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Honeywell Develops “Innovative, Custom-Built Lightweight Sensor Technology for Lilium Jet”

Hon­ey­well announced this week the devel­op­ment of an inno­v­a­tive, cus­tom-built, light­weight sen­sor for the Lil­i­um Jet, reports a press release. After being select­ed by Lil­i­um to sup­ply propul­sion unit posi­tion sen­sors, Hon­ey­well has designed “resolvers,” specif­i­cal­ly for the needs of the Jet.

These sen­sors play a crit­i­cal role in accu­rate­ly sens­ing the engine’s posi­tion, ensur­ing that the Jet can safe­ly reach the exact posi­tion required for a suc­cess­ful take­off.  

Cre­at­ing such solu­tions for region­al air mobil­i­ty, sup­ports Honeywell’s port­fo­lio align­ment to three com­pelling mega­trends:- 

: Automa­tion. 

: The future of avi­a­tion.

: Ener­gy tran­si­tion.

Hon­ey­well is also an investor in Lil­i­um and sup­plies many key com­po­nents for the Lil­i­um Jet, includ­ing e‑motors for the engines, avion­ics, onboard ther­mal man­age­ment sys­tems and the flight con­trol com­put­er. 

Hon­ey­well’s Sense­point XRL

Yves Yem­si, COO at Lil­i­um, com­ment­ed, “Honeywell’s exper­tise in both the aero­space and sens­ing indus­tries means they are able to under­stand the unique needs and cre­ate tai­lored solu­tions for the Lil­i­um Jet.” He con­tin­ued, “In rethink­ing the tra­di­tion­al resolver, Hon­ey­well is play­ing a key role in turn­ing our con­cept, a ful­ly-elec­tric jet that takes off and lands ver­ti­cal­ly, into a real­i­ty.”

The release states, “The Lil­i­um Jet is pow­ered by 30 elec­tric duct­ed fan engines, each of which need to move pre­cise­ly from a ver­ti­cal to hor­i­zon­tal posi­tion to sup­port take­off and for­ward move­ment in the air. This action is con­trolled by a resolver, tra­di­tion­al­ly a heav­ier piece of equip­ment com­posed of coils of cop­per wire and mag­net­ic steel.”  

The release con­tin­ues, “The resolver is sub­stan­tial­ly less expen­sive and lighter-weight than tra­di­tion­al coun­ter­parts. Although spe­cif­ic to the Lil­i­um Jet, this Hon­ey­well-patent­ed tech­nol­o­gy can be repli­cat­ed across oth­er types of elec­tric air­craft and will play an impor­tant role in fur­ther­ing the adop­tion of advanced air mobil­i­ty.” 

Sarah Mar­tin

Sarah Mar­tin, Pres­i­dent of Hon­ey­well Sens­ing Solu­tions, remarked, “A grow­ing num­ber of eVTOLs will be fly­ing above us in the very near future, rep­re­sent­ing a ground­break­ing step in the elec­tri­fi­ca­tion of air trans­port. Our sen­sors, though small, are play­ing a large part in mak­ing these air­craft a real­i­ty.”  

For more infor­ma­tion

www.honeywell.com

www.lilium.com

(Top image: Lil­i­um)

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