will develop a new sensing system capable of quickly and
accurately measuring fluid lubricity lu·bric·i·ty
n.
The quality or condition of being lubricious.
[Late Latin l bricit using MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. technology patented by
ISSYS ISSYS Integrated Sensing Systems . Similar MEMS technology from ISSYS has already been used to
produce density, specific gravity and chemical concentration meters.
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