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Recent United States military connectors development overview
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The development of U.S. military connector is always the focus for international connector industry, from the 1990s to the beginning of the new century, to meet the steep demands of modern high-tech warfare and aerospace technology, the U.S. military connectors has been developed to new varieties and application trends. This article analyzes the new developments in recent years.
一.Intruction
The connector is the component which provides connection and separation for the electrical terminals, and a wide range of applications, therefore it has various structure and variety. The military connector is the indispensible component to form a complete weapon system. Compared with other connectors, military connectors have significant performance, strict making tolerance, strong structure, high reliability, high cost and good performance of harsh environment resistance. The connectors used in military are circular connector, rectangular connector, PCB connector, RF connector and special connector.
二.The United States has waged four local wars under high-tech conditions from the early 1990s to the beginning of this century, a new military revolution turned up. While the supports for these high-tech war are lots of informationalized, intelligent and high-performance military hardware, and these new weapon supplies are inevitable to be required higher to support all kinds of components including connectors, their. various military connectors have seen new development with distinctive times characteristics.
1. Miniaturization and lightweight is still an important trend for military connector technology
The digital, IT technology development drives the devices to become smeller, which requires miniaturization for the components used, the Nano connector marks the miniature connector has reached a new heights, and it is inevitably to push the development of other relative connectors. In addition, the cost of space launching is very expensive, lowing the weight means the cost reducing, therefore, the weight is an important indicator for military connectors.
2. The technology of optical fiber connector will be valued by military.
The proportion of optical fiber connector will be promoted in military connector market , compared with copper system, the optical fiber connector has the advantage of electromagnetic interference avoiding, a large amount of data transfer, faster transmission speed, low signal loss, and low material ,which meet the rapid development requirement.
3. The environmental protection for military connectors is put on the agenda.
Lead and cadmium are the coating material which used in interconnection industry and has strong toxicity, lead-free manufacturing has become a hot topic for the electronics industry recently, and it is a big problem to be solved for U.S. military connector manufacturers as well.