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The Thermal Batteries are primary (non-rechargeable), single-use power sources.
Totally inert before their activation, they are storable without limitation and deliver high electrical powers.
The current range of the thermal batteries is being expanded:
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ASB-Group produces thermal batteries for civil and military applications, designed to meet the most extreme requirements. The thermal batteries of ASB-Group are developed according to the specific needs of the customer, which confers them a dimension of tailor-made products.
In the widening world of the power supply solutions, the Thermal Batteries feature very specific advantages:
The application range of the thermal batteries in the field of the defense is still widening, in diversity of domains and ranges of solutions:
The intrinsic characteristics of robustness, life expectancy and specific power of the thermal batteries confer them some demonstrated advantages in the following applications:
Successfully used for more than 20 years on spatial launchers, the thermal batteries are the power sources for the following applications:
Recently, ASB Group seeks to diversify into distant areas of historic areas. For this, we develop thermal batteries that may be suitable for civil applications that affect everyone every day. Energy field like oil and gas needs power sources that are able to face high operational temperatures (above 220°C). ASB Group has the technology to develop customer solution to eb used up to +300°C during 3 weeks after activation.
Land mobility systems also need emergency power supplies.
The ASB Hermetics division was created in 1998, initially in support to the thermal battery activities. As a key internal process, this is now a strategic activity for the ASB-group, which is also dedicated to external customers, and in continuous growth.
This development is supported by our will to develop high-technology solutions in response to the specific requirements for aeronautics, space, energy, and armement industries. Our activities are focused on the design and production of hermetics parts, in small and medium series, with professionalism and efficiency.
As ASB Hermetics has the necessary competences, calculation & industrial means, and know-hows associated to various technologies, we are in position to offer you a global solution. Whatever your hermeticity issue, do not hesitate to challenge us
With its range of technological solutions, ASB Hermetics has developed numerous products for various applications:
The housing has a coefficient of expansion greater than that of glass.This type of bonding is low cost and very resistant to thermal shock. It is widely used in connectors and sockets for the manufacture of sensors (pressure, temperature ...)
The terminal and the case are made of a specific alloy (iron-nickel-cobalt) with a low dilation rate, similar to the one of the glass. The oxide which is created at the metal surface is interacting with the glass in order to create a physico-chemical liaison
This type of sealing is traditionally used to manufacture housings for microelectronic and optoelectronic applications
To lighten the weight of onboard equipment, ASB Hermetics has developed a new range of glass-metal seals on metal alloys (aluminum, titanium).
As titanium is particularly reactive, ASB has developed and qualified a very specific dedicated sealing process. While offering the same sealing performances as on other types of more common materials, this process give access of the weight reduction due to the titanium
This technology whish stands in complemnt to the hermetic sealing as such, allows incresed robustness at very high temperatures. It is mostly applicable to market segments as space, aeronautics, defence, nuclear plant, vacuum industry, scientific research, etc.